Hate hot tea. Love iced tea. I brew my own rather than buy pre-made or mixes. Usually green or black, sometimes jasmine. I make a half-gallon a day and usually manage to finish that.
The only thing I add is stevia.
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Me too. I love tea. I found out though, that it causes anemia when I drink too much of it with meals, so I limit myself to one cup a day. I used to drink it every morning with breakfast, but I switched to coffee, because coffee doesn’t seem to cause anemia. Also, I can’t drink tea except with genuine sugar, because the flavor of tea is more delicate than coffee, but I can drink coffee with Splenda. I put a tablespoon of fake creamer in my coffee, so I probably break even on calories, but still, breaking even is better than a cup of coffee with 250 calories.
I also love iced tea on a hot day.
In addition to green teas making me gag, I’ll day the same for herbal teas, which deserve the name “tea” only on a technicality.
I like tea but is doesn’t like me. It bother my heartburn , I use to drink it a lot .
Hot or cold, summer or winter, I love it. I prefer unsweetened but I can live with it either way.
Is this something we all should worry about, or is it just something your metabolism does that doesn’t happen to most people?
(Vaguely alarmed, as I drink five or six cups a day.)
(Usually decaf…)
Googling leads to some mixed results: some say yes, the tannin in tea interferes with iron absorption…but others say that ordinary dietary iron is enough to get past this. My last blood tests were normal, so I guess I can get away with another cuppa.
To your health!
Yes I like tea. I mostly drink Lady Grey but also Earl Grey. A little milk or lemon, no sugar. Make sure the water is boiling when pouring into the cup or pot.
I will sometimes drink iced tea if it’s fruit flavoured, peach being quite nice.
Yes, Hot or cold. lightly sweetened.
Restaurants here sell sweet tea. It’s much too sweet for me. I always fill my glass 1/3 with sweet and 2/3 with unsweetened. Stir and it’s just right.
Five-seven cups a tea for me a day. I assume my stomach is a dark tan rather than a healthy pink.
In Paris, there is a tea maker called Mariage Freres. They have wonderful teas, including and especially their Russian breakfast tea - very unlike Twinings Russian Caravan (which I quite like) and is a wee bit vanilla in taste. I stock up on the infrequent occasions I get to Paris.
If your blood tests are coming out normal don’t worry about it.
Vulnerability to anemia varies greatly from person to person, and some folks even have the opposite problem of the too much iron in the body. Definitely a case where your mileage may vary, but if your present level of consumption isn’t causing a problem then don’t worry about it.
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Tea is better than bad coffee. Good coffee is better than tea.
I like tea with just a little bit of sugar. I’ve tried tea with milk and it just tasted like some weak bastard version of coffee.
Looks like it’s gonna run about 85/15 in favor of tea – might have been small sample size but it was more like 80/20 before the poll got moved to where the foodies hang out (I expect foodies to like a lot of things I wouldn’t consider suitable for human consumption 
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I’m a bit surprised so many like tea since it seems so rare to see people getting it in restaurants.
As mentioned by another comment in this thread, restaurants make horrible tea. Usually because they aren’t pouring boiling water straight into the tea. You can’t bring water and a teabag separately and get drinkable tea.
Quite. The only time I’d order tea in a restaurant would be if it were something like Flying Childers at Chatsworth or The Orangery at Kensington Palace, where you can get a smashing (if expensive) afternoon tea.
Lukewarm water in a mug or Styrofoam cup with a teabag? No.
My great-grandmother as a British immigrant detested typical US restaurant tea. She’d still drink it sometimes but would skip it often. Like Ascenray pointed out the typical restaurant tea violated her sense of how to properly make tea. Water temperature is pretty important to properly steeping tea. The whole concept of adding the tea into water instead of pouring the water onto the tea was another of her peeves with restaurant tea.
A side note for those wanting tea while they are out, white and green teas do best with water around 170-185 degrees F. You’ve got a better chance of getting water close to the ideal temp than you do with black tea that should have water at or very close to boiling.
I’m British. So I depend on “British penicillin”. The kettle’s rarely off.
(I would guess that in 99% of British and Irish homes, the first thing anyone does on coming home from holiday is to put the kettle on. I once asked on a travel messageboard what people in America did when they got home from a trip - the first answer I got was “Look for cat vomit”).
I drink entirely too much tea.
In the U.S. I think one of the issues is that most people are given quality coffee but crappy tea. The quality of a Starbucks coffee is orders of magnitude better than a Salada tea bag (which is swill on par with instant coffee). If more people were introduced to quality, loose-leaf tea there would be a lot more tea drinkers.
I love tea, but do not drink much because I like loose leaf tea in a pot, with tea cozy and pre-warmed cups. Usually either a black tea or White Hair Silver Needle tea. No milk/sugar/lemon.
I have talked tea with the proprietors of a local Chinese restaurant. Every so often they’ll get a really good tea from home and share a bit with us.
A recommendation to my fellow tea drinkers: get an Adagio IngenuiTea cup. It works great. You can make loose tea in it without getting any leaves in your mug. You can pop it in the microwave if you want. It’s easy to clean. And I found that it makes just the right amount of tea to fill a normal sized mug. You can even buy one in a package with some sample tea.