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There's 2 tea cultures in the UK. Upper class is straight, perhaps with a little lemon and honey, in quite delicate teas. Working class is strong tea with milk and sugar.
Milk was originally to stop factory tea from cracking cheap cups. It's now just a cultural thing, normal teas taste weird without milk.
Also, tea in first is upper class, milk in first is lower class.
With tea in first, you can get the perfect amount of milk in by color, but only the upper class could afford high quality china that won't crack from pouring in the boiling hot tea directly.
TIL I'm upper class
Unless you can trace your ancestry back 5-10 generations, along with enough peerages and titles to matter, you are at best middle class. At least according to the old fashioned mindset.
As a fellow tea snob, I salute you. 👍
*pours milk and shoves soggy biscuits through your letterbox*
That'll teach ya