What Tea do you drink? Can Tea form worldview?

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I'm almost disgusted by peopel who only have Tetley or Yorkshire Tea. In my cupboard;
- Twinings Pure Green Tea
- Taylor's of Harrogate Green Tea
- Taylor's of Harrogate Mango Tea
- English Breakfast
- Earl Grey
- Lady Grey
- China Yunnan
- Rose Pouchong
- Lapsang Souchong (tastes of smoked kipper!)
- Jasmine
- Keemun

It is perhaps noteable most of these varieties feature slighltly daft images of small chinese people picking tea on the front.

― matthew james, Sunday, 5 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Green tea (ocha). That's it.

― nathalie (nathalie), Sunday, 5 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

bancha

― f, Sunday, 5 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

no tea- it's byo at my place, caffinated coffee or nothing...although, i have an unopened packet of mat`e in the cupboard - anyone know where to buy a bombilla in sydney?

― Geoff, Sunday, 5 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I like a bit of variety when it comes to tea - my cupboard contains both Tetley AND Yorkshire tea bags.

― scott, Sunday, 5 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

chrysanthemum - my cousin brought a lovely gift of loose tea in pottery for a gift exchange and said it was really good; I had a friend over and gave him some (I didn't get the gift - just tea bags) and he made it seem very floral and effeminate, something about how he prefers strong black tea

kukicha - I looked it up and this is a variety of green tea made from the twigs, so for all the tree huggers out there ;)

earl grey - another "effeminate" tea according to a story by Denton Welch, but in a good way; a girl finds a sleeping pilot by a river bank, paints his portrait, accidentally wakes him up, brings him to tea - she worries that her housekeeper's choice is too feminine for him, but of course not; a roommate had some with tiny purple flowers in it

― youn, Sunday, 5 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

All very well but you missed the important question. Milk in first or tea in first?

― Billy Dods, Sunday, 5 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Tea *without* milk, thanks. You deny yourself the pure essence if you include anything else. Try Upton Tea for a reasonable mail order service if you're in America.

― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 5 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Brown stuff in porous pouches of regular geometrically shape is as picky as I get. Which is very picky, cf. rare Public Enemy B-side "I Don't Take No Shit From No Rhombus".

― Graham, Sunday, 5 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Tea in first, cos milk is denser, isn't it? Milk is good with black tea.

― youn, Sunday, 5 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Milk, tea, sugar, stir = perfection. I go for quick brew tea leafs, tea bag tea is disgusting.

― jel, Sunday, 5 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I only have Tetleys. I love disgusting people.

― Ally C, Sunday, 5 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

"Milk in first", as with pretty much everything else in Britain, is a class issue. A quick Google search reveals this, which goes some way to explaining it.

Taylor's Of Harrogate my arse. I drink Yorkshire tea for Yorkshire people. And I have it strong so it looks like white coffe, with no sugar.

― Greg, Sunday, 5 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Lipton's. I am cheap and conventional.

― Tadeusz Suchodolski, Sunday, 5 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

But.. Taylor's of Harrogate make Yorkshire Tea. In different variates for hard/soft water types.

― matthew james, Sunday, 5 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Have to say I'm a MIF. One of those strange things in which us cold, passionless brit's get quite heated over. even George Orwell had an opionion on it, but surprisingly his seems more pragmatic than didactic.

― Billy Dods, Sunday, 5 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Tea in first, for the same reasons as Orwell. Anyone who brews tea in the cup with the milk already in there is clearly barking mad.

― Richard Tunnicliffe, Sunday, 5 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I like green tea.

― Ally, Sunday, 5 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

i love darjeling (sp)

― anthony, Sunday, 5 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Earl Grey. English Breakfast. Irish Breakfast.

― Sterling Clover, Sunday, 5 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Ally I would recommend the Ten Ren tea shop on Mott Street. But I'm not sure how I should be feeling about Chinatown, so maybe you should get it delivered to your apartment. They have green teas from $5 a pound all the way up to $250.

I've recently been told that tea has more caffeine than coffee?? Can this be possible?

― Tracer Hand, Sunday, 5 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Whatever those Lipton bags are, with lots of extra-rich milk and lots of sugar (as if I ever drink tea, anyway).

― Kris, Sunday, 5 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Tea does not have nearly as much caffiene as coffee. IIRC, tea and Mountain Dew are about the same, half as much as coffee.

― Kris, Sunday, 5 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

sp="caffeine", of course...

― Kris, Sunday, 5 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

> Ally I would recommend the Ten Ren tea shop on Mott Street. But I'm not sure how I should be feeling about Chinatown, so maybe you should get it delivered to your apartment. They have green teas from $5 a pound all the way up to $250.

Thanks for the tip, Tracer (though it was meant for Ally).

― Tadeusz Suchodolski, Sunday, 5 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

love earl grey the best. also like the hippy teas that my friend steve concocts (he is not a hippy) . ladies, did y'all know that raspberry tea is good for period pain?

― lady die, Monday, 6 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I drink Ty Phoo the most, but I have Fortnum + Mason Royal Blend in the house too, both loose. PG Tips has a funny taste if you let it steep too long. I'm MIF, that's something I picked up from my grandfather, he did all the cooking and made the tea. I like green tea, I have a box of Twinings Green Tea bags. Green tea ice cream!! So many teas I haven't tried, I guess my world view is narrow.

― Lesley Higgins, Monday, 6 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I prefer my tea cheap, from the grocery store, and in a convenient bag. Sorry, i'm just not much of a tea expert.

― Ally, Monday, 6 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Hilarious nonsense re MIF/TIF in the "straight dope" (v.appropriately named). It is of course supremely vulgar to have MILK IN TEA AT ALL. Thus it matters not a whit if it goes in first or last: you are prole scum, or rather — infinitely worse — mid-lower middle class FOREVER BY DEFINITION if you let te tea share space with milk.

A thin slice of lemon please.

― mark s, Monday, 6 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I always thought the issue went:
Working class - builder's tea - tea in first.
Prissy middle class - "governess's tea" etc - milk in first in order to appear "refained".
U class - definitely tea in first.
Arse class - black tea.
Jamie-Oliver-loving-suburban-trendhound-types-suffering-from-so- called-stress class - green/chamomile/compostheap tea.

As for me, the only thing not non-U about me is that I put the tea in first. Oh, and I also say "napkin". Otherwise it's "toilet", "pardon", etc. all the way.

― Sam, Friday, 10 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

"Arse class" = fave phrase of the day and my answer from now on re position of self in society.

― mark s, Friday, 10 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

four years pass...

Okay, this one's for the Londoners...

...where can I find a store that regularly sells Lapsong Souchong (preferably Twinings) at decent price? I don't really need a fancy tea shop - supermarkets are just fine - but I can't seem to find it anywhere near me (north central London). Sounds ridiculous, I know, so I thought I'd ask...

Many thanks in advance!

― Lapsong addict, Sunday, 8 January 2006 12:18 (twenty years ago)

Go to the Neal Street tea shop, you'll get a better lapsang than twinings there.

― Ed (dali), Sunday, 8 January 2006 12:30 (twenty years ago)

Angel Sainsbury's used to do it, but I haven't bought any for yonks. Tho Ed's probably right about the superior quality of the Neal Street stuff it's also likely to be much more expensive.

― RickyT (RickyT), Sunday, 8 January 2006 12:39 (twenty years ago)

I now drink one cup of tea a day. I can't do any more cause I'm pregnant (unless I would drink decaf tea of course). I love cherry blossom tea. YUM.

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Sunday, 8 January 2006 13:42 (twenty years ago)

Pregnant women aren't even drinking tea anymore? what's the world coming to?

― jed_ (jed), Sunday, 8 January 2006 13:50 (twenty years ago)

Uh, apparently it's bad to drink green tea while being pregnant. Weird, I know, but I didn't want to take any chances. :-)

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Sunday, 8 January 2006 13:59 (twenty years ago)

Morning = English Breakfast
Afternoon = Assam
Evening = Darjeeling

Earl Grey can fuck off - I want to drink tea, not Avon perfume.

― Johnny B Was Quizzical (Johnney B), Sunday, 8 January 2006 14:19 (twenty years ago)

nathalie, i was bored and typing the first thing that came into my head :/

― jed_ (jed), Sunday, 8 January 2006 14:25 (twenty years ago)

Ceylon Garangama FBOP at the moment.

― Ed (dali), Sunday, 8 January 2006 14:34 (twenty years ago)

greek mountain tea
yamamotoyama oolong
clipper green
breakfast

― terry lennox. (gareth), Sunday, 8 January 2006 14:51 (twenty years ago)

Pots and pots of Assam from Choice Organic. With milk at home (TIF) and black at the office (so I don't have to deal with the grody community fridge).

― Jaq (Jaq), Sunday, 8 January 2006 16:06 (twenty years ago)

I buy loose Hu-Kwa Lapsang Souchong. There is no other tea. Teabags, even Hu Kwa teabags, give only a pathetic homeopathic dilution. You gotta have a teaspoon of loose per cup and one for the pot, and steep for 5-10 minutes before even THINKING about pouring any. I put milk and sugar, sorry you purists. OH! The cup must be delicate and lovely, and have a saucer, for that pleasing clickety sound of the cup being replaced in the saucer. Milk and sugar close by, for adjusting the balance after repouring. I have a total fetish. The sugar bowl, the cream pitcher. My home is a complete pigsty most of the time, but this is one small, serene oasis in the midst of the chaos.

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Sunday, 8 January 2006 16:18 (twenty years ago)

Seems like a good opportunity to plug my friend's business, Janam Indian Tea, which is right here in Jersey City (v. close to the PATH, you NuYorxors!)

http://www.janamtea.com

Great loose teas!

― Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Sunday, 8 January 2006 16:55 (twenty years ago)

I have Irish Breakfast (Twinings) and Vanilla (Lipton) in my cupboard. It's far too hot here right now to drink tea (or sleep - that's why I'm here), through. The Vanilla won't get another run until March at the earliest.

Seriously, I'm addicted to Irish Breakfast and I'll refuse to drink (almost) anything else. I can't drink tea anywhere outside my house because as is the bloody case everywhere you have a choice of English Breakfast (blah) or Earl Greay (blargh) or Fuck Off.

But I do like me Vanilla Tea when I want something so sweet while listening to twee indie and hugging my teddy bear.

Also, real men drink their tea black. I am a real man.

― ESTEBAN BUTTEZ~!!! (ESTEBAN BUTTEZ~!!!), Sunday, 8 January 2006 17:02 (twenty years ago)

nathalie, i was bored and typing the first thing that came into my head :/

Oh, don't worry about it! :-)

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Sunday, 8 January 2006 18:30 (twenty years ago)

clipper green tea, clipper white at home and another organic white tea at work, along with the ubiquitous green tea. Chris got some really nice Morrocan mint tea, very refreshing. I've got jasmine and gunpowder in the cupboard that I haven't touched for ages, I really should make the effort to use it.

― Vicky (Vicky), Sunday, 8 January 2006 20:00 (twenty years ago)

yamamotoyama oolong (represent!)
yamamotoyama genmaicha
teck soon rose black tea (fantastic with milk, so delicate)
supermarket brand sencha (bought in japan, cheap but good)

I keep forgetting to bring all my tea from home - there's about three packs of random chinese teabags with improbable names, a box of loose gunpowder, a tub or two of matcha, and the makings of mint tea sitting unloved in the kitchen. :( Currently drinking Barry's Tea, which is my housemate's, since I have no plain black tea of my own (and barry's is lovely); usual black tea is sainsbury's red label or clipper. Over christmas I started making milktea, boiling milk with a teabag, very very rich and not something you can drink all the time but sometimes it's just what you need.

― baby i'm waiting (cis), Sunday, 8 January 2006 21:13 (twenty years ago)

I have come around to the view that Dilmah is the best all-purpose black tea - it edges out Lipton. I too have been experimenting with milk tea. I believe there was a thread about it somewhere? Sorry if I'm repeating something upthread.

― ratty, Sunday, 8 January 2006 21:16 (twenty years ago)

Lapsaing souchong is a very weird tea - its like having smoked salmon in your tea.

I once drank all kinds of teas - Tazo Awake, Twinnigs Irish Breakfast, Typhoo(a favourite), Bary's ... but then I decided America's economy is headed for ruin so I may as well get used to cheap red rose, which seems to be the tea of choice in QUEBEC I noticed. It's good ey?

PLUS I GET FREE FIGURInES!!!!!!!!!

― Green Olive Face (hanle y 3000), Sunday, 8 January 2006 21:18 (twenty years ago)

Dilmah is excellent as an emergency tea. I forgot about Dilmah, but I can drink it almost anytime.

― ESTEBAN BUTTEZ~!!! (ESTEBAN BUTTEZ~!!!), Sunday, 8 January 2006 22:16 (twenty years ago)

I drink many many kinds of tea, right now my favorite is licorice (yogi tea egyptian licorice, stash tea licorice spice). Also Earl Grey with a little milk and sugar, & Twinings Mary Twining spiced tea. From Mariage Freres I really like this African red tea with vanilla, and green tea with jasmine. I drink chinese medicinal teas sometimes too.

bad teas: strawberry (gross), yerba mate (WTF, it tastes like straw!)

― dar1a g (daria g), Sunday, 8 January 2006 22:22 (twenty years ago)

the Beverage Shop or somesuch on Old Street, a good loose lapsang for about 80p/100g. Last time I went in I had to buy english breakfast tot take to my parents in france. They had to find the recipe and blend it themselves.

― Cadaver Carl (Cadaver Carl), Sunday, 8 January 2006 23:08 (twenty years ago)

I used to have a wide range of the twinings because I love their cube tins and have them all stacked up in my kitchen (rusty old 70s tins!). Always was a fan of english and irish breakfast, orange pekoe, russian caravan and flavoured ones like blackcurrant.

Now I just have english breakky, some green&jasmine tea, and some odd peach flavoured tea that really only works as iced tea. Oh and some green tea, but for some reason I rarely drink it.

― Trayce (trayce), Monday, 9 January 2006 01:17 (twenty years ago)

I just had some chamomile tea. In my cupboard, I also have white tea, green tea, and Earl Grey tea. Chrysanthemum tea is also good, but it's harder to find.

― youn, Monday, 9 January 2006 01:45 (twenty years ago)

O I forgot chammomile! I always have that to hand, very useful.

― Trayce (trayce), Monday, 9 January 2006 03:19 (twenty years ago)

one year passes...

I'm really liking Lapsang Souchong at the moment and disagree with the first post that it tastes of smoked kipper (not that that is a necessarily bad thing). It is smoky though.

― Ned Trifle II, Monday, 12 November 2007 11:36 (eighteen years ago)

Fancy Man enjoys Tea

Tried some Rooibos with Vanilla tea at the weekend. Vanilla was a little overpowering but still quite refreshing.

― Billy Dods, Monday, 12 November 2007 11:59 (eighteen years ago)

Hey six yrs ago I only drank green tea. I was also much skinner. Maybe a sign? :-)

― nathalie, Monday, 12 November 2007 12:00 (eighteen years ago)

Skinner? The Streets? I mean Skinnier duh.

― nathalie, Monday, 12 November 2007 12:04 (eighteen years ago)

Yeah, I got into a bit of a tea kick fairly recently and drink da Twining's Lapsang Souchong, Irish Breakfast, a fairly generic Jasmine tea from the place down the street, and recently some yerba mate.

― freewheel, Tuesday, 13 November 2007 09:36 (eighteen years ago)

strictly english breakfast/cheapo equivalent. must be v v strong, lots of sugar and milk - i am prole scum. tonight i'm drinking it with vitasoy soymilk, which gives it the nicest, creamiest taste.

i've always found herbal tea disappointing: teh taste never lives up to the smell

― Rubyredd, Tuesday, 13 November 2007 10:05 (eighteen years ago)

Pane 3 sums up my views on Lapsang Souchong (I did not draw this)

http://www.silentagerecords.co.uk/ultraskull/Authors%20and%20Lobsters%20edit.jpg

― caek, Tuesday, 13 November 2007 10:18 (eighteen years ago)

eight years pass...

Made 'red zinger' tea last night, double strength poured over ice. Tasted so good.

Drinking some Rishi sencha right now but at the recommended strength and brew time it's a little weak (2tbsp to 500ml, 2 min steep).
I think I'm going to have to start buying in bulk online again, the price of loose leaf around here is a total rip.

― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Saturday, 6 August 2016 22:17 (nine years ago)

Any old everyday tea (Red label or Twinings)
Storm English Breakfast for special
Intense Mint if I want something zingier
Tea India Masala Chai is my chai of choice

― kinder, Saturday, 6 August 2016 22:48 (nine years ago)

afternoon: Davidson's organic mao mian jasmine loose tea(all the catechins, with enough linalool from the jasmine to prevent stomach distress)
evening: hibiscus petal brew (loose Flor de Jamaica from the local Hispanic grocer. I add USP glycine as sweetener)

― schadenfreude overdose (Sanpaku), Saturday, 6 August 2016 22:58 (nine years ago)

scottish breakfast tea is my jam

― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 7 August 2016 00:49 (nine years ago)

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