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Icarium 
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 Posted: June 24 2011 at 14:45 |
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I like bland tea, that taste like dishwater......
.naaah, but yeah i like mostly straight coffee but some T-spoon with suger dosent hurt,
also Chai-Tea can be cool to, but only two times in a year..
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Earendil
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Posted: June 24 2011 at 14:42 |
Milk in tea? 
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Mushroom Sword
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Posted: June 24 2011 at 14:35 |
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Never had it.
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JJLehto
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Posted: June 24 2011 at 14:02 |
Well, I love Tea but quite a few here seem ready to scoff at sugar and milk and probably say "thats not tea!!!!" Yes, Pat I am quite indignant brother.
Edited by JJLehto - June 24 2011 at 14:02
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UndercoverBoy
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Posted: June 24 2011 at 13:56 |
 JJLehto wrote:
Milk and Sugar.
To all who disagree..well screw you 
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It's the only way I can stand it. I guess I'm in the minority of those who don't like tea.
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Padraic
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Posted: June 24 2011 at 13:52 |
JJLehto wrote:
Milk and Sugar.
To all who disagree..well screw you
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u mad bro?
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JJLehto
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Posted: June 24 2011 at 13:51 |
Milk and Sugar. To all who disagree..well screw you
Edited by JJLehto - June 24 2011 at 13:51
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Triceratopsoil
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Posted: June 24 2011 at 13:23 |
Dean wrote:
Flavoured teas are an abomination - that's like some demented new-age nonalcoholic alcoh-pop. |
Aye, my mother is far too interested in flavoured herbal teas; I can't even bring myself to drink such a thing.
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Negoba
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Posted: June 24 2011 at 12:24 |
Almost no bottled tea is any good, even if unsweetened and straightforward. I still drink it in a pinch though.
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You are quite a fine person, and I am very fond of you. But you are only quite a little fellow, in a wide world, after all.
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The Pessimist
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Posted: June 24 2011 at 12:12 |
I went through a black tea and lemon phase but forsome reason unbeknownst to me it suddenly started making me feel sick  tasted good though, shame  Now I'm just a mere tea mortal, with PG tips and milk w/ no sugar.
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"Market value is irrelevant to intrinsic value."
Arnold Schoenberg
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lazland
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Posted: June 24 2011 at 12:07 |
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I'm a philistine. Typhoo tea bag, boiling water, milk, sugar.
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Dean
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Posted: June 24 2011 at 12:03 |
oliverstoned wrote:
Dean wrote:
Sean Trane wrote:
But I've way too many UK citizens pouring boiling water over the tea, and that's not doing youself a favour either...you're over-brewing it... especially black teas....
although with over-smoked lapsuchong or watchemacallit teas, it doesn't matter anyway... you feel like drinking from an ashtray)
Nope if you're waiting for your water to heavy boil, it's way too hot... The water should be simmering (frémissant in French), which means roughly 95°C... so the surface should have ripples, but not boils
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As I said - it depends on the type of tea, and even in black teas it depends on the variety - Brits prefer strong Indian tea, and that requires freshly boiled water (between 98-99°C) that still contains plenty of oxygen in it (never re-boil the water). The way the French brew tea is okay - that odd 3°C isn't going to make as much difference, it just takes a little longer to brew - anyway, the French (and Belgians) brew far better coffee than tea - we're getting better at coffee, but still tend to over-roast the beans to bitterness. |
The infusion time, the temperature and even the teapot shape (which influences temperature according to its shape) depends from one strain to another. For example, white tea (the best) is not easy to prepare well, requires 70°C and from 10 to 25 minutes of infusion; several passes can be made. |
For once we agree 
(pre-heat the pot of course, never make tea in a cold teapot).
The more I drink it, the more I'm liking white tea - (no milk, no sugar) - but yes, not boiling water and long infusion.
Flavoured teas are an abomination - that's like some demented new-age nonalcoholic alcoh-pop.
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What?
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oliverstoned
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Posted: June 24 2011 at 11:18 |
Triceratopsoil wrote:
Never milk, that is just grotesque. Sugar if it is something black.
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That's it
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oliverstoned
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Posted: June 24 2011 at 11:18 |
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I don't like flavored teas, it's not real tea. Except some traditional arabic teas, but there are traditional blends.
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Triceratopsoil
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Posted: June 24 2011 at 11:17 |
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Never milk, that is just grotesque. Sugar if it is something black.
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ghost_of_morphy
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Posted: June 24 2011 at 11:04 |
Generally, no sugar, no milk, and a definite preference for Earl Grey. Constant Comment's English Breakfast and good old Lipton and Twinning's Irish Breakfast are also preferred. A light bit of sugar can occassionaly compliment my first two choices.
Tea is too delicate for milk. Milk masks everything. On the other hand, I rarely drink coffee without milk.
The worst tea I ever had had rosehips in it.
Edited by ghost_of_morphy - June 24 2011 at 11:08
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oliverstoned
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Posted: June 24 2011 at 10:54 |
Dean wrote:
Sean Trane wrote:
But I've way too many UK citizens pouring boiling water over the tea, and that's not doing youself a favour either...you're over-brewing it... especially black teas....
although with over-smoked lapsuchong or watchemacallit teas, it doesn't matter anyway... you feel like drinking from an ashtray)
Nope if you're waiting for your water to heavy boil, it's way too hot... The water should be simmering (frémissant in French), which means roughly 95°C... so the surface should have ripples, but not boils
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As I said - it depends on the type of tea, and even in black teas it depends on the variety - Brits prefer strong Indian tea, and that requires freshly boiled water (between 98-99°C) that still contains plenty of oxygen in it (never re-boil the water). The way the French brew tea is okay - that odd 3°C isn't going to make as much difference, it just takes a little longer to brew - anyway, the French (and Belgians) brew far better coffee than tea - we're getting better at coffee, but still tend to over-roast the beans to bitterness. |
The infusion time, the temperature and even the teapot shape (which influences temperature according to its shape) depends from one strain to another. For example, white tea (the best) is not easy to prepare well, requires 70°C and from 10 to 25 minutes of infusion; several passes can be made.
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oliverstoned
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Posted: June 24 2011 at 10:50 |
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No LEMON, please in a real tea. No milk as well and no sugar please, except in maroccan mint tea of course.
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A Person
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Posted: June 24 2011 at 10:00 |
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I put nothing in tea but lemon. Usually it's just half, but sometimes I use a whole lemon. I can't stand sweetened tea at all.
Edited by A Person - June 24 2011 at 10:01
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Sean Trane
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Posted: June 24 2011 at 10:00 |
Dean wrote:
Sean Trane wrote:
Dean wrote:
Sean Trane wrote:
Gotta a be a slimy limey to put milk in tea (bloody savageswho think they ruled the world with their 5--O'clock ceremonies, when they let the other savages Picts and Scots conquer, then they pillaged the planet over) 
Here I go getting in trouble with Dean again!!!   Bob should appreciate, though  |
Pah! Bloody amateur. As I have said on many occasions - you cannot insult the British... limey - because British sailors had citrus fruit as part of their rations - kept away the scurvy; slimey - wily cunning - that's our Norman heritage; savages - that's out Saxon heritage; pillaging - that's our Viking heritage. 5 o'clock ceremonies - that's called civilisation, you may remember it from your history books, I think we got that from the Romans. |
funny that the English are so secular and insular, except when it comes to finding responsability for their flaws  |
Secular??   ... not of this church at least.
But yup - that's true - that's why we always see the funny side of any stereotyped insult, since it cannot possibly apply to us personally, but some generic conglomeration of our national identity that we can chose to associate or disassociate with on a whim
... and I can see you are jealous from here. |
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let's just stay above the moral melee
prefer the sink to the gutter
keep our sand-castle virtues
content to be a doer
as well as a thinker,
prefer lifting our pen
rather than un-sheath our sword
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