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11/3/2009 10:02:36 PM
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Marian
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We've hit every other liquid category except tea.
I like real tea occasionally at lunch and herb tea in the evening. However, here's the wierd thing. I cannot have tea with breakfast. I have to have coffee. It's just no substitute.
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11/3/2009 11:53:43 PM
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Byron Bailey
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We've hit every other liquid category except tea.
No. We haven't. There's still blood, piss, juices, and vinager to name a few although as most carnivores will tell you, blood and piss are merely different kinds of juice.
I drink this "Orange Pekoe Black Tea" regularly that's currently costing roughly 1.43 cents a bag at Walmart. Expensive stuff, but I like my luxuries. It also helps greatly to cover the foul taste from the local tap water. I used to actually like tea when I could afford the more expensive stuff. Currently tea fills me with the blahs which is better than the blues which is what I get when I drink the tap water plain.
edited by Byron Bailey on 11/4/2009
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11/4/2009 12:21:51 AM
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Tom Purdom
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I like to drink tea with meals. There was a long period, probably a couple of decades, when my wife and I always drank tea with dinners and lunches. It was cheaper than wine and there are teas that go with different kinds of foods, as with wine. Coffee was an after dinner drink. We started drinking wine more often, instead of tea, when we discovered the Vacupump, which lets you drink one or two glasses at a meal, instead of the whole bottle. But I still drink tea, too. For most purposes, I drink Darjelling, which I buy in bulk form. I don't like tea bags. Ceylon is another good general purpose tea. Nowadays I almost always drink coffee with breakfast. But there was a time when we always had a breakfast tea with our Saturday brunches-- English, Irish, Polish, whatever was available.
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11/4/2009 10:34:22 AM
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Bill Moonroe
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Surprised pc, the mint tea (truck driver-strength) expert hasn't posted here...
Has anyone else tried yerba mate'? That is some wicked stuff. Kind of grassy tasting, but fully of lots of caffiene-like goodness. Plus, drinking it in the traditional gaucho manner, from a carved gourd, with a pewter straw with a strainer at one end, looks really cool in an upscale crack pipe sort of way.
Ginger tea is a good warmer on a cold day.
edited by Bill Moonroe on 11/4/2009
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11/4/2009 2:49:23 PM
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Matt Hughes
Posts 270
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I am a tea snob. I drink high-quality Ceylon blends, twenty-dollars and up per pound. Leaves only. When I'm in Canada, I order Murchie's UVA Highland and Extra Superior Ceylon. In Britain, it's surprisingly hard to find tea leaf tea in the supermarkets; the bag reigns supreme here.
Matt Hughes
http://www.archonate.com
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11/5/2009 12:47:23 PM
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Dr. Sardonicus
Posts 280
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Bill Moonroe wrote:
Has anyone else tried yerba mate'? That is some wicked stuff. Kind of grassy tasting, but fully of lots of caffiene-like goodness.
I've had both green Yerba maté (which is "grassy tasting"), and also roasted. The roasted version has kind of a smoky taste, and is a component of Celestial Seasonings' Morning thunder, which packs a noticeably greater caffeine wallop than the usual Camellia sinensis. Marian, take note!
Some species of the genus Ephedra have names like "Mormon tea" and are sold as beverages. I used to get Ephedra sinica at a health-foods store. The tea brewed from it is not at all pleasant-tasting -- "grassy" and bitter. It packs a tremendous wallop not from caffeine, but from ephedrine. I only used it to relieve really bad nasal and upper-respiratory congestion. Then, some enterprising folks realized that ephedrine, like amphetamines, benzedrine, etc., is a powerful stimulant, so suppresses appetite. They combined Ephedra sinica with herbs containing caffeine for new weight-loss nostrums. When a noticeably high number of young people started stroking out because these preparations spiked their blood pressure, the FDA banned Ephedra sinica from OTC sales.
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11/5/2009 12:53:43 PM
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Jeffhaas
Posts 1939
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In the states, I highly recommend Teavana at a mall near you (teavana.com). They're pricey, but their looseleaf teas beat the stuffing out of anything else I've tried.
Lately, I've been using the Sunbeam Tea Drop Hot Tea Maker, which gives me two brews from one batch of tea. The second brew isn't quite as potent like it is when using a regular pot, but it's convenient.
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11/5/2009 1:36:56 PM
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Alex
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I never was much for tea. Iced tea when it's too early for beer. No sugar, just a squeeze of lemon.
About the only time I drink hot tea is for to loosen up congested sinuses and relieve the pains of cold or flu: Peppermint. With honey, Lemon and Rum. Lots of Rum.
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11/5/2009 1:45:37 PM
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Soon Lee
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[pedant]Traditionalist here. The only true tea comes from Camellia sinensis. All else are herbal infusions; tea is a herbal infusion but not all herbal infusions are tea.[/pedant]
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11/5/2009 1:51:12 PM
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Jeffhaas
Posts 1939
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Camellia sinensis
Can you share her phone number?
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11/5/2009 7:10:40 PM
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Madison
Posts 142
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For some reason tea makes me pee alot, but not coffee.
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11/5/2009 7:17:47 PM
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Dr. Sardonicus
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Soon Lee wrote:
[pedant]Traditionalist here. The only true tea comes from Camellia sinensis. All else are herbal infusions; tea is a herbal infusion but not all herbal infusions are tea.[/pedant] No problem. Although the term "tea" is now widely accepted for "herbal infusion," provided it's prefaced by "herbal" or the particular non-Camellia sinensis concoction it may happen to be (e.g. "catnip tea"), for traditionalists there's a more correct generic term for "herbal infusion," viz. tisane.
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11/6/2009 10:19:12 AM
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Bill Moonroe
Posts 3308
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Let's hope we don't give Jim the notion of looking up "herbal infusion enemas".
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11/6/2009 11:45:46 AM
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gdozois
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Bill, they probably do exist.
I usually switch from coffee to tea when traveling in the British Isles, especially outside of London--other than that, I usually don't drink it much.
It's amusing that England has become a culture dominated by the tea-bag, since when I first went over there, in 1968, tea-bags were not only rare, but were considered declasse by many, particularly the older people. I remember one of the Grand Dames of British fandom giving an impromptu lecture in a hotel lobby to a circle of American fans about the proper preparation of tea, a specific amount steeped in a pot with water of a specified temperature for a specified amount of time, and you should never, ever, EVER use tea-bags. (There was also a ritual to drinking it, which involved holding a pitcher of warmed milk in one hand and pouring it into the cup at the same time as you poured the tea in.) By the time I came back, in 1969, an ad campaign had started to convince Brits to use tea-bags, and you saw big signs saying "Dump, jiggle, dunk," with a picture of a tea-bag, on the sides of buses. Obviously, they worked.
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