World War Tea

[Infected Mushroom]

The salt would ruin it

It'd probably be out of proportion but there are places where you can get "sea salt" in your tea, I have no strong feelings about it.

Really?

Sea salt in tea? I’ve never heard about that. Fascinating. That’s a tradition in places?

[Mushet]

It'd probably be out of proportion but there are places where you can get "sea salt" in your tea, I have no strong feelings about it.

Really?

Sea salt in tea? I’ve never heard about that. Fascinating. That’s a tradition in places?

I don't know about tradition, but I've gotten one from a bakery in a Chinese area, and the chain 85°C sold it too. I'm guessing it's more like a relatively new flavoring people responded to.

[Infected Mushroom]

Really?

Sea salt in tea? I’ve never heard about that. Fascinating. That’s a tradition in places?

I don't know about tradition, but I've gotten one from a bakery in a Chinese area, and the chain 85°C sold it too. I'm guessing it's more like a relatively new flavoring people responded to.

Interesting...

I mostly buy iced tea drinks from places like 85 c

[An Alan Smithee Nation]

Before debating how to make 'the perfect cuppa', the requisite equipment needs to be assembled.

One tea tray.
One teapot complete with tea cosy.
One tea strainer, held in its pot.
One bowl of sugar.
One jug of milk.
One cup / saucer / teaspoon per person.

Boiling water and three to four teaspoons of tea leaves are to be added to the teapot before presenting the tea tray and its contents to your guests.

Now you are ready to debate what goes in the cup.

The saying in our house about the amount of tea you put in the teapot was "one for each person and one for the pot".

[Nobel Hobos 2]

Before debating how to make 'the perfect cuppa', the requisite equipment needs to be assembled.

One tea tray.
One teapot complete with tea cosy.
One tea strainer, held in its pot.
One bowl of sugar.
One jug of milk.
One cup / saucer / teaspoon per person.

Boiling water and three to four teaspoons of tea leaves are to be added to the teapot before presenting the tea tray and its contents to your guests.

Now you are ready to debate what goes in the cup.

The saying in our house about the amount of tea you put in the teapot was "one for each person and one for the pot".

That would mean when you're not making tea at all, you have to put a teaspoon of tea in the pot. Like an offering?

[Starblaydia]

The saying in our house about the amount of tea you put in the teapot was "one for each person and one for the pot".

That would mean when you're not making tea at all, you have to put a teaspoon of tea in the pot. Like an offering?

Always have a spoonful in the pot just in case the Queen comes round.

[Nobel Hobos 2]

That would mean when you're not making tea at all, you have to put a teaspoon of tea in the pot. Like an offering?

Always have a spoonful in the pot just in case the Queen comes round.

I know she's my Queen too, but the royal trivia of that escapes me?

[An Alan Smithee Nation]

The saying in our house about the amount of tea you put in the teapot was "one for each person and one for the pot".

That would mean when you're not making tea at all, you have to put a teaspoon of tea in the pot. Like an offering?

When we weren't making tea... you know I'm British?

I'm also not a fan of Earl Grey. Cloying after one cup.

[Somerania]

It'd probably be out of proportion but there are places where you can get "sea salt" in your tea, I have no strong feelings about it.

Really?

Sea salt in tea? I’ve never heard about that. Fascinating. That’s a tradition in places?

I tried it and it wasn't even salty I can't describe the taste

[The Blaatschapen]

Tea leaves are my favourite. When I rechew them as cud, it's essentially tea anyway

[Infected Mushroom]

Really?

Sea salt in tea? I’ve never heard about that. Fascinating. That’s a tradition in places?

I tried it and it wasn't even salty I can't describe the taste

Is it a touch bitter?

[Somerania]

I tried it and it wasn't even salty I can't describe the taste

Is it a touch bitter?

Tea is always a bit bitter but not the bad kind it's more of the good kind

[Infected Mushroom]

Is it a touch bitter?

Tea is always a bit bitter but not the bad kind it's more of the good kind

Yeah I guess so

It is indeed very hard to describe the taste of tea. Adding salt makes it even more complicated.

[An Alan Smithee Nation]

My grandfather used to use a stoneware hot water bottle in winter, kind of thing that if you kicked it in the night you would break your foot. He used to put tea leaves and milk in it along with boiling water so he could have a cup of tea in the night, or first thing in the morning without having to get out of bed.

[Vetalia]

Like many tense diplomatic standoffs, it began with a deliberate provocation. An American TikTok user going by the name of Michelle from North Carolina posted a video showing how to make what she describes as “hot tea”, which entails mixing milk with powdered lemonade, cinnamon, cloves, sugar and Tang, which turns out to be a soft drink.

As an afterthought she dunked a teabag, and then put the whole thing in the microwave.

Whatever the hell that idiot made, it's not "hot tea", it's sour, curdled milk with spices. Apparently she has no knowledge of how to make sweet tea, which has been a staple in the South for like 250 years. And instant coffee is shit, period. The fact that anyone has anything to do with that garbage is to our national shame.

I like my homemade blend of Lapsang Souchong and Assam brewed strong with milk and sugar.

[Somerania]

https://youtu.be/kSjFVH2Zc5E

[Warith]

I like water. Ever heard of it? It's pretty good. It allows you, to, you know, sleep. It's pretty good sleep, the type that doesn't allow you to get distracted by something so otherworldly useless for government officials to talk about.

I mean, seriously. We pay these people? (as in the government officials who decided this was of relative importance)

EDIT: I am probably getting wooshed here, but I can't find the woosh.

[Infected Mushroom]

Do Americans have afternoon tea time?

[Kernen]

Right..

Nearly 250 years after the Boston Tea Party, the British ambassador in Washington and her US counterpart in London are going at it over how to make a decent hot drink. And by Wednesday evening, the conflict was spilling over into mainland Europe.

Bloody 2020, can it get any worse..

Like many tense diplomatic standoffs, it began with a deliberate provocation. An American TikTok user going by the name of Michelle from North Carolina posted a video showing how to make what she describes as “hot tea”, which entails mixing milk with powdered lemonade, cinnamon, cloves, sugar and Tang, which turns out to be a soft drink.

Tang? What devilry is this?

As an afterthought she dunked a teabag, and then put the whole thing in the microwave.

Microwave, what is wrong with you people?

Her subsequent attempt at “British tea” involved cold water first. The British internet lost its marbles.

Jesus wept. I actually saw this video, she bunged it all in the microwave as usual and it.. was.. fucked.. up..

Inevitably, Dame Karen Pierce, the British ambassador to Washington – who holds an MSc in international strategy and diplomacy from the LSE, has served in the Foreign Office for 39 years and is a former president of the UN security council - was obliged to weigh in.

She posted a viral video of her own on Monday, explaining that “the Anglo-American relationship is defined by tea”, a reference to the Boston Tea Party of 1773 that eventually led to US independence.

Then, in what Twitter banter enthusiasts viewed as a thrilling escalation, she threw to three branches of the armed forces, who took it in turns to demonstrate how to make what one Royal Navy sailor called a “proper British cup of tea”.

Nice little coded threat of force there Ambassador, you spoil us..

The US ambassador in London, Woody Johnson, who recognised the impossibility of his position on the tea front and quickly shifted his forces to a classic British weakness: coffee.

“I’m going to make an American cup of coffee, the way I make it every day, responding to Ambassador Pierce’s perfect cup of tea and her instructions,”.

Okay..

He proceeded to pour a bottle of water into a kettle, stick a spoon of instant coffee in a mug, splash in some milk and say “have a nice day”.

WTF.. hear that Italians.. that's proper coffee.

But there may now be questions as to whether he had committed a serious strategic error, by making, to put it bluntly, what looked like a terrible cup of coffee. On Wednesday evening, a source at the Italian embassy asked for a view on the US video replied: “What he made was American coffee. And I stress... American coffee.”

We don't screw around with, like, hotdogs Americans so why are you so adamant in screwing up our tea, was Boston not enough, what is wrong with you people? When did you lose all sense of values by using a microwave to make tea for god's sake?

However, otherwise, what is you favourite tea - since WFH I've been gazzumping gallons of good old Breakfast Tea where I substitute sugar with a drop or two of honey. Here in HK iced lemon tea is very popular too. When I lived in India I did love those big pots of masala chai.

What about you, please indicate if you're American and therefore we can dismiss your opinion off the bat.

Most Americans are utter barbarians with both tea and coffee. The only beverages we don't entirely screw up have ethanol in them.

As an American, I disown my national representative's awful approach to the delicate art of making tea and brewing coffee.

I make my preferred mua li hua cha tea leaves in the teapot and add water that I boiled, and then allowed to stand in the kettle off the heat for exactly three minutes. When the water hits the tea leaves, I allow them to steep for exactly one minute before separating them. The result is delicate and fragrant jasmine green tea.

Coffee should be a dark roast with earthy and redfruit notes. It should be ground to a medium fine grind, placed in a french press, and covered with water just under boiling. Steep until the fragrance reflects those redfruit notes, and filter using only the weight of your hand to depress the plunger. Do not add milk. Do not add cream. Do not add sugar.

[Names Are Too Hard]

Real men make hot tea and then pour milk into their cups til it’s not hot anymore.

[Somerania]

Real men make hot tea and then pour milk into their cups til it’s not hot anymore.

What if I make the tea in milk

[Region of Dwipantara]

As a southeast Asian who drinks 2-3 cups of tea in a beer glass each day I feel sad to see all tea thrown around like it is useless in the Americas

Ah, a person of culture.

Milk.
In tea.

I daresay that is a bigger sin than putting it in the microwave.

Is it really that bad? Afaik there's a street vendor near my local monument that sells a drink made out of tea, milk, ginger, and egg yolk. Forgot what's the name. The drink complements the main course, which is rice cake dipped inside spicy curry. They're pretty popular.

Real men make hot tea and then pour milk into their cups til it’s not hot anymore.

But true men pour the hot tea into the plate below the cup, let it cool, and then drink it from that plate. At least, that's what they taught me.

[Infected Mushroom]

Do people still do the thing where after a conversation point they raise the tea cup along with the plate under... sip very slowly and thoughtfully as they stare seriously at the other people at the table. Then set it down and continue convo?

[Somerania]

Do people still do the thing where after a conversation point they raise the tea cup along with the plate under... sip very slowly and thoughtfully as they stare seriously at the other people at the table. Then set it down and continue convo?

Yes, I have had many guests who do that

[Hurdergaryp]

I won't even talk about Tang. All these youngsters only know how to make tea with teabags I actually make it by boiling water then once it's hot I just add sugar and the grounded tea leaves but sometimes I add milk

When in office I drank a mixture of simple green tea, and then a ginger and honey tea, both without anything else, at home I've switched for no real reason I can discern other than tea was free in the office.

Nothing wrong with free tea.