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submitted 1 year ago by Blackout@feddit.uk to c/casualuk@feddit.uk

Correct me if I got anything wrong, TA!

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[-] Treczoks@lemm.ee 22 points 1 year ago

That is only a bit worse than what British people do with their tea. OK, theirs is reasonably fresh, but they let the teabag sit in the pot for ages and they commit the serious, undefendable crime of adding milk.

[-] crapwittyname@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Watch it. Builder's tea is the literal backbone of the British economy.

Oh, wait.

[-] Rubanski@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago

Milk in Earl grey with honey is just amazing

[-] Treczoks@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

You drown the flavour of the bergamote oil with the honey, and kill off most of the beneficient ingredients of the tea with the milk. What's the point in using a tea bag in the first place?

[-] Dkarma@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Milk only belongs in chai tea

[-] not_woody_shaw@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

Chai literally means tea. So chai tea is tea tea. It's like pizza pie or ATM machine.

[-] smeg@feddit.uk 6 points 1 year ago

pizza pie

Those two things are not remotely the same

[-] echodot@feddit.uk 8 points 1 year ago

The Americans seem to have a very wide definition of the word Pie and none of them seem to be pies.

[-] Threeme2189@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

It's the same with brits and the word pudding...

[-] QueriesQueried@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago

Yes and but that's just how the distinction is made. Prime example: Shiba/Akita "Inu". Inu is literally dog. Yet it refers to the purebred dog of Japan, not the american shitmix (no shade, theres just not much consistency with what they're mixed with). Language evolves over time, even the dumb evolutions.

[-] Tvkan@feddit.de 3 points 1 year ago

I don't think they're engaging in etymological reductionism.

Their argument is that instead of saying "milk only belongs in chai tea", one could've just said "milk only belongs in chai".

[-] DAMunzy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 year ago

Chia .... tea. Chia .... tea.

[-] MrMcGasion@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

What about boba? Although I guess that's arguably tea in milk, rather than milk in tea.

[-] retrolasered@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 year ago
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