What Mikes was referring to was the British way of drinking black tea with cold milk and no sugar: "Once this refreshing, aromatic, oriental beverage was successfully transformed into colourless and tasteless gargling-water, it suddenly became the national drink of Great Britain and Reland--still retaining, indeed usurping, the high-sounding title of tea."
作家指的是紅茶調冷牛奶不加糖的英式喝法：「一旦這種芳香提神的東方飲料，成功地轉變成慘白無味的漱口水，它就搖身成為大不列顛國飲，卻仍然僭用了茶之美名。」