Reply With QuoteNo, we don't really do iced tea. As for beer, we wouldn't accept warm lager, but real beer shouldn't be served chilled anyway.
I've heard that they disdain the stuff on the other side of the pond. Is this a basic matter of cultural preference, like the warm-beer thing, or is it just that warm, sunny days are less common in relatively cold and rainy Britannia? Or is it something that used to be true, but isn't now (or was it never true)? Me, I've got a big ol' pitcher of the stuff handy.
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No, we don't really do iced tea. As for beer, we wouldn't accept warm lager, but real beer shouldn't be served chilled anyway.
Wikipedia says iced tea makes up about 85% of all tea consumed in the US.
Though the Southern stuff isn't even tea. More like tea-flavored sugar.
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That doesn't surprise me. It's become very popular, and I think it's a healthier choice than soda.
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So I guess we could make a thread why don't Americans drink hot tea?
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"I have nothing against Wilson, but he's nowhere near the same calibre of QB as Flutie. Flutie threw for 5k+ yards in the CFL." -Ben Kenobi
We could probably just cover that here.
"We have tried spending money. We are spending more than we have ever spent before and it does not work...After eight years of this Administration, we have just as much unemployment as when we started... And an enormous debt to boot!" — Henry Morgenthau, Franklin Delano Roosevelt's Treasury secretary, 1941.
I drink hot tea. Very nice, cheap, healthy. No sugar or cream in my tea, please.
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I drink some hot tea, and I think I should increase my intake. I typically drink green, black, or genmaicha, but I also have red or white tea on occasion.
"We have tried spending money. We are spending more than we have ever spent before and it does not work...After eight years of this Administration, we have just as much unemployment as when we started... And an enormous debt to boot!" — Henry Morgenthau, Franklin Delano Roosevelt's Treasury secretary, 1941.
..and there we have the difference. Over here tea doesn't usually come in colours.
Yes, we know, you like your tea as fermented as your grain.
"We have tried spending money. We are spending more than we have ever spent before and it does not work...After eight years of this Administration, we have just as much unemployment as when we started... And an enormous debt to boot!" — Henry Morgenthau, Franklin Delano Roosevelt's Treasury secretary, 1941.
Meh, I can't stand the stuff anyway. Coffee for the win.
That goes without saying.
"We have tried spending money. We are spending more than we have ever spent before and it does not work...After eight years of this Administration, we have just as much unemployment as when we started... And an enormous debt to boot!" — Henry Morgenthau, Franklin Delano Roosevelt's Treasury secretary, 1941.
Really, I've seen lots of different tea colours around the UK.Originally Posted by kentonio
..and there we have the difference. Over here tea doesn't usually come in colours.
I don't drink tea or coffee at all though.
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That stuff does exist, but if someone asked if you wanted a cup of tea, and you said 'yes please, I'll have a red one' they'd certainly look at you funny.
Is it really that unusual to ask for a cup of green tea?
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Well green tea you get, but if you've popped round to someone's house, it probably isn't on offer. You might be able to get Earl Grey or something.
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Well, if you just for tea here, it will default to black. I haven't been asked for the color, and if I want something other than black tea, I will ask what teas they have.
"We have tried spending money. We are spending more than we have ever spent before and it does not work...After eight years of this Administration, we have just as much unemployment as when we started... And an enormous debt to boot!" — Henry Morgenthau, Franklin Delano Roosevelt's Treasury secretary, 1941.
No milk? Please tell me you don't do something terrible like put a slice of lemon in it
Speaking of Erith:
"It's not twinned with anywhere, but it does have a suicide pact with Dagenham" - Linda Smith
That comment would make more sense if sweet tea wasn't a liquid.
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Well Green Tea isn't supposed to have milkNo milk? Please tell me you don't do something terrible like put a slice of lemon in it
“I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”
- John 13:34-35 (NRSV)
What is it with this green tea obsession?
Speaking of Erith:
"It's not twinned with anywhere, but it does have a suicide pact with Dagenham" - Linda Smith
It's healthy.
It's also tasty.
"We have tried spending money. We are spending more than we have ever spent before and it does not work...After eight years of this Administration, we have just as much unemployment as when we started... And an enormous debt to boot!" — Henry Morgenthau, Franklin Delano Roosevelt's Treasury secretary, 1941.
I hate tea. But I hate sweet tea slightly less than normal tea.
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“I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”
- John 13:34-35 (NRSV)
Pop round my house and there's nothing on offer. Or rather, the box of tea I have in my house has only ever been used by you.
Capitalisation - The difference between helping your uncle Jack off a horse, and helping your uncle jack off a horse
Grammar - The difference between knowing your $hit, and knowing you're $hit.
Spelling - The difference between being literate, and being Dinner.
That's true...hope it is still there
Speaking of Erith:
"It's not twinned with anywhere, but it does have a suicide pact with Dagenham" - Linda Smith
I drink hot tea too, but when it gets to be eighty degrees (Fahrenheit, that is), it's just not pleasant to drink anything hot. I generally drink black only, steeped for ages, straight up with no cream, sugar, lemon or whatever. I'll do stuff like Earl/Lady Grey or other flavored teas from time to time. I don't consider Rooibos or herbal tisanes to be "tea" any more than carob is chocolate. I feel somewhat strongly about it after all the times I've been offered tea, accepted, and been given a choice between two different kinds of potpourri-water. Camellia sinensis, aka "the tea plant," you turds! It'd be so much easier if I liked coffee.
As for green tea, that's at least the right plant, but it tastes like lawn clippings to me so I shun it. If you like it, more power to you. Oh, and while I'm being cranky: 2009-10-02-557tea.gif
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Yeah, coffee...well I tend to drink coffee when I am on the continent and tea when I am in Old Blighty...you just can't get a decent cuppa elsewhere
Speaking of Erith:
"It's not twinned with anywhere, but it does have a suicide pact with Dagenham" - Linda Smith
Depends. Most of it is loaded with sugar.
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