Tea troubles

Third cuppa yesterday tasted very odd.

First thought was that the green top milk - the stuff which contains something to make it cloudy and something to make it white, but nothing nourishing at all - was responsible. But that gets slipped into my tea on occasion and I don't always notice. Didn't think that the green milk was off, only having been open a day or so.

First cuppa this morning, with proper blue milk, still a bit odd, but drinkable. Second thought was that it was the taste of fresh plastic from our brand new electric kettle, quite a problem at the time that plastic kettles first appeared. But many years have elapsed since then and anyway this kettle is mainly made of thin stainless steel.

Third thought was that person or persons unknown had been a bit too keen with the washing up liquid when getting rid of the unsightly brown gunk which our hard water tea leaves on the inside of the tea cups. Or mugs. Or maybe it was washing soda. Hate to think what that might do to one's insides.

Fourth thought was that it was not the tea bags themselves. They had been changed some weeks ago and it seems unlikely that I would only just have noticed. Unless I am incubating a cold, in which state my senses of taste and smell do funny things, usually involving fish.

In any event, subsequent cuppas have been better and I think I will let the matter rest for moment.

PS: first cuppa this morning (Thursday) bad again. Does it take the water standing in the new steelish kettle overnight to soak up the full plastic flavour?