[tom_]

Don't pay for somebody else to make your tea! A cup of ordinary tea should cost, like, 15p. That includes teabag, electricity, water, milk, and amortized cost of kettle and mug.

Even if you buy something unnecessarily expensive, like fancy matcha tea powder, you're looking at less than 50p.

[shalmanese]

Learn to brew loose leaf tea and you cut down even more on the expenditure (or rather, for the same 15p expense, you're consuming much better tea).

[dormento]

What kind of monster puts milk on their tea? :) You're right though.

[tom_]

Most everyday teas sold in the UK are made for use with milk. They are - or I have always found them so - a bit astringent and bitter without.

[arethuza]

Quite right - tea first is an abomination - it's milk first then tea:

https://www.theguardian.com/science/brain-flapping/2014/oct/...

[pradn]

Ask the billion+ Indians who drink chai! :)

[sukanta]

:D Chai is bliss. First tea, then milk and sugar.

[kaushikt]

Couldn't agree more. Chai is truly bliss!

[dolessdrugs]

tea is not one thing

[theWheez]

Amen to this, for coffee. I buy coffee grounds for $10 that last me 3 or more weeks, with 2-3 cups per day.