Milk In First does NOT mean "posh person"
"Certainly for much of the twentieth century, methods of preparing tea were still the subject of some snobbery: in a letter to Nancy Mitford (a social commentator and great satirist of upper class behaviour), the author Evelyn Waugh mentions a mutual friend who uses the expression 'rather milk in first' to express condemnation of those lower down the social scale. Nowadays the 'milk in first or tea in first' debate is altogether more light-hearted, but nonetheless everyone has his or her preferred method of making tea."
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Posted By: Old Git on November 20th 2007 at 17:44:53
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- MIF meaning "posh person" is just plain wrong. (General Chat) - CB41, Nov 20, 17:25:43
- Milk In First does NOT mean "posh person" (General Chat) - Old Git, Nov 20, 17:44:53
- I did say t'other way round! (n/m) (General Chat) - Garry Brooke, Nov 20, 17:31:34
- I do beg your pardon Gary - I seem to have been a (General Chat) - CB41, Nov 20, 17:50:18
- gnorw nialp tsuj si "nosrep hsop" gninaem FIM? (n/m) (General Chat) - sixthgo, Nov 20, 17:34:14
- Did you have to register 5 names to finally get the hang of wotb? (n/m) (General Chat) - pants, Nov 20, 17:38:26
- Was the first user ID for my first PC some 15 years ago, (General Chat) - sixthgo, Nov 20, 17:48:18
- !seY (n/m) (General Chat) - Garry Brooke, Nov 20, 17:35:19
- Did you have to register 5 names to finally get the hang of wotb? (n/m) (General Chat) - pants, Nov 20, 17:38:26
- Who started this anyway? This has all the hallmarks of Brom's classed obsessed work (n/m) (General Chat) - pants, Nov 20, 17:27:45
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