The answer more often than not is No. No you can not, do not try, put the kettle down and step away. I’m sitting here staring a 12oz cup of some brown sloshy liquid that I put milk into because I had delusions of it tasting something like tea. My husband is English, and yes this may influence me a bit, but honestly, I thought most tea sucked before I met him. We’re not talking some exotic mixture of leaves from the far east, that were hand sorted by wild monkeys here…we’re talking a standard fucking cup of tea.