I like honey in mine; but I’ve been drinking it plain lately, as I’d rather eat my carbs then drink them, and tea unsweetened is good too.
But I never put any sweetener in the tea in Chinese restaurants; it doesn’t seem to match the flavor, somehow. Plus which, I don’t think there’s usually been any readily available.
I would say 99% of the Chinese food I’ve had has been take out. The few times I’ve eaten at the restaurant I remember liking the tea and drinking it straight no sugar or anything else.
Yes, yes, and yes.
I was six. I don’t put sugar in my tea today. Six year olds usually like sugar.
I put a couple of drops of stevia (and milk) in my afternoon tea.
I need some kind of sweetener in tea to soften the bitterness that I taste. Equal is usually good but sugar is fine.
If I don’t have sweetener I feel like I am drinking melted lampshades or something similar.
Try adding a wee pinch of salt. Not much - just a couple of grains is enough to cut the bitterness.
I enjoy the bitterness, and often “over brew” tea to extract extra tannins. I taste bitter just fine, but enjoy many bitter flavors.
Will keep that in mind for next time!
I skipped the poll because I hate every version of that song.
I picked the Karl Denver version. What’s not to like about it? In addition to the falsetto singing common to most other versions, it’s got unabashed yodelling, extra-frenetic vocalizations, and even Ballad of Bilbo Baggins–style backup dancers:
It’s very much a precursor of Focus’s manic masterpiece “Hocus Pocus”.
Usually I remain at the sink while brushing my teeth. But occasionally I wander around the bathroom or outside the bathroom. And once in a while I move someplace away from the sink in order to do something else with my free hand; which I wouldn’t really describe as “wandering”.
I skipped it because I wasn’t willing to listen to so many versions of the song to get an informed opinion.
I have a sweet tooth, and will happily add sugar to either coffee or tea.
The Tokens’ 1961 version of “The Lion Sleeps Tonight” is hands-down my favorite of all those options. (In the sf satire Tuf Voyaging by George R.R. Martin - great book, BTW - the title character, disguised as a chieftain of a lion-oriented colonial society, identifies himself as Weemowet).
I usually stay at the sink when brushing my teeth, but will sometimes idly wander out into the bedroom for no particular reason, or to write a note to myself, or just to gaze out the window.
I was at a little neighborhood French restaurant with some friends in NYC not long ago, and the waitress told us quite firmly that they didn’t have ketchup available for our pommes frittes, so we shouldn’t even ask.
What did they have? Although the go to is ketchup I don’t mind some alternatives. Just slabs of potato? No thanks.
Salt and pepper. Mayonnaise, maybe, if you asked (we didn’t).
I often eat fried potatoes without any dressing on them. Good ones, IMO, don’t need any.
Right. I only use ketchup if the fries aren’t particularly good, and I want to eat a few.
You folks who wander around the house whilst brushing your teeth…what are you, barbarians?
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Possibly. But tooth brushing is b-o-o-o-o-ring.