Ulukai on 10/10/2006 at 21:19
Well, I'm not gay
Gillie on 10/10/2006 at 22:14
If you are cold, tea will warm you. If you are too heated, it will cool you. If you are depressed, it will cheer you. If you are excited, it will calm you. ~Gladstone, 1865
I wonder if Tea does something to some people.Or what they put in it.
Alice in wonderland hallucinated> ;)
It was ages before I realised what Jefferson airplane was singing about aka "White Rabbitt"
“Twinkle, twinkle little bat How I wonder what you're at! Up above the world you fly, Like a tea-tray in the sky”
Lewis Carroll quotes :D
ercles on 10/10/2006 at 22:33
itt:tea nerds ATTACK!
Scots Taffer on 10/10/2006 at 23:28
Quote Posted by tungsten
How can you title your thread with "tea" when you're talking about bags?
Because not all of us want a ten minute set-up for one cup of tea to be drunk quickly before we run out of the house and into our cars to hit the highway in flowing traffic as we blast down the right hand lane with Map of the Problematique blaring at near deafening level, the windows down and our lip-syncing scaring the shit out of kids on the school run.
Nicker on 10/10/2006 at 23:35
Quote Posted by Scots_Taffer
Because not all of us want a ten minute set-up for one cup of tea to be drunk quickly before we run out of the house and into our cars to hit the highway in flowing traffic as we blast down the right hand lane with Map of the Problematique blaring at near deafening level, the windows down and our lip-syncing scaring the shit out of kids on the school run.
Umm... any chance of sending some of that "tea" you have to your fellows on ComChat? That is, if it is legal for export.
SlyFoxx on 10/10/2006 at 23:38
Damn tungsten...your head must have exploded when you read my post.:p
That's OK...I'm a fucking beer snob. It's all good.
:sly:
Rug Burn Junky on 11/10/2006 at 00:51
Quote Posted by Scots_Taffer
Because not all of us want a ten minute set-up for one cup of tea to be drunk quickly before we run out of the house and into our cars to hit the highway in flowing traffic as we blast down the right hand lane with Map of the Problematique blaring at near deafening level, the windows down and our lip-syncing scaring the shit out of kids on the school run.
Besides which, any true tea snob knows that you can get very good whole leaf teas in tea bags now-a-days.*
It's only the poseurs who think that you HAVE to use a tea pot to get a good cup.
*Harney & Sons, Mighty Leaf (my favorite), Adagio, Highland Tea Company, Revolution Tea, Numi Tea, Two Leaves and a Bud, Tea Forté, Harrisons & Crosfield, Le Palais des Thés and Mariage Frères all make fine bagged tea.
demagogue on 11/10/2006 at 01:58
Well, this is all very Euro-centric.
Growing up, tea was largely for the summer, sun brewed in a very large glass pitcher left on a window sill or on a patio table in the sun for a some hours, and served iced. Given a climate with 40+ (105+) degree weather for more than 30 consecutive days at a time, nothing beats it.
Now that I've been thourghly cosmpoloitanized and in a more snowy clime ... it's poured from a boiling kettle on to the bag in a ceramic cup, swirled, dunked, then squeezed ... so a little of "all of the above".
This is unless I use my little Japanese pot -- which I use when I buy the leaves directly; not in bags -- in which the tea leaves go directly into a gauze cup inserted in the top, and the boiling water is poured through the gauze into the pot, sit and wait a bit, and then the tea is poured directly out the spout.
For as nice as it is, it still doesn't beat a glass of sun brewed iced tea from the days of yore.
LancerChronics on 11/10/2006 at 02:16
My method is kind of "all of the above"
First I take a mug and put the teabag in it. Add hot water. Then I dunk the bag 20 times, exactly 20 times. Then I let it sit for say...30 minutes(i usually watch a tv show from beginning to end and forget i made tea)? I then pull out the teabag and spin dry(twist the string, i don't "squash" it, cause i'm afraid i'll break the bag). Then it varies, I may either:
1)Drink it straight or add a splash of milk(depends on the tea).
2)microwave it for 20 seconds to give it back its heat, add one spoonful of honey. milk added depending on type of tea.
3) try and add honey while it's cold, chug the tea, then eat the rest of the tea flavored honey off the spoon.
"Irish Breakfast" Rocks, btw. And I'm american, though not sure if that matters. I think the English are almost obsessive compulsive about how they make their tea, from what I've seen. No offense meant.
And REAL men drink tea black...j/k....or am i?
Briareos H on 11/10/2006 at 06:17
Quote Posted by ercles
itt:tea nerds ATTACK!
Just spotted this abbreviation around the forum in a couple of places, and it is popping up on other forums too. I figure this means "in this thread", what the fuck? Is it just me, or do you think that when you start using abbreviations for threads you need to rethink priorities?
