This tea is cancer

sounds like you "brewed" some lipton crap u buy at the market.

Get some real tea. or im going to teabag you (oooooo)

I remember drinking tea for the first time in my life and had that same experience. It was a year ago and I was on Maui (just one or two islands over from my current one) because I was at a STEM conference to present an app I made. After the whole shabang, the group went to a mall to hang out. Was pretty chill. A bit after one of my friends saw a tea shop and since I wasn't doing anything in particular I decided to follow along.
In it was a pretty cute girl who was looking at some tea, and, surprising to me even to this day, I went over and we both had tea. She knew what she was looking for as if she were some "tea enthusiast" or some shit, went real specific, and got exactly what she wanted. I already told her I'm clueless to this thing so I just grabbed what she had.
She recommended that I put honey in my tea, so I did. As a person new to tea (and honey, I never touched that stuff before), I didn't really know how much to put in. But I also didn't want to look like a child and ask how much I should put in. So I just kinda put a single fist-squirt in, probably enough to fill a tablespoon.
I drank it.
I wanted to die.
She was enjoying herself and I was cringing from the sweetness that was piss-flavored tea.
I probably made a "I just pooped myself" baby face since she knew that I was having a hard time drinking it since I was going slow. But I had to be a funny dude and keep up the conversation, so the only thing left to do was keep on adding honey.
I added 4 more equal squirts into it total before I finished, and each squirt made it exponentially worse. I mean like from a scale of 1-100, 1 being the best and 100 being the worst, this shit was like 80⁴. I had to down that shit like I was taking liquid medicine. It was thick like it too because of all that honey.

But, we became friends, I got her number, we talked on the bus to the airport and at the airport until we parted ways to our own island.

That's my tea story.