[turtle777]

I prefer mine with a shot of milk and sugar.
When at my parents, it's with dark rum and sugar.

So, how do you like your black tea (like Earl Grey etc.) ?

-t

[ort888]

I like coffee and tea the same way. Straight up. No sugar, no milk... nothing. Black.

[Big Mac]

I prefer Texas tea.

The tea served in Israel is excellent.

[iMOTOR]

You forgot to put tea with honey on the list.

[Jawbone54]

Southern guy. Iced tea, please.

[IceEnclosure]

Serving hot tea at a restaurant is a tedious affair for the waiter. Definitely rather make you a cappuccino. Just sayin'

[HackManDan]

Decaf English Breakfast tea. Black. Good stuff.
English Breakfast Blend No. 2 CO2 Decaffeinated tea loose leaf

[turtle777]

Originally Posted by iMOTOR 

You forgot to put tea with honey on the list.

You're right. Sorry for that.

-t

[PaperNotes]

You should only drink green tea because it has anti-oxidants and is a mild DHT blocker. The result is a healthier body and thicker hair.

[Jawbone54]

Originally Posted by PaperNotes 

You should only drink green tea because it has anti-oxidants and is a mild DHT blocker. The result is a healthier body and thicker hair.

Does that include back hair?

[Chuckit]

I'm not fond of black tea. Green or oolong for me.

[peeb]

Originally Posted by IceEnclosure 

Serving hot tea at a restaurant is a tedious affair for the waiter. Definitely rather make you a cappuccino. Just sayin'

I presume that's why you have to pay them to do it.

[PaperNotes]

Originally Posted by Jawbone54 

Does that include back hair?

All hair, including your woman's moustache

[peeb]

Originally Posted by PaperNotes 

All hair, including your woman's moustache

Papernotes - your sense of humour never ceases to fail to rise from the gutter. Knock it off, it's not big, and it's not clever.

[PaperNotes]

Originally Posted by peeb 

Papernotes - your sense of humour never ceases to fail to rise from the gutter. Knock it off, it's not big, and it's not clever.

Rebel boy! It's a sign of civility to laugh at gutter humour and much better than you putting down our soldiers who give up their lives for the greater good. So go hug an Islamist you bad ass rebel boy. You're such an importance to humanity

[peeb]

Go sober up you incoherent idiot. Nobody likes a belligerent drunk.

[Rumor]

[peeb]

Lol!

[Oisín]

Milk and sugar or, better, milk and honey. Or, even better, cooked in a big pot with lots of ginger, honey, cardamum, cinnamon, and milk in it. Aka masala chai.

[analogika]

Originally Posted by turtle777 

So, how do you like your black tea (like Earl Grey etc.) ?

Not at all.

But if I *must* drink that swill (out of politeness), I'll disguise it with milk and sugar - there's a reason that's the preferred method for Earl Grey.

Actual tea, on the other hand - green, yellow, white, oolong, or black - with no additives, please.

[Chuckit]

I don't like additives, but for grocery store-bought teas, at least, I do like the ones that are flavored with fruit. I'm very fond of pomegranate oolong, and pineapple green tea is pretty good as well.

[Apemanblues]

I'm an Englishman, so it's with milk and sugar of course.

[JoshuaZ]

Milk and Sugar.

And no, I do not want any of your damn Japanese tea. I brought my own. For the 600th day in a row.

[Mastrap]

There is no such thing as black tea. The correct term is red tea, it only turned black because it was over oxidized for and during the journey from China to Europe. There is no reason at all why this should still happen today.

White tea = no oxidation
Green tea = minimal oxidation. Green teas can be open, closed, air or briefly wok dried.
Oolong teas = medium oxidation to heavy oxidation. Oolong teas are often hand rolled and tend to be wok dried.
Red teas (what Westerners call black tea) = fully oxidized.

The only teas that could be called black tea are the Pu-erh teas. These teas are typically made from fermented (green) tea leaves. They smell like a wet horse and taste not dissimilar to whisky.

[Oisín]

But there is still a great difference in taste between real red tea (红茶) and what’s sold as black tea in the West (most of which is Indian in origin, not Chinese). I love 红茶 straight up, but it’s horrible with milk and sugar: the milk makes it go all runny and weird (unless the tea is cooked with milk and water together, in which case it’s not red tea anymore, but milk tea (奶茶)), and the sugar doesn’t disguise the slight bitterness of the tea, it just mixes with it and produces something horrible. With Western black tea, it’s the other way around: undrinkably bitter without at least some kind of sweetener, and milk just makes it fuller and ‘mellower’.

Butter tea is horrible.

[Dakar the Fourth]

Originally Posted by Jawbone54 

Does that include back hair?

Yes, you could make your eyebrows a force to be reckoned with. Toddlers will run to their mothers at the mere sight and teenagers will cower in fear if you furrow your brows. The very universe could be yours, my friend.

Originally Posted by Rumor 

You don't post often, but that one is solid gold.

[Andy8]

Earl Grey, with milk + 2 sugars.

[dav]

i prefer green and white teas, but all of them black.

[paul w]

Tea with milk and sugar is practically a meal in itself.

[MacosNerd]

I like my coffee/tea the way I like my woman. bitter and strong

seriously I take my coffee and tea black. I think adding milk/sugar detracts from the flavor.

[analogika]

Originally Posted by Mastrap 

There is no such thing as black tea. The correct term is red tea, it only turned black because it was over oxidized for and during the journey from China to Europe. There is no reason at all why this should still happen today.

White tea = no oxidation
Green tea = minimal oxidation. Green teas can be open, closed, air or briefly wok dried.
Oolong teas = medium oxidation to heavy oxidation. Oolong teas are often hand rolled and tend to be wok dried.
Red teas (what Westerners call black tea) = fully oxidized.

The only teas that could be called black tea are the Pu-erh teas. These teas are typically made from fermented (green) tea leaves. They smell like a wet horse and taste not dissimilar to whisky.

There's also yellow tea (just had an excellent one the other night), which is fairly rare and between green and oolong.

Only tips are used, and the tea is not immediately dried and processed after heating, but lies "dormant" for a while - but not fermenting.

Only small quantities are produced, mostly by monks.

Quite excellent.

[Dakar the Fourth]

Originally Posted by MacosNerd 

I like my coffee/tea the way I like my woman. bitter and strong .

I too, enjoy my women like I enjoy my coffee. Ground up and in the freezer.

[turtle777]

Originally Posted by Dakar the Fourth 

I too, enjoy my women like I enjoy my coffee. Ground up and in the freezer.

*rimshot*

-t

[Chuckit]

Originally Posted by JoshuaZ 

Milk and Sugar.

And no, I do not want any of your damn Japanese tea. I brought my own. For the 600th day in a row.

What's wrong with Japanese tea?

[analogika]

I was wondering that too.

I mean, the guy lives in Japan and insists on bringing his own tea?



(Probably likes Earl Grey, too!)

[Oisín]

I mean, the guy lives in Japan and insists on bringing his own tea?

Hey, I knew people in Beijing who went to the Hard Rock Café to eat Chinese food.

[turtle777]

Originally Posted by Oisín 

Hey, I knew people in Beijing who went to the Hard Rock Café to eat Chinese food.

Why not. It's probably better than the American food they serve there

-t

[Dakar the Fourth]

Originally Posted by Chuckit 

What's wrong with Japanese tea?

The best parts are pixelated.

[Oisín]

Originally Posted by turtle777 

Why not. It's probably better than the American food they serve there

-t

Nope, it’s not. HRC is one of the few places there that make Western food properly. It’s very good.

Their Chinese food, on the other hand, looks very fancy but tastes very meh, compared to ‘regular’ Chinese food. I suspect that they actually have Western cooks working there, or at least cooks who’ve been trained in the West and don’t know how to cook Chinese food properly.

[ShortcutToMoncton]

What's really so special about "green tea?" Everyone always talks about it being "better" for you, but offhand (and without any research on it) I don't buy it.

I like it black, with a sugar. Or else with a small splash of liquer. But to be honest, I'm more of a coffee guy myself.

greg

[Oisín]

Originally Posted by ShortcutToMoncton 

What's really so special about "green tea?" Everyone always talks about it being "better" for you, but offhand (and without any research on it) I don't buy it.

A little bit of research.

[IceEnclosure]

I drink Arizona green tea like it's goin' out of style. The one with honey and ginseng. It's replaced sodas for a few years now.

[Doofy]

Tea is actually the Devil's urine.

God invented coffee so we didn't have to drink tea.

[Oisín]

Originally Posted by Doofy 

Coffee is actually the Devil's urine.

God invented tea so we didn't have to drink coffee.

Fixed™.

[analogika]

Originally Posted by Dakar the Fourth 

The best parts are pixelated.

[OSX Abuser]

aHow about just honey ith your te

[OSX Abuser]

I have always preferred honey to use in my tea. Sugar as a second choice but honey is #1.

[turtle777]

Uhm, yeah, second post makes sense.

-t

[Koralatov]

Originally Posted by PaperNotes 

... a mild DHT blocker. ...

Hot damn. Having read that, I think my green tea consumption will have to increase by a factor of two or three; I'm on a quest to ensure I have a head of thick, full hair until I die. I fully intend to be a crotchety, slightly demented old man with a full head of hair.

On the main subject, I prefer green tea (gunpowder especially), and I am partial to a bit of Russian Caravan or Earl Grey with milk.

[SpaceMonkey]

Black for me. This is kind I buy most frequently: Assam Tea