Brown sugar goes in coffee, white sugar goes in tea

[milesy]

You obviously do or you wouldn't have had a rant about it or started a thread on here

well not really, going from his wording on his OP. he's just asking other people's opinions. something to while away the hours.

 

[Orang Utan]

You obviously do or you wouldn't have had a rant about it or started a thread on here

No, I just like these kind of threads - I just wanted to know if I'd got it wrong and I haven't

 

[Orang Utan]

Really? So you made that sugar based annoucement in the office simply to reassure and remind yourself?

No, I just asked for tea sugar instead of coffee sugar and the ensuing conversation led to me posting this thread

 

[Belushi]

No, I just asked for tea sugar instead of coffee sugar and the ensuing conversation led to me posting this thread

I've genuinely never heard of it before, does everyone do it in Leeds?

 

[tarannau]

Tea sugar? You bloody weirdo



Up there with 'cake sugar,' 'cocktail sugar' and 'sugar to sweeten the tomatoes in my bolognese sauce' as weird things to say. It's just sugar innit.

Besides Capt Pedantic, everyone knows that the world's best sugar is Demerara sugar, named after the Guyanese region it's from. With rum like that it can't be wrong.

 

[Orang Utan]

I've genuinely never heard of it before, does everyone do it in Leeds?

I dunno - I'm not a proper Loiner so who knows what they do?
It's done in hotels everywhere, so I don't think it's a regional thing

 

[marty21]

and to be honest, anyone putting sugar into their tea needs to be kept an eye on anyway.

aye, wrong uns

 

[Orang Utan]

Tea sugar? You bloody weirdo



Up there with 'cake sugar,' 'cocktail sugar' and 'sugar to sweeten the tomatoes in my bolognese sauce' as weird things to say. It's just sugar innit.

Er, well you do use different sugars for different things in cooking
It's not just sugar - brown and white sugar taste totally different

 

[beeboo]

I once worked with a guy who had six sugars in his tea

The local taxi driver's caff has a sign saying that there is an additional charge for more than six sugars in a tea.

 

[mrs quoad]

Buy better coffee, guv

 

[Mrs Miggins]

For what it's worth, I believe you to be right on this one OU.

Mr Miggins has brown sugar in both tea and coffee but as I've said before, he is a filthy heathen.

White sugar is crap really cos it just gives sweetness without any flavour. Brown sugar on the other hand is the nuts!

 

[boing!]

i agree with the OP.

Also- why do some people get so uppity about people having sugar in tea. If I want sugar in my tea I'll have sugar in my tea!

 

[Mrs Miggins]

People get uppity about absolutely fucking anything around here mate

 

[milesy]

i agree with the OP.

Also- why do some people get so uppity about people having sugar in tea. If I want sugar in my tea I'll have sugar in my tea!

because it is wrong and silly and against regulations and it is not following proper procedures and it is a heath and safety risk and a burden on the NHS and it means you smell of wee.

 

[Gromit]

Nothing to do with ettyket.

Brown sugar has a caramel taste to it that doesn't really work with tea.
Coffee lends itself more to being flavoured which is why why have lots of flavoured syrups for coffees in coffee shops but none for tea.

Caramel coffe yum. Caramel tea yuck.

 

[beeboo]

Brown sugar has a caramel taste to it that doesn't really work with tea.
Coffee lends itself more to being flavoured which is why why have lots of flavoured syrups for coffees in coffee shops but none for tea.

In a nutshell

 

[Throbbing Angel]

Innit?
But I just said that in the office and everyone looked at me like I was mad
Am I?

yes
totally fucking hatstand!

 

[dash_two]

Brown sugar is fine in strong tea.

 

[Laney]

Three brown sugars in coffee plus bar of dairy milk = capacity to complete 2 hour exam before crashing completely.

The sugar thing stuck, although now I limit myself to one and a half

 

[Cobbles]

I just said that in the office and everyone looked at me like I was mad
Am I?

Clearly:

Armagnac goes in coffee

Whisky goes in tea

 

[Herbsman.]

From wikipedia - White refined sugar has become the most common form of sugar in North America as well as in Europe. Refined sugar can be made by dissolving raw sugar and purifying it with a phosphoric acid method similar to that used for blanco directo, a carbonatation process involving calcium hydroxide and carbon dioxide, or by various filtration strategies. It is then further purified by filtration through a bed of activated carbon or bone char depending on where the processing takes place.

Until i know that my white sugar hasn't been filtered using animal products i'll stick to what i know, ta.

A vegan I know wrote to a sugar company to ask if they still use bone char. The company replied, few if any sugar manufacturers use bone char anymore, that's an outdated process that has long been superceded.

 

[bluestreak]

Clearly:

Armagnac goes in coffee

Whisky goes in tea

how do you manage to be so wrong most of the time but so right occasionally?

 

[bluestreak]

A vegan I know wrote to a sugar company to ask if they still use bone char. The company replied, few if any sugar manufacturers use bone char anymore, that's an outdated process that has long been superceded.

well, that's up to them. i prefer dark sugar anyway

 

[Herbsman.]

even in tea?

 

[Geri]

I don't have sugar in tea, and I only have it in proper coffee, not instant. I prefer brown I must say - I usually eat some with the spoon when I am waiting for the coffee to brew, or whatever it's called.

 

[bluestreak]

even in tea?

yup.