This as a Yorkshire household and Yorkshire tea has been the bag of choice for many years, and I wasn’t aware of that. Splendid.
To return to the uncivilised behaviour of Mr Larrington. While I do believe that some leeway can be accepted when one is travelling in abroad where the foreigns live, while in the homestead one really should comport oneself to an acceptable standard. One will leave aside WHY one would want to travel to a place where a simple thing like tea is not understood by the locals.
As an aside, the making of tea in a mug was introduced to this unit in his apprenticeship by the group of individuals known then as ‘hairy arsed1jointers2’ to whit, kettle to boil on propane stove in the back of the van, two teaspoons of leaf tea in the mug, boiling water added. Stir and leave to mash. When a suitable time has passed add two or three healthy squirts of condensed milk from a tube, or a heaped teaspoon of the same from a tin. Stir and savour.
1. Hairy arsed due to their working practice of sitting on the ground on the edge of a footway box. I can verify the working practice from direct personal observation. I verify the hairyness or otherwise that this causes on the arse.
2. Jointers because their profession was the jointing of cables. A skill of varied practices which at the time still included soldering of wires and the plumbing of lead joint enclosures. Some of the old boys still working in the time of my apprenticeship were artisans when it came to that plumbing.