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.

[English assassin]

Welsh cakes

http://www.greatbritishkitchen.co.uk...ame=welshcakes

They look quite tasty, I think I might try some.

[Dutch_guy]

When I drink tea , which is very often, I usually just have a light biscuit or even a chocolate cookie

[Adrian II]

The correct answer is strawberry madeleines.

[Tricon]

Fried Chicken. And lots of ice in the tea.




No seriously: I'm american, but my friends and I have a semi regular tea party.
I prefer the classics. Earl Grey with a few drops of cream (but I do stir !), with it I like either shortbread, or crumpets with mascapone and lemon curd. I'ld love to try some of the welsh specialties, but they're unoptainable here in the US (well, without goig broke, that is)

[KukriKhan]

"...eat with a cup of tea"

Eat? Crazy guys. :)

Smokey Lapsang Souchong, straight, with a cigarette.

That's the ticket.

[Shambles]

Best thing to eat with a cup of tea/ coffe is....
A penguin bar, (PLAIN CHOCOLATE)
Nibble both ends of then use it like a straw,
Then eat it fast,

:)

[Ja'chyra]

I've got to agree, partly, with Kukri I tend not to eat with my tea. I've also gone off regular Tetleys tea and only drink Jasmine tea nowadays.

[LeftEyeNine]

There is a biscuit brand called Eti Finger with not special flavor which only and at best goes with tea. You just can not understand what they added in a plain flavor biscuit that it becomes the "wife" of tea. Well, I'm going to get some right now..Yummy..

Edit : I forgot mention some "old" habit with tea. You take that biscuit and dip the half into the tea and then eat it. Now that's some pleasure..

[English assassin]

Edit : I forgot mention some "old" habit with tea. You take that biscuit and dip the half into the tea and then eat it. Now that's some pleasure..

Ha, Turks dunk biscuits in their tea too. See the cross cultural links we are forging here?

[Tricon]

That reminds me that I also like turkish apple tea (though it's not really a tea, more of a cider, I think).
Ahh, to be in a bath house now (instead of 95 degree southern New Mexico).
I'ld even take some sh... ,well, famous english weather now. Donington weather.

[LeftEyeNine]

Ha, Turks dunk biscuits in their tea too. See the cross cultural links we are forging here?

By limp biscuits or whatever. That's a cross cultural link being forged right now. GAH GAH GAH ! That taste is more familiar to the village folk generally. I doubt you'll see nobles doing it

Ahh, to be in a bath house now..

Generally called as "Turkish bath", I think the unique word for it - "Hamam" is a lot more useful to define it.

3 smileys in one, I think I gotta go and watch a soccer match to pump up testosterone..Hmm..

[ah_dut]

You cannot go wrong with shortbread or rich tea biscuits

[Taurus]

You cannot go wrong with shortbread or rich tea biscuits

Amen to that brother!

[Mikeus Caesar]

A nice old McVities Digestive will do for me. And for the person who asked what a crumpet is, i'm going to do what at least one person does in these types of threads, and post a picture. And btw, i had two crumpets this morning. With loads of butter. Very nice.

CRUMPET!



Once put in a toaster, they go nice and brown, and all the butter sinks into the holes...they taste so frigging good.

[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...

[LeftEyeNine]

Somebody tell me what this "Turkish Apple Tea" is all about ?

[tibilicus]

Bourbon biscuits *druels*

[King Henry V]

Butter biscuits. They're not rich like short bread, rahter dry and a bit tastless. But they taste so good dunked in tea. Dunking shortbread is a sacrilige.

[King Henry V]

"...eat with a cup of tea"

Eat? Crazy guys. :)

Smokey Lapsang Souchong, straight, with a cigarette.

That's the ticket.

Lapsang Souchon is foul, it tastes like bleach.

[The_Doctor]

Somebody tell me what this "Turkish Apple Tea" is all about ?

When was on a cruise a few years ago with my mum, nan and sister, we stopped in Turkey twice, first in Instanbul and then in Kusadasi(SP, city of bird or something). Everywhere we stopped on the tours they gave us chilled apple tea.

I and many other people assumed it was some kind of Turkish thing.