Do you guys drink tea?

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cybrok

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I was just wondering.

I understood from all the smoke around here that a few of you are buddhists. I may be wrong, but I tend to associate this with tea drinking.

I started to REALLY drink tea 3 years ago. I like to drink something warm/hot when I study, and college made me drink too much coffee so I started to drink tea.

We have a great tea house in Québec, Camellia Sinensis. I learned a lot during the last years. I tasted a lot of tea.

I have to say my favourite is a chinese oolong: Anxi Tie Guan Yin. That's what I'm drinking right now.

So, how about you?
 
I'm a firm believer in ginger tea for taking care of common stomach ailments. It's an aquired taste but I kind of like it now.

I like just about every tea, as long as it's unsweetened. I particularly enjoy peppermint and Four Seasons' "Zinger" varieties. Green, black, oolong, herbal...it's all good.
 
cybrok said:
I have to say my favourite is a chinese oolong: Anxi Tie Guan Yin. That's what I'm drinking right now.

So, how about you?
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Oolong all the way! The nice lady at a local Chinese restaurant gives me a container now and then...

Sadly, I have to settle for powdered green tea. Mind you, it's easier to prepare and work, and you can get a mega caffeine fix more easily if it's one of those days.

Once in a while I'll have Yogi Tea's Egyptian Licorice for something a little bit sweet.
 
Big fan of tea myself, what teas have varied over the yeras. Lately been having a cup of tea, with milk and sweetener, each morning as my breakfast, as looking to lose some weight. Only been a couple days on that plan though (had tea in house alreayd, normally drank it to help unwind though after long day), so we'll see if it works at all.

Currently working through a black tea sampler from twiinings or someone. Early Gray, Lady Earl Gray, Irish Breakfast and English Breakfast. Also some Mandarin Orange Spice herb tea from Celesetial seasonings at work.
 
Ha, you guys need to head down to Peru. wasn't a tea drinker till i went there and got hooked on Cocoa Leaf Tea, Munya Tea, and all the other types of teas they have. Now i don't mind it. Not a big tea drinker, but they do have some good stuff down there :)
 
I've a weakness for iced lady grey, I go thru at least a liter a day, sometimes two in the summer.

What I find especially cool is my teenaged son prefers the cold tea over sodas
 
I remember a line from the "SAS Survival Manual" by John "Lofty" Wiseman to the effect that "Coffee aggravates thirst, tea quenches it" or something like that. This was in the context of setting up a personal survival kit, and having a few tea baggies instead of instant coffee packets.
 
I always thought tea was more of a local custom that is associated with Buddhism because it areas where Buddhism spread just happened to have lots of tea drinkers.

Anyway, I have a variety - I like the Good Earth brand of tea bags. Jasmine has been the current favorite, but their spiced "original" flavor is good. Lemon herbal teas, and Trader Joes store brands round out my stash.
 
i drink tea at work.... maybe since i dont like coffee.

but this reminds me of a funny experience that happened about 10years ago.
my dad is an avid tea drinker. i remember one day he asked me to brew a pot of tea for prayer day. i opened up the cupboard and grab this green cylinder with a metal tin inside and emptied a fist full of tea leaves into a chinese tea pot trying to make a strong brew for praying. my dad must have recognized the smell and ran into the kitchen screaming. apparently the tea i used was a $700 variety :o i was sposed to use some cheap tea we always use for praying. owell... he never asked me for help ever again :) :thumbup:
 
cybrok said:
I was just wondering.

I understood from all the smoke around here that a few of you are buddhists. I may be wrong, but I tend to associate this with tea drinking.

I started to REALLY drink tea 3 years ago. I like to drink something warm/hot when I study, and college made me drink too much coffee so I started to drink tea.

We have a great tea house in Québec, Camellia Sinensis. I learned a lot during the last years. I tasted a lot of tea.

I have to say my favourite is a chinese oolong: Anxi Tie Guan Yin. That's what I'm drinking right now.

So, how about you?
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Oolong is brilliant.......
 
Being a Canadian WASP-type I drink tea copiously in bucket like cups with milk and no sugar more or less continuosly all day since childhood. Though I prefer Assam and 'ceylon' teas, anything that will infuse is OK and some of the more esoteric blends mentioned earlier are a treat.
 
Me likey Orange Pekoe, TANG!!!! :p ;) :D

I like several teas as well although I take tea drinking in spurts. There used to be an Instant tea, Tang, spiced hot drink that was popular here in Oklahoma, real tea it wasn't but it was quite tasty and relative inexpensive to make.;) :rolleyes:
In the hot part of the summer a Sumac commonly known as Skunk Bush here starts bearing a very lemony fruit that makes an excellent tea. I always like to gather a few when I'm walking in an area where it grows to quench my thirst. It's a little tricky getting the shell off the seed but worth it to me, I love the stuff and have never been able to gather enough for tea as I chew it up to quick.
Fortunately for me some friends have much more patience and gather the fruit expressively for making the tea.:D
 
etp777 said:
Big fan of tea myself, what teas have varied over the yeras. Lately been having a cup of tea, with milk and sweetener, each morning as my breakfast.
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I'm just unable to do that. Puting milk in my tea, guess it depends of the tea you drink. I know they all do that in England.

As much as I'm a tea drinker, I HAVE to drink coffee in the morning. Don't know why, maybe the espresso machine helps.
 
Raised part English, so Earl Gray and English Breakfast are favorites morning and night with sugar and milk, Orange Pekoe straight during the day.
 
+1 on hot tea with sugar and milk.

Currently consuming P&G Tips... supposedly England's No. 1 seller. Good hot or cold.

American coffee isn't for me... Espresso and Cuban coffee are another thing.


Mike
 
From noon on until I go to bed, I drink a lot of tea. I have a variety of teas in the cupboard, but being a common sewer of teas, I drink mosly Lipton's decaf, hot or cold...............prior to noon? Old habits die hard and every police station has a coffee pot somewhere. I generally have a couple cups of decaf coffee between 6AM and 11AM, then shut it off. My school keeps a pot going for me, but no provision for tea at all. I'm just happy to have something to sip on while I'm working. :D
 
tjchung said:
I remember a line from the "SAS Survival Manual" by John "Lofty" Wiseman to the effect that "Coffee aggravates thirst, tea quenches it" or something like that.
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I remember that quote!

"Tea quenches the thirst, coffee aggravates it!"

I recall at the time my cousin and I saying the first portion of the phrase in our snootiest English accents, and the second in an angry Geroge C. Scott-like voice.

Yvsa: Orange Pekoe eh? Too bitter and metallic for my palate these days... dare I say brassy? ;-D

Jai: Daddy likes his tea! The lady at the Chinese restaurant had an Uncle with a similar passion for the leafy brew as well.

One of these days I may have to get one of those purple sand clay vaccum bottles for tea. Metal thermos+oolong=wasted leaves. :-(
 
Earl Grey, just as it is, nothing added. Oolong tea with a tiny bit of swetener in it, never ever use milk.
 
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