What I've learned about the Brits from BBC
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We have bacon butties and chip butties... but never in the history of mankind has a jam sandwich been called a jam buttie.
You could be right about that Squidders ... But who said I was 'of mankind'? (click brrrrddl biddlybiddly zzarrrd click)
This little 'old lady' says Humbug!, that stuff'll rot your guts
The occasional coffee's a pleasure, but I couldn't drink it often. I manage at least six cups of tea a day though
M
The occasional coffee's a pleasure, but I couldn't drink it often. I manage at least six cups of tea a day though
M
Tea, that stuff old ladies drink right?
Give me a decent coffee any day
Coffee in the morning - which is why there are "Coffee Mornings".
Tea in the afternoon - hence "Afternoon Tea".
Obvious really....
Tea, that stuff old ladies drink right?
Give me a decent coffee any day
Now where the bloody hell did i put my burning pitchfork, never find the thing when i bloody want it
Yeah, and why is it that good hotels in the US always have Liptons tea bags in the room coffee/tea area. I wonder how old those tea bags are because you try one cup and you're not touching the rest. Good news for me though, while in Raleigh my local supermarket Harris Teeter stocked PG. Not as good as Yorkshire but a passable second.
Lipton's ain't good for hot tea. It's too weak to be honest. it's great for proper iced sweet ea though.
i think I must have at least two dozen different boxes of tea (bags that is, not counting the loose stuff in the caddies) and there's not one of them is Lipton's.
Don't think I've ever seen a box of Lipton's, come to think on it, not even in my next door neighbour's and her household are bigger tea drinkers than mine are.
My tea this morning was broken out of the bing of pu-erh my son gave me a couple of months ago.
Fellow Scots will find that amusing…..a bing to us is the spoil heap from the pits (coalmines), not usually the compressed puck of tea leaves.
Funny old world sometimes the way we multi-use words
M
Don't think I've ever seen a box of Lipton's, come to think on it, not even in my next door neighbour's and her household are bigger tea drinkers than mine are.
My tea this morning was broken out of the bing of pu-erh my son gave me a couple of months ago.
Fellow Scots will find that amusing…..a bing to us is the spoil heap from the pits (coalmines), not usually the compressed puck of tea leaves.
Funny old world sometimes the way we multi-use words
M
Tea, that stuff old ladies drink right?
Give me a decent coffee any day
Tut tut "call yourself a Yorkshireman"
We can buy Lipton here. ANd a brand calked Ahmad Tea. Made in UK.
But thankfully we can also buy tea from Twinings, the coffee company famous for its superlative tea!
I think Fortnum and Mason make overall the best tea, but as it is difficult to find and very expensive it falls below Twinings.
I did have F&M send me their Rose petal tea to me around Europe for years, but they changed the receipe and it now tastes "with added flavourings".
But coffee is my drink of choice. Love the taste.
It does not matter much how it is made, boiled the Swedish way over a fire, filtered, percolated, Nespresso.
But thankfully we can also buy tea from Twinings, the coffee company famous for its superlative tea!
I think Fortnum and Mason make overall the best tea, but as it is difficult to find and very expensive it falls below Twinings.
I did have F&M send me their Rose petal tea to me around Europe for years, but they changed the receipe and it now tastes "with added flavourings".
But coffee is my drink of choice. Love the taste.
It does not matter much how it is made, boiled the Swedish way over a fire, filtered, percolated, Nespresso.
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What sort of flavorings? I was surprised to learn many people didn't know that orange pekoe is a grading, but think it's a flavor.
Orange pekoe is the bud? Then, pekoe is the first leaf . . . . . . the sixth leaf is lapsang suchong (sp?) I can't remember the middle ones.
My SIL gave me a tin of tea, gunpowder it was.
Interesting to find the tea leaves rolled up into tight little wads the same size as cannon gunpowder.
My SIL gave me a tin of tea, gunpowder it was.
Interesting to find the tea leaves rolled up into tight little wads the same size as cannon gunpowder.