"Sugar spoils the flavor, and it's not very good for you either," stresses Samuel Twining, ninth-generation chairman of tea merchants R. Twining and so .. As a child he was never made to drink tea or put under any pressure to carry on the family business, but "no Twining ever takes sugar in their tea" was a rule constantly drummed into him by his father.
「糖會破壞茶湯的滋味，而且有損健康」，英國唐寧紅茶總裁強調，他自幼從沒有被家人要求喝茶，或有任何繼承家業的壓力，但「喝茶絕不加糖」，卻是父執輩不斷強調的家規。