Instant tea?
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So long as you look on instant tea as just a hot drink and nothing like 'real' tea then its OK
This is for me the best I've tried
and closest to the real deal.
This is for me the best I've tried
and closest to the real deal.
Red Bush is pretty good without milk, or for some proper tea Earl Grey on its own with sugar and a slice of lemon, it needs to be drunk from some fine bone china though 
Before you all dash out and buy Earl Grey (or Lady Grey) to try, be aware that the oil in it can upset some stomachs. Mine's one of them.
I just rip open a tea bag and pour boiing water on it. That makes tea of a sort.
I just rip open a tea bag and pour boiing water on it. That makes tea of a sort.
As long as it has about five heaped spoonfuls of sugar in it, any Tea is fine, I don't even know if it is Tea or Coffee, and
Condensed milk is just great with anything. I don't know why I stay around 12 stone, though I am just under 6 feet tall.
Tea or Coffee without sugar is pure poison.
Condensed milk is just great with anything. I don't know why I stay around 12 stone, though I am just under 6 feet tall.
Tea or Coffee without sugar is pure poison.
I once worked on a vivier crabber out of Portsmouth Hard, the Galwad-y-Mor. The skipper brewed instant white with two sugars tea while his crew were shooting gear. At the time I was more bothered by the fact that we were risking our lives on the deck shooting full steam on autopilot rather than by the horrible tea. I lasted a week on that boat...
Looking for a picture of the Galwad-y-Mor just now I've just discovered that the crew were later busted trying to import massive amounts of coke:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hampshire-13632790
The skipper was top right. I filled the position of the brain damaged looking one in the centre.
So there you have it, instant tea is a gateway drug to much worse things - you have been warned
Looking for a picture of the Galwad-y-Mor just now I've just discovered that the crew were later busted trying to import massive amounts of coke:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hampshire-13632790
The skipper was top right. I filled the position of the brain damaged looking one in the centre.
So there you have it, instant tea is a gateway drug to much worse things - you have been warned
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I once worked on a vivier crabber out of Portsmouth Hard, the Galwad-y-Mor. The skipper brewed instant white with two sugars tea while his crew were shooting gear. At the time I was more bothered by the fact that we were risking our lives on the deck shooting full steam on autopilot rather than by the horrible tea. I lasted a week on that boat...
Looking for a picture of the Galwad-y-Mor just now I've just discovered that the crew were later busted trying to import massive amounts of coke:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hampshire-13632790
The skipper was top right. I filled the position of the brain damaged looking one in the centre.
So there you have it, instant tea is a gateway drug to much worse things - you have been warned
Who'd a thunk it, still not the first time. I remember hearing a couple of boats talking over the VHF years back, whilst we were steaming south out of the minch, "Who's that stood off that point?" "Ach, thats yer man he's been there for a couple of days now" crackle crackle, "Aye, probably at the drug smuggling". Sure enough, a year or so later one of the fellows in question, out of Ullapool, was jailed for coke smuggling.
For what it's worth I wouldn't have been happy shooting gear with a skipper with one eye on the pot and the other on the instant tea either
The only instant tea I've had has been truly awful, but I can completely understand the need for a home comfort out in the field, especially on a drafty day. Recently I've started drinking very weak (couldn't call it black) earl grey when up out and about and I'm finding it surprisingly acceptable. I'm another non milk taker mind but if you'd told me a couple of years ago that I'd be up the hill brewing very weak earl grey the following year I'd have laughed.
I can see a convenience using instant to make iced tea. But if you're going to boil water anyway (as you would for hot tea) how is instant any more convenient? It certainly isn't as good in either case,
I find instant tea absolutely fine when outdoors, for some reason, but not when inside. It is as much like tea as instant coffee is like coffee!
I think he means that if you use the instant tea with the milk powder in you'll have white iced tea - which is just wrong, so you'd have to get black instant tea for making the iced version.
I have heard lots of good things about Nido. It is a shame it is not that easy to find.
Nobody really drinks iced tea over here, and probably less than one in a thousand people drinks black tea. I always struggle to keep milk when out...
I now drink black tea when out. The transition is not so hard, although I need a bit of sugar.
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resnikov
Bushcrafter (boy, I've got a lot to say!)
My local Tesco and Asda stock it in the 'world food' departments, failing that you'd have to look in your nearest Chinese/asian store?
