On Thu, 19 Dec 2019 16:59:32 GMT, Pamela >
wrote:

>On 04:14 17 Dec 2019, Bruce > wrote:
>
>> According to future King Charles of the shrinking UK ("the brother
>> of"), these are the rules for making tea (not that he makes it himself
>> of course):
>>
>> -Green tea: brewed for 3 minutes
>> -Black tea: brewed for 5 minutes
>> -Temperature of green tea: 70 C (158 F)
>> -Temperature of Earl Grey/English breakfast tea: 100 C (212 F)
>> -Teacup handle placed to the right
>> -Teaspoon under the handle
>> -Extra milk served on the side
>>
>> If you get it wrong, you'll be fed to Boris Johnson.
>
>Seems generall right although I'm not at all sure about Prince Charles's
>trick of adding milk before taking out the teabag. In some British circles,
>even using a teabag is suspect.

Yes, I got that too from tea drinkers. That tea bags are filled with
the waste of the tea leaf industry. Use loose leaves instead. Or so
they say.

But maybe there's a special room in the tea factory where they fill
tea bags with high quality leaves, just for Prince Charles.