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18:29 / 30.05.07
The subject of beans, toasts and one with the other deserves a place, outside of this thread, namely the URRGH FUCK thread which I believe steadily sits near the top of the 1st page on the Convo. Beans on toast? Goodness.. What a waste of perfectly good grub.

I like tea. Green tea. Herbal tea. Poncy tea. PG tea. Sometimes with milk and honey, though rarely, and then only for the strong wintery teas. Mostly green tea and herbal these days, unless it's in the morning and I've run out of coffee. Camomile is nice. Homemade ice-tea in the summers, with berries, fruit and crushed ice.
 
 
petunia
19:00 / 30.05.07
But why not carry it around like dope?

See, i do quite like the idea of being asked about the 'weed' and answering with a truthful smile 'it's tea'.

But i also like the idea of having a snazzy tin/container to hold it in. Less wasteful as well.

While we're on the subject - anybody know of any nice weed tins?
 
 
Spaniel
08:23 / 31.05.07
Ah, Nolte, you are demonstrating extreme wrongness.

Proof
 
 
Katherine
09:54 / 31.05.07
But i also like the idea of having a snazzy tin/container to hold it in. Less wasteful as well.

So do I, at the moment I am using a small plastic tub from the kitchen cupboard but I long for a good quality tin which won't come open in my bag, something the plastic tub does.
 
 
iamus
10:48 / 31.05.07
Boboss...... just.....no.


Drinking tea with milk and sugar is like hoofing smack cut with washing powder.

The only way I can manage it is if I close my eyes and pretend it's a biscuit.
 
 
iamus
10:49 / 31.05.07
I have an unwrapped block of Pu-erh kicking around at the bottom of my bag that looks like something a bit dodgy.

I've just brewed it up on my emergency portable tea tray and I'm enjoying it right now.
 
 
Spaniel
10:54 / 31.05.07
I don't drink tea with sugar, but millions do, probably hundreds of thousands of Barbelithers (or at least tens!) amongst 'em.

I do, however, drink tea with milk. I would go out on a limb and suggest, with absolutely no evidence to back me up other than 31 years of fun-packed life, that most tea drinkers in the UK drink tea with milk. To exclude discussion of tea with milk is, therefore, frighteningly bizarre. Is fact.

So say I!
 
 
grant
13:27 / 31.05.07
I have an unwrapped block of Pu-erh kicking around at the bottom of my bag that looks like something a bit dodgy.

"Looks like"?
 
 
Proinsias
13:39 / 31.05.07
To exclude discussion of tea with milk is, therefore, frighteningly bizarre

Well not really. I was looking for discussion about great tea, not teabag tea or looseleaf uk supermarket products. Great tea, single estate or ever single bush tea, would cry if you poured milk on it. Like sprinkling dog turds on glitter, or something. I'm going to try and resist harping on about whisky, single malts and coke. As good as milky tea may be I really don't feel there there is too much milelage in discussing it beyond chai recipies and how, after 5 hours in hospital last night, it may be a vital part of the nhs and general British coping mechanism.

So no milk, so I say. Unless, of course I'm wrong....

.trampetunia - this thread from a tea forum might help. There's a link to specialtybottle.com which looks like the best tin shop on t'internet. My solution is to leave small packages of tea in the houses of family and friends. It serves a dual purpose:
1. I can drink my own tea when visiting
2. If they start drinking great tea I need to spend less money trying all the teas I want to drink.

I'm off for some milkless tea and some bread which is so nice it would be a crime to drown it in beans, should I start a beanless toast thread? Or maybe a thread on eggs where we can't talk about chicken eggs?
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
13:44 / 31.05.07
No milk. No sugar. Tea should be bitter. And dark.

And possibly brutal.

Maybe I watch too much Metalocalypse.
 
 
iamus
14:02 / 31.05.07
Ah....

You be wantin' the black tea then.

The tea that tastes like mud in a cup.


The tea that makes you forget.
 
 
Spaniel
14:26 / 31.05.07
I wonder if I've ever had "great tea". I mean, I've had many a great cup of tea, but I'm not sure about "great tea".

Been to some expensive establishments in my time so I imagine so.

I also imagine <*DUCKS*> I threw in some milk!
 
 
Regrettable Juvenilia
15:04 / 31.05.07
Sad mental problems on evidence in this thread.

Tea with milk = great.
 
 
Spaniel
15:05 / 31.05.07
At last some sanity
 
 
Tryphena Absent
15:50 / 31.05.07
I drink about six cups of tea a day. Typically I have three cups of standard black tea (usually fair trade- traidcraft or teadirect, with a tiny amount of milk or no milk at all), one cup of clipper earl grey (when I get home from work, no milk) and two cups of clipper green tea (one at work and one before bed, it would be madness to add milk to green tea).
 
 
Sibelian 2.0
16:13 / 31.05.07
Tea without milk = shudder
 
 
My Mom Thinks I'm Cool
16:25 / 31.05.07
there's a great place in manhattan called Alice's Tea Cup. uhm. something like Broadway and 7Xth street. Anyway, the point is that their tea is really fucking expensive so it must be the "great" kind. it does taste good and they have a skillion page menu of it to choose from. and you get your tea with scones that rock ass unless your silly friend sticks them in the toaster oven and burns them.

I want to say I had something like a Roibos Earl Grey? but I have no idea what I'm talking about. and I steep the hell out of it, and use no milk/sugar. I also take cold showers and hit myself with a stick a lot, so some people have been known to call me a masochist.
 
 
Spaniel
16:57 / 31.05.07
I think tea with milk is a particularly British thing so the foreign hordes can be forgiven.

Green tea with milk does strike me as rather horrid.
 
 
Less searchable M0rd4nt
17:34 / 31.05.07
A Roobios Earl Grey would make a certain amount of sense, since the active ingredient in said beverage is oil of Bergamot (a small citrus fruit). I generally take milk, but often don't bother in the case of Earl Grey because it doesn't seem to need it. I like it sweet though.
 
 
nixwilliams
22:32 / 31.05.07
Roobios Earl Grey

yep, my shop sells this. it's fantastic for people who love earl grey but can't consume caffeine (like my mum). of course, it's also a nice tea! [insert disclaimer about 'tea' only being 'tea' if it comes from camellia sinensis]
 
 
Tsuga
22:47 / 31.05.07
Hey, TTS, I think bergamot is actually a plant in the mint family, Monarda spp.
I've got a bunch growing in my yard, specifically, this type:


It's also called Oswego tea, which is named after...*searching*... the Oswego native people, natch.
 
 
nixwilliams
23:02 / 31.05.07
Wikipedia on Bergamot oranges
 
 
Less searchable M0rd4nt
23:26 / 31.05.07
Yeah, bergamot is the name of a herb as well, which (confusingly enough) can be made into a tea. Very pretty it is, too. But the flavour of Earl Grey comes from the fruit of the same name. I use the essential oil myself for various purposes.
 
 
Tsuga
23:27 / 31.05.07
Thanks for that link, that enlightens me. I'm surprised that there are five entries on the disambiguation page. I only knew of the one. Maybe they taste slightly similar. I've never tried turning the local variety into tea.
 
 
Katherine
06:04 / 01.06.07
Does anyone know of some good shops to buy teas from in London? I make my own herbal tea but I usually buy green tea and etc from an online supplier, but I would like to be able to walk into a store and buy it if possible.

So do people have any good recommendations? I have tried the one in Covent Garden which I wasn't too impressed by as the last lot of gunpowder tea from there I had was pretty yuck.
 
 
totep
07:10 / 01.06.07
I got two teas that I have severe addictions to:
Yerba Matte - especially with a hint of raspberry.
and
Rooibos (the red tea) - with some agave nectar, this is the shit!
I work at a food co-op and we have amazing selections of teas so if anyone has really good recommendations let me know so I can try them out. Seriously, I can probably get it to try it, even if it's "rare" (or whatever the equivalent is in the tea world).
 
 
Proinsias
10:38 / 01.06.07
Does anyone know of some good shops to buy teas from in London?

TeaSmith gets a rather good review in this blog post. And I've heard good things about some of the teas Harrods have begun to stock.

I should, hopefully, be down in London over the summer and get to try teasmith firsthand, I might even find the time to visit some very dear friends if I'm not in there too long.
 
 
Quantum
10:42 / 01.06.07
 
 
HCE
22:39 / 01.06.07
My god don't you people have COFFEE to put your beastly milk into.
 
 
grant
00:29 / 02.06.07
The only yerba I've ever had came out of a bombilla owned by a then-girlfriend who'd spent a few months in Argentina.

I can't imagine it tasting of raspberry. Is it any good?
 
 
crimson
09:37 / 02.06.07
Postcard teas is amazing, they have a shop in London or a website www.postcardteas.com from which you can get tea delivered. Thay are a little pricey maybe but not necessarily prohibitively so and their range is awesome. its great to read to learn about different teas

A personal favourite is sobacha, a roasted buckwheat tea with no caffeine, I love its roasty taste.

I usually drink Peppermint. I f anyone knows any good peppermint infusions I can make up that would be wonderful!!
 
 
totep
17:30 / 02.06.07
The stuff I but has just a subtle hint of raspberry in it and it adds a whole new level to the goodness of the tea. Not to say that Matte in it's normal form isn't good, because it is really awesome. But with the addition of a hint of raspberry it almost tastes like candy. Matte is also great if you make it and then cool it down and add a couple of lemon slices, thats good hydration to bring with to summer punk shows.
 
 
Myshka
08:39 / 03.06.07
In Morocco I drank a lot of mint tea - and was surprised to find that as well as fresh mint they put gunpowder green tea in it too. The proportions varied a lot, sometimes mostly mint, sometimes enough gunpowder to make it really nice and bitter (It was also usually served with vast quantities of sugar already mixed in, which was sometimes welcome in that climate, but doesnt seem so appealing in Britain)
 
 
Mazarine
02:42 / 06.06.07
Lupicia Teas in San Francisco (and Japan) is amazing. I had this fantastic black tea with caramel undertones; they called it canele. My father said the dragon pearl tea I got for him from there was the best he's ever had. It's a wee store but lord is it packed with tea.
 
 
Elijah, Freelance Rabbi
14:51 / 06.06.07
As I said in my embarrasing duplicate thread I have recently replace my morning coffee with Earl Grey. I add a bit of sugar to it, and man, that is the stuff.

There is a coffee place in town that creates a drink called a London Fog, which is Earl Grey with steamed milk and a touch of vanilla. It is quite good, but more of a dessert drink then a regular morning beverage. I have not tried milk in my morning tea yet, might give it a go.
 
  

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