Tea

ddvmor · **I am the Jammie King!**

Tea

Copper · **Superhero Extraordinaire**

Tea is the juice of life itself. Slurp.

It would certainly be on my list of desert island drinks. Ooooo, i'm going to start another post!

BrianS · Still Number One

I think that is where there is a cultural difference. Most Americans think of Tea as Iced Tea. Frankly Iced or Hot, I really don't like it. Not much into drinks like that, coffee either

ddvmor · **I am the Jammie King!**

But it's so good for ya. Check this out.

My favourite bit:

"An unexpected finding is that the Ancients believed that tea might inhibit or prevent malaria. Modern researchers have not undertaken much research on the connection between malaria and tea. The curious coincidence that two of the most rapid (and hitherto unexplained) disappearances of malaria, in Japan between the fourteenth and sixteenth centuries and in Britain in the second half of the eighteenth century exactly coincided with the spread of tea drinking to the mass of the population, suggests a possible connection."

bonniepirateanne · Date: Aug 13, 2005

i love tea!

ddvmor · **I am the Jammie King!**

There you go. It has the official endorsement from Katie. In bold type as well.

bonniepirateanne · Date: Aug 13, 2005

yup. it's official

ddvmor · **I am the Jammie King!**

An important question came up in conversation last night.

Here in the UK, our workforce is kept going with the liberal supply of tea. When you have someone round to fix the washing machine, you give 'em a cuppa. When you see workmen doing roadworks, they're inevitable supping from a flask of tea. Without tea, the country would grind to a standstill.

If American's aren't such big tea drinkers... what do their workmen drink?

JonnyStead · **"I'm Lois!"**

Copper wrote:

Tea is the juice of life itself. Slurp. It would certainly be on my list of desert island drinks. Ooooo, i'm going to start another post!

Can we just concentrate on the desert island bit?

Lite · **I'm lite... and I'm fantastic!**

I dont like tea... it tastes funny

ddvmor · **I am the Jammie King!**

Funny, how? Are you sure you weren't just putting off milk into it?

sha76jam · Cpt Acorn Short of An Oaktree

I'm with Lite on this one. Tastes like gone off water.

ddvmor · **I am the Jammie King!**

Gone off water, hmm? You've clearly never had a decent cuppa.

Speaking of gone off water, I persuaded Stead to drink the week old water from a running bottle for a pound the other day. Ew. Guzzled it up he did.

Don;t think it was tea-like, though.

It's just occured to me that this must be a subject that everyone takes very seriously. No-one's gone for the comedy third option yet.

Yes, I said comedy. You're laughing with me, not at me!

Aodan · Teiam Member

ddvmor wrote:

If American's aren't such big tea drinkers... what do their workmen drink?

I'm not a workman - but from what I have witnessed - its usually water, although I have noticed that depending on what kind of workmen they are - beer is also readily available..

ddvmor · **I am the Jammie King!**

Poor, poor tea-less American workmen.

Maybe we should start a charity for 'em.

Andromeda · ***Proud House-Owner***

Aodan wrote:

ddvmor wrote: If American's aren't such big tea drinkers... what do their workmen drink? I'm not a workman - but from what I have witnessed - its usually water, although I have noticed that depending on what kind of workmen they are - beer is also readily available..

and massive amounts of coffee.

NateO · Vice JDK and Man of the People

Andromeda wrote:

and massive amounts of coffee.

Massive!!

We just got a new, whole-bean coffee machine at work today! Yes!!

bonniepirateanne · Date: Aug 19, 2005

did i mention i love tea!

JonnyStead · **"I'm Lois!"**

ddvmor wrote:

Speaking of gone off water, I persuaded Stead to drink the week old water from a running bottle for a pound the other day. Ew. Guzzled it up he did.

A pound is a pound dude...

ddvmor · **I am the Jammie King!**

A vertitable fortune

And Katie... Tea is the greatest.

Aodan · Teiam Member

Andromeda and I had a friend that used to eat all sorts of nasty things for money.

I gave him $5 to eat a tub of butter once..

Or we'd go to eat - and at the end of the meal pile everyone's leavins on a plate mix it all up and he'd eat it for cash.

Hey Mandie - didn't you eat mustard for money, or was that Jerry too?

ddvmor · **I am the Jammie King!**

Mmmmm.... mustard.

Funny. I can never persuade anyone at work to eat the contents of one of the condiment sachets in the canteen. Not even for hard currency. Wimps.

bonniepirateanne · Date: Aug 19, 2005

yeah my housemates were the same, i could get them to eat anything..

.. and another (guy) friend of mine (think it was a macho thing) would eat anything i asked as long as i put the words 'i dare you to' or 'i bet you wouldn't' .. the worst thing in memory was the giant tablespoon full of wasabi

ddvmor · **I am the Jammie King!**

Back on the subject of tea, did I ever mention that my lovely JDBB mug arrived the other week. Very nice it was too!

Andromeda · ***Proud House-Owner***

Aodan wrote:

Andromeda and I had a friend that used to eat all sorts of nasty things for money. I gave him $5 to eat a tub of butter once.. Or we'd go to eat - and at the end of the meal pile everyone's leavins on a plate mix it all up and he'd eat it for cash. Hey Mandie - didn't you eat mustard for money, or was that Jerry too?

I think that was Jerry. They got me to eat manhattan clam chowder with bananas for like $10 and cole slaw with all sorts of weirdness in it for a carton of cigarettes.

bonniepirateanne · Date: Aug 19, 2005

ddvmor wrote:

Back on the subject of tea, did I ever mention that my lovely JDBB mug arrived the other week. Very nice it was too!

IT ARRIVED WITH TEA IN IT!!???

that's ammmmmazing!!

ddvmor · **I am the Jammie King!**

And it was still hot