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[Jack A T]

My school has a tea club.  We meet up each week to drink tea and chat.  It's the best club.

As for what tea I drink, I tend to have a simple cup of English Breakfast with milk each morning.  I also have a large collection in my room, including a Cream of Earl Grey I quite like from a small tea house back in my home town (said place being the source of most of my teas).

[scrdest]

Every summer I make big stockpots full of lightly sweetened black or green tea, and throw it in the fridge. Not quite the level of tea appreciation that some of the people in this thread have, but I enjoy it

As a treat, I occasionally have bubble tea. There's a place that does it just the way I like it on the way home from work.

I'm doing exactly that right now. It helps a lot when it's so hot rain is replaced by the sky sweating.

[Pearofclubs]

Every summer I make big stockpots full of lightly sweetened black or green tea, and throw it in the fridge. Not quite the level of tea appreciation that some of the people in this thread have, but I enjoy it

As a treat, I occasionally have bubble tea. There's a place that does it just the way I like it on the way home from work.

I'm doing exactly that right now. It helps a lot when it's so hot rain is replaced by the sky sweating.

I'm gonna have to steal that phrase. It's just too perfect!

It also mixes well, if you need to have a drink after a long workday..

[DragonDePlatino]

I wouldn't say I have the most cultured taste in tea, but that doesn't mean I don't drink a lot of it. I live in the southeastern United States and thus, I pretty much run off of sweet tea like most adults run off of coffee. My favorite is Milo's Sweet Tea and at the moment I'm drinking some Red Diamond. I drink about...twice as much tea as all of my other drinks combined (minus water). It's kind of sad at times.

[flabort]

Cream of Earl Grey

Sounds like a Cambell's Soup. A rather tea-flavored soup.

How many people here cook with tea?
I heard an article on the radio (not recently) about cooking with tea, such as chai shortbread cookies or earl grey bread. I'm considering Green Tea and Blueberry Muffins, if I can convince my mom to let me bake (half of my family is on diets and my style of food pretty much disregards their diet's guidelines (like keeping track of calories, weighing each ingredient, etc)).

[ChairmanPoo]

I swear nothing compares to good quality pu-erh. I like the taste of matcha and I like how I can prepare it on the go quite decently (Basically I put it inside a thermo and shake it baby.


But I feel distinctly good after drinking pu-erh. I think it's something other than caffeine. With matcha I get my rush allright. But with pu-erh I get this feeling of wellness... really. I was genuinely sad today (for no particular reason. Or rather, for a number of reasons), and I didn't realize at the time, but around 20-30 mins after having drank my teapot of pu-erh (I should post a pic of my beautiful cast-iron teapot btw) I suddenly realized that I didn't feel that sad anymore. Furthermore, I was less tired, more comfortable, relaxed.... Shit. I felt well.  For the first time in the whole week I thinik.

[IcyTea31]

Long story short, pickles in tea isn't as bad an idea as it sounds. They give it an interesting spicy sourness.

[Helgoland]

I... would like to hear the long version, actually.

[Bauglir]

Long story short, pickles in tea isn't as bad an idea as it sounds. They give it an interesting spicy sourness.

That sounds horrifying but I guess I'll have to try it sometime. Meanwhile I've saved your avatar as "Swizzle Stickle.jpg" because how could I not.

[IcyTea31]

I... would like to hear the long version, actually.

In a forum game, I broke the fourth wall, and asked a few metaphysical questions as my character. I got this as a response:

The answer to that question is pickle, Icy Tea.

A pickle in your tea, to be precise.

At first I was insulted by this rudely surreal comment, but then I was struck by inspiration for a new avatar. One trip to the convenience store later (nobody asked why I only bought a single pickle. I guess they were afraid I would answer that question), I'm taking a picture of a cup of tea garnished with a pickle. I had mentioned my idea to my parents, who said I can do whatever as long as I do the work and don't waste any food. The pickle was easy enough to wash and eat on a sandwich, but I couldn't wash the pickle juice out of the tea. So I tasted it, and liked it. I drank the rest of the pickle-tea while editing the image to a more avatar-like form, then presented my masterpiece to the world to make it a slightly weirder place.

Good riddance to the bread stock photo, now my handle actually makes sense as I'm cool as a cucumber.

Meanwhile I've saved your avatar as "Swizzle Stickle.jpg" because how could I not.

I think I'm missing a pun and/or reference there.

[Bauglir]

A swizzle stick is a tool used to stir drinks.

[flabort]

*applauds creativity before leaving to be unable to monitor this thread for a week*

Not that I think anyone will get in trouble. This is Tea, not Rage.

[Helgoland]

-snip-

Are you sure it wasn't just an obscure buttsex joke?

[IcyTea31]

No, I am not.

* IcyTea31 shrugs.

[Rose]

I love coffee, and I absolutely detest black tea.