Are you a ‘dunker’.

Despite the epidemic wave of coffee outlets in every shopping Mal, High Street, service station and superstore, tea is still regarded as the UK’s essential cuppa. Is your household a battleground over the habit of ‘dunking’ or has it been barred?

In 1807 there was a similar controversy over sugar in tea. Sugar takers themselves were split between ‘pulverists’ who went for grains of sugar and ‘lumpists’ who chose sugar lumps in their favourite brew. In many households across the Black Country disputes over the merits of biscuit ”dunking’ have raged for generations. Even when your biscuit becomes saturated and falls into your ‘cuppa” many still can’t enjoy a brew without a ‘dunk’.

Imagine what would happen to the biscuit economy of the UK if people didn’t “dunk’. Sales are at serious risk if young people don’t pick up the life skill of ‘dunking’ without dropping soggy biscuit into their tea. No biscuits at a tea break? Coffee drinkers? Madness. A sure sign the British stiff upper lip is disappearing into a ‘skinny flat white’ world.

Many love a ‘cuppa’ but don’t ‘dunk’. Can these people cross the road safely by themselves or, do they still believe in Santa Claus?

To ‘dunk’ or Not to ‘dunk’ as Shakespeare himself never asked. Britain needs ‘dunkers’ and proud Tea drinkers. Save the ‘dunk’, it’s a national treasure.

Doug James, Walsall