TEABAGS

Stuck indoors most of the day until the emergency, we had run out of tea bags! Now I know that might not sound like an Emergency to you but, as my wife knows to her cost, without a cup of tea inside me first thing in the morning I'm worse than the proverbial bear with a sore head.

"I know very well that I am in a minority here. But still, how can you call yourself a true tea-lover if you destroy the flavour of your tea by putting sugar in it? It would be equally reasonable to put pepper or salt. Tea is meant to be bitter, just as beer is meant to be bitter. If you sweeten it, you are no longer tasting the tea, you are merely tasting the sugar; you could make a very similar drink by dissolving sugar in plain hot water. "

~George Orwell, "A Nice Cup of Tea," Evening Standard, 12 January 1946