What's your cup of tea?

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    Dragonpol wrote: »
    Ludovico wrote: »
    Dragonpol wrote: »
    Ludovico wrote: »
    Dragonpol wrote: »
    Ludovico wrote: »
    At the moment I'm drinking Spiced Pumpkin Pie Latte by Bird and Blend: https://www.birdandblendtea.com/collections/halloween-gifting

    You do live a more adventurous live than me, @Ludovico. I also like how you got a coffee sneaked into the Tea Thread. :)

    It's not a coffee, I don't drink coffee. I hate coffee. It's pumpkin flavoured tea.

    Ah, I see. My apologies, @Ludovico. It was the mention of "Latte" that made me think it was a coffee but I suppose that just means that it's milky tea?

    Actually it's my mistake: the name is Spiced Pumpkin Pie. I drink it without milk, as I always drink tea.

    Ah, I see. I'm not very up to date on the latest teas unfortunately. That's why I stick with PG Tips. :)

    I'm afraid I could never drink tea without milk though I actually did at least once in an old job. It was a strange taste sensation I have to say.

    Bird and Blend is a small company and still relatively new. I suspect it might be a rwbranded Jollybrew, as they're both from Oxfordshire and have very similar ranges. Their pumpkin tea is my go-to for autumn.
  • CommanderRossCommanderRoss The bottom of a pitch lake in Eastern Trinidad, place called La Brea
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    Fun fact: Chai means tea. 'Chai' is the Chinese word for tea that was used along the silk route (land route), whilst 'Tea' is a derivative of the Chinese word for tea that was used in coastal areas and made it across the world through the sea-routes.

    So, when you say you had chai tea, you're just saying you had tea tea.
  • NickTwentyTwoNickTwentyTwo Vancouver, BC, Canada
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    Ah yeah I remember reading that! Lol

    When I order a Chai Tea Latte, I'm basically ordering a Tea Tea Milk. ;)
  • DarthDimiDarthDimi Behind you!Moderator
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    It may please some of you that this staunch tea hater has become a tea lover! :-) I recently discovered a few sensational teas, and a way to sweeten them without using half a pound of sugar. I'm now up to three cups of tea per day. Quite the progress, yes? Just a few pages ago I complained about how the bitterness of tea makes me sick. Well, it still does, but with enough of the sweet stuff, I can swallow it down and even enjoy it. Though I have a confession to make: I prefer very spicey and cinnamon-heavy teas over the traditional 'black tea' that people seem to enjoy so much. That one still gets my stomach in a frenzy.

    Anyway, I used to not drink coffee and tea. Now I drink tea. I'll never drink coffee, though. Its bitterness is beyond saving unless I saturate the solution with sugar. That said, the smell of coffee (2-Furanmethanethiol) early in the morning, combined with all those lovely odours of fresh bread, products of the divine Maillard reaction, is a joy. (Yes, chemistry is sensational.)
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    DarthDimi wrote: »
    It may please some of you that this staunch tea hater has become a tea lover! :-) I recently discovered a few sensational teas, and a way to sweeten them without using half a pound of sugar. I'm now up to three cups of tea per day. Quite the progress, yes? Just a few pages ago I complained about how the bitterness of tea makes me sick. Well, it still does, but with enough of the sweet stuff, I can swallow it down and even enjoy it. Though I have a confession to make: I prefer very spicey and cinnamon-heavy teas over the traditional 'black tea' that people seem to enjoy so much. That one still gets my stomach in a frenzy.

    Anyway, I used to not drink coffee and tea. Now I drink tea. I'll never drink coffee, though. Its bitterness is beyond saving unless I saturate the solution with sugar. That said, the smell of coffee (2-Furanmethanethiol) early in the morning, combined with all those lovely odours of fresh bread, products of the divine Maillard reaction, is a joy. (Yes, chemistry is sensational.)

    Welcome to the club!

    I do like spicy/flavoured tea as well,,especially in autumn. As I usually drink tea with dessert or a sugary breakfast, I never feel the need to sweeten it.
  • Fire_and_Ice_ReturnsFire_and_Ice_Returns I am trying to get away from this mountan!
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    started buying these, they taste good.
  • DragonpolDragonpol https://thebondologistblog.blogspot.com
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    I still only drink the more ordinary black teas. I'm happy to report that PG Tips is still my favourite tasting tea. It hits the spot nicely. I often tend to forget all the snazzy flavoured teas that are available nowadays such as those by Twinings and other brands. I'm not really adventurous to switch things up by trying some of these speciality teas but I tend to prefer plain food too. I'm something of a traditionalist at heart.
  • Fire_and_Ice_ReturnsFire_and_Ice_Returns I am trying to get away from this mountan!
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    Dragonpol wrote: »
    I still only drink the more ordinary black teas. I'm happy to report that PG Tips is still my favourite tasting tea. It hits the spot nicely. I often tend to forget all the snazzy flavoured teas that are available nowadays such as those by Twinings and other brands. I'm not really adventurous to switch things up by trying some of these speciality teas but I tend to prefer plain food too. I'm something of a traditionalist at heart.

    I tend to gravitate to Tea's with health benefits and it makes me drink less caffeine. I have been drinking Yorkshire Tea again recently, I was exclusively coffee drinking for a period of time though I enjoy Tea again now.

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    In fact I may make a cup of tea now, with a rich tea biscuit.
  • DragonpolDragonpol https://thebondologistblog.blogspot.com
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  • Fire_and_Ice_ReturnsFire_and_Ice_Returns I am trying to get away from this mountan!
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    Dragonpol wrote: »

    The girl realty has had a lot to deal with, certainly puts things in perspective.
  • CommanderRossCommanderRoss The bottom of a pitch lake in Eastern Trinidad, place called La Brea
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    DarthDimi wrote: »
    It may please some of you that this staunch tea hater has become a tea lover! :-) I recently discovered a few sensational teas, and a way to sweeten them without using half a pound of sugar. I'm now up to three cups of tea per day. Quite the progress, yes? Just a few pages ago I complained about how the bitterness of tea makes me sick. Well, it still does, but with enough of the sweet stuff, I can swallow it down and even enjoy it. Though I have a confession to make: I prefer very spicey and cinnamon-heavy teas over the traditional 'black tea' that people seem to enjoy so much. That one still gets my stomach in a frenzy.

    Anyway, I used to not drink coffee and tea. Now I drink tea. I'll never drink coffee, though. Its bitterness is beyond saving unless I saturate the solution with sugar. That said, the smell of coffee (2-Furanmethanethiol) early in the morning, combined with all those lovely odours of fresh bread, products of the divine Maillard reaction, is a joy. (Yes, chemistry is sensational.)

    Indeed, welcome to the club! Allthough I still don't understand the bitter-comment. Tea isn't bitter. If you use boiling (not boiled!) water, prefereably let the tea cook a bit, it won't taste bitter at all. People seem t forget how tea was discovered: leaves of the plant were falling into a pot of cooking water. The bitterness comes from using hot, but not cooking water (somewhere around 80 degrees C).
    At the office I drink tea from bags, usually with a bit of fruit-flavour. At home it's usually a certain Indonesian black tea with long leaves (@Darth I don't know if they hve it in Belgium, but over here Simpn Levelt shops have quite the range of loose tea to choose from, all high quality stuff). Just bought some loose lapsang-like smokey tea as well, for the late evenings.
  • ThunderballThunderball playing Chemin de Fer in a casino, downing Vespers
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    Twinings Earl Grey, two packets of sweetener. Also, Twinings Lady Grey, and either Twinings English Breakfast or Irish Breakfast with milk and sweetener. I also like a few herbal teas by Harney & Sons, namely Paris, Cherry Blossom, and Celebration. Fruity, herbal goodness. But more often than not, I stick to the black teas listed above.
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    Old article, but I'm happily surprised that tea is even more popular in Ireland than in the UK: https://www.joe.ie/life-style/heres-how-much-of-ireland-prefers-tea-to-coffee-545432
  • Fire_and_Ice_ReturnsFire_and_Ice_Returns I am trying to get away from this mountan!
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    Taken several months though successfully switched to Decaff Tea (and Coffee).
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    Taken several months though successfully switched to Decaff Tea (and Coffee).

    Personally, I'd rather drink rooibos.
  • QBranchQBranch Always have an escape plan. Mine is watching James Bond films.
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    Just Coles or Woolies granulated coffee for me, chaps. Nothing fancy, but I add a lump of chocolate Nesquik in there too. Occasionally a sachet of Moccona mocha or other flavour. I used to drink tea not coffee in my pre-teens, but these days it'll only be tea if I run out of coffee.
  • Fire_and_Ice_ReturnsFire_and_Ice_Returns I am trying to get away from this mountan!
    edited April 2024 Posts: 25,491
    Ludovico wrote: »
    Taken several months though successfully switched to Decaff Tea (and Coffee).

    Personally, I'd rather drink rooibos.

    I needed to cut down my caffeine intake for health reasons, I was drinking too much... to compensate I increased my whiskey intake lol
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    Ludovico wrote: »
    Taken several months though successfully switched to Decaff Tea (and Coffee).

    Personally, I'd rather drink rooibos.

    I needed to cut down my caffeine intake for health reasons, I was drinking too much... to compensate I increased my whiskey intake lol

    That's one way to do it.
  • DarthDimiDarthDimi Behind you!Moderator
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    "Tea I regard as practically the downfall of the British Empire."

    ~ Ian Fleming
  • DragonpolDragonpol https://thebondologistblog.blogspot.com
    edited August 2024 Posts: 18,389
    True, both Fleming and Bond were no fans of that great British staple - the cup of tea.

    Here in the UK they have changed the design of my favourite tea - PG Tips and with it seemingly the taste of the tea as well. It's disappointing as before the rebranding it had a much nicer taste.
  • edited August 2024 Posts: 15,300
    DarthDimi wrote: »
    "Tea I regard as practically the downfall of the British Empire."

    ~ Ian Fleming

    I think lager is. And maybe football.
  • DarthDimiDarthDimi Behind you!Moderator
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    Ludovico wrote: »
    DarthDimi wrote: »
    "Tea I regard as practically the downfall of the British Empire."

    ~ Ian Fleming

    I think lager is. And maybe football.

    My granddad used to say it was the Spice Girls. 😄
  • DragonpolDragonpol https://thebondologistblog.blogspot.com
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    DarthDimi wrote: »
    Ludovico wrote: »
    DarthDimi wrote: »
    "Tea I regard as practically the downfall of the British Empire."

    ~ Ian Fleming

    I think lager is. And maybe football.

    My granddad used to say it was the Spice Girls. 😄

    And not forgetting Justin Bieber.
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    Black coffee to start my day. Tea w/o milk and sugar to end my day.
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    One of the only ways in which I'm anything like James Bond is that I genuinely don't like tea but prefer black coffee. Probably about three cups or whatever a day. Very occasionally I'll drink a cappuccino. Can't stand iced coffees.

    That said Jamaican Blue Mountain coffee is a wee bit pricey for me. I live near a local roaster (I guess that's what you call them?) in my area though and enjoy their blends on occasion.
  • edited August 2024 Posts: 17,838
    I'm very much a coffee person (I might even a made a comment on that earlier in this thread), and very much into specialty coffee, which is a very different thing from the coffee you get at the grocery store. The coffee you buy there is usually dark roast beans which lack flavour.

    Recently however, to reduce my coffee consumption, I have tried to make a habit of drinking tea in the evening, whenever I need something other than just water. I usually drink Twinings Earl Grey Tea with a bit of honey, but I might be tempted to go down the route of getting tea from specialty shops, just like I do with my coffee.
  • QBranchQBranch Always have an escape plan. Mine is watching James Bond films.
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    I recently had to pretty much give up coffee because it was overwhelming my heart. For years I would buy a litre of iced coffee for work and then have up to five cups at home afterwards, and now I've replaced that with chocolate milk but I'm thinking of going back to drinking tea inbetween. I had my first cup of tea around 1994 when I was 11-12, and changed to coffee some time in the 2010s. I do like a sachet of mocha which has the milk already in it.
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    My new brew these days: https://www.newenglishteas.com/
  • DarthDimiDarthDimi Behind you!Moderator
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    Question for the room. The only tea I really enjoy -- albeit with loads of sweetener in it -- is anything with ginger. Ginger tea, with a little lemon and some black pepper, gets me kicking early in the morning. How is ginger tea regarded by you lot? Am I now one of you... or is ginger tea basically the Freeway Cola to your Coca Cola? ;-)
  • DragonpolDragonpol https://thebondologistblog.blogspot.com
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    DarthDimi wrote: »
    Question for the room. The only tea I really enjoy -- albeit with loads of sweetener in it -- is anything with ginger. Ginger tea, with a little lemon and some black pepper, gets me kicking early in the morning. How is ginger tea regarded by you lot? Am I now one of you... or is ginger tea basically the Freeway Cola to your Coca Cola? ;-)

    I've never had ginger tea. However, as I don't really like the taste of ginger very much I'd imagine I'd have to pass on that one. Sorry. 🙂
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