My mother’s mom was from Ireland; Pop was a mutt with an absolutely fucked up upbeinging, so no idea! But my mom and her brother, as well as her 40 first cousins, all drink Lipton tea with milk. They just love basic tea with milk. No sugar, nothing, just black water with milk in it. I bring up the heritage because I assume it’s something they brought over, because outside of my family I don’t know many people who put milk in tea.
I’m a black coffee with a little stevia guy myself. Wife got me into stevia and it placebo’s away the heartburn I got from just drinking straight black.
I’m from Jersey and it’s weird here. I included the whole Irish thing because I assumed it came from there. They were south Irish, but presumably had similar tea habits.
My mother’s mom was from Ireland; Pop was a mutt with an absolutely fucked up upbeinging, so no idea! But my mom and her brother, as well as her 40 first cousins, all drink Lipton tea with milk. They just love basic tea with milk. No sugar, nothing, just black water with milk in it. I bring up the heritage because I assume it’s something they brought over, because outside of my family I don’t know many people who put milk in tea.
I’m a black coffee with a little stevia guy myself. Wife got me into stevia and it placebo’s away the heartburn I got from just drinking straight black.
Breakfast tea with a splash of milk is super common in the UK, that’s not weird at all.
Also, the whole of southeast Asia, and at this point the world, loves milk tea - especially with tapioca pearls, aka “bubble tea”.
I’m from Jersey and it’s weird here. I included the whole Irish thing because I assumed it came from there. They were south Irish, but presumably had similar tea habits.