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Post by Deleted on Jul 2, 2017 7:50:14 GMT
I had tea ice cream in KFC not that long ago; it wasn't tasty
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Post by raspberrybullets on Jul 2, 2017 7:59:39 GMT
I rest my case.
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Post by juju on Jul 2, 2017 8:10:47 GMT
I don't understand why anybody would want to ice their tea. Tea is meant as a hot beverage to soothe and revive. This.
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Post by Kye on Jul 2, 2017 9:49:52 GMT
I love green tea ice cream!
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Post by Alvamiga on Jul 2, 2017 10:20:00 GMT
I am still impressed with how Britain has integrated its rail and public bus systems in to a fairly decent means for a traveler like myself to get around. I really appreciated finding out that I could go to any staffed ticket window and get a ticket-sized print-out of the easiest way(s) to get to my next destination, complete with the platforms I needed. Of course, scale has a lot to do with it. Brits can get from one end of the country to another, by train, in a day, or less. It takes three to four days by rail across the US. As noted elsewhere, the train staff were top-rate, and most bus drivers quite helpful. Are you sure that was the UK you were in? Doesn't sound like my experience of it all!
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Post by whollygoats on Jul 2, 2017 11:54:30 GMT
Tell me...why is it that anything, much less just tea, needs to be hot to be 'soothing'? Cold can be soothing, as well. Particularly on a nasty hot day.
This is why there are ice packs, to soothe tired sore muscles.
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Post by whollygoats on Jul 2, 2017 12:31:57 GMT
I don't understand why anybody would want to ice their tea. Tea is meant as a hot beverage to soothe and revive. This. By what measure is tea 'meant' to be a hot beverage? Who determined this? I suspect that tea was originally consumed and encouraged because of its ability to revive and innervate...to maintain wakefulness, thanks to the caffeine. I also suspect that the habit of heating it in water was to release the flavor and infuse it in the water, but it was still consumed whether it was hot or cold, once brewed. (It was, at one time, pressed in to bricks to facilitate its transport and then roasted and chipped from the pressed block and infused with hot water to release the flavor locked in the dried block.) I find interesting that many of the cultures where tea is grown have a tradition of drinking it chilled, or iced, as well as one of drinking it heated. Additions of sweeteners, fruit flavors, and milk also abound.
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Post by whollygoats on Jul 2, 2017 13:10:26 GMT
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Post by whollygoats on Jul 2, 2017 13:19:51 GMT
I think all this explains the looks on the faces of the folks seated around the breakfast dining area when I allowed a pot of breakfast tea to go cold as I read the morning newspaper.
Then, I requested a pint glass filled with ice. When the glass came to the table, I poured the now tepid tea over the ice, until I had a large glass of iced tea. I added sugar and stirred to a roomful of goggle-eyed noshers.
You'd have thought I'd just dropped my trousers. *uncomfortable silence*
...tinkle-tinkle-tinkle
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Post by whollygoats on Jul 2, 2017 13:41:23 GMT
I am still impressed with how Britain has integrated its rail and public bus systems in to a fairly decent means for a traveler like myself to get around. I really appreciated finding out that I could go to any staffed ticket window and get a ticket-sized print-out of the easiest way(s) to get to my next destination, complete with the platforms I needed. Of course, scale has a lot to do with it. Brits can get from one end of the country to another, by train, in a day, or less. It takes three to four days by rail across the US. As noted elsewhere, the train staff were top-rate, and most bus drivers quite helpful. Are you sure that was the UK you were in? Doesn't sound like my experience of it all! Yeah...I get the impression that the transport workers get the brunt of the unhappy customers flame-offs. I think it was in Inverness, where I effusively thanked the ticketmaster for his help and told him I thought it was a great service, he noticeably relaxed and smiled...and asked me to post it up to his employer. He did some handwaving and noted that not all the users seemed to agree with my assessment. My come on of confused but basically friendly and grateful probably got me a long way and, when I complimented for a service well provided, it was gratefully received. I hope that it paid forward. I found a lot of friendliness in complete strangers. Folks I met at bus stops, at cafes and pubs, on park benches, on street corners. Helpful, friendly people. The kindness of strangers IS a balm for the soul.
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Post by Kye on Jul 2, 2017 16:56:15 GMT
I also found the people in London very friendly and helpful (except for one museum guard, who must have been having a bad day).
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So, Kelly
Jul 2, 2017 20:19:37 GMT
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Post by juju on Jul 2, 2017 20:19:37 GMT
I think all this explains the looks on the faces of the folks seated around the breakfast dining area when I allowed a pot of breakfast tea to go cold as I read the morning newspaper. Then, I requested a pint glass filled with ice. When the glass came to the table, I poured the now tepid tea over the ice, until I had a large glass of iced tea. I added sugar and stirred to a roomful of goggle-eyed noshers. *Faints*
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Post by whollygoats on Jul 2, 2017 21:15:39 GMT
*stirs*
tinkle-tinkle-tinkle
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Post by raspberrybullets on Jul 3, 2017 10:58:12 GMT
I would be certainly watching in horrified facination. Trouser dropping would cause less of a stir, I should think.
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Post by whollygoats on Jul 3, 2017 13:29:43 GMT
*sip*
tinkle-tinkle-tinkle
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Post by whollygoats on Jul 3, 2017 14:19:36 GMT
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Post by Moose on Jul 4, 2017 19:11:11 GMT
Actually I think I could go for iced tea. I don't like hot drinks in general though.
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Post by whollygoats on Jul 5, 2017 2:01:29 GMT
Here in the US, there is mass addiction to carbonated soft drinks. Iced tea is considered a non-carbonated alternative. Did yo catch the stat that 85% of tea sold in the US is sold as iced tea?
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Post by juju on Jul 5, 2017 8:08:11 GMT
I've had iced tea (Lipton's) but didn't like it. I don't like the taste of tea without milk, it's too astringent. The iced tea I tried was with lemon, but I decided I'd rather just drink lemon without the nasty tea taste.
I do drink a lot of fruit teas, but only the ones without actual tea in them.
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Post by tangent on Jul 5, 2017 8:43:14 GMT
I had iced tea with lemon in Corfu and rather liked it but I don't think I would have done without the lemon.
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Post by Kye on Jul 5, 2017 11:26:49 GMT
I drink a lot of ice tea in the summer, but I make it myself so I can blend different tea flavours together. Also, I don't like it sweet, so I have the option of making it plain.
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Post by whollygoats on Jul 5, 2017 13:13:24 GMT
I drink a lot of iced tea during the summer and I just take Tetleys, or PG Tips, or whatever black tea, and jam a fistful of bags in to a glass carafe, add water, and set it in the sun. Then, once it is sun brewed, I move it to the frig, pour it over ice in a glass and add just a touch of sugar.
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Post by whollygoats on Jul 5, 2017 13:53:02 GMT
I've had iced tea (Lipton's) but didn't like it. I don't like the taste of tea without milk, it's too astringent. The iced tea I tried was with lemon, but I decided I'd rather just drink lemon without the nasty tea taste. But those weren't astringent at all, right? You don't like the nasty tea taste unless it is warm? Oh, and with milk? You do know that you are allowed to put milk in iced tea, don't you? The southeast Asian types tend to prefer it that way. Ah, yes...The teas which are not teas, but herbals or fruit infusions. Red Zinger is pretty awesome as an iced herbal.
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Post by ceptimus on Jul 5, 2017 22:20:53 GMT
In Taiwan I found vending machines everywhere selling ice-cold cans of tea and coffee. It was usually sweet and usually had milk (or perhaps cream). I didn't understand the writing on the machines or cans, of course, so I never knew what beverage I'd bought till I opened the can and tasted or smelled the contents - but I liked them all so it didn't matter.
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Post by whollygoats on Jul 5, 2017 22:40:35 GMT
The same in Kyoto. I understand the cold can of chilled tea is quite popular from vending machines all over Japan.
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Post by whollygoats on Jul 6, 2017 15:06:31 GMT
That sounds reasonable, ceptimus. I hate cold toast! Indeed...This is how fresh breads are kept warm; in a basket lined and covered with linens. I had never thought of covering toast. Little tents would be the bomb, and help soften the individually wrapped butter pats.
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Post by whollygoats on Jul 6, 2017 15:15:34 GMT
So...I am getting the impression that that toast racks are an expression of the British not wanting their butter to melt in to the toast and render it no longer 'crispy'.
The act of cooling the toast would seem to keep it harder and 'crispier' under the later application of butter/margarine, jams, preserves, marmalades, or jellies. The Brits tend to opt for 'rigid' and 'cooled' in toast presentation.
American style, at least where I hail from, is stacked on a heated plate with the buttered sides facing each other. The objective is to deliver the toast with the butter soft enough to spread over the entire slice...and melt in.
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Post by Kye on Jul 6, 2017 15:17:03 GMT
Now I'm getting hungry...
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Post by whollygoats on Jul 6, 2017 15:29:59 GMT
Now I'm getting hungry... Heh... I just had three yard-fresh eggs scrambled with buttered toast. I've been consuming fair amount of buttered toast with apricot jam of late. I put the honey jar in the window to warm the honey....haven't gotten to spreading it yet, though. Honey on buttered toasted English muffins, with all the crooks and nannies, is the bestest.
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Post by Kye on Jul 6, 2017 16:02:05 GMT
*eats her sad salad...*
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