Tea

[Yoyoma1910]

I like to add a nice squeeze of lime to my sweeted iced tea (approximatley 1 lime per quart). It gives it zip and keeps off the scurvy. I do enjoy a nice hot tea, but never boiled. It doesn't allow the leaves to enfuse the water properly.


If you'd like a nice milky chai recipe, This is one I use to make when I cooked at an Indian resturant:

Milk Chai
In standard measurment (sorry metrics)
Makes About 1 Gallon
Spices:
1 stick cinamon
1 good pinch cloves
1 oz fresh crushed cardimon
A piece of fresh ginger, about the size of two adult male thumbs, freshly crushed (slap it with the side of a cleaver)

water
1 gallon milk
1 cup Red Label Tea (Assam)
2 cups Sugar

In a good sized pot (it has to hold more than 1 gallon) place spices, and just cover with water (about an inch to 1/12 inches). Bring to light boil, and cook till cinamon stick opens. Add tea, sugar, milk. Over medium heat, brng just back to very light boil. Milk should be steaming, but little more. If over cooked, you'll make a rather sticky mess when the milk boild over. Strain and serve. Or chill, for a nice iced chai. Can be reheated on stove or microwave.

C'est ce bon.

[Legosoldier]

any type of tea

[naut]

Hot drinks.

Yeh, hot drinks and a hot climate don't go well together.

[Tristuskhan]

Yeh, hot drinks and a hot climate don't go well together.

Erhhh... I wonder why tea is the most popular brewage in Sahara for one thousand years.

[Reverend Joe]

I want some sweet tea. And some sweet Nowarth Carhlina pull pork barbaqwe in sum hushes in slah raght motha ****** naw, daimnit.

God, I just got so hungry for some home cookin'. Mr. Barbecue... how I do pine for you...

[InsaneApache]

Yeh, hot drinks and a hot climate don't go well together.

You're kidding right?

Tea must be made with boiling hot water. Otherwise it tastes like my socks have been boiled up. Milk, two sugars.

[King Kurt]

Oh you poor deluded ex-colonials - how you need to be brought under our protective wing - I mean cold tea with sugar. I know you started going wrong over 200 years ago when you tried to make a nice brew in Boston Harbour - I bet you did not even warm the pot.
Now tea should be a complete treat - Earl Grey, warmed pot, nice cup or mug, comfy chair, splash of milk, no sugar.
This summer a daily ritual was get up early, big mug of earl Grey, some light breakfast and the Olympics on the BBC - now that is heaven.

[CountArach]

Tea is best served as coffee.

[Yoyoma1910]

Tea is best served as coffee.

Upon that, I agree whole heartedly.




With doughnuts.

[drone]

I want some sweet tea. And some sweet Nowarth Carhlina pull pork barbaqwe in sum hushes in slah raght motha ****** naw, daimnit.

God, I just got so hungry for some home cookin'. Mr. Barbecue... how I do pine for you...

Every time I drive through NC I stop for Q. On I-85, it's Hursey's, on I-95 it's Gardner's. And all the sweet tea I can guzzle.

Too far north here to get proper sweet tea. Richmond is about the cutoff, although some parts of rural Maryland will have it. Arizona Tea has a southern-style sweet tea for sale in gallon jugs, it's not bad but it's made with high-fructose corn syrup instead of cane sugar, and you can tell the difference.

[Subedei]

Arab Nana-Mint Tea with a tiny bit of honey...served warm! Delicious!

[Reverend Joe]

Oh you poor deluded ex-colonials - how you need to be brought under our protective wing - I mean cold tea with sugar. I know you started going wrong over 200 years ago when you tried to make a nice brew in Boston Harbour - I bet you did not even warm the pot.
Now tea should be a complete treat - Earl Grey, warmed pot, nice cup or mug, comfy chair, splash of milk, no sugar.
This summer a daily ritual was get up early, big mug of earl Grey, some light breakfast and the Olympics on the BBC - now that is heaven.

Honestly, who is really deluded here? "Earl Grey, warmed pot, nice cup or mug, comfy chair, splash of milk, no sugar"? That, or a simple, bigass pitcher of sweet tea? You poor Britons have lost your minds from being cramped up on that tiny island for far too long. No wonder you tried to conquer the world; you were probably getting neurotic from the claustrophobia.

Maybe a nice conquering spree in South America would alleviate your bizarre tea rituals and obsessions.

[Rhyfelwyr]

Some things are meant to be sweet, tea is not one of them.

Seriously, your sitting in a cold office doing boring work, or out doing some physical work on a cold, miserable, wet day - just the kind we like in the UK. So, do you feel like a big glass of cold sugary liquid, or a nice warm mug of tea?

Its a culture difference

[Marius Dynamite]

I don't like Tea, coffee or even hot chocolate.

Damn people with think I'm weird when I'm older.

Some things are meant to be sweet, tea is not one of them.

Seriously, your sitting in a cold office doing boring work, or out doing some physical work on a cold, miserable, wet day - just the kind we like in the UK. So, do you feel like a big glass of cold sugary liquid, or a nice warm mug of tea?

Its a culture difference

Chewin the fat is the only thing that makes Hogmanay worthwhile! lol

[drone]

Some things are meant to be sweet, tea is not one of them.

Seriously, your sitting in a cold office doing boring work, or out doing some physical work on a cold, miserable, wet day - just the kind we like in the UK. So, do you feel like a big glass of cold sugary liquid, or a nice warm mug of tea?

Its a culture difference

Seriously, it's 100 degrees F outside, and you are mowing the lawn or chopping wood. So, do you feel like a warm mug of tea, or a big glass of cold sugary liquid.

[InsaneApache]

Hot tea refreshes. That's why it was invented in hot countries.

My dads wife (a yank) used to think that my dad and I were potty when we drunk tea at his house. (he lives on Corfu) Now, however, she joins in and drinks as much tea as we do. Another foreigner converted.

[Pannonian]

you seriously drink something by that name, oooh how...how exotic

Oolong with sugar is not exotic, it's barbaric. Oolong should be served plain and hot.

[Reverend Joe]

Seriously, it's 100 degrees F outside, and you are mowing the lawn or chopping wood. So, do you feel like a warm mug of tea, or a big glass of cold sugary liquid.

Beer. Cold, watery American lawnmower beer. What Drone described is exactly why Europeans will never unerstand or appreciate American style watery beer.

[Legosoldier]

Beer. Cold, watery American lawnmower beer. What Drone described is exactly why Europeans will never unerstand or appreciate American style watery beer.

I thought we were talking about tea?

[Koga No Goshi]

Is best served hot, with one sugar, preferably in the afternoon, with a slice of cake. Like all hot drinks, it tastes best while it's cold and/or raining outside.

*screams, drops glass of ice tea and runs away as it shatters on the ground*

[Koga No Goshi]

Oolong with sugar is not exotic, it's barbaric. Oolong should be served plain and hot.

Oh no no no no no no no no no.

You don't put sugar in Chinese teas. You might as well, seriously, put a pair of boxers over your head with "I'm a white westerner" written all over it if you do this near Asian people.

Other off-topic etiquette tips:

Don't leave your chopsticks standing upright in a bowl of rice. (Extreme bad luck)
Don't let Asians see you putting soy sauce on almost anything (unless they are doing it too) and prepare for stares if you put it on white rice.
Tap the table with your fingertips twice when your drink is refilled. (It's like "thank you")
Edit: Forgot one. Don't order coke or soda in Chinese/Japanese restaurants. No one has ever explicitly said anything rude about it but I can palpably feel the "ugh... okay" sentiment when people order this in Asian restaurants. ;)

/random.

[Legosoldier]

Tap the table with your fingertips twice when your drink is refilled. (It's like "thank you")

/random.

are you sure you're supposed to do it twice? I've seen ppl tap three times

[Koga No Goshi]

are you sure you're supposed to do it twice? I've seen ppl tap three times

Whatever you do, don't do it once. I don't know what it would mean, but I don't want you announcing somebody died by accident or something.

[Yoyoma1910]

The history of the Tea and Sugar trades are very much intertwined. They both hit European mass markets at almost the same time.

The reason you don't put sugar in your tea is probably more related to the difficulty you would have had in getting it during WW2 than some "ancient cultural tradition," as you seem to make it sound. And the reason Americans do put sugar in their tea is probably attributed to the fact that we grow it here. We grow a lot of it here.

It's the same reason New Orleanians put roasted chicory in their coffee. We had trouble getting coffee beans during the civil war. Quite frankly, its rather bitter, but sometimes desirable.

[Koga No Goshi]

The history of the Tea and Sugar trades are very much intertwined. They both hit European mass markets at almost the same time.

The reason you don't put sugar in your tea is probably more related to the difficulty you would have had in getting it during WW2 than some "ancient cultural tradition," as you seem to make it sound. And the reason Americans do put sugar in their tea is probably attributed to the fact that we grow it here. We grow a lot of it here.

It's the same reason New Orleanians put roasted chicory in their coffee. We had trouble getting coffee beans during the civil war. Quite frankly, its rather bitter, but sometimes desirable.

I don't think modern Japanese or Chinese have any difficulty at all having sugar on hand. But they still don't put it in their tea.

[Legosoldier]

I don't think modern Japanese or Chinese have any difficulty at all having sugar on hand. But they still don't put it in their tea.

Most likely because they never really used pure sugar at all in the Chinese culture...

[Reverend Joe]

Edit: Forgot one. Don't order coke or soda in Chinese/Japanese restaurants. No one has ever explicitly said anything rude about it but I can palpably feel the "ugh... okay" sentiment when people order this in Asian restaurants. ;)

Just for the record, the best Sushi restaraunt I have ever been to serves the most kickass coke ever. I swear, they must double up on the syrup, because it's SO sweet and delicious. And yes, they do serve higher quality sushi than any place I have been, aside from one absurdly expensive Sushi restaurant in Chicago. Ad for the record, I ordered beer there.

[Incongruous]

We used to have it every second day in Dubai with all the other British families, in a lovely set of white and pink marble tea rooms with rather Arabised golden fixtures and spoons (think yellow gold). It was served with milk and sugar, with plates of cake and sandwiches (that is sandwiches, not samwitchis). Mmmmm, that was very nice.

[Mouzafphaerre]

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Hot and light, with nothing added.
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[AlexanderSextus]

I used to drink tea all the time... slowed down recently but i dont know why. Maybe its because i havent been training in Martial arts lately. My Sifu used to say "Tea is the Glue that holds your Kung Fu together"

But seriously... you brits will never be able to understand the appeal of a nice, freezing cold glass of crisp, sweet iced tea on a hot day. You're too busy looking down your noses at us yanks from all the way over there. Hop off that high horse so i can hand you a nice cold can of Arizona Sweet Tea.

The only time i like hot tea is on a freezing cold day, with a giant cup of Earl Grey, double strength, honey and lemon, no milk. I can hang with y'all brits on that one, but i still aint eatin no damn crumpets. hell no. Gimme a canoli.

I also like some mountain-grown oolong, Hot, with nothing. The great thing about Oolong is that it's too dark to be green tea, so its not as weak, but its too light to be black tea, which can be bitter, so it's perfect to drink with nothing added.


Hey British people! did you know americans mix together Lemonade and Iced Tea?