Cup Of Tea.

[bednobs]

My husband is always moaning that i don't drink a full cup of tea. No matter how big or small the cup i will always leave about 2 cm in the bottom. I am not sure why. Does anyone else do this?

[Jackdaw33]

Perhaps ingrained habit. Were you brought up on tea leaves? Before teabags no one ever drained their cup to avoid getting a mouthful of leaves.

[janbee]

Yes, I do... always. I live in a very hard water area and despite doing everything possible to soften the water, there are still traces of chalk in the water.

[stuey]

I always do. I think it's because before tea-bags were invented, you would always get a few errant leaves settled to the bottom of your cup after it was poured from the tea-pot. Therefore, you left a little tea in the bottom of the cup because you didn't want to swallow them.

[Canary42]

No, I certainly don't moan when you leave 2cm in the teacup.

[bednobs]

well perhaps if you lived with me you might canary. I am of course practically perfect in every other way, so he has to moan about this one thing else there wouldn't be anything to moan about :)

[Canary42]

;-)

[Retrochic]

I've never drained a teacup or coffee for that matter as you always get bits in the bottom of brewed coffee and even tea bags sometimes leave little grainy bits.

[ummmm]

Yep...never finish a coffee. I always leave about a third. I guess it's from the days that we didn't have filter on our kettles and you'd often get limescale in your cup.

[woofgang]

Me too. Yes you can get little bits of tea in the bottom even when using a tea bag and getting that in your mouth is really gross. Tell your husband if he doesn't like it, he can drink it himself.

[stuey]

Maxwell House Coffee has, or used to have, a slogan that said "Good to the last drop"...Or was that Otis Elevator's slogan: sometimes I get confused.

[jourdain2]

I go along with the others. You used to have tea leaves at the bottom of the , so left them. My grannie used to read them and taught me a bit about it, must buy some proper tea!

[-SharonA-]

Yes I do that with my coffee. Hubby keeps saying what a waste of milk.

[marval]

No I don't, I have a friend who does though. I nearly always empty my mug.

[campbellking]

My Mum
I always drink all of it.

[Samuraisan]

Me too, I always leave a bit at the bottom.

[Hopkirk]

Is he worried about the horrendous waste of energy and resources?

[Sammy48]

I always leave half a cup. I also leave the crusts on my sandwiches and toast.

[tamborine]

The last sips are always too cold

[Mamyalynne]

I used to do it,my Husband started to brew me a mug half full with the comment 'well it saves you leaving half'.

[Hopkirk]

'er indoors makes a cup of tea, and then doesn't drink any of it.

I think she finds boiling the kettle therapeutic.