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Okay, being a Brit and talking about tea makes me look like some sort of stereotype, but needless to say, I'm going to ask everybody to do a little survey (if they want to).

1. Do you like tea? I have done very much so for around the past two years, but I was wondering if you guys liked it too.

2. Do you prefer tea or coffee? I hate coffee, so tea wins by millions of miles for me.

3. If you're not from the UK or Ireland, is tea considered a delicacy compared to say, coffee, in your respective country (I know most replies will be from the US, but there are Australians, Canadians, Scandinavians and others on this board)? I ask this, as when in Berlin recently (I was actually there at the same time as Julian Carter, but we never actually knew that we were so close :shock: ), coffee seemed to be slightly more readily available, and unlike in the UK (and Ireland as well) where the only tea that is readily available is just plain tea, the tea seemed to be available in many different flavours, often of which seemed like very slight variations on another flavour. Coffee isn't available in many flavours over here, but tea seems to be a bit more readily available in England. Do you think that tea a fancy thing where you are?
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1. No, I don't really like tea. I can handle sweet tea every now and then, but even that I'm not too fond of.

2. I definitely prefer coffee. I love coffee. Admittedly, I prefer flavored coffee and especially cold coffee drinks, but anything will do, really.

3. Tea isn't really considered a delicacy in the US, but it is widely liked and readily available. In the south, "sweet tea" is very popular. I don't know if they have that overseas, but it can usually only be found in the south-east here. Preference for sweet tea vs. normal tea is often used as a cultural marker between the south and the rest of the country. From what I understand, regular tea isn't as popular elsewhere in the country as sweet tea is here.

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1. Yes, I do, but only when prepared by Asian restaurants.

2. I rarely drink coffee.

3. Tea isn't considered a "delicacy," but it's not as popular as coffee. (There's always a good supply available at grocery stores, though.) Most Americans prefer iced tea over hot.
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Tea is my preferred beverage during the autumn, winter and early spring when things are bit cold outside. Twining's Irish Breakfast is a favorite of mine, as well as Twining's English Afternoon. I dont really drink it much in the summer, then it's Diet Coke or water.

Don't care for coffee at all.
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I LOVE tea. Well, only sweet tea. I've had green tea once, and I thought it was TERRIBLE. So, I'll just stick with my sweet tea that I love :D

I do like coffee, but only French Vanilla or French Vanilla with Hot Chocolate(1/2 FV and 1/2 HC).

I really like coffee only twice or thrice a month, but I can enjoy tea anytime!
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1. I like ice tea, I'm not really fond of the hot tea.
2. I drink coffee only when I need a pick me up. Actually, about as often as 5 months. :?

3. What is a delicacy in the United States, is it Coke? Or maybe Dr. Pib? :lol:
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1. Yes, I enjoy tea, with Earl Grey or a nice English Breakfast being my teas of choice. Lady Grey is also choice, simply because it is like Earl Grey but slightly less acidic. My girlfriend is in to so-called 'flavoured' teas and some of the herbal varieties, most of which just turn my stomach. That said, nothing is a better cure for a floopy tummy than peppermint tea.

2. I never drink coffee. Tea is my hot beverage of choice!

3. Tea is certainly a standard here, because we have such a strong British cultural influence. The rise of cafe culture has made coffee far more prominent in the last decade or so, and this is something that Gloria Jeans and Starbucks are helping to usher along.
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1. I do enjoy a cup of tea now and then, but it's not a necessity.
2. I prefer coffee, particularly espresso.
3. Coke is a delicacy in the USA as someone said before, and sweet tea is in the South. In fact a few years ago the Georgia senate almost passed a law requiring restaurants that served unsweetened ice tea to serve sweet tea as well in GA. Unfortunately the law didn't quite go through and there are still a few places that don't serve sweet tea.
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I definitely would choose a cuppa joe over tea any day.
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1). I like tea, although I rarely find myself drinking it. Regular unsweetened hot tea can be particular enjoyable upon suffering from a cold. Iced Nestea can be very good, although a very caloric drinking choice. You see, when I make myself a glass, I put in so much powder that the average person probably wouldn't even consider it to be drinkable.

2). I drink multiple cups of coffee a day. The occasional Starbucks/Caribou latte is a nice treat, but regular black coffee typically suits me just fine.

3). Tea is most definitely not considered a delicacy over here. In fact, people who think they are swell just because they take a cup of tea every now and then are plain silly.
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Wonderlicious wrote:1. Do you like tea? I have done very much so for around the past two years, but I was wondering if you guys liked it too.
I have been drinking tea for all my life, and I like it very much. I like mine sugared, and with evaporated milk. I also think it's fine with normal cow's milk though it doesn't taste quite as good. What I find annoying with evaporated milk is that it's very fattening. :( At the moment I'm using "Ideal" milk by Nestle. Years ago, we used to use "Frisian Flag" milk. When it comes to teabags, we have used "Tetley" very long ago. Recently we were using "Typhoo" tea bags, and currently we are buying "Lion Tea" Tea bags.
Wonderlicious wrote:2. Do you prefer tea or coffee? I hate coffee, so tea wins by millions of miles for me.
I like both, but I think tea is my favourite. I rarely drink coffee. In fact, I think I haven't drunk any coffee for about 2 months now. Although I love tea, I don't drink it much during the summer. In fact I think I haven't touched tea now for quite a while. But give it some and I'll be drinking tea 24/7.
Wonderlicious wrote:3. If you're not from the UK or Ireland, is tea considered a delicacy compared to say, coffee, in your respective country (I know most replies will be from the US, but there are Australians, Canadians, Scandinavians and others on this board)? I ask this, as when in Berlin recently (I was actually there at the same time as Julian Carter, but we never actually knew that we were so close :shock: ), coffee seemed to be slightly more readily available, and unlike in the UK (and Ireland as well) where the only tea that is readily available is just plain tea, the tea seemed to be available in many different flavours, often of which seemed like very slight variations on another flavour. Coffee isn't available in many flavours over here, but tea seems to be a bit more readily available in England. Do you think that tea a fancy thing where you are?
I'd say that in Malta, tea and coffee are equally popular. Note however, that most people here seem to drink tea with normal cow's milk, whereas I prefer the tinned evaporated milk. Normally, when someone offers to make me a cup of tea, they wouldn't have evaporated milk as not much people seem to use it. Also, in terms of coffee, in Malta, the instant type is popular, like Nescafe (even though the Italians wouldn't touch anything instant, they're such coffee maniacs ;) )

While I was in Berlin (at the same time as Wonderlicious) I also came across the flavoured tea. I tried fruit tea. It tasted almost exactly like the normal British brewed tea (that I'm used to at home) save for a slight sensation of, well...fruit. :P I'd rather have the normal tea though.

While I was at a restaurant in Berlin I ordered a cup of English brewed tea. When it arrived, the milk I requested was just a little cylindrical plastic container sealed on top. It looked like the same tiny containers used for butter or margarine when you want to butter a piece of bread at a restaurant. The difference is that whereas such a container is large enough for butter, there isn't anything near enough space for milk intended for a cup of tea! The tea tasted disgusting. There was so little milk that the tea looked like brown sludge. :lol: At the hostel where I was staying, they had tea every morning for breakfast. The teapots were labeled to notify one of the type of tea inside the pot (ex. fruit tea, green tea etc.) I chose "English Brewed Tea", the norm. I poured it. added sugar and milk, and tasted it. This was a different case. I didn't spit the tea out in disgust. It wasn't disgusting, just tasteless. As soon as I added milk, the cup of tea turned white. I looked inside the teapot, to find just two teabags hanging there. Two teabags! For a whole teapot!! No wonder it was tasteless and had no colour!

The bottom line: Don't expect to get a good cup of tea in Germany. :P :lol:
Loomis wrote:3. Tea is certainly a standard here, because we have such a strong British cultural influence.
Same here. Malta was occupied by the British until the late sixties, by which time we became independent. However, the Brits' stay certainly left an impact on our culture. It affected our cuisine, lifestyle and even our language. For all I know, tea was introduced by them over here.
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I don't like every tea, but I like the hot fruit teas very much.

Sometimes in winter and fall my mom makes something called "kashmir khali" (I guess that's how you spell it). It's normal black tea, and milk with a bit of ginger spice and sugar, it's really delicious. I'm gonna ask my mom again how to make it, and if you wish I can post the recipe to make it. :D

In Germany people do drink tea, but not as much as coffee. Coffee, especially the flavored coffees have become very popular during the last 5 years. Of course, because of tv series like "Sex and the City" and "Gilmore Girls".

I like coffee, too, but only flavored, with milk, and sugar. I can't stand coffee without a chocolate flavor or something of that sort.
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I saw your second question, Wondy; from now on when I picture you, I'll picture Sir Ian McKellan sitting in front of a computer sipping tea. :P

Anyways, tea for me, but herbal only. Can't do coffee.

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Julian Carter: Tea in German restaurants is always disgusting, because they ONLY use teabags!! (And not many, as you noticed)
But you can buy a lot of good tea here in Germany, and brew it yourself.
The best tea you get in Germany in restaurants or coffeeshops is fruit tea, but they just don't know how to make real English tea. :lol:
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Dottie wrote:The best tea you get in Germany in restaurants or coffeeshops is fruit tea, but they just don't know how to make real English tea. :lol:
Believe me, I am German. :wink:
:lol: lol. That explains my tea tasting activities.

So then Germany's speciality is flavoured tea? I have a German friend of mine at school (I've known him for 3 years) called Lucas Rothamel. He was the only German I knew before going to Berlin this summer. Anyway... a couple of years ago, he came to school with a Thermos (vacuum flask) filled with Green Tea. That's when I found out about flavoured tea. His parents brew it themselves, so I expect it must be very good. They also make their own pasta, bread and cheese. I don't know how they have time to even make their own bread! Life is so hectic nowadays! But that goes to show how cultures between different countries differ, and yet we are all the same!
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1. I like tea. I prefer to drink hot tea, but I like ice tea too.

2. I don't drink coffee.

3. As Aaron said, sweet tea is very popular here in the south. I like my tea to be sweetened. I have only met a couple of people who like unsweetened tea better than sweet tea.
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Oh dear. Dispite being British and having the following*:

a butler called Jeeves; a stiff upper lip with a pencil mustache; crumpets and English muffins for tea every day; terrible teeth; a habbit of caling everyone "old chap" and saying "pip-pip"; being called "Nigel"; wearing a monacle; dressing in tweed jackets and wearing green wellingtons - even in the height of summer; prefer to drink my beer warm...

There is a stereotype I don't subscribe to...

I don't drink tea or coffee. In fact, I don't drink any hot drinks at all (and I don't drink iced tea either). :o

* This list, of course, is not true. Or is it?
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2099net wrote:Oh dear. Dispite being British and having the following*:

a butler called Jeeves; a stiff upper lip with a pencil mustache; crumpets and English muffins for tea every day; terrible teeth; a habbit of caling everyone "old chap" and saying "pip-pip"; being called "Nigel"; wearing a monacle; dressing in tweed jackets and wearing green wellingtons - even in the height of summer; prefer to drink my beer warm...
You forgot playing croquet, eating steak and kidney pie, fish and chips and collecting china with pictures of 'er 'ighness Old Liz!

1. Blech horrid stuff

2. Coffee, much nicer

3. The only place I know of where tea is a delicacy is the East end of London where it is used to cure all! ;)

Oh and I couldn't let a tea discussion slide without this quote from Mary Poppins!
As the ship lay in Boston Harbor, a party the colonists dressed as red Indians boarded the vessel, behaved very rudely, and threw all the tea overboard, making the tea unsuitable for drinking. Even for Americans.
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Julian Carter wrote:
Dottie wrote:The best tea you get in Germany in restaurants or coffeeshops is fruit tea, but they just don't know how to make real English tea. :lol:
Believe me, I am German. :wink:
:lol: lol. That explains my tea tasting activities.

So then Germany's speciality is flavoured tea? I have a German friend of mine at school (I've known him for 3 years) called Lucas Rothamel. He was the only German I knew before going to Berlin this summer. Anyway... a couple of years ago, he came to school with a Thermos (vacuum flask) filled with Green Tea. That's when I found out about flavoured tea. His parents brew it themselves, so I expect it must be very good. They also make their own pasta, bread and cheese. I don't know how they have time to even make their own bread! Life is so hectic nowadays! But that goes to show how cultures between different countries differ, and yet we are all the same!
Yeah, here we have a lot of flavored tea, and if you brew it yourself it's really good, if you know how to make it. ;) They put stuff like strawberries, cinnamon, rum flavor.... in the tea, and it tastes pretty good.

To take your tea with you in a Thermos is very popular in Germany, especially in winter. :D It's not a real vacuum flask, but it's isolated that well, so that the tea stays hot,and you can still drink it hot/warm after several hours. It's very handy.

It's cool they make their own bread, pasta, cheese..., but actually not a lot people do that. Most people wouldn't even know how to make it. ;)
We buy our things just like everybody else. The only difference maybe is that we go to many different stores to get whatever we want like a butcher, bakery, grocery store. We don't buy everything in big supermarkets, although nowadays people tend to do that a lot more than to go shopping in many different little stores.
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I love tea! Herbal and green are the best. I particuarly like a good Earl Grey, chamomile, sencha green. also, there is a boxed tea bag that celestial seasonings sells around christmas time called "nutcraker suite" its a spice tea, its really, really good. And it always reminds me of christmas.

As for coffee, I don't drink it at all. I can't tolerate it. which is a bit ironic, because I'm from Seattle and thats a bit of a taboo not to drink it.
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