I hate having tea with anyone in North America. I grew up drinking orange pekoe tea at home. Mom always brewed a strong pot of tea and it was a deep dark orange color and tasted great with a bit of milk. A fresh cup to me is a deep dark orange, a drop of milk and a bit of sugar.

The only fast food place that comes close to this is Tim Hortons. Ordered with a scone and it reminds me of tea and bannock (a native style and very basic baked bread)

I’ve never met anyone else who could make it. It’s like a foreign concept to people. They’ll pour luke warm water into a tea bag and serve it weak and watery and drown it with milk and basically serve a shifty watery milkshake. I’ve even been to restaurants where they just use the hot tap water to serve a cup of tea.