@Bandrik@zinimusprime I don’t think it was scary, just unsettling. The original and the Jeff Goldblum version were both emotional and sad, in a way, while also carrying a warning about science allowed to go too far. Kind of like Ray Bradbury science fiction: always full of unintended consequences.
I am a Yankee. I drink my tea, cold or hot, with nothing but tea and the water to steep it in. No sugar and do not get a lemon within 10 feet of it. Iced tea I’m not picky about the kind of tea as long as it’s not one of those weed or herbal teas. (Not THAT kind of weed guys) Earl Grey is about the only hot tea I enjoy.
Living down south I’m still surprised that the waitresses know what I mean when I order Yankee tea, aka unsweet tea.
@Mehrocco_Mole
I agree, once you get used to no sweeteners, tea is very good, on it’s own. I drink hot or cold tea, straight up. Anything but green tea, which I don’t care for.
@Mehrocco_Mole@yeld I love sugar and consume way too much so I’ve mostly switched to tea since it’s good without. I have a pretty good collection of varieties now.
@chienfou Not sure what you mean here, but I once had the (dis-)pleasure of trying Celestial Seasonings Cinnamon Apple Spice tea, and I swear it tasted exactly like Red Hot Fire Balls candy.
Without coming across too much like a granola, I actually really like the flavour (or lack thereof) when using Agave nectar to sweeten tea. Obviously, that applies more to herbal teas. Milk, honey, or otherwise are all great for specific situations otherwise.
Milk and sugar unless I’m drinking something like pu-errh tea, which should be tasted on its own. But my standard Irish breakfast tea is milk and sugar all the way.
I worked for Celestial Seasonings many years ago when it was still a small hippy company privately run by Mo Siegel. It was a fun experience, even though I don’t really like herb tea very much. I learned to drive a fork lift, and if I spent the day grinding herbs I’d go home smelling like mint or cinnamon. I quit because my mother was getting about me not going back to college, but if I’d stayed I could have gotten stock options which ended up being worth a lot!
@ThunderChicken I ought to, I never have. I’m sure it’s a lot faster and slicker; back then it was pretty basic, and some very strange people worked there. There was a guy in the teabag dept. who came to work tripping on acid every day - evidently it didn’t affect his job performance!
@chienfou@ThunderChicken chienfou, you were really lucky to come when you did - it’s gotten chillier (I don’t mind that so much but it’s gotten down to the 30s overnight in the mountain areas) and the SMOKE is back, really heavy in the air. Last night I was out walking and the nearly full moon was blood red! As for touring CS - you’ll just have to come back!
Right now, 3:30 in the afternoon, the sunlight is a weird orange color…
@Kyeh
Thanks. That is nice to know.
We seem to always get lucky when we travel. For instance, we were on the MS Sea Diamond the week before it sank in Santorini. We were scheduled to make that itinerary, but they swapped up the islands at the last minute and we went on the opposite week’s itinerary…
In fact, some of the kids on the tour we were leading were berthed in the cabin where the missing Frenchman and his daughter were last seen.
@Kyeh yeah, crazy, hunh?
To top it off, we were on the plane that Andrew Speaker, (who tested positive for a drug resistant TB, but flew to Europe anyway, causing a bunch of panic about TB exposure to passengers) was scheduled to fly. He changed his flight to leave 2 days earlier.
I am actually curious what the breakdown is here, for when someone says “tea”, how many think of something served hot from a tea pot and poured into a tea cup, and how many think of an iced drink served in a glass. Based on milk and honey choices, I am assuming the pollster at least considered hot tea.
I don’t really drink either, but I can count on one hand the number of times I have been at a table with someone drinking hot tea. Conversely, I have plenty of friends and relatives (my wife among them) that drink iced tea literally every day. (probably at least two meals a day)
I know in the UK, the ratios are probably flipped. I can’t think of anywhere I have traveled in the US where iced tea was not readily available, but I suspect that in other parts of the country, the preference for iced tea is not so overwhelming as it is here in the south.
@DrWorm Sweet iced tea is apparently the preference here in the south. (Yuck) It used to be that if you wanted sweet iced tea up north you ordered hot tea and a glass of ice. Sugar was on the table if you wanted it.
@DrWorm@tinamarie1974 I live in the northern south. They will generally ask sweet or unsweet but tea is pretty much always on ice. And in some places (looking at you downtown McDonalds) the unsweet tea gets old tasting because not enough people drink it for them to keep it fresh. Eww.
Hot: if it’s plain-ol’ black tea, some sweet only. If I have a head cold, then lemon and honey. If it’s another tea, like herbal or Darjeeling, etc, I tend to drink without accompaniment.
Cold: i.e. iced tea, sweetened. If I’m brewing it, I’ll use 1 cup bag of Earl Grey with 1 family bag of Luzianne iced tea blend. That makes a quart. If I’m brought plain iced tea, it’s generally just sweet unless it’s with dinner, then the last glass of tea (following the meal) will be juiced with lemon. Lots of lemon.
If you can get your hands on it, try real unflavored, raw carrot blossom honey. The fragrance when it gets warm is really amazing. I’ve never tried it in tea but I put it on my oatmeal every morning. Thank me later.
@tweezak omg I really need to thank you! I tried it yesterday at my friend’s, and that was amazing. I added it to my tea, so I think from now I got addicted to it for several months.
Just…sugar?
Well in iced tea anyway.
Ice!
Depends on the tea.
Honey and milk. Usually I don’t have milk though so it’s just honey most the time.
Coffee of course. You have to use a lot to make it drinkable
Sugar in both hot and ice tea.
I tend to put water into my tea. Too dry otherwise.
Bee vomit best vomit. (I love honey)
@Bandrik Now I have a scene from The Fly in my head. Thanks for that.
@Bandrik @tweezak I saw that for the first time the other day. At the time of release was it considered a terrifying movie?
@Bandrik @zinimusprime I don’t think it was scary, just unsettling. The original and the Jeff Goldblum version were both emotional and sad, in a way, while also carrying a warning about science allowed to go too far. Kind of like Ray Bradbury science fiction: always full of unintended consequences.
@Bandrik @tweezak wait, the Jeff Goldblum version wasn’t the original?
I am a Yankee. I drink my tea, cold or hot, with nothing but tea and the water to steep it in. No sugar and do not get a lemon within 10 feet of it. Iced tea I’m not picky about the kind of tea as long as it’s not one of those weed or herbal teas. (Not THAT kind of weed guys) Earl Grey is about the only hot tea I enjoy.
Living down south I’m still surprised that the waitresses know what I mean when I order Yankee tea, aka unsweet tea.
@Mehrocco_Mole
I agree, once you get used to no sweeteners, tea is very good, on it’s own. I drink hot or cold tea, straight up. Anything but green tea, which I don’t care for.
@Mehrocco_Mole @yeld I love sugar and consume way too much so I’ve mostly switched to tea since it’s good without. I have a pretty good collection of varieties now.
Fireball (or so my wife says…)
@chienfou Not sure what you mean here, but I once had the (dis-)pleasure of trying Celestial Seasonings Cinnamon Apple Spice tea, and I swear it tasted exactly like Red Hot Fire Balls candy.
@chienfou @Doodpants I think he means cinnamon whisky.
@Doodpants @zinimusprime you are correct. Fireball is her go-to amender in the wintertime evenings while we watch a movie etc.
More tea.
Teavana Belgian Rock Sugar or a tiny amount of maple syrup, since I apparently am allergic to honey.
@heartny I’ll have to try it with maple syrup.
Genmaicha and 180F water.
@tweezak Mine said 160 degrees. Maybe I should try 180?
@sammydog01 @tweezak don’t get that backwards.
@sammydog01 I’m no expert. Follow the label if it works. I was just reading off wiki.
Without coming across too much like a granola, I actually really like the flavour (or lack thereof) when using Agave nectar to sweeten tea. Obviously, that applies more to herbal teas. Milk, honey, or otherwise are all great for specific situations otherwise.
@arosiriak I was going to say agave! I keep it in the house specifically for tea.
@arosiriak @tinamarie1974 “Tequila, the other agave nectar.”
@arosiriak @ThunderChicken I do love a good tequila!
Hot water - and nothing else. Don’t ruin the flavor of good tea.
Milk and sugar unless I’m drinking something like pu-errh tea, which should be tasted on its own. But my standard Irish breakfast tea is milk and sugar all the way.
I like dunking biscotti in my hot tea.
Iced tea is good with some lemonade (AKA Arnold Palmer)
Cream and sugar in black tea.
@RiotDemon This! Milk is a poor substitute; sweet English breakfast tea for the win!
For a real treat dip graham crackers into it (use a spoon so it doesn’t break off into the tea)
I worked for Celestial Seasonings many years ago when it was still a small hippy company privately run by Mo Siegel. It was a fun experience, even though I don’t really like herb tea very much. I learned to drive a fork lift, and if I spent the day grinding herbs I’d go home smelling like mint or cinnamon. I quit because my mother was getting about me not going back to college, but if I’d stayed I could have gotten stock options which ended up being worth a lot!
@Kyeh I took their plant took after they became a big deal. It was very interesting.
@ThunderChicken I ought to, I never have. I’m sure it’s a lot faster and slicker; back then it was pretty basic, and some very strange people worked there. There was a guy in the teabag dept. who came to work tripping on acid every day - evidently it didn’t affect his job performance!
@Kyeh @ThunderChicken
would have loved to tour the plant on our last visit… but, alas… CoViD-19…
@chienfou @ThunderChicken chienfou, you were really lucky to come when you did - it’s gotten chillier (I don’t mind that so much but it’s gotten down to the 30s overnight in the mountain areas) and the SMOKE is back, really heavy in the air. Last night I was out walking and the nearly full moon was blood red! As for touring CS - you’ll just have to come back!
Right now, 3:30 in the afternoon, the sunlight is a weird orange color…
@Kyeh
Thanks. That is nice to know.
We seem to always get lucky when we travel. For instance, we were on the MS Sea Diamond the week before it sank in Santorini. We were scheduled to make that itinerary, but they swapped up the islands at the last minute and we went on the opposite week’s itinerary…
In fact, some of the kids on the tour we were leading were berthed in the cabin where the missing Frenchman and his daughter were last seen.
@chienfou
Wow. I remember watching the news about that accident for days and days.
@Kyeh yeah, crazy, hunh?
To top it off, we were on the plane that Andrew Speaker, (who tested positive for a drug resistant TB, but flew to Europe anyway, causing a bunch of panic about TB exposure to passengers) was scheduled to fly. He changed his flight to leave 2 days earlier.
@chienfou You guys must have very good karma!
ACV!
I am actually curious what the breakdown is here, for when someone says “tea”, how many think of something served hot from a tea pot and poured into a tea cup, and how many think of an iced drink served in a glass. Based on milk and honey choices, I am assuming the pollster at least considered hot tea.
I don’t really drink either, but I can count on one hand the number of times I have been at a table with someone drinking hot tea. Conversely, I have plenty of friends and relatives (my wife among them) that drink iced tea literally every day. (probably at least two meals a day)
I know in the UK, the ratios are probably flipped. I can’t think of anywhere I have traveled in the US where iced tea was not readily available, but I suspect that in other parts of the country, the preference for iced tea is not so overwhelming as it is here in the south.
@DrWorm Sweet iced tea is apparently the preference here in the south. (Yuck) It used to be that if you wanted sweet iced tea up north you ordered hot tea and a glass of ice. Sugar was on the table if you wanted it.
@DrWorm all of the above. Personally I drink both! I am enjoying some tasty gingerbread (roobios herbal) tea this morning.
@DrWorm @tinamarie1974 I live in the northern south. They will generally ask sweet or unsweet but tea is pretty much always on ice. And in some places (looking at you downtown McDonalds) the unsweet tea gets old tasting because not enough people drink it for them to keep it fresh. Eww.
@DrWorm @sammydog01 if my tea is iced it must be sweet! I love visiting the south, they get it right!
@DrWorm @sammydog01 @tinamarie1974
Or course, even in the South, hot tea is ALWAYS on the menu in Chinese restaurants!
You need multiple choice here. Honey and lemon!
@readnj Choice #6:
“A combination of the above”
It’s 2020. The universal spice is whisky.
Definitely NOT tea. Gag. Add chocolate milk powder to the hot water.
Hot: if it’s plain-ol’ black tea, some sweet only. If I have a head cold, then lemon and honey. If it’s another tea, like herbal or Darjeeling, etc, I tend to drink without accompaniment.
Cold: i.e. iced tea, sweetened. If I’m brewing it, I’ll use 1 cup bag of Earl Grey with 1 family bag of Luzianne iced tea blend. That makes a quart. If I’m brought plain iced tea, it’s generally just sweet unless it’s with dinner, then the last glass of tea (following the meal) will be juiced with lemon. Lots of lemon.
Ice
If you can get your hands on it, try real unflavored, raw carrot blossom honey. The fragrance when it gets warm is really amazing. I’ve never tried it in tea but I put it on my oatmeal every morning. Thank me later.
@tweezak omg I really need to thank you! I tried it yesterday at my friend’s, and that was amazing. I added it to my tea, so I think from now I got addicted to it for several months.
@TiWill You are very welcome. I can get you the contact information for my source. I’m sure he’ll ship to you if you want.
@tweezak yes, please!
Trupowder. It’s flavorless .