Milk or lemon? | TheaterFire

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SnooDonuts6494@reddit

Something like 70% milk, 30% black.

Lemon is less than 1%.

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illarionds@reddit

25% black? I don't think I've ever met anyone in real life who drinks tea black!

(Regular *black* tea, that is - obviously *green* tea, fruit "tea" etc)

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Sea_Appointment8408@reddit

Lemon is usually what you get given if you order Earl Grey

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illarionds@reddit

I drink Earl Grey almost exclusively. I've never been served it with lemon by default/without being asked!

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Justplaythefkngnote@reddit

It used to be quite good, along with Typhoo tea as I was growing up. Now, not worth buying. Yorkshire tea is the only option

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Sea_Appointment8408@reddit

You need 3 teabags of PG Tips to make it anything close to a proper Yorkshire Tea hehe

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I've had tea a handful of times in the past forty to fifty years or so, but always prefer it with lemon (read: I don't hate it quite as much as with milk). People do tend to think it's odd. I, likewise, think people who put milk in tea are a bunch of weirdos even though there seem to be about sixty million of 'em.

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rising_then_falling@reddit

Very rare among Brits, at least in the last 50 years. My grandmother was aware of the custom but she thought it was genteel and old fashioned back in the 80s.

Polish cafes of any kind will gladly do tea and lemon for you. Upmarket hotels and restaurants will also do it.

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Mission-Fail-422@reddit

Ive seen people dragged out of Cafes and shot by the owner before for asking that stupidity

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llamaspajamas03@reddit (OP)

Thanks for sharing

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Chickadee_Sparrow@reddit

Lemon and honey w camomile tea, but lemon w breakfast tea? Nope.

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RelativeMolasses9135@reddit

I not only have a teapot, I have a tea cozy too. I love my Yorkshire Gold with milk and my Earl Grey with steamed milk. Over here in the US we call it a London Fog. (Also has a splash of lavender)

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SensitiveElephant501@reddit

Milk, this is not Russia.

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nathanherts@reddit

Almost no Brit will ever have anything other than milk.

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NaomiT29@reddit

And sugar, of course

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nathanherts@reddit

Sugar is an adjunct. Most people would argue milk is an essential.

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MidasToad@reddit

I occasionally drink early grey with lemon, but even that is unusual!

In the UK, asking for breakfast tea with lemon is like asking for black coffee with strawberry syrup.

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AuroraDF@reddit

Not that common, but some people do it. But it's very uncommon at breakfast.

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AuroraDF@reddit

Just to clarify, were you also having milk? Because that's unheard of.

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weedywet@reddit

That would be making cheese in the cup.

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poorly-worded@reddit

Cup 'o cheez (tm)

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Born-Car-1410@reddit

Teasy cheese

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Zal_17@reddit

Leave the teaspoon in the tea, you'll need it to finish it

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llamaspajamas03@reddit (OP)

No, just the tea, lemon, & sugar

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AuroraDF@reddit

Well, that's one thing I guess.

When I was a kid in the 70s my mother used to take her tea with lemon instead of milk when she was on a diet. Lol. No sugar involved!

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Kooky_Narwhal8184@reddit

Interesting... My parents would only have lemon instead of milk in their first cup of tea for the day.. (1970's Australia).

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This-Willow-4655@reddit

An that's why we sent them to Aus👍✌️

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theouter_banks@reddit

Straight to jail.

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keeponkeepingup@reddit

Lmfao

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week5of35years@reddit

Lemon???? What kind of milk is that? Is it like way way less than skimmed….

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mralistair@reddit

lemon milk has been banned after the dairy farmers objected.. and it had to be called "juice"

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Silver-Appointment77@reddit

Lemon in tea is weird. It has to be milk. But I understand a lot of Americans like the Lipton's tea which is made for lemon and a load of sugar. The only places over here to have lemons are pubs.

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MrDemotivator17@reddit

I was met with curious looks.

Yeah, that’ll happen.

People might have Earl Grey with lemon but not Breakfast Tea, that’s… unusual.

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llamaspajamas03@reddit (OP)

Ironically, I take milk with Earl Grey

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Samovila2709@reddit

So do I.

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Flazz3r1966@reddit

I take milk with EG, but less of it than I would with a traditional or Breakfast Tea. Do you have a teapot for your brew I wonder, my American (GA) friend never knew such an item existed and doesn’t own a kettle either!

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llamaspajamas03@reddit (OP)

I don’t have a teapot, but I do have a kettle. I usually just boil enough water for one cuppa and let it steep in my mug. Then I switch to coffee after I finish that. My mom has a teapot and uses it every day but she drinks a lot more tea than me (she takes hers with just sugar, no milk or lemon).

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DeniseGunn@reddit

Me too, just a smidging

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trevpr1@reddit

I heard that the present Earl Grey himself does so too.

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temporary_bob@reddit

Same better. Glad to hear we're vindicated by his Lordship.

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Paulstan67@reddit

I'm an Earl Grey drinker, earl grey is unusual never mind lemon.

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MurderousButterfly@reddit

Another earl grey drinker and I carry a bag around in my phone case because no-one ever has it unless they already know me!

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tlc0330@reddit

I thought you meant a bag of lemon slices for a second and had to re-read a few times before realising my error

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MurderousButterfly@reddit

I do love a lemon-y phone! 🤣

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GoonerCharlie1963@reddit

I agree, although I drink a lot of Earl Grey and prefer it as it is without lemon. I've been in cafés, ordered a pot of Earl Grey and they have brought me a tray containing a jug of milk! Heathens. I don't know anyone who has lemon in Breakfast tea but whatever floats your boat I suppose.

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BabynATrenchc0at@reddit

I've never heard of lemon in breakfast tea

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Odd-Quail01@reddit

It cuts the tanin. It is very refreshing but not really traditional.

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MacaroonSad8860@reddit

except in Russia

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trysca@reddit

It is in France and Italy

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MeasurementDouble324@reddit

When I was in the states every time I asked for tea in a cafe I’d get served a breakfast tea with lemon and get a weird look if I asked for milk. I think it’s how it’s done over there (at least in Nevada) but… ya know, they’re also known to microwave it so…

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illarionds@reddit

Not having milk in any sort of black tea is extremely unusual in the UK.

Earl Grey with lemon is just about well enough known not to cause comment (though milk is still far more common) - but with regular tea? Almost entirely unheard of.

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KimonoCathy@reddit

Pretty unusual. I have lemon tea but that was due to living somewhere where milk wasn’t easily available or safe to drink. Don’t know a single other Brit who has lemon tea at breakfast, occasionally you see someone have it with an afternoon tea out at a cafe.

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justeUnMec@reddit

"Tee mit zitrone" was one of those phrases I learned at school, when we were taught that the Germans liked tea but drank it differently from us.

With the exception of iced tea, lemon has never been a common thing in UK. A lighter tea like earl grey may be drunk without milk, but the more common english breakfast cuppa generally requires it to be a proper brew.

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blamordeganis@reddit

A lighter tea like earl grey may be drunk without milk, but the more common english breakfast cuppa generally requires it to be a proper brew.

Unless you’re one of those people, like me, who find tea — any tea — with milk to be bogging. English breakfast tea is fine without milk.

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oldandinvisible@reddit

Any tea is fine without milk. I gave up dairy when I was feeding my youngest who has a CMP allergy and while nearly 2decades later I happily eat dairy foods I have never returned to milk in tea as I realised how disgusting it was. Bogging is exactly the right word.

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feralhog3050@reddit

I always drink black tea, no milk, no sugar, no lemon. Yorkshire tea at home. Visiting Thailand some years ago (though I guess it's not changed), you had to be very careful not to ask for tea with milk, because you'd get condensed milk in it 🤢 Standard came with a slice of lemon

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msmoth@reddit

Same!

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Odd-Quail01@reddit

Whrn I was a teenager, I thought I didn't like tea. Turns out I love tea, just not with milk.

Breakfast teas can be a bit much without milk. A few drops of lemon juice lighten strong tea.

Some people would hate that. I don't like Earl Grey with lemon asvit's already mellow enough, straight is fine. Breakfst tea can benefit from a little citrus.

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Hatstand82@reddit

Milk in regular tea, lemon in Earl Grey etc.

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Old-Growth-6233@reddit

Listen to the puppet https://youtu.be/LaNRNqvvzqA?si=k4PSCbR_wF0Hh3LD

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Fibro-Mite@reddit

It used to be a very common question in the UK when being served tea: "Cream or lemon?" Followed by "one lump or two?" for sugar*. Having milk was for low class oiks who couldn't afford milk and gods forbid you ask for 3 or more sugars. I used to have tea with lemon occasionally, as did my mum, but that was because we hated milk/cream in teak or coffee. But it was a seldom done thing and only if we happened to have fresh lemons in for some other reason (we rarely had fresh lemons).

*I'm talking in the 1970s and earlier. Much more common in upper/upper-middle class households where tea was as much a ceremony with the full tea set and one person "being mother" and pouring the tea for each person from the full teapot then adding their preferred stuff before handing it to them.

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AppearanceAwkward364@reddit

The true heathens are the ones who've never even heard of tea with lemon. It might not be common or the majority preference but it isn't rare.

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AlternativeSea8247@reddit

Neither for me..... Black with 1 sugar/tea spoon honey.

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SantaFe91@reddit

It’s overwhelmingly normally taken with milk (personally I only just show my tea the milk jug — I shudder at milky builder’s tea or British Rail tea, as I used to think of it), but lemon isn’t entirely unheard of.

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fanacapoopan@reddit

Neither but if I have to, lemon.

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brideofgibbs@reddit

The first time I saw lemon in tea in the UK was in a Jewish household after a meat meal. I was a teenager.

It’s not common

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Last-Weekend3226@reddit

I’m a Brit and I love lemon instead of milk.

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PetersMapProject@reddit

Have you ever tried Lady Grey? It's like Earl Grey but with lemon and orange peel mixed in.

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Last-Weekend3226@reddit

Yes I have and I love it.

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Zelengro@reddit

Yeah I agree. Lemon in various black teas is definitely a done thing in Britain, to the extent I’m surprised at most of these responses. I’m going to assume most responses are answering specifically to breakfast tea? Otherwise people drink tea with lemon all the time and it’s perfectly acceptable. I feel like I’m in the Twilight Zone lmao.

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Justplaythefkngnote@reddit

It's always been around but in a minority back in the day. When I worked in offices in the 80s powdered lemon tea was a drink on offer at the office vending machine. That's the only reason I know it was available; I don't know anyone who drinks it tbh

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BigBunneh@reddit

For a start, it just sounds weird calling it breakfast tea. I mean, I've seen it called that on packaging, but it sounds poncy and a bit touristy. It's just tea, save the special names for anything that's not real tea, like earl grey, green tea, chamomile tea etc.

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LongPerception7460@reddit

No in Britain we make so much tea that we don’t think about it, I often drink ten cups of tea a day! Of course that’s only a starter if I’m outside I will often drink even stronger versions of caffeine, like iced tea or coffee type drinks in a can , if ur craving caffeine cafe Nero is probably best , but I hardly ever go there as I would destroy the place with my anxiety! If ur looking for a more honest answer bedlam might be best !

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Every_Individual_25@reddit

Aeroflot ask if you’d like milk or lemon with your tea which I found unusual, being a Brit. Started to enjoy the lemon option after a while and would look forward to it.

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Opening_Succotash_95@reddit

I would say completely unheard of.

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PetersMapProject@reddit

Uncommon to the point of being bizarre in the UK.

It's common in Poland though - I remember the first time someone asked me for a slice of lemon with their tea, when I was working in a pub. I was thoroughly confused and they had to explain.

Even with a big wave of Polish people moving here, it's still a fairly unknown concept.

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Dennyisthepisslord@reddit

I know polish people who have it with lemon but no English whatsoever

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trysca@reddit

And italians French and Germans

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Short-Shopping3197@reddit

Milk is by far the most common way to have breakfast tea, however people do drink it black and have a slice of lemon with it, it’s actually quite a traditional way to drink black tea.

Depending on what cafe you go to they might not be familiar with it or carry lemons in stock, but a lot of places will be.

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Duwmun@reddit

Lemon is certainly not unheard of, especially amongst those that lived through milk rationing in the war. Had some elderly, now late, relatives that only had lemon with tea.

It's rather nice. I'd recommend you don't have it in a normal mug though. Only a glass or bone china for black tea or it tastes a bit gritty.

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SnowLeopard349@reddit

Yeah you’d get strange looks 😂

But I love lemon in green tea or herbal teas with no milk so I suppose it’s not that different with pg tips I’m just so used milk in black tea (been the only way I’ve had it since in my sippy cups as a tiny child)

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Dry_Relative5465@reddit

Generally have my tea with lemon always have done. National trust and posh tea shops are the only place I would ask for it out on the wild.

Earl grey with no milk.

Love it in Poland you can get little pots of lemon juice instead of milk

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CocoRufus@reddit

Only with earl grey. NEVER with my builders brew

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llamaspajamas03@reddit (OP)

Ironically, I take Earl Grey with milk

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CocoRufus@reddit

I mostly do too 👍

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thisisliss@reddit

The only time I have lemon in my tea is when I also add honey when I'm sick. My french mum made me that as a child though so I don't think it's very English.

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Gornal-Annie6133@reddit

Done that myself and my French line ran out just after 1066!

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L00ny-T00n@reddit

Never heard of lemon in a brew. You maybe a bit of a wind up merchant. How can I get them there Brits all riled up? I know, I'll muck about with their tea. It's like burning the stars and stripes over there. What next? Macaroni cheese (mac'n'cheese for yous lot) with a roast?

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llamaspajamas03@reddit (OP)

Not trying to rile anyone up, was just genuinely curious.

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iamthefirebird@reddit

Earl Grey is the only tea one would normally have with lemon. It does intrigue me, though - I might have to try lemon with other teas.

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llamaspajamas03@reddit (OP)

Ironically, I take Earl Grey with milk

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OkTadpole2920@reddit

Very uncommon, lemon can be added to Earl Grey but not PG Tips or Yorkshire tea.

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llamaspajamas03@reddit (OP)

I take Earl Grey with milk, ironically

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OkTadpole2920@reddit

Lols, so do I.

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AutobotJessa@reddit

Over 60 comments and not 1 comment from OP...

Insert Tom Hardy in Mad Max Fury Road "That's bait" gif here

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llamaspajamas03@reddit (OP)

I was at work and unable to check my phone.

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Funmachine@reddit

Lemon instead of milk?

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llamaspajamas03@reddit (OP)

Yes

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HollyGoLately@reddit

Breakfast tea = milk, earl grey =lemon

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llamaspajamas03@reddit (OP)

Ironically, I have Earl Grey with milk

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fredfoooooo@reddit

Wtaf. Tea. Milk. No debate. Ponces on Reddit might come up with some variations, but they are a bunch of twisted reprobates. To be clear: tea. Milk. That’s it. If you want to jazz it up add some sugar. Those are The Rules.

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L00ny-T00n@reddit

Yep, I concur. Those. Are. The. Rules

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nonsequitur__@reddit

I’ve never had it or come across it. Pretty much everyone has it with milk and some have it black.

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Calm_Set_9433@reddit

Lemon in tea here is uncommon. Milk in tea is more usual x

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Success_With_Lettuce@reddit

My auntie started doing this, because she knows she’d come up and help make the tea when round places as a guest. She wants English breakfast literally shown to the water, then a slab of lemon. She knows it’s fucking odd, hence always going up to help make it.

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CrowApprehensive204@reddit

As a fifteen year old, I had a job in a golf club making tea, coffee, toasted tea cakes, crumpets etc for old dears who were both rich and posh. No intercom, it was very Downton Abbey, a bell would jingle in the kitchen and I would go and take the order. The ladies room (sitting room where they played cards and gossiped) always had lemon tea. It was loose leaf twinings of some sort.. I'd never heard of lemon tea before then and didn't come across it again for many years.

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Full-Suggestion-1320@reddit

It was often served with lemon a long time ago, my Grandma always drank tea with lemon.

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lemongem@reddit

My gran always had her tea black with lemon too. My mum, aunt, and I (millennial) all drink our tea black. We’re from Scotland, for reference.

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Full-Suggestion-1320@reddit

Yes, my Gran was Scottish so that makes sense.

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minty_tarsier@reddit

Yeah, I think this might be right. As a kid I would read older classic novels and I'm pretty sure they'd mention tea with lemon. I was curious so I tried it. It's fine, but I haven't heard of anybody drinking it like that IRL.

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Last-Weekend3226@reddit

I do it all the time, I’m English and have black tea with lemon a lot. I’m also a millennial so not especially old.

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minty_tarsier@reddit

Interesting!

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Electronic-Sound331@reddit

If I want lemon tea I drink Lift (powdered instant lemon tea) or maybe lemon and ginger herbal tea. I’m aware that people around the globe have fresh lemon in proper tea, but I’ve never seen anyone do it here. Either with milk or just black.

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trevpr1@reddit

Those teas are rather bitter and milk makes tham more palatable for manydrinkers. Lemon I'd use for weak loose leaf fine teas.

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re_Claire@reddit

Don't forget Americans generally seem to drink Lipton tea which is weak and shit.

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trevpr1@reddit

Yes. The first time I went there Liptons from Dunkin' Donuts was the least-worst tea I had. The next times I went, I took a kettle and tea bags.

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ten-toed-tuba@reddit

It's less ubiquitous than it used to be

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MerlinMusic@reddit

I'm quite into tea and drink British style milky tea, various Asian loose leafs, and sometimes make Middle Eastern style spiced chai. Only ever heard of lemon in tea in reference to other European countries, especially Germans. I first heard about it in German lessons. It's pretty much unheard of in Britain IME.

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Sad_Cardiologist5388@reddit

Yorkshire Gold, excellent choice

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pab6407@reddit

Places with a selection of tea tend to offer the option of lemon, often even those who don't will use lemons in the kitchen and will do their best to oblige, though I've had some very chunky lemon segments, it evidently isn't obvious that the lemon should be sliced or that milk won't be required.

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Jinkii5@reddit

I go with Kathy Burkes way to make tea, two teabags, boiling water, muller the bags into the cup with a teaspoon, drink then stfu you slaaaag!

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Previous_Estate5831@reddit

You can probably buy lemon flavoured tea bags

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AgingLolita@reddit

We don't do that

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TheeHappyDude@reddit

Not common at all... but fuck tea, it's boring, I prefer coffee

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Scrombolo@reddit

That's very strange.

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Sonarthebat@reddit

You have to go to a place that specialises in flavoured tea for that. We don't usually add lemon to tea.

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actualinsomnia531@reddit

Rare these days. I haven't seen anyone drink it for years but it is a perfectly normal request.

Using plant milk is a crime to our nation and wider humanity. Just fyi.

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poxelsaiyuri@reddit

I use oat milk, sadly it’s that or explosive diarrhoea

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actualinsomnia531@reddit

At least it's the least offensive of the milques. You have my sympathy and I wish you and your colon all the very best.

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First-Lengthiness-16@reddit

It’s not that normal of you haven’t seen it in years is it?

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actualinsomnia531@reddit

I haven't seen a solicitor in years either, but I know there's plenty around. Normal and common are not the same.

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First-Lengthiness-16@reddit

What do you think normal means?

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actualinsomnia531@reddit

"conforming to a standard, usual, typical or expected"

While not typical in usage, it is expected and conforming to a standard. Pairing lemon with tea is as old as the hills. Maybe it was like a poor man's earl grey (which is tea flavoured with the bergamot orange)?

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Norman_debris@reddit

It is absolutely not normal.

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Which_Specific9891@reddit

I'm allergic to dairy and drank most of my tea with lemon long before they had various plant milks. I still generally default to lemon, though.

(I'm technically British as I've got citizenship here after almost 15 years living here, but I'm Irish. I didn't get strange looks, people generally just go 'yeah, sure.'

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Mountain_Strategy342@reddit

I take mine black no sugar but everyone else in the office is NATO standard.

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MillyMcMophead@reddit

I'm NATO standard.

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blamordeganis@reddit

black no sugar

This is the way.

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BarryTownCouncil@reddit

Hippy nonsense at best.

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Glittering_Stock3475@reddit

Erm... The strange looks is because it's an unusual combination. Yeah it is usually taken with milk and sugar, some people do have black tea tho. I've never heard of anyone having it with lemon unless it's a real fancy tea at a real fancy tea room at a real fancy price.

Myself I don't like the idea of tea and lemon, unless it was like a Lipton's ice tea. Hot tea for me is always with oat milk

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sweetheartonparade@reddit

Unheard of, until this post!

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Used-Cost-6426@reddit

It's not very common and I feel like it's quite old fashioned now. I used to work in a tearoom and quite a few of the older customers would ask for lemon with their tea but you don't see it much any more.

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PipBin@reddit

Earl Grey or lapsang souchong with lemon but breakfast tea with milk always.

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Disastrous_Fill_5566@reddit

Everyone seems to be recommending Earl Grey for lemon, but I would recommend loose Assam if I was having lemon tea - which I rarely do, unsurprisingly. Almost always with milk.

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BoringGazelle1654@reddit

In any other part of Europe it’s normal to have lemon. In Uk definitely milk hah

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signol_@reddit

It's not unheard of, my mum would have lemon tea, but only once in a blue moon. Say, once every couple of months or so. But it's very rare and unusual.

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Dry-Explanation6521@reddit

In the uk it’s a bit upper middle class and posh. No working class folks would entertain it.

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GLS1994@reddit

Americans just can’t be trusted when it comes to tea 🙄

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Fine-State8014@reddit

A character in a book I read once did it. Never seen it in life.

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Broad-Raspberry1805@reddit

Sounds fucking disgusting.

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wonky-hex@reddit

My grandad had a slice of lemon and 3 sugars in his tea. So I'm aware it's a thing, but I don't know anyone else who has it with lemon.

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noddyneddy@reddit

If you have earl grey or even Darjeeling, or something labelled ‘afternoon tea’ you’d be more likely to drink it with lemon, as these teas have a lighter more delicate taste. But breakfast tea, and what we call ‘builders tea’ is a much more robust blend with higher proportions of Assam, which is a bit of a bully-boy, so it’s generally drunk with milk

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Radiant_Chart3163@reddit

My dad always had his cup of PG tips tea with a slice of lemon, so I'd my sister and I. To this day I always have my cup of tea with a slice of lemon.

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Reeelfantasy@reddit

Very common in the Middle East

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imma2lils@reddit

The only people I know who have it with lemon are German/Swiss. In Switzerland Lipton tea is commonly offered as black tea and it's weak so it goes well with lemon. The only tea I see people drink with lemon here is Earl Grey or iced tea.

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Distinct_Ad_5598@reddit

This is rage bate, yeah????

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One_Complex6429@reddit

The only people i know who drink tea with lemon are my Dutch friends

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Eggtastico@reddit

Wrong type of tea

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Formal_Produce_8077@reddit

born and raised brit who enjoys lemon in breakfast tea, albeit usually through summer. for some reason, milk in a cuppa in summer feels more heavy?
definitely not common but not unheard of

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Longjumping-Place905@reddit

Smidge of milk and no sugar!

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Rico1983@reddit

PG Tips OR Yorkshire Gold is a helluva quality spectrum.

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Dark-Faery@reddit

I've never heard of lemon in PG Tips or Yorkshire tea tbh. I'll stick to milk in those

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FewAnybody2739@reddit

You can have lemon tea, but that's something different. Lemons go in Coke and Pepsi too so a cafe should have them. You'd probably still get weird looks.

If you want to drink British, have milk with your tea.

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CraftingP291@reddit

Not in regular (Yorkshire Tea, PG tips, Thyphoo ect) tea. Milk is the usual addition in 'normal, every day' tea. Lemon is what the upper class puts in their Earl Gray, I believe. 🙄

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SellKooky150@reddit

I’m surprised you weren’t put in a car, driven to the airport and thrown straight out of Britain tbh.

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shortandfelly@reddit

My Polish friend would have lemon in her tea, but I've never come across a Brit doing it.

It's quite nice, but nothing like having milk!

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Conscious-Rope7515@reddit

PG Tips and Yorkshire Gold are blended on the basis you'll have them with milk. Having either with lemon seems ... odd, and it's very uncommon. But glad you enjoy them that way.

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BG3restart@reddit

Lemon with breakfast tea is unusual for sure. People either take milk or drink it black. Lemon is usually reserved for more fragrant teas, like Earl Grey.

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FlakyAssociation4986@reddit

Milk always i am flexible enough to drink tea or coffee as the locals like it in other countries

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Far-Hospital-9961@reddit

Not common at all. Unless you’re having it iced, which is also reasonably uncommon.

Milk and sugar is your lot, really.

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pm_me_your_amphibian@reddit

With earl grey sure, but breakfast tea?!

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Wonder_Shrimp@reddit

I don't know anyone who does, but I know thay it is a thing. So I would find it odd but not completely insane

People sometimes get confused by the fact that I do not have any kind of milk in my tea (or lemon)

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