The perfect cup of tea.
The English obsession.

If you are having sugar and I recommend that you do, then put it in first and make sure it is no more than two teaspoons and ideally it should be just one and a bit or maybe one and a half, then neatly place the tea bag on top of the sugar make sure that you are using a cup and not a mug this is very important is you use a mug then the boiling water [and it must be really boiling.] will not be able to hit the tea bag head on as it were. When poring in the water make sure you do it in one steady stream always focusing it on the centre of the tea bag, once this is complete do not I repeat do not put milk into it yes I know everybody does it [apart from the Russians Chinese and Indians they know better] if everybody jumped off a cliff would you do that as well? Well would you? DO NOT PUT MILK IN TEA sugar is permissible because it adds something to the taste perhaps even sharpening it up much in the same way that Whisky [as some people spell god with a capital letter I do the same with Whisky] would sharpen up coffee milk however simply dulls the taste when the first English people went to China they were given tea to drink and of course they found the taste to be strange and foreign so they put milk in it to make it more palatable but we have come on from that by quite a way, no longer should we feel the need to do so our taste buds have advanced. So if you don’t like the taste of tea don’t put milk in it just don’t drink it.