The best thing to eat with a cup of tea.

[English assassin]

An important question in the UK this, but one on which an international perspective is also welcome. What does the org have with its tea?

I say gingernuts. (This is a kind of ginger biscuit in the UK before anyone gets the wrong idea) The only problem with gingernuts is you have to be pretty quick if you dunk them because they disintegrate in seconds and make a sludgy mess in the mug. But a swiftly dunked gingernut is delicious.

Shortbread would be my second choice, with a plain chocolate McVities digestive taking the bronze.

[Taffy_is_a_Taff]

heavily buttered toast/crumpets.

Mebbe some Welsh cakes or bara brith.

[zukenft]

hmm...I don't think there's a proper name for this, but it's "fried bananas with a flour coating".

[nokhor]

what exactly are ?
a) McVities
b) Welsh cakes
c) crumpets

[Byzantine Prince]

Ice cream,

[InsaneApache]

No, No, No...it just HAS to be rich tea biscuits (with or without chocolate)...or at a pinch, shortbread or custard creams, dunked of course.

as an aside, when I was a nipper, I used to have buttered toast with tea for my supper....I always dunked the toast, which sometimes broke off and fell into the tea, now I know this sounds disgusting, but to a kid it was delicious, a tea and butter combo.

what exactly are ? a) McVities b) Welsh cakes c) crumpets

a) a brand of biscuit popular with the masses.

b) cakes from Wales (ie I have no idea )

c) hmmm....they could be a sort of aireated bread type muffin, or my favourite...a fit bird with (hopefully) easy virtue.

[Kaiser of Arabia]

Oranges and Iced Tea

[The_Doctor]

However I still could not figure out anything like chilled apple tea that is a local drink. Well, are you sure it was apple extract ?

It is was apple. It tested like apple and everyone said it was apple tea.

After we had gone to Ephesus, we stoppped in a shop(which most believed was relatives of the tour guide) and they gave us little glasses with chilled tea.

In Istanbul, we ended to tour in a carpet shop and after making jokes about flying carpets they gave us some chilled apple tea.

Then in a pottery shop they gave us some chilled apple tea.

Then we bought a packet of apple tea to take home.

There was even some people trying to sell if on the streets.

I have just typed apple tea into google and this is what I got:
http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=apple+tea&meta=

[Steppe Merc]

I say scones. Mmm... Preferably with chocolate chips in them.

Fried Chicken. And lots of ice in the tea.

That's my favorite way too.

edit: Those crumpets look like English muffins... (at least that's what their called here).

[Duke Malcolm]

It depends on the time of day. If it is evening supper, then a nice crumpet is perfect.

It is afternoon tea, then a good plate of Ginger snaps, ginger nuts (one has cream in between two biscuits) and bourbons.

If it is at lunch, or the morning, then a tasty piece of shortbread is wonderful.

[The_Doctor]

Rich tea biscuits. There is an art to dunking and eating them. Do either for too long you up with biscuit in the tea, ot bits of biscuit all over the place.

Turkish apple tea is very nice. We bought some while we where there, but could not make it properly.

[Mount Suribachi]

Chocolate Hobnobs!

Also, my mother-in-laws home made Mince Pies always go down well when we visit them

[Marcellus]

I don't even drink tea (well, any hot drink actually), but even I know that the correct answer is rich tea biscuits! They go so soft and tasty...

[TonkaToys]

Chocolate Hobnobs!

Also, my mother-in-laws home made Mince Pies always go down well when we visit them

I'm glad someone said Choccy Hobnobs... mmmmmm, droool.

Otherwise Devon Cream Tea - scones, with clotted cream and jam... yummy!

I drink about 6 - 8 cups of tea a day, and I'd say it goes with pretty much anything.

[Mikeus Caesar]

edit: Those crumpets look like English muffins... (at least that's what their called here).

Unfortunately, for some reason, anyone who doesn't live in a commonwealth country (USA) calls them 'english muffins'. I don't know why. They aren't anything like muffins. And anyway, we invented them, so they should be called Crumpets, not 'english muffins'.

[Shaka_Khan]

I like to eat Chinese food with tea.

[LeftEyeNine]

Martinus

I'm not a stranger to apple tea. So may it be that you did not know any drink called apple tea before your your visit Turkey ?

Maybe I'm amazed because I guess you had apple teas already in your country. If you did not have, then it is a local drink :)

[The_Doctor]

I had not heard of apple tea before I went to Turkey and I have not seen any since.

[screwtype]

I like to eat Chinese food with tea.

That sounds like a reasonable combination.

Personally, I don't eat anything with tea. I eat first and have a cup of tea later. Or the other way around.

With coffee though, I have been known to enjoy a chocolate hedgehog...