Ulysses Posted March 25, 2005 Share Posted March 25, 2005 i love tea. and am an american. earl grey is good. very unfair to say that americans don't know tea. british people didn't invent it either :P. --------------------- I went on vacation to London about 4 years ago - tried to get the real "english tea time experience" Could NOT find it. Literally a Starbucks on every corner. lmao I never said we did invent it, but probably we brought it to the mass market back in our empire days. Anyway London is crap anyway full of tourists lol void it like the plague lol Anyway dont take me serious I am only having a laugh about the tea business brb kettles just boiled ....tea anyone lmao Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ssarbyug50 Posted March 26, 2005 Share Posted March 26, 2005 i never said that any of you said that the british invented it - i merely stated it. yes, the british did popularize it. You have a right to your opinions, but there is nothing tainted about american tea. i would place lipton as being more generic and bland than 'tainted' How the hell is it an american soft drink? Lipton tea made from lipton tea bags is tea. Ice Tea is iced tea - not a soft drink. It is true that the best tea is imported - of course i yield this. I love British tea. I have Yorkshire tea in my cabinet as well as others. I only drink lipton when there is no alternative. Chinese tea is also very good. :) but, to say that americans in general know nothing about tea and that our tea, such as lipton is tainted and is nothing but an american soft drink is both ignorant and unfair Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wahaha Posted March 26, 2005 Share Posted March 26, 2005 Anytime you add stuff that shouldn't be there, it is tainted. Putting chemical dyes into drinks is bad no matter what, and that is what Lipton does. They also add other chemicals that have no place in real tea. I'm sure Liptons also adds sugar, but they simply leave that fact out of their ingredients list. (other natural flavors) This is for their canned product which most people drink, but some of their tea bags also have these traits I found. Take for instance their 100% natural DECAF tea bags. There is no way it is natural since all tea has caffeine in it. They're lying. Decaffeinated tea is not caffeine free. It still contains up to .4% by dry weight caffeine content. There is only 1 tea, and it comes from China.. no place else. Every flavor comes from those tea leaves that come from China. So you are actually drinking Chinese tea no matter what hehe. Earl Gray is just black tea that has gone through a different process in India and the UK to change the flavor. I think most Americans think tea is actually a British discovery and Liptons is all there is! Personally I can't stand the taste of Liptons and wish more people could experience real tea instead of having to wade through all these bastardized US versions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vyper Posted March 26, 2005 Share Posted March 26, 2005 Know what would solve this? A good tea tax... We'll even make it the lowest in the commonwealth... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ssarbyug50 Posted March 26, 2005 Share Posted March 26, 2005 wahaha, you living in your own little world there man. not going to even touch much of that - because what you said was just that wrong. i weep for you if you truly believe that most americans think that the only brand of tea (or only real tea) is lipton. Ignorance is bliss my friend. *leaves topic - goes to drink some good imported tea* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcant Posted March 26, 2005 Share Posted March 26, 2005 Know what would solve this? A good tea tax... We'll even make it the lowest in the commonwealth... Nah wouldn't work, the yankee tea smugglers would only throw it overboard to protect their profits ;) And to the poster who mentioned TEA BAGS Go wash your mouth out! tea bags are an abomination and use the sweepings from the factory floor Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wahaha Posted March 26, 2005 Share Posted March 26, 2005 I'm the one who mentioned tea bags, and I agree. Others seem to be set in their opinions however. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
picarddelta4 Posted March 26, 2005 Share Posted March 26, 2005 Earl grey is nice, but lapsang souchong is better! Picard never had that. What I hate is when he gets out his 'high tea' set for Wesley (S5, "The Game"), truly cringeworthy stuff. I don't think he actually asks Wesley if he wants sugar in Latin, but he might as well. A 'will someone please extract jean luc's head from his arse' moment. He should try coffee...sumatran is my current favourite, full bodied and earthy. Or was than sulibanian?! McCoy: (staring at viewscreen with the rest of the bridge crew, which is currently showing a massive hand coming towards the ship) "Is it...a hand?!' Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
radiantsun Posted March 26, 2005 Share Posted March 26, 2005 You can taste the sugar in lipton, I never looked at what they put in it, which is bad on my part. But what some of you said I never knew, so thank you. I think I'll go back to herbal tea. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lamp Posted March 27, 2005 Author Share Posted March 27, 2005 Earl grey is nice, but lapsang souchong is better! Ahh someone with fine taste i see. most people i know are put of by the smokey smell. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcant Posted March 27, 2005 Share Posted March 27, 2005 Earl grey is nice, but lapsang souchong is better! Ahh someone with fine taste i see. most people i know are put of by the smokey smell. No I'm put off by the after taste of creosote! :p seriously though, its a fine drink, but very much an aquired taste and unfortunately not for me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
remedyu Posted March 3, 2006 Share Posted March 3, 2006 I hate to admit it but my cousin and I starting drinking Earl Grey because Picard drank it.We'd go about saying "Earl Grey, hot!" all the time. Family thinks we're a bunch of Star Trek/Sci Fi geeks but I personally can't go without Sci Fi. Gotta get my Star Trek fix at least once a week or so. Of course we did drink tea before but never Earl Grey. Now I kinda prefer it to anything else around. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TFMF Posted March 3, 2006 Share Posted March 3, 2006 Another old topic remedyu :D but no - i've never tried it - but it might be interesting to try... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
remedyu Posted March 3, 2006 Share Posted March 3, 2006 Another old topic remedyu :D but no - i've never tried it - but it might be interesting to try... You should, it has a very distinctive taste. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mateya Posted March 3, 2006 Share Posted March 3, 2006 I just love earl grey. But I was hooked on it before I saw Picard. It is the bergamot oil in it I like so much. Hmm, I will make one cup right now :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mav Posted March 3, 2006 Share Posted March 3, 2006 Never tried it. Though if i ever get around too it, it'll be because Picard liked it, so I am curious as to it's taste. Myself, I enjoy a good old fashioned southern sweet tea. Boil some regular tea, put several large cups of sugar into a pitcher, add the tea then a few pot fulls of water, stir together. Pour in a glass with some ice and lemon juice, mmmmmmmmm. Nothing like a good ice tea to quinch your thirst on a hot summer day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jhug666 Posted March 6, 2006 Share Posted March 6, 2006 ok ok i'll admit it i tried it becasue picard drank it. but then i reaslised how nice it is so it is a regular drink for me (i know not normal for a 17yr old). also in a bbc show called yes minister one of the charicters drank a G&T, again i tried and liked it. see on the the many benafits of trying drinks that charicters on tv drink anyone for "it is green"? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tenebrae Posted March 6, 2006 Share Posted March 6, 2006 The only tea I like is green tea. TV characters aren't going to inspire me to change my beverage consumption habits I'm afraid. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maverick Posted March 6, 2006 Share Posted March 6, 2006 i have taken a liking to assam tea at the moment. i can say without hesitation that it is indeed TOP TEA! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steveo Posted March 7, 2006 Share Posted March 7, 2006 I've never liked Earl Grey, and assam is too bitter for my liking. Darjeeling is the tea for me. The first flush is exceptional. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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