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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]British person here: I feel like you’re all talking different cream. 
I believe OP was talking about the clotted cream that goes on scones with jam. It’s an English tea tradition. 
That kind of cream doesn’t go in any drink, tea or coffee. [/quote]

OP talked about both: " I asked for it the waiter snottily told me that cream doesn't go with the tea I ordered and I had to show him I'd ordered black tea and then he said "Oh, yes, you can have it with that kind" and went and got it, so yeah, that was super weird and annoying--I think I know whether or not I want [b]cream in my tea[/b]."[/quote]

OP here. Yes, I know tea is generally taken with milk not cream. It was in England (and then in India) that I got in the habit of putting it in there. But after a lifetime of drinking coffee with half and half, I decided that is what I want in my tea instead of milk if I can have it. And I don't think that is unusual. The server who didn't want to bring me cream for my tea wasn't making a distinction between milk and tea, he thought I'd ordered herbal tea and was insisting on cream because I saw a pitcher of it on someone else's table. And he was horrified at the idea of destroying chamomile or whatever with dairy. That wasn't was I was about to do. So, yeah, whatever, tea is served with milk, but there are plenty of us in the half-n-half habit thanks to coffee who want half-n-half. I said "cream" instead of half and half, because it felt easier for some reason.

Ok. Whew. Let's stop the arguing over this. [/quote]

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