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26th Jul 2017

Tea colour chart could divide the country

How do you take yours?

Alison Bough

How do you take yours?

tea colour chart

Weak, strong, or milky with one sugar – everyone in Ireland has a different opinion on what constitutes the perfect cup of tea.

Given that tea-drinking is a national pastime, it’s a wonder that no one has come up with a tea colour chart before…

But, thankfully, someone in Yorkshire, has solved the perennial problem of “how do you take it?” with this wonderful strongest-to-weakest visual chart.

Posted by Twitter account Yorkshire Problems, the horizontal letters represent the tea strength (going from strongest to weakest), while the vertical numbers represent the tea’s milkiness.


tea colour chart

The chart has now gone viral, with the Twitterati sharing and responding with their own tea colour preferences.

Bound to divide offices and homes all over the country, it seems that the most popular option so far is ‘D2’ or what is known here in the JOE kitchen as ‘peanut butter-coloured-tea’.

Tea-drinkers of Britain, we put it to you: which shade of tea is truly the perfect cup?

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