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Anne Giles	Re the question of whether the milk should go in first or the tea - putting the milk in first is working class, putting the tea in first is middle and upper class. Drinking tea out of mugs is fairly obscene and not classy at all! Nice cups and saucers and - nice people DO NOT dunk biscuits in their tea - might as well drink it out of a doggy bowl! I prefer Earl Grey, of course, and no milk. In any case, if you have tea in a mug you get a lot more water and less of a tea taste. Tea bags are also fairly tasteless - Twinings proper leaf tea is the only thing worth drinking. PG tips and Tetley are what my family would refer to as "Builders' tea".
	Nicey replies: We'ed best not invite you round for tea then, you'd really hate the constant obscenity of our watery builders tea.
Julie	On my only trip to England in 1996, which I had hoped for and planned for over 20 years, I had my first tea with milk and sugar and a biscuit in Sussex. Now my mornings in Austin, Texas always begin with 2 cuppas. As for biscuits, are there Girl Scout biscuits in the U.K.? Here, the Girl Scout "cookie" sale happens once a year and the Thin Mints famously popular. These are a chocolate mint flavored crisp biscuit covered in very thin chocolate glaze. Personally, I think the taste over-powers the tea and the chocolate melts when dipped. For those reasons, my favorite is the Nabisco Lorna Doone. It has a finer texture than Walker's Shortbread and is cheaper  too. Also (from Sweden) Nyakers Gingersnaps, very crisp and they come in their own tin that is attractive. About the tea...I make a personal blend of 2 pts. Darjeeling to 1 pt. Assam and brew for 3 minutes. I'm the only tea drinker at home so I can splurge.  As for the cup; I received a Dunoon English bone china mug (design by Ruth Beck) and I loved it so much, I ordered all the others (different kinds of teas and coffees) she had done, unfortunately now discontinued. My tea habit is a memory of England that I will have with me forever. Thank you so very much. I sent a link to your site a friend who has been ill. I told him that your site is a "vacation spot occupied by adults who are...happy!"
	Nicey replies: Hello Julie, What a lovely Texan email you have sent us. Your tea drinking and biscuit eating sounds very resourceful and sensible. Hoorah! for you. Unfortunately, our Girl Scouts (Guides), don't really get involved with the manufacture and distribution of biscuits.
Christine Keeble	I think you are just the kind of person to solve a problem that has been bugging me for ages. I keep buying teapots and none of them pour properly.  Next time I buy one I am going to insist that I can try it out in the shop. I only ask one thing of a tea pot and that is that it should pour out tea without dribbling all over the table cloth and without the handle burning my hand.  (I suppose that's two things). Since you are clearly the experts in this field do you have any suggestions or solutions? best regards Mrs "slightly annoyed" from Paris PS  I love your website which I found recommended as website of the week on Which Online
	Nicey replies: That is an excellent idea, and deserves an icon. The only guide I can offer is that there appears to be inverse relationship between a teapots cost and its pouring excellence. Our quite pricey Denby Pullman pot dumps tea almost anywhere except in the cup, whilst a really cheap and cheerful pot I bought in a value shop works well. We will all take your good word that we are Which's website of the week, given that only members can see the site contents. Presumably they tried out all the other websites about tea and sitting down and we came out tops. Hoorah!
Catherine Griffiths	CAN I HAVE A NICE CUP OF TEA AND A BANANA PLEASE NICEY? JUST WANTED TO MAKE SURE I WOULDN'T BE BREAKING ANY RULES.
	Nicey replies: Of course, as you're pregnant you have a license to eat anything at any time and I'm sure biscuits will get a look in at some point. When the Wife was pregnant with younger member of staff No 1, she had a big Spinach craving, and I was sent to get the only Spinach growing in the garden, a gnarly looking specimen which randomly had appeared from some compost placed under the privet bushes in the front garden. This was boiled up and she had it on toast, Hoorah!
Benjamin Smith	Nicey I should like to add my dissatisfaction at fruit teas to that of Penelope Reid. Fruit teas smell *amazing*, prompting you to ask the owner of the cup for a taste. However, they inevitably taste like they've been watered down with approximately three million parts water to one part fruit and, like a similarly diluted homeopathic remedy, totally fail to satisfy. Yours, etc, Benjamin Smith
	Nicey replies: Yes and I have just realised that I can use the 'fruit' and the 'tea' icon for this.
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