Could someone explain the tea thing?

[CooperTune]

I have a cup of Joe or two in the morning. I may have another after work while waiting for the evening meal. There is always talk of tea in movies and I even noticed someone refering to their kettle in a race prep book. I may have a friend from the UK visit next year. It would be nice to know when and how often it would be normal to offer tea. Thanks Steve (CTR)

[nick@dunsdale]

Tea can be offered at any time of day,

1/it is taken with breakfast normally.

2/ it is customary to offer a cup of tea when someone comes to your house no matter what time of day it is.

3/ also a cup of tea can be offered before bed.

4/ tea is not normally drunk with evening meal unless you are having fish and chips, (tradition)

5/ basically one can drink tea any time of day or night, four to six cups of tea may be an average consumption per day, though it can be much higher

[Gray]

My friend visited with his new American wife and the first thing she said when offered tea was she could not understand how the British drank so much in Anthony Beevors book on D-Day it mentions the US troops in disbelief at the UK troops stopping underfire on the beaches for a brew up!

[morris-miner]

Tea, while at home there is usually a pot of tea with every meal, and a pot between each.
But at work we usually make a pot on the hour, every hour.

[rich@minispares.com]

cars can also 'kettle-up', but that's nothing to do with making a cup of tea........


oh, and proper tea is very dark brown, no suger, served in a large mug, probably with at least one chip in the top of the mug

[Bart Smith]

Based on what I have read above it can be said that:

Tea is served in the morning, during the day, the evening, and sometimes before bed. Also, with breakfast, lunch and between meals. It can also be served all day during work hours, and there is no "proper" amount of cups in a 24 hour period.

To sum up:

Thats alot of f****n tea.

[Gray]

I had to present a pantone code to stop getting girls hot milk for tea!
What a great topic

[zippypinhead]

Also
if there's a problem in the workshop - stop and have a beer
if there's paperwork that doesn't make any sense - have a couple of beers
if there's a wagon that going to take forever to load /unload - offering the driver a beer works wonders
also when in the garage at home get a beer...several
beer should be ice cold - not luke warm! (although I will say that some ales are quite pleasant at a cool temperature)
Prof,
havin a brew......

Fixed it for you.

[1071 S]

Well tea does have a lot of caffeine .. usually more than coffee -

So it helps to dilute it with beer if circumstances become dire...

Cheers, Ian

[coop12g295]

Its an essential workshop tool apart from a well stocked tool box jacks and compressor
you need a kettle choc digestives and a chair,have a problem? Make a cuppa sit down
and discuss,repeat as needed.

[Old English White]

Very first thing I do every morning - Christmas day no exception - is to go downstairs and make a cup of tea for myself and the wife. Beyond that, there are no particular rules regarding time etc but during the day, if things are going well, I'll have a tea. If things are going badly, I'll have a tea, If things are a bit slack, I'll have a tea. If it's getting a bit hectic, I'll have a tea...... I'm sure you get the general idea

We do drink quite a lot of tea, yes. Always got a cup going when I'm looking at the forum and yes, I have wrecked a keyboard or two. Seems electrics and tea don't go so well together

[InimiaD]

All the previous replies are correct and I particularly like the one about biscuits.

If in any doubt when to make tea for your visitor why not make a dirty great big (Thermos) flask in the morning, present it to your guest and he / they can help themselves to a cuppa as required.
Takes out all the guesswork.

[ferret]

Tea is the institute of a true Brit and is drunk in the hottest to the coldest places around
the world and is part of a stable diet and the answer to the most dire problems
Happy Christmas

Karl

[AustinSuperSeven]

Being a Londoner, tea or as we call it 'a cup of rose' or 'cup of rosie lee' is as important as oxygen.
When it comes to visitors as soon their foot steps inside the house, get the kettle on and offer tea!
Serve it in a nice strong mug and a selection of biscuits to dunk, but dont dunk for to long!
Please see colour chart so your visitors can choose what they like http://www.tea-chart.co.uk
Just as they get to their last mouthful, offer some more!
Gotta go and stick the kettle on! me mouth is as dry as an arabs ballbag!

[mk1]

I must be a bit weird. I hate the stuff & would no sooner drink a cup of "char" than a pint of Pee

M

[mab01uk]

More tea is also good for your health and the stronger the better for max. flavonoids!

Tea and Antioxidants
The latest research into how we live our modern lives often shows how things like pollution or too much sun can be harmful to us. Intermediates that arise naturally during chemical process, called free radicals, can challenge our normal healthy state. Free radical damage has been implicated in diseases such as heart disease, stroke and cancers.

It is thought that by regularly consuming foods and drinks that are rich in substances called antioxidants that act to 'soak up' these free radicals we can help ensure we have sufficient resources. As well as fruit and vegetables that are good sources of these substances, you can help increase your daily antioxidant intake by drinking tea. That's because tea is widely known to be rich in a particular group of antioxidants called flavonoids.

For example, there is about eight times the amount of 'anti-oxidant power' in three cups of tea than there is in one apple, and every time you brew up in a cup or a pot for up to one minute you get about 140mg of flavonoids. Who'd have thought something that tastes that good can help maintain your health!
http://www.tea.co.uk/tea-and-antioxidants

[36inter]

Can't live without tea, builders tea, the colour of a shiney new penny, in a chipped tin mug, sat looking at how am I going to fix whichever Mini/motorcycle is currently giving me grief AND if I am out the garage and the wife cannot hear I can slurp to my hearts content, lush.

Pete

[Andrew1967]

I have to blame my late grandfather for my fondness of tea. Upon driving up from London to visit us in Norfolk, the first thing he would do when getting indoors is put the kettle on ! Then it would be on many times of the day.

Normal procedure is to have a cup of tea just before 5am, before leaving for work.

Unlimited cups of tea are allowed in the workshop between 6 and 8am, whilst on early overtime. This usually means 4 to 6 cups of the extra large Starbucks sized variety, commonly referred to as 'The Bucket' by my colleagues. One at tea break, cooled down with cold water as not possible to drink it all in 15 minutes uncooled ! One at lunch break and another cooled one at afternoon tea break. One after 5.30 if on a 12 hour day.

In the evening there are normally at least 4 normal sized cups.

Strength of tea.....medium rare with milk and sugar, one in normal mug, two in The Bucket.

So, a lot of tea....and a lot of visits to make more room during the day. Got to keep the system flushed after all

As for coffee, not that keen and why do coffee drinkers insist on putting their wet coffee covered spoons into the sugar??

[mk1coopers]

Not much of a Tea drinker myself, about the only time I do have a cup these days is when we have the right ingredients in the house

[zippypinhead]

I must be a bit weird. I hate the stuff & would no sooner drink a cup of "char" than a pint of Pee

M

I'm with you Mark. When we were young and had the flu, mom used to force feed us that stuff. Now, the very smell of tea will make me nauseous.