Mmmm... White Tea!

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It's supposed to be better for you than Green Tea so I just bought a bunch of tea bags and just had my first cup. The Clipper stuff is infused with a little blackcurrant to bring out the flavour and my, is it nice! Might have another.

You tried this yet?

― wogan lenin (dog latin), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 15:21 (nineteen years ago)

I'm such a blinkered traditionalist when it comes to tea, none of your fancy stuff for me.

― chap who would dare to welcome our new stingray masters (chap), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 15:23 (nineteen years ago)

Me too. White tea = ordinary tea with milk in.

― ONIMO ph34rz teh NOIZE (GerryNemo), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 15:27 (nineteen years ago)

that's just tea, onimo.

― wogan lenin (dog latin), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 15:34 (nineteen years ago)

or "black tea".

― wogan lenin (dog latin), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 15:34 (nineteen years ago)

No, black tea is ordinary tea without milk in it.

― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 15:35 (nineteen years ago)

White tea? What's that? It's ordinary tea that's supposed to be best for you.

― Dadaismus (Takin' Funk to Heaven in '77) (Dada), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 15:36 (nineteen years ago)

No, black tea is ordinary tea without milk in it.

who the fuck drinks that? black tea is black tea, milk or no milk.

― wogan lenin (dog latin), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 15:37 (nineteen years ago)

WE QUIBBLE OVER TERMS

― teh_kit returns! (g-kit), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 15:38 (nineteen years ago)

I'm drinking it right now! (But only 'cos there's no milk in the office) (xp)

― Dadaismus (Takin' Funk to Heaven in '77) (Dada), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 15:39 (nineteen years ago)

Black tea is like black coffee it means THERE'S NO MILK IN IT

― Dadaismus (Takin' Funk to Heaven in '77) (Dada), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 15:39 (nineteen years ago)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_tea

― wogan lenin (dog latin), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 15:39 (nineteen years ago)

white tea = hot tap water that has had the idea of tea waved in its direction

― GOD PUNCH TO HAWKWIND (yournullfame), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 15:40 (nineteen years ago)

Why would anyone want to drink it? Ordinary tea tastes better and is better for you.

― Dadaismus (Takin' Funk to Heaven in '77) (Dada), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 15:41 (nineteen years ago)

Read my post doug.

White tea = ordinary tea with milk

How is that "black tea"?

― ONIMO ph34rz teh NOIZE (GerryNemo), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 15:41 (nineteen years ago)

Dog Latin: "would you like a cup of tea"
Person: "Yes, that'd be great. White tea, no sugar thanks"
Dog Latin: *runs off to posh tea shop whilst person looks on blankly at now-redundant Tetley's teabag*

multi-xpost

― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 15:42 (nineteen years ago)

wai 2 haet teh_dog?

― teh_kit returns! (g-kit), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 15:43 (nineteen years ago)

WHAT TEA DO SCARY MUSLIMS DRINK?

― dommy p is alright WHICH IS A LOT MORE THAN I CAN SAY ABOUT A LOT OF PEOPLE (Dom, Wednesday, 8 November 2006 15:43 (nineteen years ago)

ASSAM-A BIN LADEN

― dommy p is alright WHICH IS A LOT MORE THAN I CAN SAY ABOUT A LOT OF PEOPLE (Dom, Wednesday, 8 November 2006 15:44 (nineteen years ago)

Pi-e-Tea

― Dadaismus (Takin' Funk to Heaven in '77) (Dada), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 15:44 (nineteen years ago)

Shii-tea

― ONIMO ph34rz teh NOIZE (GerryNemo), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 15:46 (nineteen years ago)

Why do communists only drink herbal tea?

Because proper tea is theft.

― chap who would dare to welcome our new stingray masters (chap), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 15:48 (nineteen years ago)

-- ailsa (ailsa.watso...), November 8th, 2006 3:42 PM. (ailsa)

hi dere, who asks for "white tea" when they just mean tea? also, i bought my tea bags from Tesco's.

wai 2 haet teh_dog?

Because months and months ago I posted the first page of the first draft of some comedy script I was writing for fun and it offended everybody.

― wogan lenin (dog latin), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 15:49 (nineteen years ago)

What do the critics know, huh?

― dommy p is alright WHICH IS A LOT MORE THAN I CAN SAY ABOUT A LOT OF PEOPLE (Dom, Wednesday, 8 November 2006 15:50 (nineteen years ago)

Anyone who wants milk in it? xpost

― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 15:51 (nineteen years ago)

Ailsa, when have you drunk black tea without milk in it for fun? (unless you're lactose intolerant in which case you say "tea without milk").

― wogan lenin (dog latin), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 15:52 (nineteen years ago)

Also, everyone thinks I'm a Nazi because I once said train tickets were overpriced.

― wogan lenin (dog latin), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 15:53 (nineteen years ago)

Zackly, three types of tea:

Julie Andrews
Whoopie Goldberg
Melinda Messenger

xpost back to ailsa

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 15:54 (nineteen years ago)

Lots of people drink black tea.

Me stating this fact is no reflection on your comedy writing and is not a personal insult.

― ONIMO ph34rz teh NOIZE (GerryNemo), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 15:54 (nineteen years ago)

You're all Zombie-Nazi Graverobbers imo

― teh_kit returns! (g-kit), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 15:55 (nineteen years ago)

You think Zombie-Nazi graves should be left alone?

― ONIMO ph34rz teh NOIZE (GerryNemo), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 15:56 (nineteen years ago)

You'll go far, provided you don't use your comedy as a vehicle to propound your bizarre tea (be)leafs (xps)

― Dadaismus (Takin' Funk to Heaven in '77) (Dada), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 15:57 (nineteen years ago)

Do Zombie Nazis make ghost trains run on time?

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 15:57 (nineteen years ago)

They're often late because they have to stop for signals from beyond the grave

― Dadaismus (Takin' Funk to Heaven in '77) (Dada), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 15:59 (nineteen years ago)

All I said was I found some nice tea in the shops... that's all.

― wogan lenin (dog latin), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 15:59 (nineteen years ago)

Plus, every Autumn, without fail, trains are held up by dead bodies on the tracks

― Dadaismus (Takin' Funk to Heaven in '77) (Dada), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 16:00 (nineteen years ago)

And people aren't meant to rip the piss, because no-one ever does that to anyone ever on ILE?!?!

(xpost)

― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 16:02 (nineteen years ago)

But it only ever happens to Target of The Week.
Darramouss took some heat off poor ol' Dawg Laxin, but he got pwnt by mods, so DL's wide open again.
GET HIM WHILE HE'S DOWN! BAN DOG LATIN!

― teh_kit returns! (g-kit), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 16:07 (nineteen years ago)

Kitten vs. Dog - FITE!

― Dadaismus (Takin' Funk to Heaven in '77) (Dada), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 16:08 (nineteen years ago)

OK, to get this back on track, a couple of weeks ago I had some white tea - it was an American health drink purporting to be iced tea, which I like a lot - while I was out for a quick lunch at a local caff.

It was fucking vile, and smelled really badly of something I couldn't quite put my finger on... mould, maybe? Rust?

Anyway, horrible.

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 16:11 (nineteen years ago)

d00d, i was sticking up for him, but thanks for paying attention. xpost

― teh_kit returns! (g-kit), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 16:12 (nineteen years ago)

black tea is not just tea without milk in it. it's a family of tea containing the family grey, darjeeling, oolong, etc. they aren't really black, more brown.

― a name means a lot just by itself (lfam), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 16:13 (nineteen years ago)

cold white tea i imagine would be horrible. this stuff was teabag-style but i think the blackcurrant was there to stop it tasting of whatever. i liked it anyway.

― wogan lenin (dog latin), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 16:13 (nineteen years ago)

oops, not oolong!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_tea

xpost

― a name means a lot just by itself (lfam), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 16:13 (nineteen years ago)

YES I KNOW I WAS MAKING WITH TEH FUNNIEZ!!!

(xpost)

― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 16:14 (nineteen years ago)

let's all be friends.

― wogan lenin (dog latin), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 16:15 (nineteen years ago)

I would think, and judging by descriptions such as the Wikipedia one, you could treat it exactly like green tea with similar results. Green tea is lovely chilled, especially with a hint of [insert fruit here].

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 16:16 (nineteen years ago)

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― teh_kit returns! (g-kit), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 16:17 (nineteen years ago)

pomegranate.jpg

― ONIMO ph34rz teh NOIZE (GerryNemo), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 16:18 (nineteen years ago)

what black tea is nothing like green tea and about 1000 times better

― a name means a lot just by itself (lfam), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 16:18 (nineteen years ago)

what black tea is nothing like green tea and about 1000 times better

I will pretend I didn't hear that.

I have rediscovered COFFEE so no tea for me please. Loads andLOADS of caffeine. Until I am pregnant and (later on) breastfeeding. :-)

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 16:20 (nineteen years ago)

... is that a question... or a joke? (xpost)

― Dadaismus (Takin' Funk to Heaven in '77) (Dada), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 16:20 (nineteen years ago)

What does white tea have to do with milk??

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 16:24 (nineteen years ago)

Dear God, I was off to google to see if the use of white and black to mean with or without milk was an exclusively UK thing, and I just now discovered that white coffee is a type of tea! Mentalism!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_coffee

― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 16:28 (nineteen years ago)

OK, that's messed up.

As far as I know, there are black, green, white, red (rooibos), and herbal varieties of tea.

The only time I put milk (and sugar) in my black tea was when I lived in the UK. I'm currently drinking a cup of decaf English breakfast tea, no milk.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 16:32 (nineteen years ago)

See I would classify that as black. Add milk, it's white. I am aware that there are also different varieties of tea labelled thusly, but I would also expect that the difference in which one I was talking about would be apparent in context.

― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 16:34 (nineteen years ago)

I love milky tea, and I love white tea. white tea is lovely and smooth unless you brew it too much, in which case it's vile. Also you can re-use tea bags. (I also like green tea and rooibos tea, but only if the rooibos tea has milk in it)

― Vicky (Vicky), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 16:35 (nineteen years ago)

It's white tea because when dried the leaves are silvery

― Vicky (Vicky), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 16:35 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, Ailsa, I classify what I'm drinking as black as well. But not because it doesn't have milk, but because English Breakfast is a variety of black tea.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 16:37 (nineteen years ago)

I wish I'd never started this now :-/

― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 16:38 (nineteen years ago)

You didn't!

― Dadaismus (Takin' Funk to Heaven in '77) (Dada), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 16:42 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, but I started justifying it. Explaining jokes = DUD.

― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 16:47 (nineteen years ago)

Rooibos, is not tea in the strict sense that black green and white are, its a herbal tea.

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 16:52 (nineteen years ago)

Rooibus sounds like a forgotten Spectrum game or something.

― ONIMO ph34rz teh NOIZE (GerryNemo), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 16:54 (nineteen years ago)

I hated Rooibus when I first tried it, not sure I'd have given it a second chance if the packaging hadn't been as cool http://www.rooiboschtea.com/images/content/howtoenjoy_packfrt.jpg

― Vicky (Vicky), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 17:05 (nineteen years ago)

I like rooibos. My girlfriend worked at a fancy tea shop, and they were told that it's pronounced ROY-BUSH.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 17:12 (nineteen years ago)

i've only had it once and the person who gave it me called it "roo-bosh".

― wogan lenin (dog latin), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 20:15 (nineteen years ago)

So, to sum up, black tea can be black or white, while green tea is usually black and tea which is not green or black or white is tea which is not tea, right?

― The Vintner's Lipogram (OleM), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 21:02 (nineteen years ago)

Nah,

Black tea, white tea and green tea are all tea are all tea but red tea isn't tea it is herbal tea, black tea can be white tea by adding milk but that isn't white tea, black tea is also fermented green tea and can sometimes be served black with a slice of lemon, green tea in unfermented black tea and ranges in colour from green to brown and all the way to black.

Is that clear?

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 21:07 (nineteen years ago)

As clear as the day is oblong.

Is green tea usually drunk white in the UK, then?

― The Vintner's Lipogram (OleM), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 21:14 (nineteen years ago)

In the UK, most of the time we drink black tea, white with or without sugar

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 21:15 (nineteen years ago)

Oh I know that, but what when green tea is drunk etc?

― The Vintner's Lipogram (OleM), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 21:17 (nineteen years ago)

Sorry, green tea is normally drunk green or indeed black (no milk)

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 21:18 (nineteen years ago)

No milk in green tea, I put milk in it once when I wasn't paying attention and i didn't get as far as drinking it, it looked foul

― Vicky (Vicky), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 21:56 (nineteen years ago)

OOh yes cripes you wouldnt have green tea with milk, ew.

― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 9 November 2006 01:12 (nineteen years ago)

White tea is very good iced!

By the way, they're not really different breeds of tea, they're just picked at different times and/or processed differently, right?

― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Thursday, 9 November 2006 01:19 (nineteen years ago)

As soon as I clicked this thread, I realised I felt like a cup of tea, with milk and sugar. No milk or sugar is fine occasionally too. What a disappointment to find it's some some of silly weird tea rather than normal tea with milk.

I think I'll have a coffee now.

― S- (sgh), Thursday, 9 November 2006 01:36 (nineteen years ago)

black tea w/milk AND w/sugar is for fannies.

i just switched from OOLONG back to SENCHA. I've had white tea, and liked it, but it's too expensive.

― gbx (skowly), Thursday, 9 November 2006 01:39 (nineteen years ago)

Sugar makes normal tea silly and weird.

― chap who would dare to welcome our new stingray masters (chap), Thursday, 9 November 2006 01:39 (nineteen years ago)

Bloody brits act like they invented tea.

― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Thursday, 9 November 2006 01:42 (nineteen years ago)

i don't think this dude is going to share his coffee

http://www.alpinecarving.com/chrisform.jpg

― Kim (Kim), Thursday, 9 November 2006 01:48 (nineteen years ago)

yum i bloody love tea. i rate it as one of my top 5 things in life. white, green, black, herbal, all of them. i'm a tea addict.

― gem (trisk), Thursday, 9 November 2006 02:13 (nineteen years ago)

Yup in my white tee
Yup in my white tee
Yup in my white tee
Yup in my white tee
Yup in my white tee
Yup in my white tee
Yup in my white tee
Yup in my white tee
Yup in my white tee
Yup in my white tee
Yup in my white tee
Yup in my white tee

[Hook]
I slang in my white tee
I bang in my white tee
All in the club spitting game in my white tee
I bling in my white tee serve feigns in my white tee
**** a throwback i look clean in my white tee

[Verse 1]

Step on the scene with some green and some hard white work
Real clean fresh jeans and a all white shirt
We all get money and we all smoke twerk
Hit the dirt one squirt will leave all yall murk
Cause im fresh in my white tee they glance at my white tee and i
Got the hat that match my pants and my white tee
Whoever that you might see
I know they got a white tee
Uncle brother sister mother dad or ur wifey
Hanes or fruit of the loom be the
Name of my white tee
I gotta change man its a stain on my white tee
Lames in a white tee i bring the pain in my white tee
Hispanic cracka nigga even yangs wearin white tee
Hit the club deep and we all got a white tee
A throw back no that hell naw it dont excite me
You dont need no throwback cause you will be set on your white
Tee you can get a circle or a v neck on ur white tee

[Hook]
I slang in my white tee
I bang in my white tee
All in the club spitting game in my white tee
I bling in my white tee serve feigns in my white tee
**** a throwback i look clean in my white tee

[Verse 2]

I hit the mall in my white tee
Ooh I think they like me or they like the diamonds cause they shine so brightly
Yeah u know i how i be under my tee it the wifey
.... or tighly
For them niggas who think im soft nigga come and try me
They going to find your body
White tees in the club and while we drinking on bacardi
**** throwbacks white tees in party
Now dont get me started gotta try bacardi
Drama we avoid it
Everyone one wear white tees cause they can afford it
Girls wear white tees, boys wear white tees
Niggas in the trap now i bet they got a white tee
I wear a white tee, you wear a white tee
The next day catch me with a brand new white tee
Oh they buy clean white shoes fresh jeans
But on that boy shirt what it say not a thingg

[Hook]
I slang in my white tee
I bang in my white tee
All in the club spitting game in my white tee
I bling in my white tee serve feigns in my white tee
**** a throwback i look clean in my white tee

I gotta couple throwbacks it just I choose not to wear them
White tee extravganza nigga like a foot locker sale
Niggas think i done fail but my paper stacking a lot
Or you can throw back this but
Partner check my nine
And im a ghetto gangsta white tee laws gone hate ya
Street gangs with a little fame them hoes gonna chase ya
Can't exscape from this white **** it done covered the map
Like crack been her in the 80s and it took over the trap
Come to the hood you can find me trapping in my white tee
Standing with a full grill niggas might try me know how i be still in my white tee
Rock jeans tiger green yeah girls like me
Haters try to bite me
Some try to dislike me
Became a rich nigga and the feds try to indicte me

Yeah in my white tee
Yeah in my white tee
Yeah in my white tee
Yeah in my white tee
Yeah in my white tee
Yeah in my white tee
Yeah in my white tee
Yeah in my white tee
Yeah in my white tee
Yeah in my white tee
Yeah in my white tee
Yeah in my white tee

― am0n (am0n), Thursday, 9 November 2006 02:17 (nineteen years ago)

Rooibos, is not tea in the strict sense that black green and white are, its a herbal tea.

And also YUCKY. I hate it. Or rather, I dislike it. Hate is such a strong word.

My mum used to laugh when my gran said she put lemon in her green tea. Then I had to explain that you can actually buy green tea + lemon in packages.

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Thursday, 9 November 2006 09:18 (nineteen years ago)

I've recently got into drinking "fancy" black tea without milk, and it's a total revelation - no bitterness whatsoever. In fact I think I might have to have some second flush Darjeeling in a minute (n.b. I have no idea what "seconf flush" actually means).

― toby (tsg20), Thursday, 9 November 2006 10:46 (nineteen years ago)

An explanation of tea grades. Flush refers to which harvest the leaves were taken in a particular year, so second flush is second harvest, first harvest has the most tender leaves.

I'm a great fan of Ceylon Brunswick BOP which is a strong black tea that takes milk very well. Darjeelings are much lighter and are very nice milk free.

― Ed (dali), Thursday, 9 November 2006 10:56 (nineteen years ago)

Should read

Brunswick Garangama BOP

― Ed (dali), Thursday, 9 November 2006 10:56 (nineteen years ago)

Assam also good without milk iirc. But as I only have about half a dozen cups of tea a year I'm no expert.

― ledge (ledge), Thursday, 9 November 2006 10:58 (nineteen years ago)

Darjeeling is lovely without milk! I don't much like taking other black teas black, though, which is a problem because at the moment I seem to have become incapable of making a nice cup of tea with milk (i don't even understand how this is possible), but at least it means I'm working through my backlog of random teas bought on whim, plus lots & lots of oolong.

How does you pronounce 'ceylon'? I have this gut feeling that it's pronounced 'selon' (if u r posh like me) rather than 'say-lon' but little evidence to back this up.

― ampersand, hearts, semicolon (cis), Thursday, 9 November 2006 11:09 (nineteen years ago)

I'm loving twinings rose tea right now.

― leigh (leigh), Thursday, 9 November 2006 11:14 (nineteen years ago)

i left my tea at work :-( and i've decided not to come in today :-)

― wogan lenin (dog latin), Thursday, 9 November 2006 11:17 (nineteen years ago)

A brief plug for a great local business:

http://janamtea.com/

They import FANTASTIC Indian teas.

― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Thursday, 9 November 2006 12:16 (nineteen years ago)

I like Murchie's tea, but that's because it's my last name! Unfortunately, no relation to the Murchie's tea dynasty - no inheritance/company stocks to look forward to.
I just have their regular black tea, which I drink iced or with milk.

― aimurchie (aimurchie), Thursday, 9 November 2006 13:07 (nineteen years ago)

this thread is better if you imagine Mrs Doyle from Father Ted standing beside you, pot in hand, completely bemused.

― 2 american 4 u (blueski), Thursday, 9 November 2006 13:13 (nineteen years ago)

eleven months pass...

http://www.supertouchblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/09/hitler.jpg

― and what, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 14:19 (eighteen years ago)

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