Putting milk in tea is popular in Taiwan, Tibet , Thailand and Hong Kong, (and Europe) whereas it's less so in most of China. So they made a hashtag about not being "mainland Chinese".
Imagine being proud of being A: lactose intolerant and B: putting milk in a beverage that didn't require milk.
Milk Tea is an ethnic Mongol invention (an ethnicity no present in any of the "milk tea alliance" places and the majority of whom live on the mainland) and being lactose intolerant doesn't stop you from drinking milk tea.
lactose intolerance is item #328472938472938472948273892375928712389079348723983498273489470278123978567293237856298374982374982347 in fake mayo shit, 80% of Japanese people can drink milk even though only 5% of them are lactose "tolerant"
that remaining 20% has a microbiome that reacts badly to milk (and this is changeable), but the vast, VAST majority of lactose "intolerant" people don't
See, I know the Brits and the Irish do, and from the very small sample size of the one Frenchman I lived with would have black tea with milk for breakfast (cursory Google says it's "thé au lait"). Kinda just assumed it was the case for the rest of Europe.
In Poland both tea and milk are super popular, but even though 30 years of intense promotion of foreign food especially anglo cooking, Poles seen the mix of those two substances and collectively shuddered.
I mean some people drink this, but it's not popular and the source is rather the French cooking than British.
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Putting milk in tea is popular in Taiwan, Tibet , Thailand and Hong Kong, (and Europe) whereas it's less so in most of China. So they made a hashtag about not being "mainland Chinese".
Imagine being proud of being A: lactose intolerant and B: putting milk in a beverage that didn't require milk.
Utter cringe
Milk Tea is an ethnic Mongol invention (an ethnicity no present in any of the "milk tea alliance" places and the majority of whom live on the mainland) and being lactose intolerant doesn't stop you from drinking milk tea.
Honestly, even if I weren't lactose intolerant, I am not tainting my 普洱, 乌龙 or 相片 with milk.
lactose intolerance is item #328472938472938472948273892375928712389079348723983498273489470278123978567293237856298374982374982347 in fake mayo shit, 80% of Japanese people can drink milk even though only 5% of them are lactose "tolerant"
that remaining 20% has a microbiome that reacts badly to milk (and this is changeable), but the vast, VAST majority of lactose "intolerant" people don't
Yeah that's the proof that any culture can have disgusting food, not only Brits.
Only the Brits drink tea with milk in Europe though.
See, I know the Brits and the Irish do, and from the very small sample size of the one Frenchman I lived with would have black tea with milk for breakfast (cursory Google says it's "thé au lait"). Kinda just assumed it was the case for the rest of Europe.
In Poland both tea and milk are super popular, but even though 30 years of intense promotion of foreign food especially anglo cooking, Poles seen the mix of those two substances and collectively shuddered.
I mean some people drink this, but it's not popular and the source is rather the French cooking than British.
Nah, it's spread across a lot of western Europe, but a lot of them are absolutely shite at making tea. Don't even let it brew.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milk_Tea_Alliance