Conversation about tea gone weird.

[Neoma]

Neoma: Oh, now i remember what i was going to tell you...
Neoma: I bought a new brand of Earl Gray tea.
Other dude: Oh? You didn't just drop by to chat?
Neoma: It's supposed to be better, has a shinier packet to it and all.
Neoma: Taste like crap.
Other dude: I can't drink tea.
Neoma: Poor you.
Other dude: Lactose intolerant.
Neoma: What's lactose now?
Other dude: Its in milk
Neoma: Tea doesn't have milk, does it?
Other dude: You make tea with milk....
Neoma: EWWWW
Neoma: I use water.
Neoma: WATER.
Neoma: Gross, tea with milk..
Neoma: GAG!
Other dude: Thats the way everyone i know has it...
Other dude: So you have just tea and water?
Neoma: Yeah!
Neoma: It's great.
Other dude: Hot water with some leaves floating in it?
Neoma: Why do you think people boil water for?
Neoma: That is the weirdest thing i've ever heard, tea and milk....
Other dude:I'll have to try it sometime
Other dude: Leaves from an indian plant floating in hot water...
Other dude: What could be better?
Neoma: I mean, people with tea pots and they boil WATER in it, i never heard of milk.
Other dude:You don't boil the milk
Other dude: You just put the milk and sugar in.
Neoma: Where are you from?
Other dude: Australia.
Neoma: Figures.
Other dude: Yes we Australians do weird things, like eat our national coat of arms and put milk in tea.

:silly:

[crispini]

1. I put milk in tea.

I'm having some now, in fact. Earl Gray, hot. :silly:

[Neoma]

2. XP

That just sounds so wrong to me.

[crispini]

3. Try it, it's delish.

I learned it from my English mum. I'll drink tea without milk but only if I have to. It cuts the tannins, so you get less of that "dry" feeling in the back of your throat.

[Neoma]

4. *sigh*

I guess i'll have to try it sometime.

[Sequoia]

25. Don't bother, it's icky.

Spoils the tea taste to me. I like my tea straight up.

[Neoma]

28. I understand totally.

Uh huh, i wasted a perfectly good tea bag trying.

[tjwmason]

5. "Other dude" is right - mostly.

Most tea should be drunk with milk - Earl Grey is a grey area (pardon the pun), personally I drink it with lemon but I know those who drink it straight and those who drink it with milk (because of the bergamot it's a very different case).

As a general rule Indian teas take milk.

I drink lots of green tea - obviously that doesn't have milk in it.

Forgive me for saying so - but Americans are very very wierd when it comes to tea, maing it with tepid water, drinking it cold, some even put cream in (and then pretend this is what we Brits do :crazy: ).

[crispini]

6. Ok, now iced tea is EXCELLENT.

Don't be raggin on my iced tea now! :silly: Have you ever had it? Totally brilliant idea. With mint. Or lemon. Or sugar. :P

[eyepaddle]

7. I lived in Louisiana (close to the Texas border) for a couple of years

And I did enjoy the ready availabilty of large quantities of very sweet iced tea!

Otherwise I generally just have tea if I'm at a Chinese restaurant.

[Neoma]

11. They serve tea in chinese restaurants?

Interesting.

[eyepaddle]

13. Ever have one of those moments where the unexpected takes an

unexpected turn?

I was merely stating that I am not an expert consumer of tea. I drink what they serve, in this case (well both of them actually) it is without milk.

Here's yet another sidenote; I first learned about milk in tea from one of the Hitchiker's Guide books--I can't recall which one, I wanna say it was So long, and thanks for all the fish, but I could be wrong.

Did you read the second book yesterday, or pick another? I am much too slow as a reader to read a book a day. However, the weather here was very conducive to reading yesterday! :)

[Neoma]

15. I only learned something about tea..

By looking it up, but yes i am reading The Restaurant at the End of the Universe at the moment.

[Neoma]

10. I tried that too.

Gross, i couldn't stand it.

[Sequoia]

26. Paradise Iced Tea is THE best.

Used to make sun tea all the time with that brand. Original.

[Neoma]

29. I just like it hot..

[Sequoia]

35. This is just for you then!

[Neoma]

38. oh..

Maybe?

[Sequoia]

42. Funny movie, guess you never saw it

Maybe you were too young. When you made that statement this movie title popped in my head.

[ghostsofgiants]

33. Iced tea is delicious...

Though it depends on the brand. I'm a lemon Nestea fan myself.

[Neoma]

9. I tried green tea with milk.

But i got grossed out that it was just making the milk green i guess, so i dumped it out.

[crispini]

27. Oh, yeah, do NOT try green tea with milk.

It's not meant that way. Try black tea.

[Neoma]

30. I will later.

When i have a unlimited supply of earl grey just incase i hate it.

[LostinVA]

8. I'm an American -- I put milk in my tea

I don't know how people can drink it WITHOUT milk in it... it's just not the same drink.

[Neoma]

12. *cough*

Green tea drinker here, it's gross when you do that.

[LostinVA]

18. Green tea???? That sissy stuff!

:shrug:

[Neoma]

19. Green tea, Earl Gray and Vanilla/Caramel black tea.

All i've tried.

[LostinVA]

22. Irish Breakfast -- the tea of choice for real women

I'm teasing you, you know..

(not really)

[Sequoia]

37. I have English Breakfast. Never heard of Irish Breakfast.

Is it good stuff? I don't like orange tea or all those strange fruit brands.

[Neoma]

39. Fruit brands?

Blueberry..Mmmm

[LostinVA]

41. It's just stronger than English Breakfast

English Afternoon is good, too (yes, that's for real).

*shudder* I don't like the fruit stuff, either...

[Mutley]

14. I don't like tea at all.

I'm a coffee person through and through. :P

[Neoma]

16. If i was religious.

I'd say that coffee is sinful. :P

[Mutley]

17. It has to be.

Anything that good can't possibly be virtuous. :D

[auntAgonist]

20. My mother, born and raised in Scotland used to make

coffee with milk. She'd never heard of using water. (instant coffee).

I don't drink instant anything :) but I LOVE good tea.

aA

[Neoma]

21. You mean..

She doesn't make coffie with water then put milk in it?
Well that's interesting!

[auntAgonist]

32. right , she used to heat the milk

then add the instant coffee to it. I don't know what she'd do with perc coffee. It wasn't till we moved to Canada that she stopped making it with milk because her 'friends' thought it strange. :shrug:

[Neoma]

34. It sounds like an interesting way to make coffee though.

[liontamer]

23. black tea is supposed to be drunk with milk

only some americans don't. it's probably a holdover from the depression when there wasn't much milk

[Neoma]

24. Oh i see.

Then that's what that milk thing was about...

[ghostsofgiants]

31. I enjoy a bit of milk in my tea...

Though sometimes I have it without. It's good either way.

[RevolutionaryActs]

36. Were you talking to Random_Australian?

That sounds like him completely. :o

[riona]

40. Morning Thunder or Irish Breakfast with milk

well, all we have is soy milk