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Tea stereotype

Both of these sites are a valid reference. They both describe the decline in tea sales and the rise in coffee sales.

67.41.85.162 (talk) 10:57, 13 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

A popular tea type

Some ex servicemen in the army would all remember a cup of the "Sgt Majors" which was a very strong tea made usually in an urn from water, loose tea and a big can of evaporated milk and the resultant copper coloured drink was deemed "good enough even for the Sergeant Major" and became synonymous with sweet strong tea of which the builders tea is very much a second rater in that regard.

The NAAFI ladies who sometimes did the urns would get a big strainer and sieve out the old tea leaves and many ribald comments would be made about fishing for compliments was one common jest and the NAAFI lady would tip in a fresh large packet of loose Assam another can of evaporated milk (these weren't the tiddly things we see in supermarkets today but great big cans of the stuff) and then top it all up with fresh water and let the devilish brew do its thing.

This stuff was the drink of champions they would say, of course its strong murky consistency helped hide the bromide floating in puffy clouds within the drink that was supposed to stop sexual desires and self practising of such thoughts but it never did and there were always fresh faces on the infamous "w*nk parades" where their offending bedclothing was held up to all before the ritual beasting that such miscreants ended up having to do with the full platoon as witness.

92.11.134.127 (talk) 04:06, 31 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I have a vivid recollection of drinking something similar at three o'clock on a morning in September 1974, at RAF Gan in the Maldives. I think it had been brewing since the Boer War… 22:16, 3 October 2021 (UTC)

Calories?

How does tea provide the calories for workers?? It’s just flavoured water. And even a splash of milk or a teaspoon of (expensive) sugar barely has any energy at all. Let alone for proper workers! Why would anyone write that? — 109.42.176.49 (talk) 17:11, 18 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]