to want fresh milk in my tea at a cafe?

[PuppyMonkey]

...rather than those horrible little tubs of what claims to be "fresh" milk. Taste blardy horrible to me in tea. Or am I just a fussy old bogger?

No, yanbu. It's totally rank and fresh milk isn't exactly expensive now is it?

Fussy, if you have enough in it to taste the difference then you have too much IMO

(Mind you I don't really understand why those little tubs are so much better for the cafesthan real milk)

MIL is currently waging a war with Sainsbury's coffee shop over this. They have just changed to the little tubs.
As she says 'I'm not going to have it, it's that terrible HRT stuff'.
I would need 3 of the little tubs in my coffee, they're a faff to open, they always splurt, and all that packaging!

I had a stand up row with the man in John Lewis cafe once and he said their tubs WERE fresh milk. But it just did not taste right to me, so I insisted on him giving me a pot of real milk. You should have heard him moan.

I do have a lot of milk in my tea. I'm like a little old lady.

TBF, I do object to them on the grounds that they are a waste of packaging and they don't actually save anything IMO!

I like those trucker cafes with a big jug of milk at the counter so you add what you want to your mug of super strong tea but I am more builder than little old lady with my tea

Yes you can't beat a trucker stop for a decent cuppa.

I object to them on environmental grounds - I ask for fresh milk, if they don't have it I have it black.

DH has been waged war on these little tubs for the last 20 years. He refuses to go anymore to places that have swapped to using them.

I am finding that quite a few places are slowly drifting back to proper little jugs, so perhaps if we all moan like mad we might see the demise of the plastic tub completely.

YANBU

YANBU, I consider those places not to serve real coffee anyway. No real coffee shop would serve coffee with plastic milk.

I don't have tea in cafes. I'm not paying $3.50 for a cup, hot water and a tea bag. At least with a latte it's real coffee made with an expensive machine you couldn't replicate cheaply at home and lots of lovely full fat milk steamed.

On another note my FIL gave me a cup of tea last week that was half boiled water in a tiny cup on top of a reused tea bag, which he added the milk to with the tea bag still in it, and gave me a (dirty) plastic fork to drag the tea bag out with.

It was some weird passive aggressive if I'm crap I won't have to do it again show I think.

My new policy is to ask cafe staff for fresh milk and then say: "I'll pay extra if necessary." And that seems to make them all go: "Oh no, don't be so silly of course you don't have to pay extra, here you go."

We do need a systematic campaign to get rid of plastic UHT milk.

By the way, I don't drink coffee of any type - hate the bloody stuff!

YANBU - the milk in those plastic cartons is horrid and it does make a difference to the taste of the tea.

Tis perfectly correct about it being a particular prob for tea. Coffee already tastes like shit anyway, but you need proper milk for yer tea.