What sort of blasphemy is this?

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  1. People from the south US wouldn’t know tea if they moved to China. Nobody in the US puts milk in it, and a microwave would be a last resort. Most offices now have a hot water tap in addition to kettles. If you go there and ask for tea, expect it to be ice cold and with enough sugar to give you diabetes (everyone else calls it sweet tea but its still disgusting).

    The real question is reusing tea bags. I never do but my Mrs does.

  2. I think it’s a bit concerning how the only thing they got right is to take the teabag out. They didn’t even put water into the right object.

  3. As is custom around my part of the world, boiled water in the microwave to make tea for my irish girlfriend on one of our early dates. Did not expect the fallout.

    Still together, yet only because I convinced her to do a tea taste test blindfolded. However, also still a family drama story shared at christmas, right after 9 PM ‘midnight mass’.

  4. Saw this a few years ago and the one thing I learnt (from a mate in America is sent it to) is a lot of yanks don’t own a kettle. Mind blown.

    Guess you don’t need one if you don’t make tea.

  5. The only time tea should go on the microwave is when you made one, forgot to drink it and there is no tea bags left. And only then if you really really need a cup!

  6. I’ve been living in the US for over 30 years and I’ve never seen anyone make tea like that.

  7. If they were just to make it like a normal person it would never have been shared, twelve people would have watched it (9 of them being family members) and thought “oh she’s at it again, teaching people the basics of how to be human”

    Though because she made it like how I imagine a British person would prepare their tea for a native of a land they were about to dominate for 500 years, it gets a lot more clicks and shares.

  8. As much as we enjoy slagging American people, I would give anything to live in a country that prioritises good coffee over tea. Literally anywhere you go to eat or drink in the US you can at least expect half decent percolator coffee. It’s the same in Canada – I’ve gone to roadside service stations in Ontario where the coffee is miles better than what you’d get in Barrack Obama Plaza or whatever over here.

    In Ireland 80% of the non-fancy coffee (eg everything you get in newsagents, petrol stations, many cafes and restaurants, peoples’ houses etc) tastes like liquefied motor oil.

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