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Tea is... [11 vote(s)]

...fantastic stuff. And really good for you too.
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...Fould stuff made from bits of twig. Don't drink it, it'll make you sick!
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...frankly Daz, you're boring us, now.
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Tea


Something of a discussion in the office.  Is tea good or bad?

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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!


 



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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

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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."



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i love tea!

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

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yup. it's official

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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?



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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?

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I dont like tea... it tastes funny

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

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

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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!



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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..

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Poor, poor tea-less American workmen.


Maybe we should start a charity for 'em.



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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.

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Andromeda wrote:


and massive amounts of coffee.


Massive!!  


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



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did i mention i love tea!

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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...

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A vertitable fortune


And Katie... Tea is the greatest. 



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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?

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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.



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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

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




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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.

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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!!

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And it was still hot

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