Black or milk tea? This tea ‘shade card’ is making Twitter hyperventilate

What makes a good cup of tea? This Twitter debate on the different shades of tea has gotten more diversity than any other.

By: Isha Mishra |
July 28, 2017 1:29 pm

The one things Indians unanimously love is their chai. While most people are crazy about coffee, there is a bunch of tea lovers who defend their love for tea over coffee. But just like coffee, everyone has their ways to prepare tea. Some steep it for long, others infused with herbs. Many like the right balance between the tea leaves and milk, others like milk tea made with more concentration of milk than tea. In short, there are hundreds of permutations and combinations of making tea. And that means even tea lovers are divided over the types of teas they drink.

So when a Twitter user named Yourshire Problems posted a shade card of different kinds of tea asking people to “Quote with your shade of tea”, the Twitter’s comment broke out with hardcore tea lovers staking their claim on one or the other.

Quote with your shade of tea pic.twitter.com/x92OmuEdE3

— Yorkshire Problems (@yorkshireprobs) July 24, 2017

D2 won the contest hands down but we hadn’t experienced such ‘diversitea’ over one picture. Check out the comments:

*Whispers* Might borrow this to help teach diversity training.

— Sophia Cannon (@SophiaCannon) July 25, 2017

I’m D1. Bag in pic.twitter.com/ShkuudTXq8

— John Rentoul (@JohnRentoul) July 24, 2017

This needs to be pinned up in all offices. It’s why the tea run is way more fraught than a coffee trip to Starbucks.

— BlondeMoney (@MarketBlondes) July 24, 2017

B3 or D2

— northern tw@ (@76fandango) July 24, 2017

D2 please

— Susie M (@wrathofgod) July 24, 2017

D2. In a china teacup

— Abi PS (@Abipips) July 24, 2017

And 4D got all the hate:

I can see absolutely no tea involvement in 4D.

— Em4Deputy (@Trumpton_VanMan) July 26, 2017

If it’s d4, you can leave.

— TeaClub (@_TeaClub_) July 24, 2017

B3 – perfection. All the 4s make me feel bit nauseous.

— Mari (@marijeangordon) July 24, 2017

I think the tea bag may have been dunked in the other 15 cups before finally making it to D4.

— Little_Ms (@LittleMs_Whoops) July 24, 2017

A1 all the way. Has D4 even seen a teabag!?

— Natalie Brown (@NatMasquerade) July 24, 2017

It seems like all the 4’s were the abominations. Do you agree? Tell us in the comment section below