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I like tea. Especialy Twinings Earl Grey in the can, lose. It tastes better that way for some reason. Though, by British standards I cannot seem to make a proper cup of tea. Nontheless, it is excellent with a shortbread finger or two.
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Mmmm... tea... which reminds me that I have to get in to school early enough to get my cup of tea tomorrow before first lesson! Earl Grey is good, but I'm also a big fan of TeaDirect (fair trade tea).
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What's that like? I like English Breakfast as well. Both teas should have just the slightest dollop of milk, no sugar. These folks say you should add tea to the milk, but I like adding milk to my tea so it gets all cloudy.
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The British Empire was built on tea. When you dashed colonials introduced coffee to the lower classes in 1943-45, why, the Empire collapsed a few years later. Personally, I refuse to drink coffee.
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I'm a fan of "Belgian Chocolate Rooibos" tea. My sister bought some recently, and it is divine.
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Earl Grey is flavored with bergamot, which is bee balm, the pretty red perennials that grow rampantly in gardens. I love the tast of it.
I like tea, but I like it in the afternoon. In the morning, it is coffee all the way. I like it black, or with just milk, or with milk and honey, whereas coffee is one way or the highway: very hot, with half and half.
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I like herbal teas, preferably ones with mint in them.
I have an insta-hot (one of the greatest of mankind's kitchen inventions) so I prime my teapot by swishing it with insta-hot water. I dump that water, but the teapot is all nice and warm now. Then I put three teaspoons of tea in my filter and set the filter in the top of the tea pot. Then I fill my teapot by using the insta-hot, poured over the loose tea. I cover it with my tea cozy and set the timer for 4 minutes. It makes a perfect cup every time.
The best tea I've found is from a local tea shop that makes it themselves. Wonderful!
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we have some gorgeous Earl Grey tea...I can't remember what the brand is though, and I'm too lazy to go check...but it's in these beautiful silk teabags...it's almost a shame to steep them, but it tastes just as good as it looks...*dreamy sigh*
*ponders going and making some*
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I could never manage to drink coffee like a grownup--it was ALWAYS too bitter, and by the time I'd put in enough milk and sugar, I'd be asked "Do you want some coffee with your sugar?"
*stabs friends*
I once got handed an entire bag of those little half and halfs from dunkins and asked if that'd be enough.
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Sri Lanka - formerly Ceylon - grows the best black tea in the world, or so I'm told. I don't drink it, personally, but hubby does.
He drinks it the local way - milk tea. Which means lots of milk and about 4 teaspoons of sugar. Per cup.
I, on the other hand, drink herbal, which is difficult to find here unless I'm willing to go with local plants that I don't recognize. There's only one place I know of where I can get Rosehip & Hibiscus or Mint, and two places that sell Chamomile. That's it, folks.
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Jamie, me too. That's why i always go to gas stations and get thier cappuchino that comes out of a machine. Coffee flavored sweetened milk. Perfect.
I've been drinking tea at the barn lately, just cause i get so tired of hot chocolate. As soon as I go to the store i'm getting Chai tea and hot spiced cider mix to leave at the barn. and maybe some good herbal tea.
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I like English Breakfast and Constant Comment (Bigelow's orange and spice offering). I greatly dislike the bergamot in Earl Grey, however.
Someday when the kids are older I'll be able to afford and keep intact a good porcelain tea set and start indulging in loose teas. Until then, I'll stick with my Bigelows LOL
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Some students drink to much coffee, I drink too much tea. I love it. Tea in the morning, tea at eleven, tea for tea ( ) tea at night. I've been drinking it for forever. Tetley's mostly; Orange Pekoe, I was bred on the stuff. I also have grown to love their flavoured orange pekoes: strawberry and blackberry, mmm. I never used to like Earl Grey, now I am a fan.
(Edit: Goody already listed Constant Comment but I'll leave the link)Constant Comment is a specialty black tea that I love. It smells and tastes heavenly.
I bought my mother banana and chocolate black tea for Christmas, and it sounds crazy but I think she's going to love it. I've never tried it, so I have no idea!
However, I am solely a black tea person, with milk, no sugar. None of this herbal stuff . I think it's the Britishness in me!
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What is this thing called "real tea"? Tea is a British Invention! (kidding kidding!)
Although I've never been a huge fan of un-black teas, and I've never tried any of the teas (at least knowingly) that you listed, I did have green tea of some variety in China town once and it was excellent.
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I've been drinking decaffinated herbal teas, since I can't have coffee (fertility treatments = no caffine). They're all well and good, but I sob when I clean out the coffee pot from Andrew's coffee.
Also, why does caffine make Coke taste delicious?
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At the risk of sounding like a snob (which I'm not, really), I'd like to point out that any drink not made from the tea plant, Camellia sinensis, is not tea. Drinks made from the leaves of other plants, but not including tea leaves, are "herbal drinks".
After all, you wouldn't make a drink out of garbanzos and call it coffee because it's made from beans, would you?
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esl, last Christmas my sisters gave something called "Iron Goddess of Mercy Oolong." They bought it for the name, but I really do enjoy the taste of it.
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Yay! Ha, yes, that's a funky name. Right now I'm drinking this Ginseng Root Tea. It's not tea in the strictest sense, herbal tea I guess.
At home I normally have lipton but once in a while we have real tea We get to order real tea at restaurants too. My brother and I like to play these games while we're waiting for food. It's a rock paper scissors sorta game, and whoever loses two in a row hasta down a cup of tea. and it's hot! I normally lose Posts: 1056 | Registered: Mar 2002
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And here's where I'm going to throw in a comment that you may not like, esl.
My grandfather used to drink his coffee like that - very hot - and he ended up burning his insides so often that he got cancer and died.
Okay, so I don't know of any evidence that indicates that the one thing led to another, but no one else in the family has ever had cancer, and he drank a lot of really really hot coffee, so that's what everyone assumed.
In other words, it ain't a good idea. You don't know what it could be doing to you. Posts: 8355 | Registered: Apr 2003
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I usually just take a couple sips and it's okay because my heat tolerance isn't as high as my brother's. requirement satisfied. He gets a tad annoyed, that's all.
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quote: Drinking lots of tea - particularly when piping hot - also seems to increase risk, perhaps because of the burning effect of the liquid as it passes down the food pipe.
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My favorit tea is "Darjeeling". His taste is strong but what a taste ! I like arabian way of making tea, with leafs of mint (is it the good word ?)
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Seriously? I like green tea. I'm not enough of a connoiseur to know any specifics about it...I just know I like the way it tastes, completely plain. I also buy the Celestial Seasonings flavors, of which I like Honey Lemon Ginseng the best, I think.
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I think I have about 30 teas in the house. I'm particularly fond of green teas - though, I do love Earl Grey.
Sometimes when I'm asked by Claire (my fiance) if I want any tea I get geeky and say, "Tea, Earl Grey, Hot".
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I'm a tea lover too, from linden, mint, camomile or apple-cinnamon to stronger teas, like Irish Breakfast, English Breakfast, Earl Grey, etc. There's a "Green Tea with mint" from a French company that I find absolutely perfect! I've also had the chance to drink Arabic tea on a trip in Turkey and another time from a Tunisian friend of mine, and it's excellent. I once drank Japanese tea: they served some sweets before it and then you drink what looks like some green slime, but is actually quite delicious.
One thing I DON'T like is that I don't have enough words to describes a specific flavor... When talking about visual or audio stuff there're a lots of adjectives one can use, but just try to talk about smells and tastes and you're in trouble... Posts: 4519 | Registered: Sep 2003
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That might be a deficiency in the English language. I'd be interested to learn about a language that has more smell and taste adjectives than we do.
English tea's aren't bad. I'm just very unaccustomed to putting milk and sugar in it.
There's this bitter tea that I've tried a couple times at tour group tea stops. We had one cup of tea and one cup of hot water after it. The tea's taste was such that the water was actually sweet after drinking it. Twas very neat.
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quote:What is true tea? Tea is the dried leaf of the Camellia sinensis plant. Indigenous to both China and India, the plant is now grown in many countries around the world. Teas that do not contain flavorings or additives, we call ‘true’ teas.
What is herbal tea? Herbal tea is not actually tea, but rather an herb or a mix of herbs. Only in the United States are these herbal mixtures called tea. They are usually referred to as an infusion or tisane in other parts of the world.
What is medicinal tea? Medicinal teas are tisanes made from specific herbs, flowers and extracts that may be beneficial. A wide variety are available – some have significant scientific backing to their claims, others do not. True teas have been widely studied for their health benefits. Green tea contains polyphenols, researched for their antioxidant and other healthy properties.
What is the difference between Green and Black tea? Both green and black tea come from the Camellia sinensis plant. The difference is in the amount of time that the picked leaves are allowed to oxidize. Green teas are minimally oxidized, whereas Black teas are fully oxidized.
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esl, well, me not being English/American/etc. I wasn't really talking about the English language. I have the same problems in Romanian. Basically, I can say if it's bitter, sweet, a couple of other things if I strain my mind, but have no idea how to express the difference between English and Irish Breakfast, for example.
As for your "bitter tea" experience, the opposite happened with my Japanese tea tasting: after eating the sweets the taste still lingered while I was drinking a totally unsweetened tea.
What I usually do when I drink a bitter tea is take some sweets along - not before. Honey, chocolate, biscuits, anything will do. I really enjoy the bitter/sweet combination. Hmm, maybe that's why "Bittersweet symphony" is one of my favorite songs?! Ok, I'll stop now! Posts: 4519 | Registered: Sep 2003
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You'd probably like this song called bittersweet featuring Ville Valo and Lauri... It's by a group with a hard to spell name.
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mmm...I like the breakfast teas. Namely, English Breakfast, Irish Breakfast and Ceylon Breakfast. I like to put a little honey in mine- makes it sweet.
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A couple of days ago I bought a Lipton Russian Earl Grey, and it's much more aromatic then the "usual" Earl Grey-s. And it's good. [deep voice] It's goooood. [/deep voice]
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Stash tea all the way. They have sampler boxes that are great if you do tea bags.
Matte latte is a favorite of mine -- tastes kind of like cocoa
Ginger peach -- from that tea company you can get at Borders (Republic of Tea?)
Green tea is so flavorful and light -- very relaxing. Chammomile and/or Sleepytime tea is also a favorite.
I'm just now getting back into tea after losing all taste for it while pregnant. I also only like my tea lightly steeped and mostly drink it "black" -- no sugar and only occasionally milk.
Chai, now, that's another story. Mmmm!
And Indian "butter" tea with pepper.
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Mmmmm...tea! Twinings Ceylon breakfast tea is my current favorite. I also like their Prince of Wales tea. I loved Stash's organic breakfast blend but can't find it anymore. I bought Stash's Irish breakfast tea but like Twining's Irish Breakfast better. Darjeeling is good too. I guess I like almost any tea, but I'm not too fond of earl Grey, don't like that bergamot.
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Mmmmm. Tea. I think I'm going to make some tea. Right now. Before bed.
Coffee is awesome, too. I like spiced coffee.Cinnimon, ginger, cayane pepper, that kind of thing. Coffee isn't for everyone, and it wasn't until I started drinking it out of necessity that I actually started enjoying it.
I still wonder if I'm actually enjoying it, or just pretend I'm enjoying it. By all objective accounts, it's a vile black substance that contains a most-sinster stimulant. Posts: 903 | Registered: May 2003
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+The Twinings homepage has good deals on their tea. But, even better t han tea is homemade hot chocolate.
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Nato, weren't you the one who told me that you play the trombone because Riker did? *bows to Nato's ultra-geekyness*
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You know who has the best tea? Peet's. Peet's Irish Breakfast used to be my absolute favorite. Ten Ren has some pretty good teas, too, for bag teas.
I miss tea. My grandma is from England, and taught me to appreciate (and make) a proper cup of tea. It's the one thing I still long for sometimes since becoming LDS.
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My grandma is from England, and taught me to appreciate (and make) a proper cup of tea. It's the one thing I still long for sometimes since becoming LDS.
