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no matter how much milk you put in tea, it's still tea

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no matter how much milk you put in tea, it's still tea

  1. Alternative form of no matter how much milk you put in coffee, it's still coffee
    • 2021 November 7, Claire [G.] Coleman, “Not quite blak enough: ‘The people who think I am too white to be Aboriginal are all white’”, in The Guardian[1]:
      There’s a saying among blak mob, ‘It doesn’t matter how much milk you put in tea, it’s still tea'.’ I am a descendant of genocide survivors, a child of the oldest living culture on Earth. Nothing, no amount of milk, can change that.