Saltah'na
Chinese Canadian, or 75% Commie Bastard.
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Iced tea for me most of the time.
I don't drink coffee.
As for pop, anything but coke, or pepsi. The Occaisional Mountain dew is ok, but not often.
I have an extreme Caffeine sensitivity. Two cans of coke is like two cups of coffee. Two cups of coffee is like two cups of expresso. And it will keep me up all night.
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'Espresso', please. I have recently kicked said beverage. I had a pretty bad jones there for a while. It is dangerous stuff to me. Too expensive and I feel SO good on it. But a week of super-depressive de-tox hurt far too much. Back to Diet Coke.
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quote: Is there some obscure part of the constitution that prevents you lot from drinking normal tea?
If you mean hot with no additives, no, that's gotten more popular over the years hear, I just have a sugar problem.
quote: And damn Picard. Thanks to him most Americans now think that we actually drink Earl Grey.
Picard is supposed to be french, although I understand Stewart does drink EG. After hearing it on screen for so long, I bought some and tried it. Found I liked it, except that it seems to be stronger in caffine. Bergamont(sp) must have something in it to open your eyes.
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quote:Originally posted by Balaam Xumucane: I have recently kicked said beverage. I had a pretty bad jones there for a while.
Sorry, but can I request a translation? Into, y'know, English?
Isn't the sort of tea we drink here (and in Canada, Australia and all those places) called "English Breakfast" in the US?
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I have never heard that term in my life, other than to refer to, well, breakfast. In England.
Anyway, to jones means to desire in an obsessive manner. You would typically jones for, say, heroin. Which is why, when applied to tea, or computer games, or sunny days, it becomes gleefully ironic. Yay!
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English Breakfast is what the snobby tea companies here in Canada label what the plebian companies call Orange Pekoe Tea, except in cases where the tea company is so secure in their snobbiness that they can call it Orange Pekoe and nobody will consider them populist trash.
For me: cheap daily tea is Orange Pekoe/English Breakfast, and when I have an overwhelming urge to feel like Queen Victoria I hit the Darjeeling. My parents beat into me how to make a proper cup of tea; it's truly saddening how poor the tea-making technique of your average North American is. Perhaps they should read more Orwell.
Obscure fact of the day, and reason #234373 that Canadians and Americans are grossly different beasts: Iced Tea is by default considered unsweetened in American restaurants and sweetened in Canada. Something I've always found exceedingly odd, especially because unsweetened iced tea is generally gag-inducing. Hot tea's better without the sugar, of course. Everyone knows that.
(Sidenote: the first result for searching for "English Breakfast" on google image search is this.)
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Good lord, who on earth could eat that amount for breakfast! Especially chips. And that bacons not cooked.
That peson is wrong. Milk in first. Mainly because putting the milk in first seems to stop those hard water clusters that can otherwise form. And he's also wrong on the sugar. Yes he is.
Using plain tea leaves has gone completely out of fashion over here. As have tea pots, so such an extent that tea companies have invested heavily into how you can infuse water with the tea flavour in a cup. Hence, first we had circular tea bags, and then fully 3 dimensional pyramid bags, the tea of kings.
Do Canadians (or Australians) share any brands with us? Typoo? PG (Brooke Bond), or, er, others?
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Now I understand. I've had what purported to be "English Breakfasts" in some strange corners of the globe (don't even think about it, Timothy). There was always something fundamentally weird about the end result. Now I know - they were working from this image.
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So while I'll grant tea bags as a necessity of this modern world, one cannot deny that pots beat the snot out of the bag-in-cup method. (Though the pot has to be all-broken in and so-ingrained with decades of tea flavouring that you could piss in it and it would come out tasting like tea.) Tea on milk rather than vice versa is a simple cosmic law. And sugar in tea has got to be the leading explanation for British dentistry.
Lee: Hey, the picture's from a British site.
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I'm sure a can of coke is far worse than a simple cuppa with two sugars in it. And I have flat portions anyway. None of this heaped rubbish.
The chances of a tea pot surviving long enough in todays modern world to become such a tea marvel is unlikely. In the end, pyramid bags produce 90% of the flavour at 10% of the hassle. Worship PG. Now.
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quote:Do Canadians (or Australians) share any brands with us? Typoo? PG (Brooke Bond), or, er, others?
I have a can of Typoo in my cupboard. Tea must be made in a pot or it's crap. And you must use a cozy. There is a reason for this, tea must be kept as close to boiling point as possible while it is brewing in order to reduce the production of tannens(sp), these turn the tea bitter. Iced tea must be sweetened, but only slightly. I only drink tea black, no sugar. I know that is strange I don't know anyone else who drinks it that way. It all comes from hanging around with a guy who was kicked out of the house when he was 16 and all he could afford was the tea and never milk and only occationally sugar, so I got used to it that way. I drink black coffee for the same reason. And what is with the french fries and beans with breakfast? The french fries should be homefries, and scrap the beans I don't want to work in the same room as someone who has had beans for breakfast.
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Tom: I think they sweeten iced tea in restaurants in the south. When my family was going to Florida on vacation once, we ate in a restaurant in, I think, Georgia, and my mom ordered iced tea. She was unpleasantly surprised when it arrived w/ sugar in it.
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hmm, caffeine has absolutely no (noticeable) affects on me - cept most of the time my friends reckon i'm completely certifiable and should cut down on watever i'm on (which is usually high caffeine/sugar intake). But i can sleep after a high intake of caffeine so i guess i'm lucky. When it comes to Pepsi or CocaCola, i'd go for Coke. [in singapore they had this Pepsi Challenge taste test promotion to see which brand the ppl prefered, and when i participated at a booth in a mall i went for coke]. But the flavour of the drink (at least in Singapore) has gotten a bit too sticky for my taste, its like really bad mixed soda u get in resaturants where the pop is on tap. but i'm a big fan of Dr. pepper and Mountain dew/ as far as coffee goes i like mine Cold, unsweetened, no milk!
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