What disgusting low life scumbag would ever think it's reasonable to...

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...leave instant coffee granules in the sugar bowl? They just lay there like mouse turds contaminating the sugar so that us normal tea drinking people can't use it. And how did it get in there? They must have coffeed then sugared, but the coffee must have stuck to the spoon somehow for the sugar to get infected. How did it stick to the spoon? How? I'll tell you how! The spoon was damp!! That's right, a damp spoon transmitted coffee waste and any other bacteria that happened to be living in the stagnant spoon water at the time into the good honest and decent sugar that I wanted to use. These people are evil and must be stopped.

Yanbu. Compromised sugar, butter, mayonnaise or soft cheese is clearly the domain of the uncouth.

Pork-honey takes the preverbial biscuit though and makes toast sweat on the sideboard and wiping the knife off on the top of a sandwich look positively classy by comparison.

DH leaves the butter and sugar beautifully clean.

But, he has yet to learn to wipe up the sugar granules he always spills on the sides along with the toast crumbs.

Why on earth the pork and honey?

"I eat my peas with honey -
I've done it all my life.
It makes the peas taste funny,
but it keeps them on the knife."

The same low life scumbag that leaves toast crumbs in the butter.

My bad.

Oh sweet Jesus porky honey. LTB, seriously.

I had to throw away a nearly full jar of marmalade recently because it had mould in it. How can a jar of preserve go mouldy? Because some dirty bastard got butter in it that's why!

wanderings I have that poem on my wall!

DH leaves crumbs, butter, sugar etc bloody well everywhere. Although his novel way of not dripping tea/coffee in the sugar...is to not use a spoon to measure. He just pours in what looks like a spoonful - which inevitably results in either non-sweet tea or tea that is like syrup. Bleah.

Though this pales in comparison to the pork-honey.

Oh, and milk should never, ever meet the teabag.

This thread has cheered me right up

My Dad always had the habit of giving the jam a little stir with his knife before getting out what he wanted. Pretty soon the jar ended up a runny gooey mess instead of nice set jam. He also used to scrape off any butter he hadn't put on his bread back onto the side of the tub. My mum would moan at me for not taking the already used butter! My parents also have an open sugar bowl that slowly gets damp so you get crusty sugar chunks stuck to it all over.
My dh doesn't contaminate sugar, just can't be bothered to put it away.

Porky honey should win the MN award for "Most vomit inducing". There should be a trophy.

Tolerate cream in the jam and vice versa as aftermath of cream tea. I can then be very helpful and using a clean spoon clean either or both receptacles straight into my mouth.

There's a lot to be said for those teeny individual jam pots.

Still traumatised by pork blood honey.

Bupcake - I have a little plastic bowl (one of DD's old ones) to put used tea bags in then empty it into the caddy when they're cold. I'm sure places sell specific containers for that but meh I had a plastic bowl handy.

I add milk first to coffee for the scalding reason but haven't tried it at home with milk last. Would never add milk whilst the teabag is in the cup.

These people must be stopped. Next thing they'll be cutting blue cheese, then using the same knife on non-blue cheese. Eurgh.

Drama, I work with somebody who's Mother told her that putting hot teabags into the bin will cause a fire.

Some people worry me when they have reached adulthood and not realised that their parents sometimes got stuff wrong.

Oh, and it's milk in first for tea. I was told this in person by the head tea buyer and taster for Whittards.

Disgusting habit. Have you ever had coffee tasting tea? No, because it's rank. Dirty coffee drinkers.

the kitchen in our village hall was plagued with lumps of coffee and other detritus in the sugar, and portly ants feasting on the spilled sugar.

I bought some of these
www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Classic-Retro-Cafe-Glass-Sugar-Dispenser-Pourer-Shaker-Large-Stainless-Steel-/281292905908?hash=item417e5d1db4:g:~KMAAOSwBadTqF~d
and the woman who had appointed herself kitchen supremo was enraged and swore blind that they were unhygenic.

I take great pleasure in putting them back on the worktop.

Pork juice honey is possibly the most disgusting thing I've ever read!

I buy squeezy honey and squeezy mayo so no crumbs in them. My parents used to spread margarine which in itself is vile on toast/bread then scrape the excess back into the tub!

Back to the op, YANBU for not wanting second hand coffee in your tea but yabu unreasonable for putting sugar in it

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Aaargh, see this every day at work! There's coffee in the sugar, sugar in the coffee, and sugar AND coffee in the tea.
Very first world problem but drives me up the wall!

I had a revolting drink in (name and shame) KFC.

DD ordered her chicken pops&chips +drink, I asked for a latte (back in the days when I drank milk)

There were several people behind the till, one looked briefly at the reciept, started my drink, went off.
Another came over , I said "It's a latte"..............got back to my table and found frothy milk and a teabag.
They must'be thought I said "Large tea" (I have an accent) .

I BLOODY DRANK IT TOO

I found fucking marmite in our butter yesterday. Fuming.

Just remind me of XMIL bless her, who used to have two butter dishes, "blokes butter" for her lazy arsed husband and sons who used to get Marmite/peanut butter/crumbs in everything, and "lady butter" which was scrupulously clean and crumb free!

Mind boggles at "lady butter", and will not google it.

(BTW, The news round up referred to me as a female type person. I've checked and I'm pretty sure I still count as male.)

"DH and I are constantly at war about when the milk goes in. He says first, I say at the end."

Tea has to be made with boiling hot water. So if you're using a teapot it's less of an issue. If you're making it using a bag in a mug, then putting milk in first is almost as bad as porky-honey. If you're using a teapot and have bone china cups you should probably put the milk in first. Also apparently putting the milk in first helps prevent staining the mug/ cup but I've never found that to be the case.

Orwell's rules:

www.booksatoz.com/witsend/tea/orwell.htm