to drink Lapsang Souchong in the afternoon? (light hearted)

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I visited a certain upper-crust Grocers in London last week, and did the whole afternoon tea with scones thing as a rare treat (normally I am in the wilds of Scotland and kept well away from such luxury!).

I have never been a tea drinker (I love my coffee!), but DH suggested the Lapsang Souchong and I LOVED it, so much so I bought a huge tin of it and have dragged my dusty old tea pot out of the back of the cupboard and have been having a daily pot in the afternoons while DS is sleeping.

Is this unreasonable? Might I become posh?

YABU tea is vile

I like Ceylon in the afternoon. Assam to wake me up in the mornings.

Well the fact you already owned a teapot makes you posh round my way

It's lovely stuff. My granny used to drink it. The smell of lapsang and the taste of finely sliced white bread with unsalted butter and really thin smoked bacon at breakfast time is my abiding memory of her house. That and the smell in the pantry - sort of tea and cedar wood smell. No-one else in my family with drink it though.

Lapsang Souchong is lovely tea

it pisses all over that Earl Grey shite

you, OP, might become posh drinking tea, i will never

YABU because Lapsang Souchong makes the house smell like it's been set on fire

I love lapsang souchong in the afternoon. An' I'm dead posh, me.

But Mrschemist - the smoky smell is so lovely!

Bumble - yes but it was in the back of the cupboard and unused

I like gin in the afternoon.

Whisky for breakfast.

Vodka for dinner.

Uncharted and Suchprospects

Ormirian, mmmmm with thin bacon and fresh bread...... a fabulous breakfast.

Sorry but YABU for drinking it. That tea is vile!

However, you are posh if you are drinking out of china cups with your little pinky sticking out :)

Manicbmc tisk, no alcohol before the sun is over the yard arm, PLEASE!

What's the smoky taste like? It it a subtle hint? Or does it taste like somebody has dipped bacon in it?

I can't see the yardarm. Curtains all closed.

Gin, no china cup here, just a coffee mug!

TiggyD, very pronounced smoky taste, complex. And the whole room smells of it. Gets stronger the further down the pot you go!

Yes, definately go fancy cup shopping!

You have a teapot so you are undoubtedly posher than me anyway.

I have been known to drink wine out of mugs (mainly because I am extremely clumsy and break glasses a lot)

Hey! I love earl grey :(

earl grey tastes like granny's hankie

that is a disgusting image formed in my head!

grannies hankie ewww HOW would you know!

sorrreeeeee

should have said 'like granny's hankie SMELLS'

or is that worse?

Leave Earl Grey alone! 'Tis the best tea ever!

don't you worry, i shan't touch it