Yeah except we invented Chobham armour, why are Americans so obsessed with the whole Tea thing? American troops have coffee in their ration packs, but we aren't going on about it constantly
I once heard a story from a British tanker that they would pull up besides an infantry unit that was out in the cold all day. They then would loudly ask the TC what they should do with all that hot water they don't need anymore. ''Oh, just chuck it over the side.'' He'd say.
@@koenven7012 well yeah, overall its a great thing, even if the crew uses self-heating MRE units, hot water can be used for other meals, for some technical purposes or maybe even medical purposes. A great feature for tank's crew aid in general, even if its not part of a nation obsessed with tea, lol.
Ice cream was more pracrical because it was a rich source of calcium and it could be fortified with essential vitamins, something that the Philippine Ministry of Public Health (now the Department of Health) learned during its postwar research, which led to the Philippines reaching a record high in obesity rates in Asia postwar. Postwar Philippines was so rich, kids were as fat as houses, which is why many old photos of Filipino kids were kinda pudgy... I dunno if that's a flex or that I'm worried about the kids.
It was much needed after they banned consumption of alcohol aboard American ships. If your crew can’t blow off steam with booze, at least they can relax with a bit of sugar.
Yeah, so much so that a group of crew members of the USS Lexington CV-2 broke open the ice cream locker and had at it during the evacuation while the ship was burning and sinking at the Battle of the Coral Sea
@@HobbiesGamesChillin Centuries have passed. Life has changed. The object of anger was not the tea itself, but the excise tax imposed. Do you disagree?
Try "Our Coffee". Both are caffeinated, but the difference is we (Americans) don't stop in the middle of the day to make a big deal about drinking it. 🇺🇸☕
My father, a Lieutenant in an American truck company, was attached to a British column for a while. He was amazed to find that when it was tea time the column stopped, small fires were built to boil water, and everyone settled down for Tea! (The Americans put clean snow into their tin cups and wedged the cups into the engine of their truck. When the water was hot they made instant coffee and drank it while driving along.)
Ah, so the British drank tea and the Americans drank coffee. ☕ The common denominator is caffeine. The real, big difference is that the British _Stopped_ what they were doing for an elaborate tea time.
@@zoiders All I know is what I was told by someone who was there. He said, "fires," but didn't mention further details. He was primarily concerned with the time that was lost by the stop.
I heard before that here in Ireland, during the war, because we remained neutral we lost access to the tea that we would have normally had access to and ended up buying from other sources. It's why British tea and Irish tea can be slightly different as ours came from Kenya and later Rwanda instead of India.
@@MrGeorocks British tea came from Kenya and Rwanda as well. India, Kenya and Rwanda all being British possessions at the time. So you bought tea from the Brits.
@@danielwilke7574Yes, but the difference between Britts and Americas is that even though combat is a crisis situation, Britts came to a stand still then and there _when_ they had tea to drink. 😄 Did Fallout Prime day this was on a Pacific show? Like "McHale's Navy", or something?
Tea was, and still is, a quintessentially British symbol. It leads to conversations and friendships that nothing else can. It was the workers brief respite against the labour driving bourgeoisie and a gave us our 'stiff upper lip'. Also, milk and two sugars.
Quite, when my family arrived here from Russia in the 1890’s, one of the first things we did was switch from Russian style tea to British style tea. Truly that is most likely our single greatest tool of integration 😂
@@LanguorousEngineerIt varies according to individual taste. I like Assam tea which has a lovely rich flavour and golden colour and I use about 1 tablespoon of milk in a large mug. Brings out the colour and doesn't swamp the taste. No sugar for me. Everyone has their own preference and small variations of method.
@@alanbeaumont4848 according to the National Institute of Health the alleged carcinogenic properties of Tannic acid is complicated and unclear with conflicting reports simultaneously claiming it to be carcinogenic and anti carcinogenic. A cursory google search gave me similar results with different papers claiming the exact opposite thing. It seems like there is no clear consensus on the matter and, if those foods are carcinogenic, it seems unclear whether or not the tannic acid specifically is the culprit.
ironically milk was added because the hot water broke the cup so they added milk to counter it, so in actuality adding milk in tea in unnatural since in asia they don't add milk they use tea bowls instead of cups so really who is the uncivilized when your cup is too weak to handle tea
This is also why the tea in Ireland tastes different from the tea in the UK: Ireland, which drinks even more tea than the UK, was cut out of the London tea market and was forced to set up a semi-state company to act as a middleman for tea importation. That's why it comes from East Africa rather than South Asia and thus has a different flavour. Now, what happened to the company they set up is also an interesting story, but not something to get into here.
Maybe that was the true importance of the Burma campaign: keep open supply routes for tea to India and from there to Britain. Little did the axis know that the British were so close to being cut off from east Asian tea crops and thus being forced to capitulate to the axis powers.
Oh, I doubt it. We in the Americas would have sold them coffee, and we also grow tea over here, too. 🌎 Besides, the most important thing for the British wasn't _drinking_ the tea they grew on their colonies, it was _selling_ the tea they grew in their colonies. 💰💰🤑£££
There's a reason Britain wanted to hold onto India until the bitter end, the tea crop was deemed more important than almost anything else in the empire.
Well they still could've imported it from Ceylon, present day Sri Lankan. Besides, I seriously don't think the Japs would've been able to bring the whole of India under their control. It would;ve cost them far more in terms men, money and materiel. Although the Japanese may have seized the North East Indian tea plantations, the ones Southern India would have supplied Britain with enough tea.
I prefer my tea with milk, but if there’s no milk, just add an extra spoon of sugar and I’ll drink it like that. Incidentally, to this day, the soldiers of the British Army refer to their preferred way of drinking tea (milk, and two teaspoons of sugar) as “NATO Standard”.
Canadian troops in Germany, at least where I was, called a coffee with 1 milk + 1 sugar NATO standard also. Don't recall any fancy names for anyone's tea though.
Post war brit tanks have a boiling vessel because of the threat on NBC - nuclear biological and chemical warfare. It probably reduces the logistical load a bit too. Since the AFV's motor is usually running nearly all the time to top off the batterieds and power the radios and sensors it doesn't really increase the fuel needed and you don't need to haul a different fuel type to vehicle crews.
no they don't, the first tank with a boiling vessel did not have NBC protection. the boiling vessel also helps with NBC threats. but it predates NBC precautions.
Bit unfair to say that tea caused casualties - tankers had to get out of their tanks to make dinner and tea was part of that. Post war tanks had a boiling vessel for NBC and to cook boil-in-the--bag food
Lots of casualties while outside the tank to take a leak too. So there's only so much tea one can drink before being exposed to the dangers of going back outside.
Dud if we got reports of Russian tankers getting killed because of Vodka breaks or Americans obsessing over their flag like we do are tea wed be making fun of them, its okay to laugh at are selves.
@@cattysplat To be fair tea-bags are pretty quick to brew well-enough with some aggitation. Nice loose-leaf does take time though, no real getting around that.
Having done the same for many years in the US, very much agreed!!! There are very few issues I still think are actually all that dire after stopping for a cuppa.
hi, I assume this is a genuine question and you are not having a laugh. I am at breakfast, like most mornings drinking my Tetley tea that we buy in Costco. Normally in a box of 200bags.
@@hmsbelfast2019Yes, but _We_ have something _you_ don't; Powdered instant coffee. We can spoon it into a cup of cold water, stir it and there we go! ☕😀🇺🇸 Can you do _that_ with tea and cold water? 😏 Oh. yes. I guess you can. 🇬🇧
@@TheNoiseySpectator I don't know why you're so proud of that invention. I would put it above puddle water, but below radiator water in terms of taste.
The legend goes that it s D day, the beech's are being stormed and the Brits stop for a cup, yanks head explodes thinking that the o plan was to charge forwards and fight until night. Angry he kick a box and open to show the second most carried item, tea.
Mid march they would, but they wouldn't stop fighting if they were exchanging fire with the enemy. If they were fighting on the defense it probably wouldn't be unheard of to have a private go back a ways to start a brew for the section or platoon.
I absolutely like these little bits of british tradition that made way into the (relatively) modern military. My favourite is regimental traditions and names.
The Americans stockpiled several year's supply of tobacco during the war. There are still wartime warehouses in Durham, NC that were built to hold it. Many of them were since converted to commercial office space or residential lofts.
The milk thing comes from Frisia. So, the Brits are drinking their tea the "German" way. I don't use milk in my tea, nor coffee. The best tip I ever have gotten as travel advice was to order "Without milk, tea" in the UK. When you order "tea, without milk", the milk will be in the cup, before you finish.
I'm civilised, so obviously I drink my tea with a splash of milk. To some extent it COULD depend on the type of tea because there is a case for saying Earl Grey should be drunk without milk but with a slice of lemon, for example. But most teas (a decent broken Orange Pekoe from Kandy or Dimbula, a nutty Assam, or Yorkshire Tea with its preponderance of Ugandan teas but with Kenyan and some Indian teas, are meant for milk).
@@TheNoiseySpectatorto be fair, as soon as the soldiers returned from WW2, the first thing they did was vote in the most left wing government we’ve ever had. I dare say Mr Attlee was our best prime minister
black tea with milk, steeped for two-four minutes with two sugars. (by quantity I use two teabags. because a tea bag is only enough for 500ml of water.)
Without, I grew up in a Russian neighborhood. My wife from Texas drinks it cold with far too much sugar or warm with milk as her reference for tea comes from the British on tv shows.
As a Canadian and thus a citizen of a Commonwealth Country I can firmly say the British can keep all the tea. I prefer coffee with raw sugar. That being said the Limes do make decent fruit preserves.
i have heard the 'myth' about tea breaks before and it paints the wrong picture. British tank crews may well make themselves a hot drink when halted, (the same as anyone else). But they would not stop what they were doing for a 'tea break'. I hope you can see the difference. FYI. British tank crews are known as Tankies, not Tankers. Tankers is a term from across the pond.
Yeah, it's a common misunderstanding to cause-effect. They never stopped driving their tank to make tea. But when they had to stop driving their tank... they would make tea. It's not like there was much else to do. Of course, if you could make that within the tank, it would be safer (but people tend to not like being crammed in a hot metal box for too long, anyway)
@@Ethnarches it makes literally everything taste better. Don't know what it is, but it does. And those stupid ones you buy on Amazon that are mass produced don't do it lmao
But isn't that kinda just regular tea tho the point of black tea is to be strong adding milk completely changes that flavour I'm not saying thats a bad way to drink tea you should drink it how you like to But I don't think black tea is really black tea anymore if you're gonna add milk
I hope you enjoy good sir, having recently returned from the Carolinas I must say I was very thankful there are some Americans who still heed the good word of proper tea. Good tidings from across the pond
@@ezrafriesner8370 I can see why y’all got so mad when we dumped it in the harbor! That was a waste of damn good stuff! I’ll always extend my hand to y’all!
American: Colonel! You need to send in the tanks now! British Colonel: No can do old boy, not till after tea. American: *eye twitches as he can’t understand something so ridiculous* German and French commanders: we’ve been dealing with this nonsense since 1600, we hate it too.
“For the soldiers may be fighting, In the trenches or a battleship at sea. But there isn’t any war when the clock strikes four, Everything stops for tea.”
When Brooke wrote "and is there honey yet for tea" this is not what he meant. Some corner of a foreign field is forever England and if you listen carefully you can hear something revolving underground!
Italy was probably still "neutral" at that point (but so was Japan, of course). But Britain wasn't buying tea from Europe - rather directly importing it (mostly from Asia and Africa), so I'm not sure why they felt the need to say that.
I did find it rather funny how I was far easier able to find British style tea in Berlin while in what once was the British segment. I dare say we’ve left that imprint on various bits of Germany, greetings from across the sea!
@@ezrafriesner8370 For the British sector of West Berlin this very likely. Yet the northern half of Germany is traditionally tea drink as sea going - milk or cream, black tea and Kandis in that order.
Everybody with even a passing intrest in tea and the wartime consumption thereof would do well to read George Orwell's 1946 listicle titled "A Nice Cup of Tea"
Seville orange marmalade was also considered necessary for morale in Britain. I have heard that the only trade Britain did with a fascist country in wartime was with Franco’s Spain for bitter Seville oranges.
There were various ersatz options, mostly based on carrots with a few peelings in to give it the right look. Fanta had its birth as a coca-cola substitute.
@@not2hot99 Most boba, or at least the classic flavours, does use black tea as the base, then just add a bunch of milk and sugar and the tapioca pearls or whatever. I've also seen matcha-based boba.
As such, ever British Main Battle Tank, from Centurion to Challenger 2 has a built-in kettle. Before that they'd put metal canisters of water near the exhaust manifolds of their vehicles.
“Does the tank have anti missile armour?”
“No but it has an internal kettle”
“Sold!”
And ideally a spot for the custard creams too.
Good form, Sir
Yup Tea is more important 😂
Apparently, basically all armoured vehicles with CBRN capability have internal kettles. They just call them "boiling vessels" if they aren't British.
Yeah except we invented Chobham armour, why are Americans so obsessed with the whole Tea thing? American troops have coffee in their ration packs, but we aren't going on about it constantly
Tbf, the boiling vessel is also so you can heat up your rations without leaving the tank. Great moral booster on long days.
I once heard a story from a British tanker that they would pull up besides an infantry unit that was out in the cold all day. They then would loudly ask the TC what they should do with all that hot water they don't need anymore. ''Oh, just chuck it over the side.'' He'd say.
Milk, no sugar, strong ('Builders tea' we call it here)
In the gulf War a Challanger exploded since the Tea Kettle was left on for too long.
@@FinnishSmitty I've never heard of this, do you have a reference for it? I'd like to know more.
@@Lcpl_Spartan i heard it once in a history video
Internal kettles on tanks is the most British thing I’ve heard
Sounds like a great idea to me, even if tankers dont drink tea. Having access to a boiled water in field condition is always great.
@@derpyhoowes I heard that other NATO units always like being paired with a UK tank unit because then they have access to hot food.
@@koenven7012 well yeah, overall its a great thing, even if the crew uses self-heating MRE units, hot water can be used for other meals, for some technical purposes or maybe even medical purposes. A great feature for tank's crew aid in general, even if its not part of a nation obsessed with tea, lol.
It's main purpose isn't actually for tea it's for heating water for MREs
@@Suprisenameby the time the challenger 2 came into service most MREs were self heating
As an English colleague say: "Tea is quite a necessity you know"!
With horror, a couple of days ago I realised I was down to my last 150 bags. I bought 400 more immediately.
A friend had been a prisoner of war. He let us know that the most valuable supplies in the Red Cross parcels, were the tea bags.
I only drink the finest earl grey from Waitrose
In the gulf War a Challanger exploded since the Tea Kettle was left on for too long.
Kongou can attest to that.
I'd laugh, but the US Navy was known for its ice cream ration at the time (though it was something that scared Japanese command, so that's nice)
Ice cream was more pracrical because it was a rich source of calcium and it could be fortified with essential vitamins, something that the Philippine Ministry of Public Health (now the Department of Health) learned during its postwar research, which led to the Philippines reaching a record high in obesity rates in Asia postwar. Postwar Philippines was so rich, kids were as fat as houses, which is why many old photos of Filipino kids were kinda pudgy... I dunno if that's a flex or that I'm worried about the kids.
@@tedhubertcrusio372 It's a problem, but a better problem than to have them gaunt and starving
It was much needed after they banned consumption of alcohol aboard American ships. If your crew can’t blow off steam with booze, at least they can relax with a bit of sugar.
@tedhubertcrusio372 Wow. You learn something new every day.
Yeah, so much so that a group of crew members of the USS Lexington CV-2 broke open the ice cream locker and had at it during the evacuation while the ship was burning and sinking at the Battle of the Coral Sea
I like the idea of the higher ups going "well we can't just stop them from drinking tea. I guess just put a kettle inside."
It was considered so essential by the higher ups too - there was never a question of if tea was allowed, it was always ‘how do we do it safely?’ :)
The higher ups never wanted to stop them in the first place. You have an odd view considering the video we just watched.
This is why the Brits hated Americans after the Boston Tea party
We didn’t add the milk
At last someone gets it😁
The milk comes first in the cup.
@@philipb2134 look we aren’t gonna dump milk into the ocean then throw tea
That is just silly
@@HobbiesGamesChillinIn our day, the cost of milk likely would be lower than the labor cost to transport and dump it.
@@HobbiesGamesChillin Centuries have passed. Life has changed. The object of anger was not the tea itself, but the excise tax imposed. Do you disagree?
The Brits got their wartime tea supplies, and the Yanks got their ice cream war barge.
Try "Our Coffee".
Both are caffeinated, but the difference is we (Americans) don't stop in the middle of the day to make a big deal about drinking it. 🇺🇸☕
@TheNoiseySpectator we don't make a deal of it. It's you guys that do
@@TheNoiseySpectatorwhat the fuck is a teabag rahhhh
We got instant coffee in the rations. No boiler though.
Each to their own.
*Long, drawn out sip of tea*
My father, a Lieutenant in an American truck company, was attached to a British column for a while. He was amazed to find that when it was tea time the column stopped, small fires were built to boil water, and everyone settled down for Tea! (The Americans put clean snow into their tin cups and wedged the cups into the engine of their truck. When the water was hot they made instant coffee and drank it while driving along.)
Man you yanks are so uncivilised.
Ah, so the British drank tea and the Americans drank coffee. ☕
The common denominator is caffeine.
The real, big difference is that the British _Stopped_ what they were doing for an elaborate tea time.
British people drink coffee too...
That's not how you brew up. A stove was made from an ammunition box with sand in bottom and a dash of petrol. Or actual stoves were used.
@@zoiders All I know is what I was told by someone who was there. He said, "fires," but didn't mention further details. He was primarily concerned with the time that was lost by the stop.
I heard before that here in Ireland, during the war, because we remained neutral we lost access to the tea that we would have normally had access to and ended up buying from other sources. It's why British tea and Irish tea can be slightly different as ours came from Kenya and later Rwanda instead of India.
@@ganndeber1621 Not my story, history. Easier to look it up.
Probably the most minor thing that the British deprived the Irish of
Oh well, YOU KNOW about British grabbing Irish food supplies, if you're Irish....
@@MrGeorocks British tea came from Kenya and Rwanda as well. India, Kenya and Rwanda all being British possessions at the time. So you bought tea from the Brits.
Did the smugglers tie bags of tea to the cows that "wander" over the border?
That is...simply the most British thing I've ever heard.
Reminds me of the pacific show when the Americans have coffee for the first time in a long time
It's probably worse because if the Brits don't get their tea after a few days they will come to a standstill
@@danielwilke7574Yes, but the difference between Britts and Americas is that even though combat is a crisis situation, Britts came to a stand still then and there _when_ they had tea to drink. 😄
Did Fallout Prime day this was on a Pacific show? Like "McHale's Navy", or something?
@FalloutPriofile What is "The Pacific Show"? 🤷🏼♂️
@@TheNoiseySpectatorThe Pacific was a show on HBO about Marines during the Pacific Theater of World War 2. Pretty good show and based on a true story!
@@JohnZiTABit is a good show, but there's multiple stories it follows. The story mentioned here is Robert Leckies
So the bioling vessel isn't a convenient nicety, its a life saving precautionary device
Also good for making noodles
It is. Because when Brits don't get our tea, we tend to get a little cranky. and when we get cranky, we tend to get violent.
@@233Deadman Sounds like British soldiers shouldn't be given tea when they're going to battle. Sounds like they should be given afterwards
@@Aragorn195No, if we're angry we don't think clearly, what is better, raw anger or cool, calm and efficient violence?
@@drboom-kn7mv The type of anger that would make the Doom Guy proud
Tea was, and still is, a quintessentially British symbol. It leads to conversations and friendships that nothing else can. It was the workers brief respite against the labour driving bourgeoisie and a gave us our 'stiff upper lip'.
Also, milk and two sugars.
Quite, when my family arrived here from Russia in the 1890’s, one of the first things we did was switch from Russian style tea to British style tea. Truly that is most likely our single greatest tool of integration 😂
@@ezrafriesner8370 When there is much that can divide us, a cup of tea can unite us.
How much milk though
@@LanguorousEngineerIt varies according to individual taste. I like Assam tea which has a lovely rich flavour and golden colour and I use about 1 tablespoon of milk in a large mug. Brings out the colour and doesn't swamp the taste. No sugar for me. Everyone has their own preference and small variations of method.
@@Cider4144 Interesting, thank you
If you drink black tea you should add milk. It reduces tooth staining.
How about lemon?
@@simoncejka9121you don’t use lemon and milk at the same time, it would curdle
And cancels the tannic acid which is carcinogenic.
@@alanbeaumont4848 according to the National Institute of Health the alleged carcinogenic properties of Tannic acid is complicated and unclear with conflicting reports simultaneously claiming it to be carcinogenic and anti carcinogenic. A cursory google search gave me similar results with different papers claiming the exact opposite thing.
It seems like there is no clear consensus on the matter and, if those foods are carcinogenic, it seems unclear whether or not the tannic acid specifically is the culprit.
Blythe from the film The Great Escape, "tea without milk is uncivilized"
Yes, no milk you say ? We ought not be discussing this in public. Women and children might be reading this.
Milk IN tea? So uncivilized…^^
ironically milk was added because the hot water broke the cup so they added milk to counter it, so in actuality adding milk in tea in unnatural since in asia they don't add milk they use tea bowls instead of cups so really who is the uncivilized when your cup is too weak to handle tea
Was looking for this comment, how civilized of you sir
@@Hunter664yt Many Asians cannot eat dairy products, which is why cheese is uncommon over there.
This is also why the tea in Ireland tastes different from the tea in the UK: Ireland, which drinks even more tea than the UK, was cut out of the London tea market and was forced to set up a semi-state company to act as a middleman for tea importation. That's why it comes from East Africa rather than South Asia and thus has a different flavour.
Now, what happened to the company they set up is also an interesting story, but not something to get into here.
Go on, tell us the story!
"Why did the British pack milk for tea?"
Thats a bloody stupid question.
Are they drinking it black in America?
@@cadestrathern1260Worse. They drink coffee. Psychopaths.
@@cadestrathern1260 Why did Italians add foam to their Coffee.
@cadestrathern1260 Americans make tea in the microwave
like "why did the british pack food in their 24 hour ration boxes?"
actually the ration pack contained a block which was tea sugar and powdered milk compressed into something resemling a large Oxo cube
that sounds genius ngl
Oh, so you have to drink your tea with sugar ? :/
Some sacrifices needed to be made, as there was a war on (said by a fellow.who doesn't drink tea with sugar)
@@lc1138 YES!!!
@@lc1138the only good way to drink tea is with milk and sugar. Everything else is fraudulent
Maybe that was the true importance of the Burma campaign: keep open supply routes for tea to India and from there to Britain.
Little did the axis know that the British were so close to being cut off from east Asian tea crops and thus being forced to capitulate to the axis powers.
Funny, but out
Oh, I doubt it.
We in the Americas would have sold them coffee, and we also grow tea over here, too. 🌎
Besides, the most important thing for the British wasn't _drinking_ the tea they grew on their colonies, it was _selling_ the tea they grew in their colonies. 💰💰🤑£££
There's a reason Britain wanted to hold onto India until the bitter end, the tea crop was deemed more important than almost anything else in the empire.
Well they still could've imported it from Ceylon, present day Sri Lankan. Besides, I seriously don't think the Japs would've been able to bring the whole of India under their control. It would;ve cost them far more in terms men, money and materiel. Although the Japanese may have seized the North East Indian tea plantations, the ones Southern India would have supplied Britain with enough tea.
India's natural resources were the lynchpin of the British Empire. Until Middle Eastern oil became key nothing was more important.
"By weigh it was greater than artillery shells and explosives". Oh my..
I don’t believe this
Can’t grow tea in the UK, so every gram has to be bought and shipped over
Artillery shells & explosives can be made here, on the other hand
I love when we come up with solutions to problems that shouldn’t even exist in the first place.
I prefer my tea with milk, but if there’s no milk, just add an extra spoon of sugar and I’ll drink it like that.
Incidentally, to this day, the soldiers of the British Army refer to their preferred way of drinking tea (milk, and two teaspoons of sugar) as “NATO Standard”.
This is excellent. Thanks for sharing :)
Canadian troops in Germany, at least where I was, called a coffee with 1 milk + 1 sugar NATO standard also. Don't recall any fancy names for anyone's tea though.
FAR from fancy…
So pretty much just a builders brew with a different name, cool.
Post war brit tanks have a boiling vessel because of the threat on NBC - nuclear biological and chemical warfare.
It probably reduces the logistical load a bit too. Since the AFV's motor is usually running nearly all the time to top off the batterieds and power the radios and sensors it doesn't really increase the fuel needed and you don't need to haul a different fuel type to vehicle crews.
no they don't, the first tank with a boiling vessel did not have NBC protection.
the boiling vessel also helps with NBC threats. but it predates NBC precautions.
Bit unfair to say that tea caused casualties - tankers had to get out of their tanks to make dinner and tea was part of that. Post war tanks had a boiling vessel for NBC and to cook boil-in-the--bag food
One ‘flimsy’ with petrol for a fire, one with water for the tea & one for dinner. Cruiser Camping 👌
Two things can be true at once
It’s more common for chaps to have a drink break than a meal break
Lots of casualties while outside the tank to take a leak too. So there's only so much tea one can drink before being exposed to the dangers of going back outside.
Italians and Germans thought there were more troops in the dessert because at night they could see somany "brew ups" during the dark hours
Dud if we got reports of Russian tankers getting killed because of Vodka breaks or Americans obsessing over their flag like we do are tea wed be making fun of them, its okay to laugh at are selves.
I loved those boiled sweets when my dad came back off exercise with a couple of extra ration packs. 😁
Tea is the the oil of United Kingdom change my mind
🧠 🔄🧠
It's our coffee basically. But there is no instant version, it takes time to brew.
@@cattysplat To be fair tea-bags are pretty quick to brew well-enough with some aggitation. Nice loose-leaf does take time though, no real getting around that.
We do also have oil
I'm English, tea makes me feel nauseous. I drink coffee.
Expat Brit in Canada, tea is a vital! Issues, problems or just an ongoing daily thing, I need a cup of tea! No sugar, thank you, milk? Yes please!
Having done the same for many years in the US, very much agreed!!! There are very few issues I still think are actually all that dire after stopping for a cuppa.
Is British tea easy to get in Canada or do you have to import it yourself?
hi, I assume this is a genuine question and you are not having a laugh.
I am at breakfast, like most mornings drinking my Tetley tea that we buy in Costco. Normally in a box of 200bags.
I remember Abrams guys wondering why they couldn't have a hot water dispenser in their tanks like the Challengers did.
Yanks seem to laugh at it until they realise the alternative is boiling your water on a little stove in the pouring rain
@@hmsbelfast2019Yes, but _We_ have something _you_ don't;
Powdered instant coffee. We can spoon it into a cup of cold water, stir it and there we go! ☕😀🇺🇸
Can you do _that_ with tea and cold water? 😏
Oh. yes. I guess you can. 🇬🇧
Also our rat packs come with instant coffee and hot chocolate
@@TheNoiseySpectator
No and why anybody should use that disgusting stuff is beyond me
@@TheNoiseySpectator I don't know why you're so proud of that invention. I would put it above puddle water, but below radiator water in terms of taste.
My dad served alongside Brits and Australians in the Pacific, he said, "Everything came to a halt at 'tea time.'"
As a South African, with milk, but we also drink a lot more Rooibos tea than black tea. And Rooibos was an erzats tea during the war.
Nice to know they have Rooibos tea in SA aswell, coming from a Dutchman!
@@RoyD_SDoesn't it come from South Africa?
@@martijn9568 Don't know, we just have the same tea over here!
@@RoyD_S It *is* South African. Dutchies just like it a lot.
rooibos is great stuff and decaff from the getgo
If it's Earl Grey or English breakfast, then with milk usually. Anything else, usually without milk.
Earl Grey with lemon; the bergamot in it could curdle the milk.
The real question is do you put milk in first or tea first?
Lmao they would literally stop mid battle to have tea. Based British
The legend goes that it s D day, the beech's are being stormed and the Brits stop for a cup, yanks head explodes thinking that the o plan was to charge forwards and fight until night.
Angry he kick a box and open to show the second most carried item, tea.
Mid march they would, but they wouldn't stop fighting if they were exchanging fire with the enemy. If they were fighting on the defense it probably wouldn't be unheard of to have a private go back a ways to start a brew for the section or platoon.
I absolutely like these little bits of british tradition that made way into the (relatively) modern military. My favourite is regimental traditions and names.
The Americans stockpiled several year's supply of tobacco during the war. There are still wartime warehouses in Durham, NC that were built to hold it. Many of them were since converted to commercial office space or residential lofts.
I presume you mean the buildings were converted, not the tobacco?
Tank interiors are so uncomfortable but its good to hear they got built in kettles
Because that's a very British thing to do.
Milk and half a sugar.
We love tea over here.
Also with milk and two sugars. 60-70% tea and 40-30% milk.
Remember: morale wins wars just as much as guns do.
worth noting the kettle wasnt only for tea, our rations also require boiling water
Before watching the video, my British self thought, "well duh, because Tea can't be without milk of course, what kind of lunacy question is that?!"
Boiling, dash of milk with a bit of honey
The milk thing comes from Frisia. So, the Brits are drinking their tea the "German" way.
I don't use milk in my tea, nor coffee.
The best tip I ever have gotten as travel advice was to order "Without milk, tea" in the UK. When you order "tea, without milk", the milk will be in the cup, before you finish.
I'll take a breakfast blend with milk but anything more aromatic like earl grey or chai I typically have black
I drink earl grey and black with milk
I'm civilised, so obviously I drink my tea with a splash of milk. To some extent it COULD depend on the type of tea because there is a case for saying Earl Grey should be drunk without milk but with a slice of lemon, for example. But most teas (a decent broken Orange Pekoe from Kandy or Dimbula, a nutty Assam, or Yorkshire Tea with its preponderance of Ugandan teas but with Kenyan and some Indian teas, are meant for milk).
Is important to keep moral high. Tea is one of them
The reason British tankers had Tea Breaks was because they were heavily unionized
Thanks to ...
The Labor Party.
😄
Just a joke , maybe that is true, maybe not, IDK.
@@TheNoiseySpectatorto be fair, as soon as the soldiers returned from WW2, the first thing they did was vote in the most left wing government we’ve ever had. I dare say Mr Attlee was our best prime minister
black tea with milk, steeped for two-four minutes with two sugars. (by quantity I use two teabags. because a tea bag is only enough for 500ml of water.)
British tanks and armoured vehicles still have a inside water kettle for the soldiers' brew up. There might be a mutiny otherwise.🙂
Without but I drink My coffee black
You drink.. black tea.. without milk???
Literally the most British thing I've ever heard of
Tea is best served cold in Boston Harbor.
probably because they're under the delusion that tea is good
A little milk and a super tiny bit of sugar
I put milk in tea. First time I tried it I was shocked how much better it made it.
Wow tea who would have guessed.
I used to not use milk, but once I tried it, it was a huge game changer. Only way I drink tea now is with milk and honey
If I'm drinking tea it's coming from the harbor.
My favorite tea is green with peppermint. It tastes awful with milk, so water only.
But pure tea I prefer with milk. Especially Earl Grey
Without, I grew up in a Russian neighborhood. My wife from Texas drinks it cold with far too much sugar or warm with milk as her reference for tea comes from the British on tv shows.
"Cold with far too much sugar" is an American South thing, not a British thing. But you should ask her to brew you some sun tea sometime!
I take my tea black like my soul.
Depends. Black tea? Yeah most of time unless. Oolong? Green? White? Hell no.
Precisely, each tea is different and needs its own treatment
With milk, obviously, like a civilized human being.
With milk, I'm not a savage.
Brit here. Who the hell isn’t using milk?
Ice and green tea I get. But in all other situations. Who isn’t using milk?
People drink tea without milk!?!?!
Most people drink tea without milk. Shocker, huh?
@@BoxStudioExecutive Clearly we abandoned the whole empire thing too soon. Our civilising project is incomplete!
Depends on the tea - but the ones you drink with sugar and lemmon juice won't work with milk
east asia and non British colonized southeast asian country (excluding Thailand) drink tea without milk they just drink tea and add sugar
I mean how else is Earl Grey consumed?
As a Canadian and thus a citizen of a Commonwealth Country I can firmly say the British can keep all the tea.
I prefer coffee with raw sugar.
That being said the Limes do make decent fruit preserves.
Both. I’m not going to add milk to a Chinese or Japanise Tea, but the British style black teas seem to need it.
I've noticed that when on holiday in mainland Europe the tea blends there taste better without milk.
Traditional teas don't add milk but milk tea is very popular in Asia in general albeit this was because of recent western introduction.
@@RedcoatT barbaric!
i have heard the 'myth' about tea breaks before and it paints the wrong picture. British tank crews may well make themselves a hot drink when halted, (the same as anyone else). But they would not stop what they were doing for a 'tea break'. I hope you can see the difference.
FYI. British tank crews are known as Tankies, not Tankers. Tankers is a term from across the pond.
Yeah, it's a common misunderstanding to cause-effect.
They never stopped driving their tank to make tea.
But when they had to stop driving their tank... they would make tea. It's not like there was much else to do.
Of course, if you could make that within the tank, it would be safer (but people tend to not like being crammed in a hot metal box for too long, anyway)
As a Brit makes perfect sense 👍
Tea ALWAYS with milk and sugar but sugar is optional. Having tea without milk would be a real sign the war was going poorly.
Black tea definitely with milk, that's common here in Finland.
Have you had the pleasure of having it in a hand carved kuksa?
@@connorhart7597 That’s the proper way, boiled in a kettle on open fire. :) I've drank coffee that way from a kuksa, no tea yet.
@@Ethnarches it makes literally everything taste better. Don't know what it is, but it does. And those stupid ones you buy on Amazon that are mass produced don't do it lmao
@@connorhart7597 Yeah, it’s very nice. I have family in Lapland so they've given me a proper one. :)
But isn't that kinda just regular tea tho the point of black tea is to be strong adding milk completely changes that flavour
I'm not saying thats a bad way to drink tea you should drink it how you like to
But I don't think black tea is really black tea anymore if you're gonna add milk
With - definitely!
No milk, no sugar.
Without milk. I don’t understand why people put milk in their tea
Tea with milk, I am not a heathen
This was clearly not asked by a Brit.
Also if you don't equip your lend lease Sherman's with a boiler they may accidentally burn the tank.
Irish so with milk but only a tiny drop, "to give it a bit of a suntan" as I say XD
Milk yes, sugar sometimes.
- American who decided to see what all the fuss was about
I hope you enjoy good sir, having recently returned from the Carolinas I must say I was very thankful there are some Americans who still heed the good word of proper tea. Good tidings from across the pond
@@ezrafriesner8370 I can see why y’all got so mad when we dumped it in the harbor! That was a waste of damn good stuff! I’ll always extend my hand to y’all!
I really like these short OOTF clips, nice, short and more frequent than the longer ones.
American: Colonel! You need to send in the tanks now!
British Colonel: No can do old boy, not till after tea.
American: *eye twitches as he can’t understand something so ridiculous*
German and French commanders: we’ve been dealing with this nonsense since 1600, we hate it too.
“For the soldiers may be fighting,
In the trenches or a battleship at sea.
But there isn’t any war when the clock strikes four,
Everything stops for tea.”
1 lump of sugar, no milk, is the chosen path.
English man here. I drink tea and coffee without milk and without sugar. On occasions I may add some honey to tea, usually when I am feeling ill.
Man, what are you doing! Get a grip for God’s Sake!
@@paulklee5790😁
When Brooke wrote "and is there honey yet for tea" this is not what he meant. Some corner of a foreign field is forever England and if you listen carefully you can hear something revolving underground!
Are you 'sure' you are English? Are you feeling unwell? If so, it's because YOU DON'T ADD MILL!
Recent immigrant?
We bought all the tea because we'd hate to think if we ran out that there might be some left we could have got our hands on.
i take my tea with coffee
I take my coffee with tea
you absolute madman
An interesting strategy
This implies they bought tea from Italy.
Italy was probably still "neutral" at that point (but so was Japan, of course). But Britain wasn't buying tea from Europe - rather directly importing it (mostly from Asia and Africa), so I'm not sure why they felt the need to say that.
Black tea needs milk, that's how we drink it in Germany, too
I did find it rather funny how I was far easier able to find British style tea in Berlin while in what once was the British segment. I dare say we’ve left that imprint on various bits of Germany, greetings from across the sea!
@@ezrafriesner8370 For the British sector of West Berlin this very likely. Yet the northern half of Germany is traditionally tea drink as sea going - milk or cream, black tea and Kandis in that order.
British military vehicles to this day still have a kettle inside
Milk and brown suger plz
I like your style lad, brown sugar for the win
Tea with or without milk ? With of course, I'm not completely uncivilised,
Everybody with even a passing intrest in tea and the wartime consumption thereof would do well to read George Orwell's 1946 listicle titled "A Nice Cup of Tea"
Noted, thank you for sharing, dear person !
That's gold. I found myself reading it aloud as if preaching from a pulpit with a refined Peter Cushing esque accent
Seville orange marmalade was also considered necessary for morale in Britain. I have heard that the only trade Britain did with a fascist country in wartime was with Franco’s Spain for bitter Seville oranges.
There were various ersatz options, mostly based on carrots with a few peelings in to give it the right look.
Fanta had its birth as a coca-cola substitute.
From a Chinese person, adding milk to tea is like adding mustard to pizza to Italians 😂
Well you are forgetting how popular boba milk tea is in China
@@theoderic_lIs that even real tea? Just thought it was a marketing term
The tea we add milk to is usually assam or similar strong, robust teas that aren't as good without milk
@@not2hot99 Most boba, or at least the classic flavours, does use black tea as the base, then just add a bunch of milk and sugar and the tapioca pearls or whatever. I've also seen matcha-based boba.
@@Snaake42 interesting
Tea with milk, always. Coffee with milk, always.
Canadian so with milk
Ah Canadians. The sensible people of North America
As such, ever British Main Battle Tank, from Centurion to Challenger 2 has a built-in kettle. Before that they'd put metal canisters of water near the exhaust manifolds of their vehicles.
Will add milk to tea bag tea, without for any nice Chinese or Japanese teas
With milk and sugar.