@sammydog01 I’ve never been there, but I knew a guy who worked there. I asked if the tea was like Lipton, and he said strongly that it was not.
/giphy not like Lipton tea
@eonfifty I assume you mean name. Per Wikipedia:
Earl Grey tea is a tea blend which has been flavoured with the addition of oil of bergamot. Bergamot is a variety of orange that is often grown in Italy and France. The rind’s fragrant oil is added to black tea to give Earl Grey its unique taste.[1]
I would not have suspected Picard either. I pictured something more bland. I’ll have to side with Janeway. Coffee. Black. Hot.
@unksol Yes. NM AA MK EE. Stoopid phone keyboard. Regardless of the beverages’ caffeine content, I’d choose coffee if I’m tired and tea, Earl Grey, or other varieties, if I just wanted something hot.
/giphy coffee tea typographical error
@eonfifty@sammydog01 Lipton is fine for cold tea, but their tea isn’t great for hot tea. I’m not sure why, or what the difference is, but I’ve never enjoyed theirs hot.
@jst1ofknd I can’t stand tea either. When I lived in the Netherlands I was expected to drink it daily. I drowned it in milk and sugar. Then I was asked why I was drinking tea like a child drinks it. Umm because then it is mostly milk and milk I like?
I like tea on occasion but found I do not like Earl Grey. I have enough tea to have a party in Boston, in the harbor… I want to like it more than coffee. But… I still have tons of it, lol. Coffee wins.
@Pamtha I believe you meant coffee. Hot. Black. Yes I do get your reference. I believe it was also the episode where she tried to drink neelixes sludge. I can’t believe anyone likes TOS over Voyager
@Pamtha@unksol Voyager would have been great except for the acting. It improved in the later episodes, but early on the quality was fairly bad. (Not that TOS didn’t have bad acting at times).
Voyager had some great plot ideas (and a few lousy ones like Paris and Janeway turning into lizards and mating).
Of all the series though, I think Voyager had the best writing but probably the worst acting.
@OnionSoup As far as bad writing goes, my pet peeve is “stealing from the future.” It comes from writers’ conceit that they cannot understand technology, so therefore it must come from the future (or an advanced alien race). There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio…
Although it was neat to see Sarah Silverman in Trek.
@RiotDemon Black tea that’s bitter may be oversteeped. As for herbal a lot of them taste like I imagine grass clippings would taste. I like chai type herbals and peppermint though. And rooibos can be good.
@RiotDemon There’s a few bubble tea places that make a mean Earl Grey Creme drink–I highly recommend it. If you’re wanting something on the sweeter side, you should try the London Fog with Coconut Milk at Starbucks. It can be hot or cold, either way it’s tasty.
@f00l@RiotDemon Bubble tea is an iced drink or a smoothie type drink that has tapioca or various jellies in the bottom. This is the one here in DFW that is really great: http://www.fatstraws.co/. It’s more commonly called boba tea. I highly recommend it if you want something different–they usually have a ton of different flavor options or you can go with just normal tea. You really can’t go wrong!
@f00l@RiotDemon@riskybryzness The asian food store here sells boba. I make my own bubble tea. Or bubble lemonade. Or bubble whatever I’m drinking. I should try a bubble pina colada.
I like unsweetened iced tea.
Few restaurants have good iced tea.
We use Red Rose tea bags, maybe 6 or 7 to a gal water. Also adding 1 teabag of Constant Comment to it sometimes.
Let it stand in the sun for a while.
@daveinwarsh@f00l You can even get good iced tea at McDonalds here, but it depends on the location- the one by my house goes through unsweet tea fast enough to keep it fresh, but a lot of locations sweet is much more popular and unsweet gets icky. I hate icky iced tea. Ick.
I just listened to this, and it made me misty eyed. It’s worth listening to, and no, it doesn’t have anything to do with tea, Earl Grey or otherwise. It doesn’t have anything to do with coffee either. Although… I am headed off to bed, and the next thing you know, it’ll be time to wake up and have some coffee. I love coffee.
Many response comments about “anything and everything that might be imagined to be ever so slightly political” are scary right now.
A zeitgeist, for some, of: Bullying and stupid drown-them-out-obnoxiousness
as valid tactics.
Instead of, for instance, thoughtful and respectful comments that people would be proud to show their parents, co-workers, neighbors, extended family, and friends (comments from any reasonable perspective).
Our nation goes thru these phases.
Imagine the guts it took to be active in Civil Rights in the deep South in the 1940’s-1950’s. What we face is nothing compared to that.
Surely we (those who are committed to thoughtful civility) have a little courage. A little resilience.
Just keep going.
I admit I first tried Earl Grey because of Captain Picard. I asked my mom what it was like when I was eleven or twelve, and she brought me home a box. (She also bought me a jar of chutney after I got into Red Dwarf - I didn’t like that one so much.)
It was my go-to tea until I discovered lapsang souchong. I still keep some on hand for when I feel like changing things up - though I usually prefer coffee these days.
Earl gray with a spoonful of honey seems to do the trick, If I’m feeling a little feisty I’ll go for the ole hot toddy, A shot of Grand Marnier with my Earl gray tea…
Are you trying to take @jst1ofknd’s job away from him? What about his wife wife? And what about the wife?
@therealjrn
I only have a “Meh-Meh”.
: (
I currently have chai, hot, with heavy cream, in a cup just like this one. The tea is yummy. I think I’ll have another.
@moondrake
Envious. That looks good.
@moondrake While not quite as good, I keep a supply of these at work. They still do the trick.
@moondrake I drink a lot of chai masala spiced tea… Minus the traditional cream though, just “black”, like my heart.
@OnionSoup I’ve already liked cream in my tea but mostly drank it black. Now I’m on keto and heavy cream is a diet staple, so guilt free creamy tea.
@moondrake I like cream… In tea or coffee… I just normally avoid it, or too lazy to add it.
Coffee is god
/
With a make like Earl grey, I wouldn’t have expected it to taste so fruity.
/image Earl grey tea leaves
@eonfifty That looks like the Teavana Earl Grey- they put those blue petals in it. I miss Teavana.
@sammydog01 I’ve never been there, but I knew a guy who worked there. I asked if the tea was like Lipton, and he said strongly that it was not.
/giphy not like Lipton tea
@eonfifty I assume you mean name. Per Wikipedia:
Earl Grey tea is a tea blend which has been flavoured with the addition of oil of bergamot. Bergamot is a variety of orange that is often grown in Italy and France. The rind’s fragrant oil is added to black tea to give Earl Grey its unique taste.[1]
I would not have suspected Picard either. I pictured something more bland. I’ll have to side with Janeway. Coffee. Black. Hot.
@unksol Yes. NM AA MK EE. Stoopid phone keyboard. Regardless of the beverages’ caffeine content, I’d choose coffee if I’m tired and tea, Earl Grey, or other varieties, if I just wanted something hot.
/giphy coffee tea typographical error
@eonfifty @unksol
I tend to drink whatever has caffeine and no sugar or little sugar that’s within east reach.
I used to care a lot about quality and flavor, and carefully make excellent coffee and tea, attempting to reach some standard or other.
Now I’m sloppy. Trashy.
Have Caffeine Will Travel.
/giphy have Caffeine will travel
@eonfifty @sammydog01 Lipton is fine for cold tea, but their tea isn’t great for hot tea. I’m not sure why, or what the difference is, but I’ve never enjoyed theirs hot.
@OnionSoup @sammydog01 I’ve been told Tetley is an acceptable tea.
/giphy Tetley tea
@eonfifty @OnionSoup @sammydog01
For hot tea, Lipton is garbage. Or so I judge.
So when I make some, I enjoy abusing the brewing of it.
I once tried hot Earl Grey tea. Wanted to be like Picard…
Can’t stand Tea…
@jst1ofknd I love tea drink a lot of it (I drink a lot of coffee too).
I like almost all teas except Earl Grey. Don’t judge all tea on Earl Grey. Earl Grey is too flowery for me.
@jst1ofknd @OnionSoup Yep, Earl Grey is different. Maybe try basic black with a bit of sugar?
@jst1ofknd I can’t stand tea either. When I lived in the Netherlands I was expected to drink it daily. I drowned it in milk and sugar. Then I was asked why I was drinking tea like a child drinks it. Umm because then it is mostly milk and milk I like?
I like tea on occasion but found I do not like Earl Grey. I have enough tea to have a party in Boston, in the harbor… I want to like it more than coffee. But… I still have tons of it, lol. Coffee wins.
@lseeber drinking Earl Grey instead of a nicer tea was Captain Picard’s biggest flaw.
/giphy Picard’s biggest flaw
@OnionSoup What’s a guy gonna do when he was Borg?
@lseeber Are you saying it twas the Borg that made him do it?
@Mothersnakes
I like different teas. All of them. Plain and unsweetened.
Oolong can be a delight.
Sometimes I like to steep tea until it’s so tannic that it is barely drinkable.
/giphy tannins
@f00l
That giphy is such an absurdly wonderful irrelevancy that I must leave it as is.
Try again
/giphy tea ceremony
@f00l I like strong tea myself. I guess that’s why no matter how many different teas I buy, I always default back to simple, strong, black tea.
Team Janeway - “There’s coffee in that nebula!”
/giphy Janeway
@Pamtha I believe you meant coffee. Hot. Black. Yes I do get your reference. I believe it was also the episode where she tried to drink neelixes sludge. I can’t believe anyone likes TOS over Voyager
@Pamtha @unksol Voyager would have been great except for the acting. It improved in the later episodes, but early on the quality was fairly bad. (Not that TOS didn’t have bad acting at times).
Voyager had some great plot ideas (and a few lousy ones like Paris and Janeway turning into lizards and mating).
Of all the series though, I think Voyager had the best writing but probably the worst acting.
@unksol Hypothetically speaking, of course, if I like both TOS and Voyager does that make me bi? Just askin.
@OnionSoup As far as bad writing goes, my pet peeve is “stealing from the future.” It comes from writers’ conceit that they cannot understand technology, so therefore it must come from the future (or an advanced alien race). There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio…
Although it was neat to see Sarah Silverman in Trek.
@OnionSoup @PocketBrain
The line could be said, with accuracy, by anyone, to anyone …
Altho, yes, the writers can be faulted …
Altho TV series writers do work under incredible time constraints and time pressures.
@f00l thanks for the inspiration: a hot cuppa is just what I needed on a gray Sat at work.
Do people drink Earl Grey cold?
I’m not really a tea drinker. I’ll drink oolong at the Chinese restaurant but it needs sugar.
I’ll drink black tea with cream and sugar.
I tried a black milk bubble tea the other day. It was so ridiculously bitter. I had to add a ton of sugar to make it sort of drinkable.
Anytime I’ve tried herbal tea, they just taste weird to me.
@RiotDemon
I like all teas, hot-brewed, after they have cooled to room temp.
Esp I like the super-tannic-brewed-way-too-long teas (I do this to Lipton etc) this way.
But I’m weird about that.
@RiotDemon Black tea that’s bitter may be oversteeped. As for herbal a lot of them taste like I imagine grass clippings would taste. I like chai type herbals and peppermint though. And rooibos can be good.
@RiotDemon I find an iced blend of Earl Grey and peppermint to be incredibly refreshing on a hot day.
@RiotDemon There’s a few bubble tea places that make a mean Earl Grey Creme drink–I highly recommend it. If you’re wanting something on the sweeter side, you should try the London Fog with Coconut Milk at Starbucks. It can be hot or cold, either way it’s tasty.
@RiotDemon @riskybryzness
Ok, I feel culturally out-of-it now.
What is a “bubble tea place”?
@f00l @RiotDemon Bubble tea is an iced drink or a smoothie type drink that has tapioca or various jellies in the bottom. This is the one here in DFW that is really great: http://www.fatstraws.co/. It’s more commonly called boba tea. I highly recommend it if you want something different–they usually have a ton of different flavor options or you can go with just normal tea. You really can’t go wrong!
@f00l @RiotDemon @riskybryzness The asian food store here sells boba. I make my own bubble tea. Or bubble lemonade. Or bubble whatever I’m drinking. I should try a bubble pina colada.
@RiotDemon @riskybryzness @sammydog01
Oh. Yeah a friend of mine is into that. Always wondered what it was he was drinking.
@f00l @riskybryzness @sammydog01 you should of asked him and joined in!
@f00l @RiotDemon @riskybryzness I found my bubbles! I need to make some bubble peppermint tea tonight.
I like unsweetened iced tea.
Few restaurants have good iced tea.
We use Red Rose tea bags, maybe 6 or 7 to a gal water. Also adding 1 teabag of Constant Comment to it sometimes.
Let it stand in the sun for a while.
Otherwise, I like COFFEE.
@daveinwarsh ooh sorry mate, CDC says you’re living on the edge… https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/steep-risk/
@daveinwarsh CDC also asserts that the way I like my steak is going to give me food poisoning. Living on the edge is so exciting.
@daveinwarsh
Good iced tea dining out (sweetened and unsweetened) is quite common in the S and SW.
Altho plenty of restaurants still serve "tea-colored water).
: (
@daveinwarsh @f00l You can even get good iced tea at McDonalds here, but it depends on the location- the one by my house goes through unsweet tea fast enough to keep it fresh, but a lot of locations sweet is much more popular and unsweet gets icky. I hate icky iced tea. Ick.
@daveinwarsh @sammydog01
A number of fast food places here (TX) sell iced tea (both sweetened and not) by the gallon at the drive thru windows.
I think Sonic and some other places do that. The iced tea is quite decent.
I just listened to this, and it made me misty eyed. It’s worth listening to, and no, it doesn’t have anything to do with tea, Earl Grey or otherwise. It doesn’t have anything to do with coffee either. Although… I am headed off to bed, and the next thing you know, it’ll be time to wake up and have some coffee. I love coffee.
/youtube
@Shrdlu
That’s pretty cool.
I hope it marks a self-chosen long term cultural direction.
@f00l @Shrdlu meanwhile this video is being torn to shreds. People angry that it is putting down all men. That men can’t be masculine anymore, etc.
The comments about this are scary.
@RiotDemon @Shrdlu
Many response comments about “anything and everything that might be imagined to be ever so slightly political” are scary right now.
A zeitgeist, for some, of:
Bullying and stupid drown-them-out-obnoxiousness
as valid tactics.
Instead of, for instance, thoughtful and respectful comments that people would be proud to show their parents, co-workers, neighbors, extended family, and friends (comments from any reasonable perspective).
Our nation goes thru these phases.
Imagine the guts it took to be active in Civil Rights in the deep South in the 1940’s-1950’s. What we face is nothing compared to that.
Surely we (those who are committed to thoughtful civility) have a little courage. A little resilience.
Just keep going.
I admit I first tried Earl Grey because of Captain Picard. I asked my mom what it was like when I was eleven or twelve, and she brought me home a box. (She also bought me a jar of chutney after I got into Red Dwarf - I didn’t like that one so much.)
It was my go-to tea until I discovered lapsang souchong. I still keep some on hand for when I feel like changing things up - though I usually prefer coffee these days.
Earl gray with a spoonful of honey seems to do the trick, If I’m feeling a little feisty I’ll go for the ole hot toddy, A shot of Grand Marnier with my Earl gray tea…