Posted by Colin on June 14, 2006 at 16:36:31 from 199.217.240.61 user Colin.
In Reply to: Re: Milk In Tea posted by Prue Eckett on June 14, 2006 at 02:11:35:
My recollection of the class distinctions concerning milk in tea is exactly opposite to yours, Prue. I seem to remember in the writings of Nancy Mitford that in upper class homes non-upper class people (governesses and nannies for example) were known as MIFs (Milk-In-First people) because the children noticed that their mothers in the drawing room always added the milk after the tea whereas it was done the other way in the nursery. It was similar to using the term toilet instead of loo or serviette rather than napkin. It's good that distinctions like these no longer bedevil human existence!
Colin