# Do you like tea? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 20, 2016, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-tea/763424 "2016-08-20T18:03:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Turble](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8dc957/32.png) [@Turble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Turble)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2016, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-tea/763424/1 "2016-08-20T18:03:23Z")
I don’t. If somebody puts tea in front of me I will drink it but I never ask for tea or seek it out. For a hot drink I want coffee, for a cold drink I want water. Just asking out of idle curiosity. ---
**Author:** ![DinoR](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dinor/32/2821_2.png) [@DinoR](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DinoR)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2016, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-tea/763424/2 "2016-08-20T18:20:56Z")
I do even though I drink more coffee. I grew up with it. My great grandmother and grandmother came over on the boat from England. Since my great grandmother lived across town from where I grew up, and didn’t die till I was in college, there was no way to avoid tea. “Milk tea” consisting of more milk than tea was a part of visits even in my very early memories. As we aged the milk to tea ratio just changed. ---
**Author:** ![mixdenny](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mixdenny/32/2962_2.png) [@mixdenny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mixdenny)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2016, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-tea/763424/3 "2016-08-20T18:30:34Z")
I would differentiate between hot tea and iced tea. I don’t drink hot tea, but iced tea is pretty much all I drink when I am out. Dennis ---
**Author:** ![Magiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4491bb/32.png) [@Magiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Magiver)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2016, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-tea/763424/4 "2016-08-20T19:05:43Z")
I like black teas. Something you can add milk and sugar too and still have flavor. Green Tea is just hot water with food coloring. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2016, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-tea/763424/5 "2016-08-20T19:15:47Z")
Definitely. First thing in the morning and last thing at night. And in hot weather, iced tea is the best thing to drink. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2016, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-tea/763424/6 "2016-08-20T19:47:49Z")
I do. Hot black tea, preferably Irish Breakfast or English Breakfast, with a splash of milk. I never used to like tea; it’s something I picked up within the past 10 years, when my running partner (she grew up in Dublin) introduced me to it. ---
**Author:** ![DrFidelius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drfidelius/32/3447_2.png) [@DrFidelius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrFidelius)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2016, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-tea/763424/7 "2016-08-20T19:49:08Z")
Coffee for breakfast. Tea during the rest of the day. Usually Yorkshire or Ty-phoo. ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2016, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-tea/763424/8 "2016-08-20T19:50:42Z")
I do not like but would drink black tea if someone went to the effort of making it for me. I hate green tea, though. ---
**Author:** ![quiltguy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e47774/32.png) [@quiltguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/quiltguy)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2016, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-tea/763424/9 "2016-08-20T20:10:07Z")
> [@Magiver](#): > > Green Tea is just hot water with food coloring. I quite agree. I know it’s chockful of antioxidants, just can’t get past the no flavor/odd flavor dilemma. Prefer black teas, hot or iced, both with lemon, no sweeteners. Earl Grey is a particular favorite, but any strong, black(ploughman’s(?)) tea suits me fine. ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2016, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-tea/763424/10 "2016-08-20T20:16:05Z")
As I write this I’m enjoying a cup of Bigelow English Teatime tea. Morning: coffee Afternoon: tea Evening: beer ---
**Author:** ![Canadjun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/76d3ee/32.png) [@Canadjun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Canadjun)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2016, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-tea/763424/11 "2016-08-20T20:40:41Z")
Wwwwaaaayyyy back in the early 70’s I got a summer job in Liverpool. I had the impression (wrong in retrospect, but I believed what people told me back then 🙂 ) that I wouldn’t get as much milk as I liked (still an avid milk drinker, but was much more so back then) and that **everybody** over there drank lots of tea. So, the winter before heading across the pond I made myself get used to drinking tea. I succeeded and it stuck. I still like tea but have never learned to like coffee. ---
**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2016, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-tea/763424/12 "2016-08-20T20:44:45Z")
I like Southern-style iced sweet tea the best. I have an online friend from the UK, named Rebecca. When I told her of my tea preference, she said, “You drink iced tea? On PURPOSE?!” ---
**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2016, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-tea/763424/13 "2016-08-20T20:51:53Z")
Even in the hottest of hot weather, a nice cup of hot tea is refreshing. I recently got a big box of Stash brand peach tea. Whoo! Yummies! ---
**Author:** ![Dangerosa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/22d042/32.png) [@Dangerosa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dangerosa)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2016, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-tea/763424/14 "2016-08-20T21:08:55Z")
Yep and am something of a tea snob. ---
**Author:** ![Roderick\_Femm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/roderick_femm/32/14875_2.png) [@Roderick\_Femm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roderick_Femm)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2016, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-tea/763424/15 "2016-08-20T21:26:51Z")
I don’t like coffee, so when I want a hot beverage that has caffeine in it, I drink black tea. I also like the fact that it comes in so many varieties (I mean, even black tea has lots of different types with different flavors) - from the smoky goodness of lapsang souchong, to the lovely jasmine, to any of the excellent blends that are available. And it can be flavored with fruit, with spices (chai) or with heavenly chocolate. One of my current favorites is a pu-erh tea with orange and chocolate. I’m not a purist about it, obviously, but the flavored teas are just for a nice change. Mostly it’s a nice strong Irish Breakfast, or Kenya Black when I can afford it. Green tea also makes a nice change. I think if it seems to you to have no taste, it’s not being made right. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2016, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-tea/763424/16 "2016-08-20T21:31:35Z")
Ice tea, hot tea, beer or water. Coffee if I go out to breakfast. The only type of tea I don’t like, is Earl Grey. Once in a while a mixed drink or wine. Perhaps 2 pops a year. ---
**Author:** ![Sunny\_Daze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunny_daze/32/438_2.png) [@Sunny\_Daze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunny_Daze)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2016, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-tea/763424/17 "2016-08-20T21:45:09Z")
I like many herbal teas (or what my husband calls “tisanes” being all pedantic, but really only jasmine green tea in terms of “regular” tea. I’m not sure it counts, because of the jasmine. ---
**Author:** ![Miss\_Mapp](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miss_mapp/32/369_2.png) [@Miss\_Mapp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miss_Mapp)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2016, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-tea/763424/18 "2016-08-20T21:56:39Z")
Hot tea, black. No milk, and sugar only if the tea is particularly bitter or strong. Lemon only with Russian Caravan. Not for every occasion, but I like black teas with flowers in them; black tea with rose petals goes particularly well with a chocolate dessert. I have a number of different blends at hand and a truly frightening number of now-empty decorative tins mostly purchased on my trips to the UK ranging across the top of the kitchen cabinets and filling the lower part of the nice cherrywood tea trolley my mom sent me for my birthday a few years ago. I collect tea-toys too, strainers and sugar tongs and so on. I don’t like Earl Grey or Lapsang. I don’t much care for herbal teas, red tea, white tea, but will drink them if offered and can’t get anything else. Mild green teas or jasmine tea only with Chinese food. ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2016, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-tea/763424/19 "2016-08-20T22:01:24Z")
> [@Dangerosa](#): > > Yep and am something of a tea snob. Oooo… I want to hear more about this. What is your preferred black tea brand? Mine is Barry’s Gold. ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2016, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-tea/763424/20 "2016-08-20T22:04:01Z")
I like tea. Green tea, black tea, Hot tea, iced tea, I like tea. I like my coffee too, at breakfast time If my tea is iced I add lemon not lime I like Yorkshire Gold but not Earl Grey I don’t drink much coffee, but I’ll tea all day. I like tea. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-tea/763424.md?page=2)