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A very British ?(or maybe English) gripe
Is it me, or is the tea on SH services getting served almost cold recently?
Last few flights (one domestic, one Euro) in CE I've had a cuppa and it's been bordering on cold. I'm mightily miffed, indeed almost peeved. |
Cold and also awful
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English in the sense of griping on the interweb about it rather than asking the purser to make a fresh pot?
It is tricky keeping tea hot since particularly at this time of year the mugs are freezing cold and once airborne the water can't get anywhere near 100c. A good purser will of course warm the mug first from the hot water supply before serving. |
When you say "warm the mug", is the mug the customer or the large cup?
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Maybe just ask for a glass of champagne and a tea bag? |
Originally Posted by corporate-wage-slave
(Post 30694465)
English in the sense of griping on the interweb about it rather than asking the purser to make a fresh pot?
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Originally Posted by corporate-wage-slave
(Post 30694465)
English in the sense of griping on the interweb about it rather than asking the purser to make a fresh pot?
It is tricky keeping tea hot since particularly at this time of year the mugs are freezing cold and once airborne the water can't get anywhere near 100c. A good purser will of course warm the mug first from the hot water supply before serving. |
Reminds me of the complaint by Winston Churchill
“Dinner would have been splendid...if the wine had been as cold as the soup, the beef as rare as the service, the brandy as old as the fish, |
@ Worcester - nice one, another gem from WC ! Do you happen to know which sector the great man had just flown when making those characteristically sardonic comments ..... ? |
One of the few good things about the NEOs is that the water heats to a higher temperature than the CEOs, so I can have a nice hot cuppa before beginning the war on hand luggage. |
It’s a French machine and the French have never understood tea; they have no need to with so many other fine home grown beverage options. |
Definitely not an ENGLISH thing but rather a BRITISH thing.
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Perhaps you could knit some tea cosies for them |
I appreciate that BA crews are constrained by the equipment they are given to work with, but there are, as noted, well-known perpetual failure modes:
Frozen Cutlery Tepid White Wine Cold RED Wine ... why can’t the swap where they stow the wine bottles? I don’t drink Tea, and the Coffee is fairly awful, so I defer to those with a different addiction! :) |
Originally Posted by Waterhorse
(Post 30695014)
It’s a French machine and the French have never understood tea; they have no need to with so many other fine home grown beverage options. Whilst not for a lingering drink, I find the temperature of hot tea or coffee fine when served on an aeroplane even when dispensed from a plastic jug. |
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