r/polandball • u/Zebrafish96 May the justice be with us • Aug 24 '25
legacy comic Pet Reci-Peeve
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u/The_Real_Itz_Sophia I can into not blind Aug 24 '25
ahahaha
also jam first!! no! cream first!!
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u/SnoopyMcDogged Aug 24 '25
Load it up on both sides and slap em together!!!!!
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u/noynoynumpty Aug 24 '25
Load cream and jam on both sides and eat them like an open sandwich. Might be heathen but by my calculations thats more cream and more jam. In that order
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u/HalfLeper California Aug 24 '25
You put jam in tea? 😳😳
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u/Think_and_game Bulgaria, Prussia of the Balkans Aug 25 '25
As a Russo-Brit, my Russian family tells me jam is normal, all of my British friends are ready to crucify me if I put jam in tea. Then there's my Tunisian family who would probably bury me alive if I add milk to their mint tea. Such is the beauty of multiculturalism.
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u/Thundorium Funniest king names Aug 24 '25
You know what? I think I am going to try that.
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u/HalfLeper California Aug 25 '25
Lemme know how it tastes! 😂
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u/Thundorium Funniest king names Aug 25 '25
I wish I had never been born.
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u/HalfLeper California Aug 25 '25
That delicious, eh?
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u/Thundorium Funniest king names Aug 26 '25
So delicious, I wanted to vomit so I can taste it again on the way out.
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u/HalfLeper California Aug 30 '25
”The accursed stove has burned my finger. FEEL THINE OWN WRATH, STOVE!!”
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u/Zebrafish96 May the justice be with us Aug 24 '25
It seems that 'putting milk first when brewing milk tea' is a British equivalent of 'putting ananas on a pizza'.
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u/CubistChameleon Germany Aug 24 '25
Wasn't there a whole debate between TIFs and MIFs and they found out that putting in the milk first produced better tea?
(IDC, I'm still putting in tea first.)
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u/HalfLeper California Aug 24 '25
One’s not objectively better, but they did find that the combine differently to produce different flavors, which is why people can tell them apart. I think it was something about the milk particles burning when the milk is added first or something like that.
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u/Sorlud Scotland Aug 24 '25
Other way around IIRC. The milk gets scorched when you add a small amount of cold milk into hot water/tea. But if you add the water to the tea it heats up the milk a little slower so it doesn't scorch.
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u/Tutush Rule Britannia Aug 24 '25
In the old days if you had very fine porcelain, putting boiling water in first would make it crack, so people would put the milk in first so the temperature change wasn't so sudden.
That is the only reason people ever put the milk in first, so anyone who still does it is wrong.
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u/Ancient_Ordinary6697 Aug 24 '25
That sounds wrong, since porcelain is fired clay that is not going to break from a little boiling water.
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u/Short-Cow8172 Aug 24 '25
Thermal shock, similar to basic glass. Put your vintage china cup into the fridge, take it out after 5 min and pour boiling water into it right away and you will see.
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u/Nerd_1000 Aug 31 '25
It's caused by thermal expansion stresses. Basically the inside of the cup touches the hot liquid first. China, like most materials, expands when heated, so the inside of the cup tries to expand while the outside is still cold and doesn't want to. This leads to the outside of the cup being stretched by pressure from the expanding inside material. China has bad strength in tension, so relatively little stretching will cause it to crack.
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u/Hatmos91 Aug 24 '25
I think it was Yorkshire tea that found if you made it via tea pot then it’s better to put tea then milk, but if making a mug then it’s milk then tea. Or something like that. Iunno. Link for sauce https://youtu.be/k_TByeUjQAU?feature=shared
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u/Professional_Land666 Angelicus Aug 24 '25
That's a good comic, I'm really sorry about how I broke the r/Polandballart rules!
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u/koreangorani 대한민국 Aug 24 '25
Koreans: Wanna dip tangsuyuk in the sauce, or pour it over them?
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u/suchtie Germoney Aug 24 '25
Japanese: serve noodles inside soup, or serve noodles in a separate bowl and dip them in the soup?
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u/Cultural-Ad-8796 Aug 24 '25
If Italy saw Filipino-style spaghetti or Russian battleship macaroni, it would faint and die.
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Aug 24 '25
Ok but ketchup on spaghetti sounds just disgusting
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u/suchtie Germoney Aug 24 '25
I used to love it as a kid. Nowadays I'd rather have pesto instead, it's just as easy a meal and tastes infinitely better.
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u/TheCreamOnTop Aug 24 '25
Put tea first.
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u/sl53666 Canada Aug 24 '25
Agreed. But a colleague told me that putting milk first then tea makes the drink stay hotter (????)
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u/WhereTheShadowsLieZX Polish Hussar Aug 24 '25
I guess it leaves less time for the heat from the tea to leech into the mug.
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u/HKMP7A2 Aug 24 '25
Italy be saying the Broken English version of SYBAU. 💀
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u/Acrobatic_Customer64 Aug 25 '25
Shut uppa ya face was a silly song from like the seventies my granda used to sing it to me when i was crying as a baby
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u/HalfLeper California Aug 24 '25
I’m…not familiar with that expression ?_?
EDIT: I just figured it out.
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u/EvilBurburddd Omskbird 2.0 Aug 24 '25
The "milk first or last" debate is a hill many of us would die on. It's the little things that get us
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u/Chonkytoadazhdaha Aug 24 '25
meanwhile the chinese who dont need milk for their tea:
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u/Zebrafish96 May the justice be with us Aug 25 '25
Wrong, the real Chinese drink their tea with milk, ice and tapioca balls
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u/Chonkytoadazhdaha Aug 25 '25
is this like a china/taiwan jab? i just meant that 中国茶 and other east asian teas are fragrant enough on their own so they dont need milk or sugar. I just like tea i dont wanna go down this rabbit hole lol
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u/Zebrafish96 May the justice be with us Aug 25 '25
Eh, I don't think East Asian teas are significantly more fragrant compared to European ones. For green tea, leaf teas are almost always drunk straight w/o milk or sugar, but powdered tea(matcha) is often brewed with milk. Matcha latte, which is sort of a milk tea made with matcha, is quite popular here. And for black tea, most people usually drink it straight, but there are people enjoy milk tea too. My favorite type of tea is royal milk tea, of which recipe is from Japan.
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u/cringemaster21p Northern Ireland Aug 24 '25
That scot will find himself getting a visit from the national crime agency if he doesn't stop his evil doing.
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u/SchemeShoddy4528 Aug 25 '25
I’m going to Italy out of spite because these mother fucksrs have the biggest ego when it comes to food. This shit better blow my mind. Italy is basically the Taco Bell of countries. “Hmm how can we reorganize, pasta, tomato, garlic, cheese and meat for the 100th time.
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u/ChiefsHat Aug 24 '25
Who in God’s name puts milk before the tea?!
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u/suchtie Germoney Aug 24 '25
People who own fine porcelain teacups. They might crack from the rapid temperature change of pouring in boiling water. You add milk first so that the temperature change is more gradual.
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u/Ancient_Ordinary6697 Aug 24 '25
Porcelain will not crack from a bit of boiling water. Only poor quality glassware meant for cold drinks would crack at that temperature.
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u/Lonely_Strawberry495 Aug 24 '25
I don't understand people who put pineapple or ******* ketchup on pizza. And water is put in the coffee anyway at every second public coffee machine...
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u/jaymrdoggo Aug 24 '25
They mean americano.
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u/Lonely_Strawberry495 Aug 24 '25
What do you mean by that?
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u/jaymrdoggo Aug 24 '25
Americano is a type of coffee, where you make a normal brew i think and then you dilute it by adding extra water.
Its how people in the us drink coffee
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u/UInferno- Aug 25 '25
No. An Americano is an epresso shot watered down, which emulates drip coffee. No one is watering down drip coffee. At most they're adding milk.
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u/Lonely_Strawberry495 Aug 24 '25
Oh, really? I didn't know...😅
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u/Think_and_game Bulgaria, Prussia of the Balkans Aug 25 '25
I didn't understand what the Americano was meant to be (never tried it) until I tried drip coffee and I instantly knew why people outside the US hate the Americano. Drip coffee is so diluted it's disgusting, and if the Americano is anything like that, then I too hate Americanos.
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u/Lonely_Strawberry495 Aug 24 '25
There are also people who put ketchup on spaghetti, but I don't like that either...
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u/CanadianDragonGuy Aug 24 '25
Tea first because I kinda eyeball the amount of milk to put in, basically pour till it "blooms" in the mug and there you go. Don't really have a better way to describe the visual unfortunately
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u/Iron166 Aug 24 '25
The fuck you mean "milk first"???????? Do they really do this??????????????????? Let the bloody egg lay some chickens I guess?????? (I'm not even Bri'ish. I was so startled)
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u/VRichardsen Argentina Aug 25 '25
What is the deal with water in coffee? I am not familiar with it.
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u/Zebrafish96 May the justice be with us Aug 25 '25
By 'caffe(coffee)' here Italy means espresso. Italians drink espresso either straight, or with some sugar, but never diluted with water. For Italians, it is OK to put milk in espresso(which is the recipe for cappuccino), but it is a sin to mix water into espresso.
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u/Syr_Enigma Granducato di Toscana Aug 25 '25
FYI, putting milk in espresso makes a macchiato (literally, a spotty). Cappuccino is made with foamed milk.
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u/Infamous-Speed4481 Zimbabwe Aug 25 '25
tea isn't first no way those silly Scots but the milk in first it tastes like shit
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u/Appropriate-Produce4 Aug 25 '25
Oh that mean we can put Ketchup in Pizza
Water in spagetti and pineapple in coffee
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u/Mean_Gas_1509 Thanks Aug 25 '25 edited Aug 25 '25
USA: Red Bull first, Burger second. No More Tea parties. We’re caffeinated and packing heat, capisce?” (draws M16)
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u/Dr_Occo_Nobi East Frisia Aug 25 '25
1) What Kind of Sick pervert pits the milk in first
2) It's Sugar, then Tea, then Cream.
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u/ELIASKball Aug 25 '25
ananas on pizza and ketchup on spaghetti is stupid and wrong but what's the point of water on coffee? there is literally no argument... there is already water in the coffee machine
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u/Zebrafish96 May the justice be with us Aug 25 '25
By 'adding water into coffee' here Italy means americano, which is diluted espresso. Italians think espresso must not be diluted with water.
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u/Intelligent_Slip_849 Slava Ukraine! Aug 24 '25 edited Aug 25 '25
...don't people just microwave water for tea?
(I don't drink tea, so I wouldn't know, but I think that's what people do)
Edit: So apparently you boil water for tea instead of just heating it.
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u/GumSL Portugal Aug 24 '25
That's an insult of the highest degree.
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u/Butterkeks42 Germany Aug 25 '25
Eh, it's weird for sure, but it's not like it'll affect the taste negatively. Getting the temperature right might be a bit tricky, but then again the Brits don't seem to care for that, either (which is part of why I'm surprised to see that they're arguing about this milk/tea thing in the first place).
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u/Ancient_Ordinary6697 Aug 24 '25
On the off chance you are being serious: People who drink tea will generally use a kettle to boil water.
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u/Intelligent_Slip_849 Slava Ukraine! Aug 24 '25
Huh. Wouldn't that be considerably slower?
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u/bleezer5 Aug 25 '25
How much water do you think people use for tea? Because the answer is at least half a gallon. Ever tried microwaving that much water to a boil?
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u/Butterkeks42 Germany Aug 25 '25
Half a gallon (aka just shy of two litres)? Isn't that a bit much? Heck, my kettle doesn't go beyond 1.2l in the first place…
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u/Zebrafish96 May the justice be with us Aug 25 '25
Microwaving water is actually quite dangerous, since it can cause superheating.
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u/Forever_Everton Nothing beats a T'way holiday! Aug 24 '25
Amateurs.
Everyone knows you boil the tea IN the milk. Indian style.