What kind of a man would you be

[Alexa488]

If that double X had been XY where would you be. Is being a male a disability with no hope

Yorkshire Tea all the way.

Do you lot brew it the proper way - five minutes and then a proper good straining or are yes all a munch of soft southern jessies?

Terry, that's the most British thing I've ever seen. Like the Brit equiv of the Aussie video where an old bloke is in a little boat and a juvenile great white is swimming alongside raising its head out of the water trying to get at whatever fish he has and he thumps it on the nose and tells it to fuck off.

Chanakara Vanilla Honeybush

Is that what MN are having us call lady parts now?

First its the AGPs invading our space now its the tea fetishists i give up night all

Chanakara Vanilla Honeybush

Is that what MN are having us call lady parts now?

So glad it wasn't just me (as a coffee dyke) being a bit worried that a type of tea just screams lesbian sex! Crooned by K D Lang!

I never liked herbal teas - the scent promised everything, but they tasted like hot water that had been messing with the pot pourri.......

AngryAttackKittens it is isn't it? I just love it!

M&S Kenyan tea is an addictive revelation!

DJLippy you are the only person that makes any sense here. Felt very lonely till I saw your post and I LOVE tea!

Do you lot brew it the proper way - five minutes and then a proper good straining or are yes all a munch of soft southern jessies?

Well, I watched a programme with Victoria Wood about tea, and it set off a lightbulb.

I spend most of my time abroad, where I can't get British Tea (and it's all one cup bags) and for years I was confused by how weak it was - I'd wait like 2 minutes (which is unheard of with a UK teabag). Then finally I was somewhere where there were instructions on the box, and it turned out I was supposed to be waiting 3-5 minutes (!) - now that's fine for a pot of tea, but unacceptable for a teabag in a cup in my opinion.

And it turns out, that tea technology has been applied, and the tea blended for the British market is specially put together to brew quickly, because we (nearly) all make it straight in the mug these days, whereas other countries haven't got with that program yet.

And that's what I know about tea (well, and the difference between green, white and black tea, but that blew my mind)

I’m not a huge fan of tea, but we had mint tea on holiday in Morocco and it was delicious. Oddly satisfying in the heat. The locals called it ‘desert whiskey ‘.

Threads like this simply astound me. You are the most perverse and sick bunch of people on the internet.

Tea? Why talk about tea?

There is cake to be discussed and you lot focus on tea?

Fuck me.

I had the most heavenly tea experience many moons ago, I was at a music festival it was late (/early) bleary eyed and sat on the floor chatting in a group. Someone bought me a chai tea that I didn't ask for. I'd never had chai tea before. I thought it was amazing and just so soothing.
It's my favourite even now, especially vanilla chai by Pukka teas.

I can't do coffee. Only tea for me.

Drinking red label Aldi right now.
Weak and milky. Sometimes I accidentally forget the teabag and I don't notice.

Urban, at the risk of joining you in starting a good old fashioned flame war, you are so right. Cake all the way (non tea drinker here). Though I suppose perhaps we could be live-and-let-live. If tea enthusiasts want to discuss tea, that's fine by me, so long as they don't make me drink it too.

I don't understand, is cake and tea not an obvious, nigh even traditional pairing?

Tea and ginger nuts are a better pairing.
You can't dunk cake.
Well you can, but not as successfully as biscuits.

Why do anarchists drink herbal tea?

... because proper tea is theft.

Betty.

If we're speaking up for tea, and bags because using tea leaves at work is a mess, then it's Barry's Gold (in the red box).

Cake, biscuits. Now, it might strike some of you as a hybridisation too far and I initially reacted that way but I can only recommend that you retain an open cake gob mind and consider this loaf cake.

Wild Yeast: Pain d'Epices

"There’s no question that this a very homely looking loaf, but the plain-Jane appearance belies its seductive nature. The flavor derives mainly from anise, complimented by mustard powder and cinnamon, and from honey. I’m going to be living and breathing that anise-mustard-cinnamon-honey combination for quite some time to come. I’m going to be sleeping with it and injecting it into my veins. If I run out, I’m going to be trading my first-born child for it. Really.

This a dense bread, and Malgieri suggests wrapping the loaf in foil for a day or two before serving, to make it more tender. That’s fine if you’re the patient type. Or you can just do what I did, and dip it in your coffee or tea for instant tenderizing; the bread is substantial enough to take it. You may never eat biscotti again."

She's right. And, I write this as an acclaimed baker of biscotti ('acclaimed' is understood as being limited to friends, family, sports clubs, colleagues and the odd hungry looking family on a train).

Who sells Orange Pekoe tea? Reminds me of breakfast in a hotel in Sorrento nearly forty years ago.....

I think I would probably be much as I am now except able to do more physically and a father rather than a mother. (And obviously having a different mother).

I think the only changes would be ones which were created by socialisation rather than in my essential personality. So I think I would probably spend less time on childcare, housework and personal appearance and less on my appearance. I also think I would feel I couldn’t be as expressive of my emotions. And I would probably feel like I could get away with being a twat more often because men get more leeway.

I don’t believe anything about me would change as I don’t believe there are pink and blue brains. But the way I behaved might change because I would have a different set of societal expectations to fit in to. That’s all.

And I’d still drink bloody coffee.

Can't be arsed to RTFT, but if anyone has mentioned Lhasa Apso or whatever that cigarette-ash-tasting tea is called, then I'm seriously offended and may go to the Other Place.

"Don't understand the concept of tea at all - coffee all the way"

Are you arguing against tea's right to exist?