I've also heard that adding milk to tea basically destroys any anti-oxidant n other health benefits tea has. I've taken to drinking tea n coffee black, but tbh it's more out of laziness. I don't always have breakfast so I rarely have milk in (I have changed this around lately) so rather than nipping to the shop to pick up milk to add a drop to some tea I just got in the habit of having black tea. Also cos I've started having some of those twining selection boxes and they taste really nice on their own.
btw WTF you must hate the American Bison?
Also we're a day on and still no Americans coming forward on their tea making habits so I'll just link:
BBC - h2g2 - Tea
Also I use mates, guys, maybe a few others. Not geezers though. Geezers are those guys who are a bit greasy, on the other side of the law a bit.
Which after the link was shared someone replied to it with "I stopped reading after he said the water needed to be boiling". Which got various replies of "you muppet, that's his fucking point. You guys don't have boiling water cos you think tea is a sissy".
btw isn't OED like £5K for online access?
Oh the Americanism article got a follow up:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-14201796