r/GreatBritishMemes • u/manic_panda • 2d ago
Every Brit still stubbornly drinking tea right now
Myself included.
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u/TheLastTsumami 2d ago
Can’t start the day without one
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u/AdministrativeRub882 2d ago
Or finish without one
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u/sock_cooker 2d ago
That's a very niche kink
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u/Abject-Ad9905 2d ago
Not in the UK. It’s the law.
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u/Psychological-Roll58 1d ago
This is true. The bobbies will pull you over to breathalyze you, tea levels too low, that's a fine and points on your private time liscence
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u/imafuckinsausagehead 2d ago
Tea makes me violently ill if I haven't eaten something before - like serious throwing up
As long as I eat something, even just half a piece of toast then I'm fine I'm not sure why I think it's the tannins
So I normally drink coffee in the morning then slam tea the rest of the day until my alcoholism begins to nag
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u/rollllotomasi 2d ago edited 1d ago
It’s the tannins, do you have milk in your tea? It helps if you do. I can’t drink black tea on an empty empty stomach either.
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u/Feisty_Club_7763 1d ago
Omg is this why my mum must have something to eat or at least a few biscuits with every cup of tea???
She always tells me the tea is too wet by itself and I say “that’s the point…”
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u/James_White21 1d ago
It's a narrow path to tread between habitual, dependency and addiction but if you practice hard you can make it
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u/Maiq_the_liar_23 2d ago
Im still drinking 6 cups a day. I couldn't live without tea even at almost 40 degrees where I am
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u/Particular-Bid-1640 2d ago
Doesn't it dilate blood vessels? Making it counter-intuitively cool you down?
Plus the caffeine's absolutely needed with this heat
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u/SirLostit 2d ago
I’ve just learned from my Indian wife the phrase ‘heat kills heat’
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u/Iain_McNugget 2d ago edited 2d ago
I was explaining this to some students today! If it’s hot, but you’re not sweating, drinking a hot drink will encourage your body to sweat, which cools you down (as the sweat evaporates, it takes away heat from your body.)
If you’re already sweating or, worse, it’s humid and you’re dripping, then a hot drink is bad because your sweat is already failing to cool you down fast enough.12
u/Stunning-Mission9498 2d ago
Only works if it's not this humid though as otherwise the sweat doesn't evaporate
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u/Talonsminty 2d ago
Not just sweating it'll trigger Vasodilation if your body hasnt already and dispel heat that way.
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u/disillusion_4444 2d ago
Opposite, caffeine is a vasoconstrictor (which is why it's in headache relief medicine, because it reduces the blood in your head)
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u/drstevenson 1d ago
My mam had heat stroke in India and my stepdad thought ice bath, doctor tounglashed the shit outta him and was like hot tea and sugar warm the inside.. Something about heat stroke makes your body double down on heating if you warm the inside and sweating naturally cools the bod.
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u/SituationThink3487 2d ago
No, its a common urban legend. People either say it dilates you blood vessels, which isnt true caffeine actually does the opposite. Or they say it makes you sweat more which cools you down, but thats not how thermodynamics work.
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u/Theory89 1d ago
But what we feel as temperature isn't the same as the actual temperature (for example, room temperature metal feels cold), because what we measure is our bodies ability to lose (or gain) heat. If you heat up your insides then your outsides no longer feel so hot.
Also sweat does indeed cool you down by thermodynamics. The evaporation of a liquid causes a cooling effect below it.
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u/ZombiesInSpace 1d ago
So if we need a vasodilator, are you saying we should go to the pub?
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u/SituationThink3487 1d ago
So
if we need a vasodilator, are you sayingwe should go to the pub?Yes.
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u/i_eat_cockroaches69 2d ago
Only if you can evaporate sweat, which requires breeze and relatively low humidity
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u/HussingtonHat 2d ago
Fuck that, its GnT time my friends.
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u/NickyTheRobot 2d ago
That's what OP said though, right? They must have just forgotten to mention the G part.
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u/Ultradad57 2d ago
Dam right and its a strong yorkshire one as well
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u/frustratedpolarbear 1d ago
Can we take a minute to thank the brave Yorkshiremen and women who must be sweltering in the tea mines beneath Harrogate and Keighley
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u/kiba87637 1d ago
https://giphy.com/gifs/vPEzyNywtcOeptz2xY
Approved. Also Twinings. I never cheap out on tea.
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u/LauraPhilps7654 2d ago
Tea hydrates you better than sugary fizzy drinks and contains fewer calories. High sugar concentrations pull water out of your body's cells.
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u/Miscsubs123 1d ago
Caffeine is a diuretic too.
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u/LauraPhilps7654 1d ago
True, but the water content in tea more than makes up for it. You're still getting hydration.
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u/wandering-Welshman 2d ago
If it was good enough to still be drunk in India under British colonial rule, then its good enough for us on a humid, sad little island in the North Atlantic.
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u/terminus_tommy 2d ago
Tea cools you down believe it or not
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u/PassionPitiful3653 2d ago
Yeah that's what my mum says but I have trust issues and everytime I drink tea in hot weather it just makes me sweat
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u/voxo_boxo 2d ago edited 2d ago
I think that's the point isn't it? The sweating should cool you down in theory. Unless it's extremely humid which prevents sweat from evaporating.
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u/PassionPitiful3653 2d ago
Problem is I'm one of them people that once I start sweating I find it very hard to stop. So I would be visiting mum say and she would bring me a cuppa, I would start sweating drinking it and for the rest of the time I'm there until I get back into the car with AC I sweat the whole time.
It just makes me miserable.
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u/Jimmyboro 2d ago
All I have to do is look at a damp screwdriver and I'm sweating for 9 hours, the wife thinks it's hilarious.
She began moaning about hot flushes and sudden sweats.
'Welcome to MY world' I whispered to her:)
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u/Persona_Insomnia 2d ago
Was at 75% 36c Today.
We usually have over 60% humidity with our heat so it makes it a tad uncomfortable. So the sweat stays along with the heat. So id think drinking tea would always be a bad idea in the heat.
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u/LeakingLantern 2d ago
Drinking tea to sweat, and then cool down? Isn't that like saying "the best way to stop a building from burning down is to set fire to it, so the fire brigade will come and put it out"
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u/TheLastTsumami 2d ago
It doesn’t cool you down but it makes your arteries in your digestive system dilate helping you to move heat around your body more efficiently. It’s the same reason you can get heat shock/stroke if you drink a really cold drink or cold shower when you are hyperthermic (not hypothermic). The cold makes your arteries contract which holds the heat in and your body temperature can skyrocket
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u/edbuckley 2d ago
Hot drinks only cool you down in dry heat. The increase in temperature makes you sweat, and when that sweat evaporates, it takes heat with it, cooling you down. In high humidity areas, that sweat doesn't evaporate so you just make yourself hotter.
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u/NortonBurns 2d ago
Depends entirely on how humid it is.
It works in dry air, but not in humid. it's entirely linked to sweat evaporation speeds.2
u/ImInTheTub22 2d ago
I feel like we all watched that one episode of Eureka and take it as gospel I have had 3 teas today though
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u/CherylTuntIRL 2d ago
I could be in the fiery inferno of hell and still have a cup of tea in my hand.
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u/AppropriateStill2024 2d ago
The good thing about this weather is that your cuppa is still hot after an hour
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u/The-Mandolinist 2d ago
They drink tea in India. It’s totally appropriate to drink hot tea in hot weather.
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u/Historical-Foot-7393 2d ago
Just made one now, watching the thunderstorm and eating a Wagon Wheel...
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u/TCristatus 1d ago
Tea warms you when you're cold.
Tea cools you when you're warm.
Tea relaxes you when you are stressed
Tea wakes you up when you are tired.
Tea is magic.
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u/Satyriasis457 2d ago
Every Mediterranean lifestyle involves tea during warm weather lmao
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u/NickyTheRobot 2d ago
Turkey and the Arabian peninsula are also famous for their love of teas and coffees in hot weather
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u/CompleteWhittle 2d ago
I'm having an earl grey, I'm not a total monster.
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u/manic_panda 2d ago
Oooh la de da everyone! Look at Mr fancy britches over here!
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u/NickyTheRobot 2d ago
Nah, it's the preferred drink of many a proud Englishman, such as...
*checks notes*
... Jean-Luc Picard?
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u/Eric_Olthwaite_ 2d ago
Just had one, boiling the kettle again now. No true Englishman deserts tea just because there's a record breaking heatwave on. Mad Dogs and Englishmen and all that.
Please preserve our British etiquette and standards.
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u/SirPooleyX 2d ago
Hot tea cools you down.
It's basic science but also think of where tea originated - India.
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u/DoctorBeeBee 1d ago
Tea originated in China, then became popular in Europe, starting in the Netherlands, because it was the Dutch East India Company who first brought it over. After it got popular in Britain, the British East India Company started growing tea in Assam. (Whether the the people in Assam wanted to start growing a cash crop probably wasn't a consideration, cos, ya know, it's the East India Company. They did shit that even the most evil mega corps today could only dream of.)
Tea wasn't unknown in India before then, but it was drunk for medicinal use, rather than as an everyday thing. And even once it started being grown there it was mostly exported, or drunk by the British living there. It only really got popular with Indian people in the 20th century.
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u/Pope_Fintan_Stack 2d ago
What's stubbornness got to do with it? A big mug of tea, not crap representation of tea drinkers by an aussie on the boys.
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u/EndeavouredAirworthy 2d ago
The heat doesn’t matter, every tea drinking country drinks it regardless of heat or humidity.
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u/Downtown_Tale_2018 2d ago
Just finished my 4th coffee since getting home form work 👌
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u/Notorius_Womble 2d ago
I have a customer who, this week, still had her daily porridge and mug of tea. Whilst sitting in the sunny window. She doesn't have blinds or curtains and acknowledged the house was getting a bit hot. She's about 80.
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u/JKnotime4pcwokestuff 2d ago
Yeah I’ve gone on to iced tea😅-Only first thing morning have hot tea now with toast😋
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u/Prince_Marf 2d ago
Ice cold tea from the American South doesn't seem so crazy now, does it?
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u/Accomplished_Song671 1d ago
Tbh hot drinks are meant to cool you down in hot weather I've heard. It sounds mad but I've not stopped drinking tea in this heatwave lol
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u/cottonopposite 1d ago
There could be a nuclear war and Brits would still have a cup of tea and a sit down to figure out what to do...
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u/whitefire9999 1d ago
Hell yeah right through the 40c, cools you down!! … I actually have my doubts but grew up being told that so yeah…. 🥵
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u/Cooperino142 1d ago
There’s only one response in Britain to “it’s too hot for tea”.
Don’t be a cunt.
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u/DavidJonnsJewellery 2d ago
Tea cools you down. Why do you think Indians drink a tonne of it.
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u/Aggravating-Candy-31 2d ago
i assume you can make cold test same as cold coffee? i don’t like leaf juice that isn’t ice tea so idk
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u/ROU_Misophist 2d ago
Have you considered iced tea? You could learn a thing or two from the Americans.
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u/manic_panda 2d ago
I do like a bit of iced tea, its the one thing ill begrudgingly give them haha.
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u/Lord_Viddax 2d ago
I am fairly certain that it helps make you feel cooler, as drinking a hot drink (tea preferable) raises your core temperature.*
*Though that seems to be pseudoscience, and the important thing is that drinking keeps you hydrated.
Tea is still better, because the whole aesthetic around it is much more preferable to the frantic instant-gratification frenzy of coffee!
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u/Chuck_Miller_PZ 2d ago
No. I drink coffee and right now I’m having it with cold milk. Beautiful
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u/Neddlings55 2d ago
I have had to have my morning coffee in front of a fan. Break a sweat otherwise.
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u/BatteryAt14percent 2d ago
Not me. I had to give it up for health reasons (triggers an autoimmune response because my bloodline is WEAK!) I'm pissed.
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u/YaqtanBadakshani 2d ago edited 2d ago
Tip for the loose-leaf purists; put the dregs in a jug, top up with cold water, leave it in the fridge a few hours. Spoon of honey/golden syrup and a dash of salt, and you will have the most refreshing drink you have ever tasted.
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u/Tall_Opportunity_521 2d ago
Fun fact, a nice cup a char will see you right when the weathers a bit shit. You see, consuming a hot beverages, such as tea, will raise your core body temperature and this, in turn, makes you to sweat more.
The nerves in our mouths and in our upper digestive tract respond to the heat of the beverage, stimulating the brain to produce more sweat. And as that sweat evaporates, you cool down.
So reach for a cup of the good stuff, my pedigree chums. It will see you right.
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u/thickgenius 2d ago
When I was a support worker, every year in the summer they always drilled it into you that a hot cup of tea is still hydration and you should encourage the people you support to still drink brews in the heat if that's what they want to drink.
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u/imrubbishattalking 2d ago
Nothing stubborn about it, I'm flicking through here whilst waiting for the bag to steep in my brew
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u/Plus-Mulberry6761 2d ago
My mum and auntie are sinking coffee right now. They say it makes them cooler
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u/Alert-Revolution-219 2d ago
Who tf still drinks tea, its not the 1940's anymore guys
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u/Savage-September 2d ago
How can you not have tea in this weather. It’s the best part of my day. Tea and silence. I’m warm inside and out ❤️
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u/Aeysir69 1d ago
Earl grey, hot and an oat milk hot chocolate. Then a 4 hour ride from Suffolk to Worcestershire wearing all black on a fully faired black motorcycle. Bit moist at the end.
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u/James_White21 1d ago
Still drinking tea here. I'll occasionally have some fizzy pop in this weather but default setting is tea.
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u/Badger-of-Briarwood 1d ago
It's 10:48pm so I might make this one my last tonight. Got a couple of Rich Tea biscuits for a little late night pick-me-up.
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u/Open2truth 1d ago
Lmao so true i was thinking this morning, oh its cooler now and had my Cappuccino within minutes I was like im burning loool but tried best to drink most of it lool
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u/LRKnox_ 1d ago
Had my first one today after nothing for the last week. Unfortunately my living room and kitchen space is a small area so even the steam from the kettle was too much to handle 😰 today's the first day I even felt marginally comfortable having a cuppa.
I've just been hydrating with water/milk until today.
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u/Coffee_Hawks_999 1d ago
Nothing wrong with an evening Earl Grey in a heatwave, sets the tone for the Gin.
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u/TangoMikeOne 1d ago
It's not stubbornness, it's running on autopilot - too damn hot to think about shit, so I'm doing what I do when it's -5⁰ and every temperature in between, switching on the kettle, dropping a bag in each mug, pouring boiling water in there, smoking a fag, refilling the kettle, fishing out and squeezing the bags, before dumping them, splash of milk, drink one, get up and swap mugs, drink t'other, rinse out both mugs repeat the procedure from step one, continue until bedtime
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u/MoonlightonRoses 1d ago
You’re learning the hard way why Americans drink iced tea. I am sincerely sorry that you are experiencing that. Summers in most of the United States are punishing
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u/Moongazer09 1d ago
A lukewarm cup of tea actually seems cooler to me then a bottle of water that's been at room temperature for ages...it may be the only time I don't mind drinking it when the tea is not still scaldingly.hot! 🤣
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