Rudolf wrote: > The correct way to brew tea for an Englishman is to find a teapot that > has been properly priced at an antiques faire, slip the little gummed > price tag under the lid of the pot and boil it with a bone. A small > bone will do, nothing special, best acquire it from a well-established > garden corgi. After heating the teakettle over a peat fire, shake a > few leaves from the greenest of your garden weeds into the pot with a > shake or two of pure Darjeeling leaves. Take an old coin and torch it > until it begins to emit sparks, toss it into the pot and add water > quickly. Breathe in the vapours, and when you point out the epicurean > delight to said Englishman, bash him in the back of the head with the > teakettle with the other hand, and take his money.
> You must be Irish or Australian to pull this off correctly. If not > done with the greatest of refinement, the Englishman may not > appreciate the joke and will have his butler fetch the police.
> This does not work if you have been reading James Joyce, or quoting > him in any fashion. Really, there must be limits.
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> On Sep 29, 12:24 am, Chris Zakes <donti...@gmail.com> wrote: > [snip] > The correct answer--according to the book--is lemon. >> Is that accurate? *My* understanding is that the English prefer milk >> in their tea.
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Arthur Hagen wrote: > Americans can deduce that "one lump or two?" refers to sugar. But will > have no concept of how big a sugar cube is, relative to their customary > bags of sugar, or their (rarely seen) US sugar cubes which are about > four times the size of European ones.
We do that because it lets us put way more LSD on 'em.
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Chris Zakes wrote: > "Boiled in a boot" if memory serves.
Long ago I had a holiday job in the toolmakers workshop of Leeway Prams. The men there made the tools that were used to make the prams. It was full of lathes, milling machines and other exciting stuff. My job was to sweep up, fetch and carry and make the tea.
It was possibly the most exciting way to make tea ever: heat a brick until red-hot[1] in the kiln and then put it into a big galvanised bucket of cold water which came to the boil *really fast*. Add a handful of tea leaves and stir. Serve by dipping mugs into the hot tea, add milk and sugar and voila! Engineer's tea!
[1] I remember it as "red hot" but it may just have been "very hot" because I'm not sure that it would have been safe to use a red hot brick, even by the very pragmatic safety standards of the early 1960s.
Winterbay <peter.moh...@gmail.com> wrote: > I've not heard of teknekt (or knekt) but there is a drink called > kaffekask which is made by taking a mug, putting a coin at the bottom > and pouring in coffee until you can't see it anymore then you add > alcohol (probably vodka or moonshine or whatever very strong stuff you > have at home) until you can see it again...
I've heard of that, and come to the conclusion that you either have very weak coffee in Sweden, or very small mugs. Or luminous coins.
>> I've not heard of teknekt (or knekt) but there is a drink called >> kaffekask which is made by taking a mug, putting a coin at the bottom >> and pouring in coffee until you can't see it anymore then you add >> alcohol (probably vodka or moonshine or whatever very strong stuff you >> have at home) until you can see it again...
> I've heard of that, and come to the conclusion that you either have very > weak coffee in Sweden, or very small mugs. Or luminous coins.
> Richard
The experiments I've seen on the subject makes it very clear that the point is to get as much booze as possible into the coffee since you can never get the coin to be visible again unless you have a mug that is a lot wider at the top than at the bottom.
In message <5vadnd670pinMnjXnZ2dnUVZ_h6dn...@wightman.ca> Larry Moore <ljmoore.mo...@gmail.com> wrote:
>On 2009-10-01, Kathleen <khhfmdeletet...@charter.net> wrote: >> I am both American and a tea drinker and I have never once seen or even >> heard of somebody requesting both milk and lemon in their tea.
>Our of curiousity, do you drink your tea hot or iced?
> In message <5vadnd670pinMnjXnZ2dnUVZ_h6dn...@wightman.ca> > Larry Moore <ljmoore.mo...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>On 2009-10-01, Kathleen <khhfmdeletet...@charter.net> wrote: >>> I am both American and a tea drinker and I have never once seen or even >>> heard of somebody requesting both milk and lemon in their tea.
>>Our of curiousity, do you drink your tea hot or iced?
> Cold tea is revolting.
Pretty much the entire American south disagrees. :-/
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> "Kevin Wells" <kevinwe...@talktalk.net> wrote in message > news:fc4c60b050.Kevin@talktalk.net... >> In message <5vadnd670pinMnjXnZ2dnUVZ_h6dn...@wightman.ca> >> Larry Moore <ljmoore.mo...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>On 2009-10-01, Kathleen <khhfmdeletet...@charter.net> wrote: >>>> I am both American and a tea drinker and I have never once seen or even >>>> heard of somebody requesting both milk and lemon in their tea.
>>>Our of curiousity, do you drink your tea hot or iced?
>> Cold tea is revolting.
> Pretty much the entire American south disagrees. :-/
I remember a commercial iced tea that had orange peel and spices. Chilled with ice, sweetened with honey and with a slice of lemon, it was rather refreshing on a hot summer day.
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>"Kevin Wells" <kevinwe...@talktalk.net> wrote in message >news:fc4c60b050.Kevin@talktalk.net... >> In message <5vadnd670pinMnjXnZ2dnUVZ_h6dn...@wightman.ca> >> Larry Moore <ljmoore.mo...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>On 2009-10-01, Kathleen <khhfmdeletet...@charter.net> wrote: >>>> I am both American and a tea drinker and I have never once seen or even >>>> heard of somebody requesting both milk and lemon in their tea.
>>>Our of curiousity, do you drink your tea hot or iced?
>> Cold tea is revolting.
>Pretty much the entire American south disagrees. :-/
> "Kevin Wells" <kevinwe...@talktalk.net> wrote in message > news:fc4c60b050.Kevin@talktalk.net... >> In message <5vadnd670pinMnjXnZ2dnUVZ_h6dn...@wightman.ca> >> Larry Moore <ljmoore.mo...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On 2009-10-01, Kathleen <khhfmdeletet...@charter.net> wrote: >>>> I am both American and a tea drinker and I have never once seen or even >>>> heard of somebody requesting both milk and lemon in their tea.
>>> Our of curiousity, do you drink your tea hot or iced?
>> Cold tea is revolting.
> Pretty much the entire American south disagrees. :-/
Yebbut . . . that's mint tea, not real tea.
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>> "Kevin Wells" <kevinwe...@talktalk.net> wrote in message >> news:fc4c60b050.Kevin@talktalk.net... >>> In message <5vadnd670pinMnjXnZ2dnUVZ_h6dn...@wightman.ca> >>> Larry Moore <ljmoore.mo...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> On 2009-10-01, Kathleen <khhfmdeletet...@charter.net> wrote: >>>>> I am both American and a tea drinker and I have never once seen or >>>>> even >>>>> heard of somebody requesting both milk and lemon in their tea.
>>>> Our of curiousity, do you drink your tea hot or iced?
>>> Cold tea is revolting.
>> Pretty much the entire American south disagrees. :-/
> Yebbut . . . that's mint tea, not real tea.
> -Ferd Burfle > -- > Poop, once slung, can never be unslung. Given enough time, it will > decorate the slinger.
It's a matter of temperatures and intention.
Normal tea gone cold is revolting...
Iced tea at gone warm* is tolerable.
Mind you, it its tea, I'll drink it - If its food I'll eat it.**
*warm meaning the same as cold above, i.e. room temperature.
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Kevin Wells wrote: > In message <5vadnd670pinMnjXnZ2dnUVZ_h6dn...@wightman.ca> > Larry Moore <ljmoore.mo...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 2009-10-01, Kathleen <khhfmdeletet...@charter.net> wrote: >>> I am both American and a tea drinker and I have never once seen or even >>> heard of somebody requesting both milk and lemon in their tea.
>> Our of curiousity, do you drink your tea hot or iced?
> Cold tea is revolting.
Of course it is if it's supposed to be hot tea and has milk in it. But tea that was always intended to be iced and contains no milk is very refreshing.
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> **I find buffets a moral nightmare due to the (almost) inevitable amount > of food left over. That's because I'd prefer the food to go to my waist > rather than to waste, but there is slightly too much of the former these > days!
Sounds like there's rather too much of the latter as well.
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Reader in Invisible Writings <markfowera...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Ferd Burfle wrote: > > Esmeraldus wrote: > >> "Kevin Wells" <kevinwe...@talktalk.net> wrote in message > >>> Cold tea is revolting.
> >> Pretty much the entire American south disagrees. :-/
> > Yebbut . . . that's mint tea, not real tea.
Not necessarily, and not necessarily.
Iced tea can be made with citrus tea, as well (and, less succesfully, other flavours) - and mint tea is not necessarily not real tea. If mint tea is made the Moroccan way, with real (usually gunpowder) tea _and_ real mint, it's good stuff. Some mint "tea" is made with mint alone, and that is indeed not real tea, but not all mint tea is that sort.
Of course, "mint" or "citrus" tea, made with (possibly non-real) tea and fake or second-rate herb or fruit flavourings, is also quite disgusting, and even more so when iced.
> It's a matter of temperatures and intention.
And of who made it. Home-made iced tea is great stuff for a hot summer afternoon. Factory-bottled IceTea*(tm) is rotgut under all circumstances. It comes pre-sugared and pre-carbonated - that should tell one all one needs to know.
> Normal tea gone cold is revolting...
Normal tea gone _cold_ is drinkable, provided it was strong enough when it was hot. Normal tea gone tepid, that's revolting.
> Mind you, it its tea, I'll drink it - If its food I'll eat it.**
Wot'esed.
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> Reader in Invisible Writings <markfowera...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>> Ferd Burfle wrote: >>> Esmeraldus wrote: >>>> "Kevin Wells" <kevinwe...@talktalk.net> wrote in message >>>>> Cold tea is revolting. >>>> Pretty much the entire American south disagrees. :-/ >>> Yebbut . . . that's mint tea, not real tea.
> Not necessarily, and not necessarily.
> Iced tea can be made with citrus tea, as well (and, less succesfully, > other flavours) - and mint tea is not necessarily not real tea. If mint > tea is made the Moroccan way, with real (usually gunpowder) tea _and_ > real mint, it's good stuff. Some mint "tea" is made with mint alone, and > that is indeed not real tea, but not all mint tea is that sort.
When I lived in Spain, I spent some time with a group of Moroccans. I liked the mint tea (although I found it a bit too sweet, even though I usually take tea with sugar), right up until the second cup.
These particular Moroccans (and no, I have no idea if they were representative of the country as a whole) left the mint leaves in the tea, and by the second serving the tea could most aptly be described as 'bleurgh'.
Before that, however, it was quite nice and not like the 'mint tea' you can buy around here, which I would describe more as infusions.
Richard Bos wrote: > Reader in Invisible Writings <markfowera...@hotmail.com> wrote: >> Normal tea gone cold is revolting...
> Normal tea gone _cold_ is drinkable, provided it was strong enough when > it was hot. Normal tea gone tepid, that's revolting.
I make my tea (Steveski's Old Deeply Refreshing) REALLY strong - mentioned upthread, somewhere - and while most people think it's too strong hot, they think it's just right when cold. This is 3 Kenya blend spoons and 3 Earl Grey spoons in a 1 1/3 pt. mug (about 660ml).
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