Tea or Coffee?

[grobelaar]

I was thinking today how fantastic tea is, we requisitioned the company tea pot today and had a good ole tea sesh today - can't beat tea made properly in the pot, 'specially the second cup... :-)

So what do you prefer tea or coffee...

Mine's tea you get so much more variety...

Assam, Lapsang, Chai, Earl Grey... :-)

[invisibleplanet]

organic green tea
fair trade coffee
and i still haven't bought any Maté :(

[Loz]

We need a neither.

I don't drink tea or coffee. Only water, milk and coke.

[c s]

i guess i often underestimate tea - it's not that i don't like a good cup of black tea but i'm this coffee junkie that i am. italian and portuguese machines rule.

[pille'ocheoni]

coffee

[Ubik]

neapolitan coffee

[pille'ocheoni]

choco, strawberry, or vanilla?

[Mui]

coffee....i drink a bajillion short blacks a day working in a cafe, don't want to know what it's doing to my health, but it just tastes too good..

[DsD]

coffee - the drug of the working people.
that means i don`t drink coffee ;)
a nice black tea is the only true thing.

[kungfoo]

yea.. like Jean Luc Picard -> "Earl Grey, hot..."

btw. DsD, what are you doing this ealy in the morning?

[DsD]

mastrubating, reading the forum stuff, learning, eating, drinking, going to the toilet and so on kungfuck ;)

[tjackalko]

Waking up in the morning I feel like the tin-man in the wizard of oz before they give him oil.
edit: Before I have my cup of coffe that is.

[gunjack]

beer.

[aleks]

coffee is the most disgusting thing there is...everything that tastes a bit like coffee makes me wanna vomit!

i am with gunjack on this one...beer for life!

[gunjack]

trunco!

[wheezer]

pepsi max

[KaOz]

i love tea

[Weishaupt]

coffee in the morning

earl grey in the afternoon

[Das Nichts]

i love my green tea :P

[Lady E]

i used to be a black tea girl.gave up, too much caffeine

now i drink green tea, peppermint, camomile. sometimes ill have lapsang souchong or british rail.

a very rare coffee, i like the taste but it makes me feel ropey.

[Ruben A]

coffee
coffee
coffee...

cheap - expensive... I don´t give a f..k.... ;)

[amble]

that's a tough one but i tend to rate tea a bit higher. i'm just drinking one right now (green tea with maracuja - yam yam). as grobelaar pointed out there's so much variety, so much to try out. but only real tea with leaves inside, not that junk in these little bags that they sweep from the ground.

coffey is also ok though, depends on the situation. i like to have tea in the morning and coffey to keep me wake at night (if i have to).

[mr franks]

coffee in the AM (cheap ground made in a seventies percolator)

in the PM - builders tea, no suger, nice and golden in colour. - cant stand earl grey, tastes like pot puri, not proper.

[DsD]

amble: green tea with marijuana?

[amble]

that ain't bad either. but maracuja tastes better.

[Atarythm]

Coffee from these nespresso machines... that's my drug (with the music...)

[grobelaar]

Originally posted by DsD
amble: green tea with marijuana?

Surely not very good, THC need fat to attached itself too - otherwise it a lot of it just go straight through your system...

Unless you drink tea with extra fat bastard gold top milk...

[platinumray]

barrys gold label tea in a big mug with a drop of milk and half a tsp of sugar.

[Thud]

tea is my wife - my one true love (especially that second cup from a pot)

coffee is my exciting mistress who i have dirty liaisons with when i'm feeling racy.

green tea is my guilt free tipple

peppermint tea is what i drink to relax

if it's hot and not sweet i'm there basically.

[bob]

Its got to be tea, I can't even stomach the smell of coffee, dunno why but I just hate the smell/taste of it.

plus there is a really cool tea house near me where you can get loads of nice teas

[grobelaar]

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[Andreas]

tea beats coffee by miles... my favourite: earl grey with sugar and milk...

[Ruben A]

real men drinks coffee....! muhahahhaha....

[pille'ocheoni]

thats right ruben, coffee every morning, with a smooth cool pack of cigs.....breakfast of champions......and a little tempe too

[platinumray]

tea is more guzzle friendly, but coffee is more sip conducive. sometimes a sip is required but more often i need to just pore tea down my leathery throat. you know that sound you can get in your stomach that's like shaking a hot water bottle? i love that sound.

glug glug shukka shukka.

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[goinz]

Coffee all the day long, but i try to drink more tea next time.

[invisibleplanet]

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[4md]

vannilla tea

[pille'ocheoni]

coffe tea

[grobelaar]

Originally posted by invisibleplanet


mind control technques won't work on me, all i want to do now is eat lol

Are you sure? After a nice afternoon sandwich, what better to wash it down that a delicious warm cup of tea - coffee will only leave your stomach churning and give you the jitters - whereas a lovely cup of tea... well that's another matter...

[amble]

Originally posted by grobelaar


Surely not very good, THC need fat to attached itself too - otherwise it a lot of it just go straight through your system...

Unless you drink tea with extra fat bastard gold top milk...

you don't think i'm a little stupid do you?:! of course i melt the stuff down in butter before i put it in the tea which makes it taste like shit. aber da muss mer durch wenn mer'n indianer werden will.
anyway i don't do this very often, it's a bit too heavy for my likes.

i'm not sure about the fat thing though. there ain't no fat in tobacco either (or is there?), wasn't it like pot needed a certain temperature to work effective? (around 170°C if i recall right)

what is fat bastard gold top milk? i've got some ideas in my mind i don't even want to think about.

[owain_k]

Tea ......... by a mile....

Most therapeutic drink on this planet (in my book anyhow).

[marcel]

Originally posted by DsD
coffee - the drug of the working people.
that means i don`t drink coffee ;)


hehe, me2

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tea forever
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or beer, whatever...

[ischo]

i'm very vulnerable when it comes to coffee...
say, if i'd drink a coffee at 6 PM i won't sleep until 4 AM. it's really horrid. or i have to smoke so much of my stash... and that makes me go insane

so... tea please

[tsr_tomas]

black coffee. jummy.
jogi-tea. jummy.

[grobelaar]

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[grobelaar]

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[Sheridan]

tea.

I love the taste of the coffee but it starts a battle in my stomach. so now I only drink coffee if I go out for a nice dinner. and also coffee only works on me for about 15 minutes then I crash and feel horrible. I guess that is from all my abuses of amphetimines when I was younger.

[aleks]

Originally posted by pille'ocheoni
thats right ruben, coffee every morning, with a smooth cool pack of cigs.....breakfast of champions......and a little tempe too

not exactly...real breakfast for champions: beer&cigarettes, but since i gave up smoking it is beer and more beer...

[jess-ssej]

TEA+milk+sugar=IT

[DsD]

jess! ieks! milk in a tea? baaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhh! (nice avatar from princess mononoke hime ;) )

[filthydave]

tea by miles

british standard - milk and two sugars please and thank you!

nice and strong as well if you wouldn't mind!


tea bag in a china cup - pikey decadence!

but seriously if you're brewin a bag in a cup use a thin walled one with white insides
the water stays nearer boiling for longer and you get a better brew!

anyone seen this new PG loose tea with longer leaves for cafetieres?
dunno about that PG's crap tea anyway but i've tried the cafetiere business before and it's kinda cool

[grobelaar]

I knew I could smoke filthydave out with a thread on tea... anyone read Nymphomation...

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[grobelaar]

Originally posted by filthydave
tea by miles

anyone seen this new PG loose tea with longer leaves for cafetieres?
dunno about that PG's crap tea anyway but i've tried the cafetiere business before and it's kinda cool

Sounds doj if you ask me - one of those companies did a teapot with a sealable chamber, so you put the plunger down to cut the tea off from the rest of the pot and hence stop the brewing... I think the downside was it took up half the pot... its all pointless if you ask me, if you're going to be into tea, then learn to make tea. Don't fanny about with gimmicks, you don't need - a good tea pot and a tea strainer is all that's needed to make the freshest loose leave tea...

For those forced to brew in the cup, another good tip is to warm your mug first (like you would the pot) and then pour about a half an inch of boiling water in bottom and swill the teabag around to wake up the leaves, and ensure that the bag hasn't turned into a big air balloon - no good for getting a good brew...

[gunjack]

tea tastes like grass boiled in water.

[DsD]

@ gunjack: is that good or bad? ;)

[Small Paul]

TEA!!! TEA!!! My friend Billy and I are going to do a study over the summer into the significance of tea to British culture and society. Apparently George Orwell has written an essay on the relevance of tea but I've not read it yet so I can't say what it is about, stay tuned...
But have you seen how much tea costs in the States? I guess the US government is still pissed off about the Boston Tea Party so that's why they slap so much bloody tax on it. $5 for 40 tea bags?! What's that all abaht?!

[mr franks]

Originally posted by Small Paul
$5 for 40 tea bags?! What's that all abaht?!

...i get my builders tea bags from Poundland - "everythings a pound!"

[CV]

well , tea in the teapot is very English... and very, very warming ... the phrase "put the kettle on" is so hard to translate into any other languagues - these continentals take it so literally, and look at you funny! - Since living in Spain , I have been getting PG Tips imported by family and friends (but have now found a asian corner store that stocks it) - they all drink coffee and mint tea here , so I had a new relationship with coffee for the last few years - very much in my life now... but still , at home , when I invite guests round to my place , we drink tea - i make a pot and thats kind of eccentric in Barcelona!

[fym]

@pille'

very unique styles of coffeetea you´ll get in india...first we expected the mixture to be accidental but actually it´s done by purpose...horrible brew that is...only good thing it´s very sweet!

[fym]

i´m a little teapot short and stout
here´s my handle and there´s my spout!
...
nice song!

[Ubik]

drink whatever you want except the bloody nescafè

[grobelaar]

Originally posted by amble


you don't think i'm a little stupid do you?:! of course i melt the stuff down in butter before i put it in the tea which makes it taste like shit. aber da muss mer durch wenn mer'n indianer werden will.
anyway i don't do this very often, it's a bit too heavy for my likes.

i'm not sure about the fat thing though. there ain't no fat in tobacco either (or is there?), wasn't it like pot needed a certain temperature to work effective? (around 170°C if i recall right)

what is fat bastard gold top milk? i've got some ideas in my mind i don't even want to think about.

Yeah, but when you use smoke a spliff with tobacco, it doesn't matter, because you are smoking and the THC passes to your blood stream via the lungs (definitely no fat required)...

When you eat it, don't know the exact science, but I think fat is not only good for letting THC bond to them, they are also particularly good at then depositing themselves in your bloodstream (you only have to look at the amount of overweight people around the place for evidence of that...

The tea sound disgusting (tea with butter!!!!), you'd be better making a hot chocolate, with some creamy rmilk, simply grind/chop/grate the hash into a fine powder, and then let the milk simmer (do not boil) slowly for 10mins, then use it to make hot chocolate, or any other milky drink (tea shouldn't be too milky unless you drink like my Italian colleague - bloody philistines)

Gold Top is a term for extra fat milk - they take the cream that is skimmed off, skimmed and semi-skimmed milk and add it to normal milk to make gold top - its extra creamy milk basically, it was always popular on Breakfast and hence has been rebrand in Breakfast Milk in the supermarket. Back in the day when it was the mode in the UK to have a man drive around in an electric milk cart and deliver pints of milk to the door, there was, different types of milk, determined by what sort of foil top they had on them:

Red Top: Skimmed
Blue Top: Semi-Skimmed
Silver Top: Normal
Gold Top: Extra Fat Bastard

In cold weather, the cream would float to the top, so you could have the creamy milk on your cornflakes, leaving you some nice semi-skimmed milk for your tea... (milk that is too creamy, tinges the taste of the tea)

[Small Paul]

Originally posted by mr franks


...i get my builders tea bags from Poundland - "everythings a pound!"

I was a PG boy but recently I've discovered Co-op 99 tea. Tastes as good as any of the biggies but is fair trade too, and they're a pound as well. Right on tea, always good. White with two sugars, British standard like Filthy Dave, can't beat it, in fact I'm off to put the kettle on...

[owain_k]

Originally posted by cristian
well , tea in the teapot is very English... and very, very warming ... the phrase "put the kettle on" is so hard to translate into any other languagues - these continentals take it so literally, and look at you funny! - Since living in Spain , I have been getting PG Tips imported by family and friends (but have now found a asian corner store that stocks it) - they all drink coffee and mint tea here , so I had a new relationship with coffee for the last few years - very much in my life now... but still , at home , when I invite guests round to my place , we drink tea - i make a pot and thats kind of eccentric in Barcelona!

Nice to see that ex-pats still keep up time honored traditions in a way they only know ;)

Got to admit though, Spanish milk a la UHT ain't quite the same as ye good olde "Full Fat N Fresh" from a Blighty cows udder like !

Anyone for scones ?

[DsD]

i don`t like tea bags or stuff like that. a real tea can`t be made out of that stuff. use a samova for ur black tea. thats the best ;)

[grobelaar]

Originally posted by cristian
well , tea in the teapot is very English... and very, very warming ... the phrase "put the kettle on" is so hard to translate into any other languagues - these continentals take it so literally, and look at you funny! - Since living in Spain , I have been getting PG Tips imported by family and friends (but have now found a asian corner store that stocks it) - they all drink coffee and mint tea here , so I had a new relationship with coffee for the last few years - very much in my life now... but still , at home , when I invite guests round to my place , we drink tea - i make a pot and thats kind of eccentric in Barcelona!

It's getting quite eccentric here in the UK too, but in my campaign to throw off the yolk of modern living and spurn the values that are nowt but shackles for the modern wage slave (these days poeple think you are a good cook if you boil up some ready-made fresh pasta and stick a jar of cheap Italian style tomato sauce on top), damn its time to start doing things properly... the British way... :-)

To quote the venerable and supremely wise Mr Miyagi

"Daniel-san, must talk. Man walk on road. Walk left side, safe. Walk right side, safe. Walk down middle, sooner or later, get squished just like grape. Same here. You karate do "yes," or karate do "no." You karate do "guess so," get squished just like grape."

[karitek]

Originally posted by cristian
I have been getting PG Tips imported by family and friends (but have now found a asian corner store that stocks it)

yeah, i was happy to have just found a store in nyc that stocks all this random british food....i can get squash, hob nobs, bisto, pg tips, etc. and it has a little cafe in it where you can get traditional british food as well - loads of pies, bangers and mash, etc. i was quite excited.

[Small Paul]

[QUOTE]Originally posted by grobelaar
[B]

It's getting quite eccentric here in the UK too, but in my campaign to throw off the yolk of modern living and spurn the values that are nowt but shackles for the modern wage slave (these days poeple think you are a good cook if you boil up some ready-made fresh pasta and stick a jar of cheap Italian style tomato sauce on top), damn its time to start doing things properly... the British way... :-)

Yet another subject of mine and Billy's tea analysis. It seems that so many people are into the instant hit that the whole tradition of tea has taken a back seat. Hardly anyone uses a teapot anymore, just a bag in a mug and away you go... I'm as much to blame for that but the whole ritual of tea should be re-kindled and the pot re-introduced to British tea drinking. Tea is the best, but it tastes so much better out of a pot. A whole British cultural tradition is in danger of ebbing away into the wasteland. Tea is still a mainstay of British culture but the process of making it is being lost by the modern instant hit idea. Dust off, buy or steal a teapot and stick a finger up at the daily grind and sit back and watch it brew...

[grobelaar]

Originally posted by amble

wasn't it like pot needed a certain temperature to work effective? (around 170°C if i recall right)


This all sounds like smoking science to me - I think hash burns at that temperature - which handly makes it ideal for mixing with coke or MDMA as it means the other coke or mdma evaporates, before it can burn - if it burns then you lose most of it...

But that's by the by, the most effective way of taking cannabis is to eat it...

Eating skunk and weed will just get you stoned as normal

Eating hash/resin will if enough is eaten, cause you to hallucinate, I could be wrong, but no one knows why, yet.

I do a nice range in 3 weed flapjack, made with a mix of Skunk, weed and hash, perfect with a nice cup of Rosie Lee...

[grobelaar]

On the Fair Trade Tea front, I think the really good thing is that there is a significant difference in taste too...

Don't get me wrong, I would still buy Fair Trade even if there wasn't, but perhaps that the growers are getting a good deal, shows through in the quality...

I find it funny the whole organic food type choice, some people say oh I don't bother with such and such organic food because it doesn't taste any different from the normal stuff.

That's not the point, some organic food has an obvious taste improvement, others don't. But by buying organic you are supporting a way of growing food that is better for us and the environment, its not about taste (once again that instant hit culture)...

Sorry if this is a bit preachy, but this seems to be a point lost on a lot of people... maybe I should join a food and drink forum :-)

[mr franks]

Originally posted by grobelaar

I do a nice range in 3 weed flapjack, made with a mix of Skunk, weed and hash, perfect with a nice cup of Rosie Lee...

...when i first gave up tobacco i used to do hash yoghurts quite a bit, very nice. but not really with tea.

[Small Paul]

The co-op tea tastes easily as good as any of the big name teas, plus its only a quid for 80 bags, although the other own brand ones are nasty. I mean I got a pack of cheap tea from Asda once and when it was made it was GREY! I know very little about the mechanics of tea, but I know damn well that it shouldn't be grey! Not sure about tea being tainted with weed/skunk or whatever, tea and weed go together but shoud never be mixed together in my book, its a desecration of the sacred tea. But a nice cup of tea and a spliff or hash cake is just heaven, mmmmmmmmm..........

[gunjack]

Originally posted by DsD
@ gunjack: is that good or bad? ;)

BAD.:-p

[Lady E]

tea is indeed significant to the british.
in fact the timing of this thread by grobelaar is interesting - it was posted just after the rather unpleasant anti-phil things on monday.
its is a cliche and therefore broadly true that we brits turn to tea in times of crisis.
after the first series of Big Brother they did a programme about all the international series and compared behaviour - the spanish were interesting in that they rebelled against BB - but they did a montage of all the times tea making was used as a diversionary or calming or bonding activity by the Uk contingent and it was a LOT.

good - im in favour of this tea in a pot movement. i think it should have a name. but im not sure about the pot in tea in a pot element.

[Lady E]

btw - welcome to smallpaul!

[grobelaar]

Yeah, wotcha Smalls

how about Teapotistas... :-)

[filthydave]

Originally posted by Small Paul
I mean I got a pack of cheap tea from Asda once and when it was made it was GREY! I know very little about the mechanics of tea, but I know damn well that it shouldn't be grey!

GREY?!!! goddamit you should've sued!!!

you know my philosophy on this one small, a good cuppa should have an orange tinge to it!

none of this piss weak milky dishwater i keep gettin served but a good honest mug of strong dark liquid pleasure
far more substantial and refreshing, puts hairs on your chest!

[Small Paul]

Originally posted by emma
btw - welcome to smallpaul!

First, Thanks for the welcome Emma, not been much of a contributor to the forum yet but tea is one of my little passions (in the absence of being able to drink alcohol all the time for fear of complete alcoholism, tea is a good substitute).

I found the George Orwell essay on tea and he reckons that you should drink it from a teapot and it should be Indian or Ceylonese tea. He then goes on to explain 11 points that go to making the perfect cuppa. I still wanna know how come us Brits rely on tea so much, anyone got any idea why its so important to us?

[gunjack]

Originally posted by Small Paul
I still wanna know how come us Brits rely on tea so much, anyone got any idea why its so important to us?


maybe it makes you lot feel more civilised than you actually are?

[Small Paul]

Originally posted by filthydave


GREY?!!! goddamit you should've sued!!!

you know my philosophy on this one small, a good cuppa should have an orange tinge to it!

none of this piss weak milky dishwater i keep gettin served but a good honest mug of strong dark liquid pleasure
far more substantial and refreshing, puts hairs on your chest!

Dave mate, you'll have to read this Orwell article on tea and I swear you'll be stood there, finger pointing at me, shouting, 'I told you so!' All his points to making the perfect cuppa reckon it should be orange and served in a pot, but one thing you won't agree with is that he says you should drink it without milk. Sorry George, I'll have to disagree with you on that one...
As for the grey tea, it was Asda's 'smartprice' tea so I guess I shoulda known better.

[dirtyho]

Tea without milk is the bomb, but not sainsburys red label or any of those builders teas, they need milk. Po-Leng is my favourite.

[Small Paul]

Originally posted by gunjack



maybe it makes you lot feel more civilised than you actually are?

Nah! Maybe in the past but not now, I think that losing the whole tea ritual with the pot and all is a direct indication as to how uncivilised we've become rather than us trying to be civilised. Bring back the teapot!

[gunjack]

living in japan, tea is more of a ritual than a drink.... but i still cant enjoy water boiled with grass. it just isnt good for me. i suppose being raised with cola in the fridge didnt help. i just dont understand how the whole british world stops to drink some hot grass tasting water. eeeeeeewwwww.

[grobelaar]

http://www.246.dk/teaorwell.html

Excellent, I've been feeling suitably pompous since as this thread has grown and now I feel supremely pompous... :-)

[Small Paul]

Originally posted by grobelaar
http://www.246.dk/teaorwell.html

Excellent, I've been feeling suitably pompous since as this thread has grown and now I feel supremely pompous... :-)

Grobelaar, you shit! I spent my whole lunch hour trying to find that essay in the library and you go and slap a link on the forum in no time, AND with a picture of old Mr. Orwell himself!
Good effort though, how the hell did you find it?

[grobelaar]

www.google.com (naturally)

[grobelaar]

what you doing down the Library, no one uses Libraries to get information anymore, its just somewhere to go and pick up cute bookish chicks... (like this)

[gunjack]

if she made me tea.... i guess i would drink it.:!

[pille'ocheoni]

#include[fuck.yeah]
printf("yeah me too.................but it has to have sugar// lots of sugar");

[Daddys Girl]

Lemon Tea

Tea - milk, two sugars (none if I'm haveing something sweet with it)

Cappuccino - loads of froth please

Tall Hot Chocolate with far too much whipped cream + cinnamon & nutmeg - and stick some vanilla in it too.... served with biscoti.

D_G ;o)

[Daddys Girl]

What I want is a proper cup of coffee
Made in a proper cup or coffee pot
I may be off my dot
But I want a cup of coffee in a proper coffee pot
Tin coffie pots, and iron coffee pots
They're no use to me
so if I cant have a proper cup of coffee in a proper cup or coffee pot..

I'll have a cup of tea.


Mad thread love to all the caffine heads,
D_G ;o)

[Lady E]

thank you for raising the tone after the tea / library soft porn DG
im enjoying a green tea with jasmine right now...

also on a historical note, asian cultures tradtionally purified drinking water through boiling it with infusions = tea
northern cultures purified their water by brewing ale, etc

this has lead to increased alcohol tolerance in northern europeans over the japanese and chinese...

UK's history with tea is because of the explorers bringing back commodities from the countries they 'discovered', many of which became part of the british empire due to 'trade' in those commodities. im not sure when tea was first introduced... then it becomes fashionable and everyone has to have it , it filters down to all classes of society eventually.

[grobelaar]

There is the stimulant side of tea to consider, which may be a significant factor in it becoming popular and then an ingrained part of many cultures - most of us talk about not being able to function properly without that morning cuppa (tea or coffee)...

Much in the same way that we know out Scottish friends can't function without their Buckfast ho ho... :-)

[grobelaar]

Originally posted by Daddys Girl
Lemon Tea

Tea - milk, two sugars (none if I'm haveing something sweet with it)

Cappuccino - loads of froth please

Tall Hot Chocolate with far too much whipped cream + cinnamon & nutmeg - and stick some vanilla in it too.... served with biscoti.

D_G ;o)

Do you ever have hot chocolate with a dash of brandy or dark rum in it - magnificent, make sure its got lots of froth on - stops the alcohol vapour from escaping - much like an Irish coffee (oh no, I said it, I'm turning to the darkside (oh well I feel the coffee drinkers have been a bit left out :-)

[decadnids]

I dont approv of the use of the word Tea in fruit Teas, as there is no Tea in it. they should be called fruit infusions... but then again I normally say fruit teas, as I am lazy.
Pepper Mint Infusions are nice..

[Lady E]

pedant!

[decadnids]

yeah sorry. I was splitting hairs again!.
Tea is a good universal term, for hot drinks of an infused nature.

but peppermint tea is rather nice. perks me up. and settles the stomach

[Lady E]

its a panacea for many an ill is peppermint tea. lovely. i shant be drinking that at the madv night tomorrow tho. is it plaid djing you are going to see tonight D?

[decadnids]

Yeah tonight it is - my friends do fink fast so I thought I'd support them in their efforts.

[Daddys Girl]

Originally posted by grobelaar


Do you ever have hot chocolate with a dash of brandy or dark rum in it - magnificent, make sure its got lots of froth on - stops the alcohol vapour from escaping - much like an Irish coffee

I haven't tried that, but it sounds rather delicious.... I know that there is a bottle of Brandy and two bottles of Trnidadian Dark Rum in the drinks cabinet - I feel a choc-tastic experiment coming on...thanx Grobelaar :)

I do have brandy in my Lemon Tea when I'm feeling as sick as a dog - but I'm sure that I put too much in - it blows my flipping socks off every time...still, it makes me sweat the illness outta my body like a mad woman.....

D_G ;o)

[Daddys Girl]

Originally posted by decadnids
I dont approv of the use of the word Tea in fruit Teas, as there is no Tea in it. they should be called fruit infusions... but then again I normally say fruit teas, as I am lazy.
Pepper Mint Infusions are nice..


I have a friend who feels the same way - he cannot understand why I refer to lemon tea as 'tea' - he thinks it's disgusting anyway - I guess it's not what you'd call 'real' lemon tea - it's neither made with black tea or a slice of lemon - it's instant stuff, but boy I love it...

Just to add to the debate/vote - and maybe to rock the traditional boat - I really don't like Earl Grey tea... two of my best freinds really do the whole tea thing - Earl Grey, Breakfast Tea etc... it's wasted on me!!!! The worst thing I did to earl Grey was have it with sugar - it tasted putrid....

One love. One board. One tea.
Peace.
D_G ;o)

[Sheridan]

Originally posted by emma
tea is indeed significant to the british.
in fact the timing of this thread by grobelaar is interesting - it was posted just after the rather unpleasant anti-phil things on monday.
its is a cliche and therefore broadly true that we brits turn to tea in times of crisis.
after the first series of Big Brother they did a programme about all the international series and compared behaviour - the spanish were interesting in that they rebelled against BB - but they did a montage of all the times tea making was used as a diversionary or calming or bonding activity by the Uk contingent and it was a LOT.

good - im in favour of this tea in a pot movement. i think it should have a name. but im not sure about the pot in tea in a pot element.

I like what you said about turning to tea in a time of crisis. I think that is true. I have always found tea to be so calming and help you focus. not sure if you have seen this movie but there is a sceen in the film 'the shipping news' where kevin spacey is upset at the death of a family member and he is sitting on the couch drinking coffee and nibbling on chips. his aunt comes in the room and sees that he is drinking coffee and tells him she will put on a pot of tea. he declines and she sharply quips back "that stuff you have there wont do you any good. you need some tea, it will help keep you going in a time like this'.

I also liked what cristian said about putting a pot on when friends are over. I have always found sharing tea with friends as a real communal action.

[tsr_tomas]

you say potato, i say potaejto.
you say chaitea, i say coffee.

[Sheridan]

Originally posted by tsr_tomas
you say potato, i say potaejto.
you say chaitea, i say coffee.

so lets just call the whole thing off. :-p

[grobelaar]

I can't believe it Argos doesn't sell any teapots - not one... its a disgrace... :-)