Tea? - Progressive Rock Music Forum

my girlfriend know a lot about tea, since i`m whit her i drink like 3 cups a day

english or irish breakfast

green or jasmine

Edited by Sublimación - December 14 2006 at 21:12

Atkingani wrote:

MATTÉ! But maybe you have to be Brazilian to appreciate this exquisite infusion...

here we drink basically cold, very cold. Some people prefer the congonhas style, which is warm or hot. People drink more matte-tea in Brazil than coffee (or guarana or any soda).

Another infusion I appreciate, due to my Southern Brazilian roots is the CIMARRÓN or CHIMARRÃO, taken absolutely hot, very hot and sour. In our western borders, near Paraguay, people like the TERERE, which is taken cold and sometimes sweetened (I like this one).

I drank matté many times in Latin America, but I always think of it more as an Andean drink than Brazil rainforest drink

It is almost the national drink of Argentinia (the Pampa and Patagonia) and Chile. Peru and Bolivia are also heavy drinkers of this (when not infusing Coca leaves)

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Sean Trane wrote:

Atkingani wrote:

MATTÉ! But maybe you have to be Brazilian to appreciate this exquisite infusion...

here we drink basically cold, very cold. Some people prefer the congonhas style, which is warm or hot. People drink more matte-tea in Brazil than coffee (or guarana or any soda).

Another infusion I appreciate, due to my Southern Brazilian roots is the CIMARRÓN or CHIMARRÃO, taken absolutely hot, very hot and sour. In our western borders, near Paraguay, people like the TERERE, which is taken cold and sometimes sweetened (I like this one).

I drank matté many times in Latin America, but I always think of it more as an Andean drink than Brazil rainforest drink

It is almost the national drink of Argentinia (the Pampa and Patagonia) and Chile. Peru and Bolivia are also heavy drinkers of this (when not infusing Coca leaves)

Ah... the erva-mate (matté) is very typical of Southern Brazil, also Paraguay and Argentina, but the cold drink is widespread thru the country, especially at the beaches when people drink matté with lemon and fried shrimps. Tasteful.

Brazilian painter Cândido Portinari made a nice painting of the erva-mate fields:

You can get one of this at almost any place here (in this case, tangerine flavor).

Guigo

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Instead of cold tea, I rather drink juice.
Instead of hot tea, I rather drink coffee.

Good, eastern coffee, not the machinetta crap.

Shaken. Not stirred.

i prefer an ice tea, in my country we had 'es teh manis', meaning 'sweet ice tea', my favourite

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Iced tea in the summer is the best. No sugar, either. I like it straight, like my coffee.

E

Cold.

Syzygy wrote:

North African/Middle Eastern mint tea.

Ah yes - Tunisian mint tea

tiny glass, scaldingly hot & usually with so much sugar, you can actually feel your teeth dissolve.

Syzygy wrote:

Chai is OK as long as it's not too sweet.

That's the problem - if it's made properly, I find it too cloying; to be honest, I prefer the commercially made Chai, as it's nowhere as sweet.

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Both, although my favorite is T.E.A.

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Poll Question: Do you drink
Poll Choice	Votes	Poll Statistics
Hot Tea?	24	[42.11%]
Cold Tea	8	[14.04%]
Both	19	[33.33%]
Other??	6	[10.53%]
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