Here's a secret, people: low-fat milk is just water dyed white. You have removed the only thing that makes milk milk. It is the fat itself that congeals in the tea, that cuts the harshness of the tannins and gives the smoothness to the feel in the mouth. Tea made from low-fat milk is shit. There I said it.
All you people who put low-fat milk in your coffee are deluding yourselves. You want to lose weight? It's not the 80mg¹ of fat in the dash of milk that's tipping you over the edge, Porkboy. We had pizzas put on for lunch here today and you should have watched how quickly those low-fat-milk-sculling weight-control-freaks snorted down those mozzarella-topped, saturated-fat-filled beauties…
If you will only drink milk if there is no milk in it then, here's a tip, don't drink milk. Soy milk and rice milk seem to be popular alternatives. Do what you want but don't make me drink your miserable, whiny, watery, low-fat, milk-simulating products with you.
I decided to try full fat milk after being so moved by your missive. I honestly can't tell the difference in my tea. Am I a culinary cretin?
Yours
Thin Colloid
: 11/8/06 12:14Secondly, I certainly wouldn't dream of calling anybody a culinary cretin on the evidence of only one horrible faux pas, however, I must say, the signs aren't good. Have another sip of your tasty darjeeling and get back to me.
Thirdly, you might be right, Mr Colloid: perhaps there's no difference.
(and yes, I know darjeeling is best without milk: it's just a funny-sounding tea variety)
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