Drag Me To Heck

[customersruinmylife]

Today was my last shift for two weeks. I'm taking some well earned time off to chill out.

It's the start of my shift, and a little old lady walks up to the bar. I am not kidding you when I say she looked like the old lady out of Drag Me To Hell. It was scary, she had the veil and everything.

OL: Can I have a cup of tea?
Me: Sure, I will just get that for you.

I place the tea bag into the mug, and fill it with hot water from the boiler.

OL: Where is your tea pot?
Me: Oh, we don't have a tea pot. We just make the tea like this.
OL: I CANNOT drink tea unless it is out of a teapot!
Me: I am sorry. Is there no way you can have the tea like this? I will give you a cup of hot water and the tea bag seperately so you can make it to your liking...
OL: I NEED a tea pot! It HAS to be out of a tea pot!
Me: I'm sorry, we don't have one.
OL: Then I will NOT be drinking your tea!

She stormed out, glaring at me.

I finished my shift OK, she didn't attack me after work like in the movie.

[lupo pazzesco]

...Is it supposed to taste different from a teapot??

I mean, I like tea from a teapot, but I also don't mind boiling water added to mug. Either works.

Some people...

but hey, bonus points for not getting attacked. That's always good! Especially when it comes to creepy, little old ladies...

[octopi23]

It's the start of my shift, and a little old lady walks up to the bar. I am not kidding you when I say she looked like the old lady out of Drag Me To Hell.

That movie taught people a valuable lesson. Don't fuck with Eastern Europeans. But I did find it saddening the lamia was more like a satyr than the half-human half-snake I had envisioned it. But I digress.

[Netrogo]

...Is it supposed to taste different from a teapot??

I dunno the whole deal regarding this personally, but there's some british thing about not cleaning the teapot. My aunt married a guy from over there and my first real lesson about their culture came from a visit to their house. I was helping my nana, who lives with them, do the dishes when I noticed the teapot still had some tea in the bottom. I went to put it in the sink and got told 'No no nonono' then given the thing about how it was his and they don't clean the teapot. Never got told why though

So maybe the old lady followed the same tradition thingy?

[Fox One]

Never got told why though

Probably for the same reason some people never thoroughly wash their cast-iron pans: Whatever you're cooking/brewing is absorbed slightly by the cooking materials and released as a hint of flavor into whatever you put in the pan/pot after.

[Aethian]

Probably for the same reason some people never thoroughly wash their cast-iron pans: Whatever you're cooking/brewing is absorbed slightly by the cooking materials and released as a hint of flavor into whatever you put in the pan/pot after.

Don't know about the teapot but the reason why you don't fully wash off cast iron pans is because you'll take away the seasoning of the bottom. Something that gives every pan it's own flavour. One of the reasons why chilli cooked in Grandma's cast iron pot is going to taste different in a newly bought, newly seasoned cast iron pot.

Well seasoned cast iron pots, I've noticed, tend to be better non-stick as well.

[dalesys]

...don't clean the teapot...

Sourdough tea starter?

[Ree]

A lot of tea drinkers don't like the taste of tea made by pouring hot water over the teabag into a cup.
They don't feel that the tea has time to steep the same way it does in a pot.

As for not washing the pot, it's because the teapot absorbs the flavour of the tea and adds to the taste. Washing might cause a soap residue to get into the tea and ruin the flavour.
That's what I was told, anyway.

[customersruinmylife]

A lot of tea drinkers don't like the taste of tea made by pouring hot water over the teabag into a cup.
They don't feel that the tea has time to steep the same way it does in a pot.

Oh yeah I get all that. But at the end of the day she wandered into a pub. We sell like...four teas a day. There are plenty of cafes around us, and they probably serve much nicer tea and better company!

[Ree]

I wasn't saying that she was in the right place to be expecting high tea.

Just answering a question as to why she was so particular about the tea.

If I was in a pub, I really don't think I would be expecting them to have teapots on hand for their customers. Tea, after all, isn't the popular beverage of choice in a pub environment.

[AirHostess]

But it's A PUB. I would have told her that. Duh!