Personally, I hated sweetened tea. I like to taste the tea, not just drink sugar water.
Coffee vs Tea
They both have a place kinda like ying/yang.
What I have discovered is called “Kombucha” Tea.
link to What is Kombucha Tea?
I once was a black coffee drinker, then started adding honey to off set the bitter taste. I had a friend with cancer who introduced me to Kombucha tea (K-tea).
This is ‘Tea’ at a new level! (I have even made a batches to add to Voda on the ocassion to social drink.) This is a great way to get all the benefits of Green Tea, and much more. Do some research on google about this beverage, and if you are a big fan of tea, you will love kombucha Tea!
Monkey picked?
I love tea, and I’m in the “coffee: LTS, HTT” camp. If I am home all day, I will probably drink at least 6 cups.
I’m not particularly fussy, I like most teas. Normal black tea I drink with a dash of 2% milk (don’t like it with full cream) only. No sugar.
I actually don’t mind tea with sugar if someone makes it like that by accident, but to me it’s not tea, it’s another drink altogether.
I don’t think I’ve ever tasted a type or brand of tea I didn’t like, save Bushells, which I think is Australian. I even like the berry ones.
I love drinking tea at my grandma’s house, it always tastes amazing. I think she has a maqic teapot. The brand is no different and either of us can make it, yet for some reason it always hits the spot.
I’ve always thought that there is a certain temperature (of the tea) at which it is cool enough to be drinkable without taking little sips, yet is not too cool. It doesn’t happen often that I pick up my cup and find that the tea is the perfect temperature, but when it does, I’m in heaven. sigh
Twinings Rose Pouchong.
If you haven’t tried it, get some by any means necessary. Yes, I know you can’t get it at Krogers. Go to your friendly neighborhood international food market. Mail order it. Fly to Cincinnati and I’ll tell you where you can buy it here.
But if you haven’t drunk Rose Pouchong, your life is not yet worth living. I’m sorry to break the news to you.
I like that tea that comes with the little glass animals. I put milk and sugar in it, and drink it with breakfast.
I also like Twinings English Breakfast Tea, which also gets milk and sugar.
Also high on the list: darjeeling, which does NOT get milk and sugar, nor do any green teas. And Sleepytime (which is chamomile, mostly, with other herbs), which gets milk and honey in it and sends me straight to sleep with warm cozy memories of my childhood.
My mom gets terrible heartburn whenever she drinks coffee, so as a result, we never had any in the house while growing up. And as a result of that, I don’t even like the smell of coffee. But tea, now… We had plenty of that. One can’t have a proper relaxing evening without a hot cup of tea (one spoonful of sugar or honey, please, and no milk). Despite being a Trek fan, though, I have a strong dislike of Earl Grey. The best I ever had was some absolutely divine stuff in all of the bed and breakfasts we stayed at in Ireland; I presume that was the Twinings that others in this thread speak so highly of.
I also drink a lot of herbal teas. Chamomile is a favorite of mine, and of course any sort of mint works well, too. I’m also currently working my way through a box of Bigelow raspberry tea, which is quite nice.
I’m not exaggerating when I tell you that tea is just about the only liquid I consume. I’ll have the occasional can of pop, but 99.9% of my liquid intake is iced tea.
My mom says I’m killing my liver and kidneys, and that I’ll “catch” diabetes if I don’t change my ways. I say damn the torpedos! It’s got lots of antioxidents, I tell her.
I just don’t like water. I don’t like coffee, either, though I do enjoy the smell. Juice is okay, but is apt to upset my stomach if I drink it in quantity. Milk is out because I’m lactose intolerant. I can’t drink beer and wine because of my medications, and too much pop makes me burpy.
I’ll take my tea, thank you. Strong and sweet.
I want tea with little glass animals! Please describe further and tell me where I can get tea that comes with little glass animals!
[grumbling] i’m always missing out on all the good stuff [/grumbling]
As a drinker of Japanese green tea, I find the thought of adding milk nauseating!!
:rolleyes: :dubious: :eek: 
That’s why you brew the tea strong enough to take the paint off a car door. If it ain’t puttin’ hair on your chest, it ain’t tea.
It’s quite amusing to see people get very passionate about how they have their tea (both in this thread and IRL). I’m not criticising – I do the same. I like milk with my tea, but I can drink it without milk if need be. But don’t ever try to serve me tea with sugar…
One of my friends told me a anecdote about this. Once, he was helping out an elderly gentleman with various household chores. My friend offered to make him a cup of tea. When asked if he wanted sugar, the man apparently got very worked up. He started yelling things like, “WHAT THE HELL?! WHY ON EARTH WOULD I WANT TO RUIN A PERFECTLY GOOD CUP OF TEA WITH SUGAR?! Dammit, the youth of today…” Maybe a bit of an overreaction, but I can totally see where he was coming from :).
In 1983 I ordered a cup of tea in the Cafe Gulistan in Mumbai (or Bombay as it was then). Now, I’m not really sure what I was expecting in a country which produces 30% of the world’s tea. A delicate Darjeeling, maybe? Or a robust Assam? What I actually got was a very milky, lukewarm cup of what tasted like PG Tips, with 3 or 4 spoonsful of sugar already thrown in. Straight out of the NAAFI*
[*the Navy, Army and Air Force Institutes, caterers to HM Forces since 1921]
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Seriously, though, I shall give it a try. Here in the Mid-West, at least, they don’t brew the iced tea strong enough so when you get it in restaurants, it tastes like sugar water.
Several years ago I drove from New Orleans to Winston-Salem. Stopping for a bite to eat, I ordered an iced tea. I nearly gagged! What’s up with putting sugar in iced tea? If a patron wants sugar in his tea, he can put it in himself! I don’t like sugar in my iced tea, especially when it’s not asked for.
I dunno about glass animals, but Red Rose tea comes with little ceramic animal figurines. The last I saw they were still doing their Noah’s ark series, with male and female versions of various animals (plus Mr. & Mrs. Noah).
Finally, someone with some idea of proper iced tea! When I make tea at my parents’ house, I generally make it too strong for everyone but me and one of my uncles. Proper iced tea will give a buzz comparable to that obtained from coffee.
You are truly wise, ma’am.
My only encounter with iced tea so far was at the airport in Memphis, Tennessee last year. My mate, who is from New Zealand and at the time who worked for Unilever dealing with their food trade marks, ordered one at a sort of cafe thingy. Perhaps he was influenced by the book I’d been reading, “Iced Tea and Elvis” by the English travel writer Nick Middleton, a very interesting description of his travels throughout the Southern States. Or maybe he was seduced by the incongruous medley of Monkees’ tunes being played over the tannoy.
I took a sip. I’m sorry to say that it was, in my opinion, absolutely disgusting.
That is not to denigrate anyone who likes iced tea. Far from it. But to a proper tay drinker like meself, it just doesn’t make sense.
Another tea drinker here. I’ve never even looked on this board before, but I tea means a lot to me.
I don’t know if I break any stereotypes, but I’m a 43 year old, defense contractor male, and I can’t stand coffee. I don’t even like coffee ice cream, and I love ice cream.
I drink my tea straight, but I will put some sugar and milk in on occassion. I generally leave sugar for the harshest, cheap teas, like Lipton, that are widely available, cheap, and suck.
Southern (US) sweet tea is only tolerable some place like Valdosta GA, where the water itself is horrible tasting. (It can even makes coke taste bad!) I add sugar to the iced tea in most restaurants, because it is made from Lipton.
AAAH! Tea! The only truly civilized drink!
Hot or iced. Sugar, no cream or milk. No lemon. (I want tea, not lemonade.)
Twinnings, Darjeeling, Irish, English or Orange Pekoe.
For Green tea, Celestial Seasonings Anti-oxidant.
I like coffee, but tea is divine.