> If you look at the English tea set, you will see- six cups and
> saucers, One tea pot, one milk pot and one sugar pot. I guess English
> way to drink tea is- drinking tea with a tea set. That means- brewed
> tea with milk and sugar.


I had the mixed fortune of living in the UK for several years, and would
like to share two "English ways" now sadly declining.

One is the honorific given whomever is pouring. In an early James Bond film
(IIRC), there's a scene where someone invites, "Will you be mother?" Most of
the theatre audience looked confused or just missed the comment. (Likewise
when Q, fitting Bond for a magic suit, asks on which side he dresses.)

The other is the eminently civilised practice of putting out a pot of very
strong tea and another of boiling water. People can then mix to preferred
strength. Since I prefer tea that looks like coffee (and coffee that looks
like bitumen), and others a milder dilution, it seems a very polite
treatment.

-DM