Re: How do you like your tea?

On 14.6.24 10:31 am, vickiebee wrote:
> Adrian wrote:
>> In message <[email protected]>, vickiebee 
>> <[email protected]> writes
>>> Citizen Smith wrote: [..]
>>>> I'm strictly a coffee guy. I've tried tea in all sorts of ways 
>>>> and I don't like it.
>>>> 
>>> W-w-what!? A Brit who doesn't like tea! Isn't there a fine for 
>>> that? v
>>> 
>> 
>> <waves to V>
>> 
>> Some of us try to avoid the stuff, the Bostonians had the right
>> idea, albeit for the (IMHO) the wrong reasons.  The last time I had a
>> cup of tea (during Afternoon Tea no less), I had to get a drink of 
>> something else to get rid of the taste.
>> 
>> No, it is not illegal.  At a former place of employment, when 
>> offering a visitor a drink, the standard question was :
>> 
>> "Are you civilised, or do you drink tea ?"
>> 
> 
> ;) Hi there Adrian, nice to see you. Do you like coffee? I read
> somewhere that there are (is?) a plethora of coffee drinking
> establishments popping up in the UK nowadays.
> 

There are a lot of new ones, but sadly most of them wouldn't know coffee 
from dishwater - there's a reasonable chance dishwater is what you will 
get in some of them. The big chains just serve hot water under many 
different names. Starbucks and McDonalds are the classic ones - how they 
can get coffee so hot and so tasteless is beyond me, but several others 
can give them a good run. We have a domestic espresso machine and grind 
our own beans for freshness. Quite a lot of travel in Europe has given 
us a taste for the real thing - the Italians are the best at it (and I 
hate to admit the French are quite good with it too).

> I prefer coffee with, or after a meal, and always with dessert. I drink hot
> tea by itself.

We got into the coffee habit for breakfast (it does smell wonderful in 
the morning), caffe lungo for breakfast, espresso (cappuccino for Sue) 
mid-morning, then switch to tea until after dinner, then back to the 
espresso.

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Tetbury, Gloucestershire , UK