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[South Africa] A cup of tea with milk and one teaspoon of sugar, where the milk is poured into the cup before the tea. Variations are ISO 0, with no sugar; ISO 2, with two spoons of sugar; and so on.
This may derive from the “NATO standard” cup of coffee and tea (milk and two sugars), military slang going back to the late 1950s and parodying NATO_s relentless bureaucratic drive to standardize parts across European and U.S. militaries.
Like many ISO standards, this one has a faintly alien ring in North America, where hackers generally shun the decadent British practice of adulterating perfectly good tea with dairy products and prefer instead to add a wedge of lemon, if anything. If one were feeling extremely silly, one might hypothesize an analogous ANSI standard cup of tea and wind up with a political situation distressingly similar to several that arise in much more serious technical contexts. (Milk and lemon don_t mix very well.)
[2000 update: There is now, in fact, an ISO standard 3103: ‘Method for preparation of a liquor of tea for use in sensory tests.’, alleged to be equivalent to British Standard BS6008: How to make a standard cup of tea. —ESR]