Tea and sympathy

I was doing an interview today. It started like this:

" Do you drink coffee or tea?"
" Tea please, can't drink coffee anymore"
" Same here, stomach has been ruined with all that coffee drinking. I started drinking coffee when I was doing military service. You needed coffee to get up so early."
"I see. You have nice some tea bags here. I shall take Indian spicy"
" Yes, we have a lot of tea drinkers - that's why we have a good selection"

I always drink my tea with milk. Some people find it peculiar, shouldn't it be with lemon slice and honey.