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Originally Posted by Arragonis
Only if you use the incorrect blend / brand or if you allow it to brew for too long - the dreaded stewed tea which is no use to anyone.
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I must have fallen into bad company, then, because your description seems to fit every cup of tea I had in Britain.
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Not really, both are blended and brewed hot drinks and both have a level of bitterness which can, in part, be softened with added milk, or cream.
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I dunno... My idea of proper tea - Chinese/Japanese green tea, basically - is scarcely bitter at all.
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Couldn't find any over there, however that could have been down to the people we were with - their idea of fresh food was pizza that was still warm when delivered, and anything involving leaves, peeling or cutting was to be avoided. 
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Yeah, I've known people like that. And the worst part is that that's their idea of fancy. Normal is to open a package of chips (American usage of word, of course) and a can of soda.
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On our way to a day out at a lake we trundled through a small town in MN and there was a bakery - real genuine baking bread, queue out of the door. But they gave me a very strange look when I suggested we go there for freshly baked bread for our day out instead of the processed supermarket muck we had.
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These days even the local WalMart has an in-store bakery that turns out some pretty decent breads. But they still sell an awful lot of that sliced white stuff.