Sheesh! I got the whitest tea ever. Not appetizing. And no matter how long I left the teabag in for, I just couldn’t regulate the balance to the appropriate, Elisa-liking caramel color.

As the English Gentleman (and Orwell) rightly pointed out, because the amount of milk you need varies with the strength of the tea, you can only properly judge the amount of milk required once the tea has been brewed. But to this I would add that that implies that the teabag should’ve already been taken out, because otherwise you’re stuck trying to add the right amount of tea to the milk, something that sureley any proper English Gentleman would find inconvenient.

So, my conclusion: it is not enough to be post-lactarian, you must be post-lactarian after the tea has stopped brewing (indicated by an absence of a teabag in your cup).

Of course, if I were to hazard a guess at knowing the English Gentleman, I would venture to say that he would not favor the “teabag in cup” method. Being a proper gentleman, he probably pours the water in a teapot, and brews the tea there before serving onto teabagless cups. .