Feeling low as the ground(s)

[j4]

We get free coffee at work. Do I put lots of sugar in because it almost counts as food, and will give me energy; or do I just rely on the fact that coffee suppresses appetite?

No poll, can't be arsed.

Comments

[hoiho.livejournal.com]

I take sugar with tea, though.

Yeah, but you is weird.

Never understood the English habit of adulterating tea with sugar and cow juice.

[j4.livejournal.com]

Never understood the English habit of adulterating tea with sugar and cow juice.

Is this just because the Scots do it (like everything else) more sensibly, or because you're just so cosmopolitan?

Sugar with ordinary tea (e.g. Tetley) is fairly understandable to me, the tea is a bit grim and tanniny & putting sugar in it helps to make it palatable. I wouldn't dream of putting sugar (or milk) in any of the look-at-me-I'm-so-middle-class teas I drink by preference.

[oldbloke.livejournal.com]

Ah, well, what with being (ex-)working class, I ONLY drink tea that dissolves your spoon and frightens the horses anyway.
Except, obviously, in Chinese restaurants.

[hoiho.livejournal.com]

Is this just because the Scots do it (like everything else) more sensibly, or because you're just so cosmopolitan?

No; I meant Historicaly: the Chinese, from whom the English got tea, didn't drink it that way. Why did the English start doing it that way?

Scots were initially coffee drinkers, and later enthusiatically adopted tea, a la anglais, with milk and sugar - they'd have added fat like the Nepalis if they'd known about it, I shouldn't wonder.

[imc.livejournal.com]

I am under the impression that most of the bog standard tea (with milk and sugar) we English drink comes from India. China tea is much less likely to have milk put in it (it's also something I'm not particularly keen on).

[hoiho.livejournal.com]

Indeed, this is true nowadays; but when tea was first introduced, it all came from China. The East India Company started growing tea in India and Ceylon, but that was uch later, and well after the milk and sugar habit had become established.

[acronym.livejournal.com]

I drink black tea with sugar, and I'm Scottish.

Just, y'know, a data point.

- A