Green Tea: C or D

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being bored with all food avaliable from british supermarkets, i went out and baught green tea today. i've drunk about five cups in three hours and i've no idea whether i like it. it is quite the bizarest taste. and i expect to hear from momus here...

― matthew james, Monday, 25 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I used to be a Green Tea man. Then I moved on to the hardcore stuff: Nettle and Dandelion Tea. Now, at last, I am happy.

― Johnathan, Monday, 25 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

There's a short story by Sheridan le Fanu called 'Green Tea': guy in it drinks it and drinks it and drinks it — and dies screaming haunted by an invisible baboon.

Maybe I got two stories mixed up.

― mark s, Monday, 25 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Sounds rather like H.P.Lovecraft. That man should have stuck with Nettle Tea and he'd have been just fine.

― Johnathan, Monday, 25 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Do nettle tea and dandelion tea have that bitter, medicine-y taste? If so, I would love them. I like my tea to taste like some questionable leaves and grass you just gathered at random. I don't care about the purported medicinal effects, I just like it to taste like medicine.

― Kerry Keane, Monday, 25 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I once had to make Otis green tea, which totally put me off it for life. I was like, dude, don't you know how to make your own tea? Pssh.

It tastes pretty good though. Iced green tea, they make it by Arizona Iced Tea, is really good.

― Ally, Monday, 25 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

That time Ally mentioned was the second time in my life I had a girl make me green tea. It's great when you're sick! It's actually horrible, but it does the job.

― Otis Wheeler, Tuesday, 26 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

get yourself some mat`e, pronounced mah-tay, from latin america, and the drinking acoutrements, add hot water, a dash of lemon, and a teaspoon of sugar - great caffeine rush....grean tea - bah, indifferent.

― Geoff, Tuesday, 26 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I want me an invisible baboon. That way you get all the benefits of baboon ownership without the penalty of having to look at blue buttocks.

― Richard Tunnicliffe, Tuesday, 26 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I seem to remember it was all too horribly visible to the green-tea drinker: no one ELSE could see it. But as S.Le Fanu was mid- Victorian, no great play was made, buttocks-wise...

― mark s, Tuesday, 26 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I really like green Tea, and this comes from a man who is no great shakes on the coffee /tea front (great in their place but their place isn't ever thirty minutes and students and aged grandmothers seem to think). Emma got two huge tins of authentik Taiwanese Green Tea from the good people at the Not Realy An Embassy for her leaving present. She doe snot drink it, so every now and then I do my own tea ritual involving china teapot and the TV.

Great drink to write to. Very calming.

That said - duddy dud dudster in the T'Chai Green Tea adverts at the cinema. Supra racists "Glasshopper" style sensei on bike telling us to Calm The Storm with a green tea teabag. I'll calm his fucking storm. Its a disgrace I tell you.

― Pete, Tuesday, 26 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Pete, that's not Green tea you fool, it's grass clippings. Hur hur.

Apparently it's very good for you though. And helps your digestion when scoffing greasy dim sum.

― Emma, Tuesday, 26 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Try Jasmine Tea. It's Green Tea flavoured with jasmine flowers. Very nice in the afternoon with a cracker or two.

― Johnathan, Tuesday, 26 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

but, though, green tea is odd. you can tell that it bears *some* resemblence to the 'normal' black pg tips etc tea, but also tastes utterly different from yer normal 'herbal' tasting like grass clippings tea. i think it's acquired taste like olives - taste odd at first, but somehow more-ish, and then you'll wonder how you ever lived without it.

green tea with ginko bilboa is meant to improve brain function. damned if i've noticed though.

― katie, Tuesday, 26 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Damned if I've noticed either, Grocott.

― Richard Tunnicliffe, Tuesday, 26 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

oi. inter-flatmate backbiting not allowed, especially when said flatmate is sitting not 18 inches from you...

― katie, Tuesday, 26 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

twenty years pass...

Green tea with a little sugar and a splash of milk = heaven

― calstars, Sunday, 7 November 2021 15:40 (four years ago)

Is this a record for time between posts?

― Kim Kimberly, Sunday, 7 November 2021 16:29 (four years ago)

one month passes...

I think I’m going to try a 80 pct replacement of my coffee habit with green tea

― calstars, Tuesday, 28 December 2021 00:02 (four years ago)

I still do coffee in the morning, but there's so much wonderful green tea! When I was in the office before WFH, the tea they stocked was quite nice. But at home, ordering my own again...so many nice choices.

― fajita seas, Tuesday, 28 December 2021 01:32 (four years ago)

Please share some recommendations 😀

― calstars, Tuesday, 28 December 2021 03:40 (four years ago)

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