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xkcd #3022: Making Tea (xkcd.com)

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No, of course we don't microwave the mug WITH the teabag in it. We microwave the teabag separately.

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[–] oncewhen 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Ha, my sister lives in Germany and the weirdest thing she finds about German tea habits is that they only drink tea in winter, which I guess is kind of on a par with being sick. In the UK tea is a constant but in Germany it seems to be more of a special circumstances thing (illness, cold weather...). Even the person my sister buys her tea from shuts up shop in the summer because there's no market for it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Tea is an inefficient delivery system for caffeine. If there's no caffeine in it, it's a warm beverage that relaxes you. So why would the industrious German worker bee want to bother with tea bags when coffee is right there? Unless of course the bee is sick and needs to relax, doctor's orders, to get back to work as soon as possible. ;)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 13 hours ago

Proper good tea is way more expensive than coffee anyway. And buying inexpensive coffee (beans) can easily be masked by milk and sugar...