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is the new babycham....

― julia, Friday, 8 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

They're revamping Babycham, aren't they? I've never tried it, but due to it being a bit of a yuppie accessory I'll have to.

― DG, Friday, 8 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

babycham tastes like piss actually:o) (not that i tried piss...) but its cool..erm..kind of

julia xx

― julia, Friday, 8 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

How about a nice bottle of Blue Nun?

― DG, Friday, 8 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Now listen, how do you know that Babycham is like piss if you've never had piss? I think you have, and now you don't want to admit it. Either that or you've unfairly libelled Babycham.

Unfortunately, I've had neither. I am so out of the loop on this discussion. I've never even had peppermint tea!

― Ally, Friday, 8 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

argh..dont come along with the word *libel*....thats what i been doing for the past days..reading about slander and libel...i think ill just play it safe and take the piss(-accusation back.....)

julia xx

― julia, Friday, 8 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I have. It's okay, but I feel sick if I have too much of it. I like plain old green tea the best.

― Nicole, Friday, 8 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

...out of teas, anyway.

Favorite beverages is a different matter, and discussion of such would probably destroy my reputation.

― Nicole, Friday, 8 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

It's Faygo, isn't it? :)

― Dan Perry, Friday, 8 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

No way, man, ginger tea is where it's at. Tastes yummy, and it's great for nausea!

― masonic boom, Friday, 8 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Faygo is actually the only cool thing about ICP. The peach flavor rocks. :-)

― Nicole, Friday, 8 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Oooh, I just love Peppermint Tea. As long as it's the proper herb brewed in a pot and not those shitty teabags in Holland and Barrett. Real Chamomile Tea is good aswell, especially with some *zesty* lemon balm added.

― Johnathan, Friday, 8 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I'd like some peppermint tea, only I haven't got any.

Why does Karl Marx drink Peppermint Tea? Because proper tea is theft.

But to be controversial Verveine anyone?

― Ed, Sunday, 10 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Pedant alert: "Property is Theft" was a dictum of the anarchist Michael Bakunin, whom Marx despised.

(In order to save your joke it became necessary to destroy it. )

― mark s, Sunday, 10 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Jeez, way to kill the thread, Nicky Wire.

― Ally, Monday, 11 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

It was a shitey thread about yuppie teas. Go Mark Go, sez I.

Earl Grey, milk, two sugars.

― Tom, Monday, 11 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

You take milk and sugar? Wuss.

I would say tea is more hippie than yuppie, not that that makes it any more excusable.

― Nicole, Monday, 11 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I only Drink Prince of Wales and Earl Gray. All else is for curs. OH, and I take dairy and sucrette !

― -- Mike Hanley, Monday, 11 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I'm English, dammit Nicole, of course I take milk and sugar.

Hippie Yuppies!!! DEAR GOD!

― Tom, Monday, 11 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Earl Grey! EARL GREY! And you have the audacity to say Peppermint is a yuppie tea, you bourgeois scum!

Strong English Breakfast, one sugar, tiniest bit of milk is what you want.

― Richard Tunnicliffe, Monday, 11 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Look here, peasant, the UP in Yuppie stands for "upwardly mobile". Some of us are already there ;)

More seriously, English Breakfast = tea Liebraumilch, surely.

― Tom, Monday, 11 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Earl Grey tastes like bile. But I would expect this from a man who doesn't like Reeses peanut butter cups. Freak.

― Nicole, Monday, 11 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I was brought up to understand that milk in tea is just vulgar. A thin slice of lemon please. Cannot be a yuppie as (a) old (b) it's been down down down as long as mobility was at issue...

― mark s, Monday, 11 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Tea is for wussbags, why are you all not drinking coffee? Preferably coffee so strong that you need to put in 8 sugars to tame the vile taste, so that you get the caffiene high and the sugar buzz. Then you need to smoke a cigarette. If you have cocaine, do that too. You're totally going to go for days on that.

― Ally, Monday, 11 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Coffee makes me sick. Literally. I used to drink circa 10 cups day in an attempt to stave off boredom and keep myself awake at my old job, but it totally shagged my digestive system. Now I can't have more than a couple of cups in a day without feeling nauseous. So I drink tea instead. It tastes nicer even if it doesn't provide the same kick.

Oh, and if English Breakfast is the Liebfraumilch of tea then Earl Grey is its La Piat D'Or.

― Richard Tunnicliffe, Monday, 11 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Waaahhhhhh... I miss coffee. It's become totally verboten since I became ill. And none of this crappy English instant crap for me, I like proper good old NYC coffee where, basically, you fill an entire coffee mug with coffee as strong as espresso, so strong you have to add over an inch of milk to make it even a brownish shade of black.

Aaaaaahhhhh...

15 years in America turned me off tea for good. Yuck! Though at a pinch, I will drink PG Tips. Cause chimps are KEWL.

― masonic boom, Monday, 11 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Tea is crap, that's why Americans dumped it in Pearl Harbor or whatever they did to stupid revolutionary tea. (quote courtesy of my sister, about 3 years ago, I still love saying it)

― Ally, Monday, 11 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

My story is pretty similar to Richard's -- I ended up drinking at least 4-5 cups of black coffee every day for about 10 years, and it ended up screwing up my system so much that if I have even a cup now I feel sick. So it has to be tea, even though coffee could kick tea's ass.

― Nicole, Monday, 11 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Actually I drink coffee all day. I will never quit. Death first. my recipie? 4 tablespoons french roast in the french press for 5 minutes. Fill cup with halp milk half sugar. add 2 tablespoons suger. It makes it happy. But when I DO have tea its earl gray.

― -- Mike Hanley, Monday, 11 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I have tea, but I don't drink it. Otis Wheeler made me make him tea one time, it was easily the lamest thing either of us have ever done.

I drink coffee. I only do one cup a day though, sometimes skipping a day. It screws up my teeth too much, I mean no amount of whitening toothpaste is going to get rid of both nicotene and coffee stains, hello. I like to have hyper strong coffee with tons and tons and tons of sugar in it and plenty of milk. I once drank 27 cups of coffee in a morning. I passed out from hypertension and my boyfriend-at-the- time drew a smiley face on my cheek, instead of, like, you know, being worried about me. Loser.

― Ally, Monday, 11 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

if i wasn't english i probably wouldn't drink tea. but, being english means i have to. its the law.

anyone remember when louis theroux interviewed some survivalist dude in the midwest somewhere, and louis asked him "why do you need all these guns?" and the survivalist answered, "look, for us not to have guns would be like you guys not drinking tea" ?? that was cool...

― gareth, Tuesday, 12 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

oh, and peppermint tea is shit. all herb teas are shit, they smell really strong and that, but then the drink has NO TASTE. its like hot water. whats the point?

― gareth, Tuesday, 12 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Ally, have you tried using sandpaper on your teeth? Works wonders and you can use the resulting powdery enamel waste as "heaven dust". When I saw Billy Bragg last year he was complaining about the "bloddy chammomile tea" he was given in the dressin g room. He said, wait til you lot get into England and we give you chammomile coffee!

― -- Mike Hanley, Tuesday, 12 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Mike, I'd like to HAVE teeth. I just want this one stain on my bottom front tooth to the left to go away. But it's really there cos it's crooked so it's way harder to brush that one than all the rest of them, because part of it is behind the other tooth.

― Ally, Tuesday, 12 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Fascintating. Are you english?

― -- Mike Hanley, Tuesday, 12 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Uh-oh, is this to be an 'all English have bad teeth' generalisation? Because that's bollocks. Well, all the people I know of my generation have fine teeth, can't say the same for my parents though...

― DG, Tuesday, 12 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Certainly my teeth could be better, but plastic white smiles? No thanks. Teeth = bone. Bone = not naturally gleaming white, surely. I have a kind of tooth phobia though so it may just be me who's creeped out by this.

― Tom, Tuesday, 12 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I'm much more creeped out by teeth that have teeth. (You know what I'm talking about; when the teeth come outof the gumline at angles which cause some of them to pop up behind others, creating an effect not unlike looking down a shark's mouth...) It realy disturbs me because I can't imagine chewing without hurting myself. (I mean, I bite my tongue/inside of my mouth enough as it is and my teeth are almost perfectly aligned. I can't imagine having incisors sprouting out at a right-angle to the rest of my teeth and trying to bite into an apple.)

I'm shutting up about this now because I'm giving myself the willies.

― Dan Perry, Tuesday, 12 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Uh, can I just say I have a really nice smile and my teeth are quite fine and I have ONE slightly crooked tooth and the fact that this has gone into "Are you English? Your teeth are crap" is annoying me greatly.

― Ally, Tuesday, 12 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Why are English teeth often more oddly arranged? Are they just not into the idea of braces? What gives? Also, teeth are not bone, they are enamel.

― -- Mike Hanley, Tuesday, 12 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Enamel is part of bone - so sayeth biology class. Braces are for crackheads - you should only get them if your teeth are crooked to the point of it making it difficult for you to eat or close your mouth properly (ie it makes your lips protrude or something), because otherwise it's just cosmetic surgery, and a pricey cosmetic surgery at that.

I was always bemused with girls I knew that would trash models and actresses for having fake tits but would all have brace put on their teeth, which were no more crooked than mine, and the only reason anyone knows that my teeth are crooked is if I tell them or if I bite them and they can see that the bite marks are off.

― Ally, Tuesday, 12 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Ally = right about braces. It's cosmetic surgery pure and simple and if you're against c.s. you should be against tooth faffery. But I'm not against c.s. on principle, if you're that arsed about it then fine.

It is true that there is a big transatlantic cultural hangup on this, both in America's weird phobia of tooth imperfection and the UK's paranoid suspicion of tooth correction as vanity. The perfect example of this was the explosion of wrath here when it was reported that Martin Amis had spent a monster book advance on getting his teeth done because his American girlfriend had insisted. That's when I suddenly realised that it went beyond the usual lame US xenophobia and actually Touched a Cultural Nerve.

― Tom, Tuesday, 12 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I assumed it was because everyone was fed up with his 11-dimensional tossy uselessness, and would have savaged him for a £12 haircut, if the concept had played.

Plus wasn't his reason horrible horrible toothache? I confess to schadenfreude over that, also, as one who hasn't had TA since I was, like, 10.

― mark s, Tuesday, 12 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I'm not really against cosmetic surgery at all - it's your body. My real point, stated in my lovable harsh, blunt and overreactionary way, is that braces are the "acceptable" form of cosmetic surgery. No one sits there and takes the piss out of someone for having braces because a "real doctor" does that, but you go under and get yourself bigger breasts or a nicer nose - even though 9 times out of 10 it's just as much for medical necessity as braces are - you're a laughing stock welcome for ridicule.

It just annoys me. I've had multiple dentists ask me if I wanted to get my teeth straightened. For what? To fix ONE TOOTH? $5000 to fix ONE TOOTH that is slightly, slightly turned behind another one? At least a year of braces and discomfort for ONE TOOTH? My arse.

― Ally, Tuesday, 12 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I hate coffee, damn that cultural imperialism, I will not drink it! :)...I never knew there was a thing about Brits having bad teeth, how stupid. I mean we eat alot of sweets, but it's just that Hollywood perfect smile thing...damn cultural imperialists again! :)...I say be proud of bad teeth and drinking tea!

― james e l, Tuesday, 12 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Actually braces are often a corrective surgery for an improper bite configuration which can cause jaw pain (and "Looking Limey").

― -- Mike Hanley, Tuesday, 12 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Mike Hanley, you are Very Bad Man.

― Dan Perry, Tuesday, 12 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

If you can name me five people you know who had braces because they had actual mouth pain, I'd be impressed.

of course, now you can just make up 5 people. It's not like I know your friends!

― Ally, Tuesday, 12 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I was on the verge of posting personal information about someone who could handily kick my ass. I will paraphrase what I was going to say:

In college, my wife got braces to fix a situation that wasn't bad at the time, but would have eventually led to serious chewing problems. Of course, I didn't start dating her until after she got the braces (which enforced my mistaken impression that she was two years behind me in school rather than two years ahed of me, heh).

― Dan Perry, Tuesday, 12 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Well, see, that makes sense - if it's going to become an issue, you should fix it, or if it's a current issue. I never in my life met someone personally though who had an actual issue. I knew some people with straight teeth - perfectly straight, we're talking - who got braces just cos the dentist convinced the parents that they'd be best off with braces "at that age". I mean, what?

― Ally, Tuesday, 12 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

My orthodontist wanted me to get braces but i refused, and my parents didn't mind my refusal seeing as how much braces cost. But someimtes I get headaches form my jaw alignment. I should have gotten em. But...you look dumb in them.

― -- Mike Hanley, Tuesday, 12 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

If you can name me five people you know who had braces because they had actual mouth pain, I'd be impressed.

I'm one. Couldn't come up with 4 more, though.

― Patrick, Tuesday, 12 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

two years pass...

I just had some peppermint tea, it was pretty good.

― Nicolars (Nicole), Tuesday, 4 November 2003 13:55 (twenty-two years ago)

four years pass...

i really just love peppermint tea now. it completely crept on me, the appreciation. i'm hooked.

― Surmounter, Friday, 28 December 2007 22:47 (seventeen years ago)

I'm about 80% with you there. well maybe 75%

― I know, right?, Friday, 28 December 2007 22:52 (seventeen years ago)

Mint tea is strictly for islamofascists. Me, I drink Freedom Coffee.

― dell, Saturday, 29 December 2007 02:16 (seventeen years ago)

it makes me all tingly, this mint tea. it's a very tingly tea.

― Surmounter, Saturday, 29 December 2007 03:03 (seventeen years ago)

whatabout fresh mint tea? I've never drunk it but make it for many people at work. to me it just looks like wilted leaves and hot hot water

― o-ess, Saturday, 29 December 2007 12:15 (seventeen years ago)

ooh i've never had!

― Surmounter, Saturday, 29 December 2007 14:31 (seventeen years ago)

Seriously, I can verify that the fresh stuff is great.

― dell, Saturday, 29 December 2007 15:16 (seventeen years ago)

four years pass...

multipl by the square root of the stains in my underwear, disgusting ass partner, and ill raise you two stinklines

― DiMarceau Fishpower, Sunday, 5 February 2012 19:18 (thirteen years ago)

eleven years pass...

this is the most underrated beverage.

my local herbalist told me that peppermint "settles the stomach" but is not as medicinal as other herbs.

NO.

peppermint tea just feels very healing and soothing. this means that it is so.

it cures every ailment.

― treeship., Tuesday, 21 November 2023 01:51 (one year ago)

Except heartburn apparently.

Love it. Make my own from mint in our garden.

― il lavoro mi rovina la giornata (PBKR), Tuesday, 21 November 2023 02:40 (one year ago)

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