"Tea"

Salix Babylonika · 2014-12-07 10:00:27

when you saw that word did you think of a hot drink that is brewed, or a cold one that is either bought as-is, or mixed from powder?

I think the differences between North American and International tea bear discussion.

Tachyon · 2014-12-07 10:01:50

hot

Tachyon · 2014-12-07 10:02:37

tags amused me

SF_Sorrow · 2014-12-07 10:03:57

hot if it's unsweetened

Salix Babylonika · 2014-12-07 10:04:12

have you ever had American tea

see because, I don't really care for hot drinks. I was never raised on them with the sole exception of hot cocoa (which I usually burned myself on), so I feel like I just never acquired a tongue for them.

Salix Babylonika · 2014-12-07 10:04:22

I'm just kinda wondering if the inverse is true too.

Tachyon · 2014-12-07 10:04:44

also maybe worth noting that we drink lipton's like everyone else, it's just that cold tea is not really a big thing here

we are not cold tea connoisseurs

Anonus · 2014-12-07 10:06:33

My body temperature seems to be warmer than most people's, so I don't like to drink hot drinks.

I never did like tea.

Salix Babylonika · 2014-12-07 10:06:48

They don't have Turkey Hill tea in the UK I suppose. Heck, I think that might just be a PA/Ohio thing.

Cuz over here, for many families, it's a staple drink. It's really cheap so you can buy tons of it, and it's not hard to just buy like a big pitcher to keep it in, and it's super low-effort too.

Plus it's not as absolutely godawful for you as kool-aid is.

lee4hmz · 2014-12-07 10:08:21

Iced tea in general is pretty much a US thing. I thiiink they have Turkey Hill iced tea in stores here, but I know I've gotten Wawa's iced tea before and it's rpetty good.

Salix Babylonika · 2014-12-07 10:08:28

I actually have a big thing of it in a recycled Burger King cup right now. Lipton Light Lemon (try saying that ten times fast).

Tachyon · 2014-12-07 10:08:29

never had Turkey Hill

used to drink Mr Kon with some regularity but that's not American

whereas most people i know drink hot tea every day, it's very much a staple drink here

Salix Babylonika · 2014-12-07 10:11:04

lee4hmz said:
Iced tea in general is pretty much a US thing. I thiiink they have Turkey Hill iced tea in stores here, but I know I've gotten Wawa's iced tea before and it's rpetty good.

nah dude, Wawa is like, mid-tier, with the Lipton.

Turkey Hill is top-tier, and on the bottom you have Zimmermann's which is just fuckin' brown sugar water.

Morven · 2014-12-07 10:34:17

I'm OK with iced tea but not the Southern sugar water stuff. SoCal sun tea is good, where you leave a clear pitcher (or clear water bottle) outside in the sun with tea in it and the warmth from the sun is sufficient to make it over the course of a day or so. Can't really do that up here though.

Salix Babylonika · 2014-12-07 10:40:28

That takes like, time though.

Princess Alice · 2014-12-07 10:41:41

I thought of hot first

Also Turkey Hill is a Kroger brand, IIRC

Morven · 2014-12-07 10:42:26

Well, you make a big batch of it ahead of time.

I'm not the crazy tea connoisseur some people are, but I do like a good regional like a fine estate Darjeeling for hot tea. Or Lapsang Souchong.

Salix Babylonika · 2014-12-07 10:42:28

It's weird that we have Turkeys Hill here but not Krogers'.

Tachyon · 2014-12-07 10:43:50

Tea, Earl Grey, hot

Salix Babylonika · 2014-12-07 10:45:19

I have no idea what Earl Grey tastes like, or really even is, but the name kinda puts me off.

Salix Babylonika · 2014-12-07 10:46:54

See iced teas don't really have proper names, you just go by flavor.

I think the most exotic I've ever had was blueberry, which was pretty good, if unorthodox.

Morven · 2014-12-07 10:47:49

It's tea flavored with bergamot essential oil. That's produced from the rind of a special type of orange. It's also used in perfumes.

Tachyon · 2014-12-07 10:48:43

Lapsang Souchong is a divisive one in our house. i like it; my mum can't stand the smokiness.

Earl Grey is my brother's favourite. It's really good, actually. It has an almost fruity taste.

Why do you find the name offputting?

Salix Babylonika · 2014-12-07 10:49:10

Morven said:
It's tea flavored with bergamot essential oil. That's produced from the rind of a special type of orange. It's also used in perfumes.

I'm not gonna lie, to my unsophisticated mountainfolk ears, that sounds hella pretentious.

It's probably fine though, just not something I really consider.

Salix Babylonika · 2014-12-07 10:49:34

Tachyon said:
Lapsang Souchong is a divisive one in our house. i like it; my mum can't stand the smokiness.

Earl Grey is my brother's favourite. It's really good, actually. It has an almost fruity taste.

Why do you find the name offputting?

It makes me think of scum water.

Salix Babylonika · 2014-12-07 10:49:45

I know that's dumb, but it's so.

Tachyon · 2014-12-07 10:50:10

if you read the descriptions on tea boxes, they always sound incredibly pretentious

but tea is very important to some people

Morven · 2014-12-07 10:50:12

It's really only mild-level pretentious, but my sensors may be calibrated rather differently.

Tachyon · 2014-12-07 10:51:07

Magic Jane said:
It makes me think of scum water.

ew

still though, what?

Salix Babylonika · 2014-12-07 10:51:46

if you read the descriptions on tea boxes, they always sound incredibly pretentious

but tea is very important to some people

Yeah but again you gotta understand here my frame of reference is like

like I said right now I'm drinking "Light Lemon".

It's lemon-tinged and it has slightly fewer calories than the normal kind. That's all I know about my tea.

I'm not sayin it actually is pretentious mind you, that's just how it seems on first scan.

I guess that was a needlessly contentious comment, sorry.

SF_Sorrow · 2014-12-07 10:52:13

with hot tea I prefer it unsweetened, and the few fruity-flavored teas (with citrus peels and such) I tried I was not a fan of

with cold tea it's the opposite, though I'm quite partial to pearl milk tea

Tachyon · 2014-12-07 10:53:46

nah it's fine, i was basically agreeing with you

once you get into the different teas and their different flavours, though, you do find yourself developing distinct preferences

the differences aren't exactly slight, even if they're maybe not as obvious as different specific fruits

Salix Babylonika · 2014-12-07 10:55:40

edit: there we go, fixed post is down there vv

Salix Babylonika · 2014-12-07 10:56:12

siiiiiiiiiiiiigh, thanks vanilla.

Salix Babylonika · 2014-12-07 10:56:49

Tachyon said:

Magic Jane said:
It makes me think of scum water.

ew

still though, what?

There is probably some subconscious neural pathways that led to that association being made in my mind, but I have no idea what they are/were.

Tachyon said:
nah it's fine, i was basically agreeing with you

once you get into the different teas and their different flavours, though, you do find yourself developing distinct preferences

the differences aren't exactly slight, even if they're maybe not as obvious as different specific fruits

I'm sure that's true, my mom drinks a ludicrous amount of hot tea, specifically mint (given my known feelings on mint, you can imagine I'm not really into trying that), so I'm sure it's good, it's just, again, hot drinks don't sit right with me. I loathe coffee.

SF_Sorrow · 2014-12-07 11:00:27

oh, and I remember having iced chrysanthemum tea once a long time ago, it was quite good

Salix Babylonika · 2014-12-07 11:01:35

Chrizanthemums?

the flowers?

SF_Sorrow · 2014-12-07 11:03:40

yeah, flower petals and all

Salix Babylonika · 2014-12-07 11:07:36

Interestin.

glennmagusharvey · 2014-12-07 11:33:38

I think of a drink that's made from seeping dried leaves in hot water.

("seeping"? "steeping"?)

One-Winged Eagle · 2014-12-07 12:03:38

Unsweetened, with loose leaves, in a porcelain pot.

It's not something I do with any regularity, but that's where my mind goes.

glennmagusharvey · 2014-12-07 12:28:26

kingCrackers said:
Unsweetened, with loose leaves, in a porcelain pot.

It's not something I do with any regularity, but that's where my mind goes.

This.

Tachyon · 2014-12-07 13:22:24

The thought occurs to me that i really shouldn't have to make apologies for the 'pretention' of distinguishing different teas.

i mean judging by discussions here people put a huge amount of thought into distinguishing different colas, when they all taste basically the same to me.

i don't see that what i'm doing is any different.

sunn wolf · 2014-12-07 13:27:24

i thought of the meal that comes after lunch

sunn wolf · 2014-12-07 13:27:41

i have been in The North for too long

Tachyon · 2014-12-07 13:31:58

...do you not call it that in London?

sunn wolf · 2014-12-07 13:32:31

it's dinner in the south

Tachyon · 2014-12-07 13:32:48

(You are from London, right? If i'm misremembering, sorry.)

Tachyon · 2014-12-07 13:33:22

Ah.

Not around here, it isn't. Here 'dinner' is a cooked meal, whether you have it at lunch time or tea time.

sunn wolf · 2014-12-07 13:33:22

also i am indeed from london

glennmagusharvey · 2014-12-07 14:05:16

well all colas are shit anyway

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