To Tea or not to Tea?

 As opposed to coffee, hot chocolate, cocoa or soda.

Not that I honestly know what counts as soda these days. to me (aged) it's soda water. Like fizzy water but more fizzy. 

(source: pinterest)

I know to other people it's cola or stuff like that.

All of which has nothing to do with my did I want a cup of tea question.

And why most people look at it and say hot water, slightly—very slightly—coloured.

It's been like that since I was advised, years ago to try and cut down on my dairy intake, and cutting out milk in tea was the easiest way, for me, to do it. But then I had to cut down on the strength of it as well.

Not that any of this bothers me, unless someone offers to make me a cuppa (or I'm on a plane) and trying to explain that in a mug of tea, a half a tablespoon of unmilked tea from someone else's mugful before its touched, is perfect. And it seems wasteful to use a tea bag for my hot coloured water!

Of course I can (and sometimes do) use loose leaf tea in a pot, but it's really much easier just to siphon off that one half-tablespoonful.

It's funny (or maybe not) just how everyone had their own ideas on how tea should be drunk.

Milk in first or last.

Teabag in mug—or pot.

(source : pinterest. My t-pots are in the dishwasher or the back of the cupboard)

Maybe you think it should be loose leaf only.

Assam, darjeeling, jasmine, Earl Grey? The options are endless.

(Source : Pinterest)

Then of course we have milk, lemon or just hot—or is it boiling—water.

It's a minefield.

But it is fun when I have to offer a character in one of my books a drink and work out what they will choose.

Cheers everyone

Happy drinking,

Love Raven xxx