Tea?
Apr 24th 2007, 10:20 pm
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Re: Tea?
Oh, I give y'all 2 years before you too will be partaking of the summer beverage 
snowbunny, I recall going back to S.A. on vacation a few months after moving here and asking for ice. He brings me ONE ICE CUBE in a cup.....I'd gotten used to the ice very very fast in the heat we have.
snowbunny, I recall going back to S.A. on vacation a few months after moving here and asking for ice. He brings me ONE ICE CUBE in a cup.....I'd gotten used to the ice very very fast in the heat we have.
Apr 24th 2007, 10:25 pm
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Re: Tea?
Oh, the science of tea!
Apr 24th 2007, 10:28 pm
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Re: Tea?
Oh, I give y'all 2 years before you too will be partaking of the summer beverage
snowbunny, I recall going back to S.A. on vacation a few months after moving here and asking for ice. He brings me ONE ICE CUBE in a cup.....I'd gotten used to the ice very very fast in the heat we have.
snowbunny, I recall going back to S.A. on vacation a few months after moving here and asking for ice. He brings me ONE ICE CUBE in a cup.....I'd gotten used to the ice very very fast in the heat we have.
Apr 25th 2007, 12:08 pm
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Re: Tea?
Ahh brilliant post, only English people could have a conversation like this - I love it 
I had the same question myself (obviously) but would you adam and eve it i forgot to put some in my suitcase, so was forced to drink the super rank coffee they serve in these parts for a couple of days.
But, good news is, went to Walmart and picked up some Twinnings english breakfast, bit pricey but who cares, its tea. Then, a week later went to HEB and they only sell daddy boxes of PG Tips pyramid - I couldnt believe my luck!
Its the little things.
I had the same question myself (obviously) but would you adam and eve it i forgot to put some in my suitcase, so was forced to drink the super rank coffee they serve in these parts for a couple of days.
But, good news is, went to Walmart and picked up some Twinnings english breakfast, bit pricey but who cares, its tea. Then, a week later went to HEB and they only sell daddy boxes of PG Tips pyramid - I couldnt believe my luck!
Its the little things.
Apr 25th 2007, 3:34 pm
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Re: Tea?
Absolutely right. At my first works lunch when I arrived here, I spotted a large jug of what I thought was apple juice. It was a hot North Carolina day and I thought, "Excellent, just what the doctor ordered". It turned out to be "iced tea". 
Yack! So many people drink it here that "tea" means "iced tea", and if you want tea you have to ask for "hot tea". But then they don't know how to make tea, so it's best just to have a coffee, and enjoy tea in the comfort of home. I just about managed to stop myself from spitting it across the room in front of all my new colleagues!
Apr 25th 2007, 3:48 pm
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Re: Tea?
That will never happen LOL
Even if I did, by some miracle, grow to like it (i.e. someone gave me a taste of theirs and I decided "hmmm this is quite a tasty beverage"), I still wouldnt drink it out of principle. Tea is just supposed to be hot, nuff said.
Like I said, if I'm hot, I'll drink a proper cold drink, one that was DESIGNED to be drunk cold.
Even if I did, by some miracle, grow to like it (i.e. someone gave me a taste of theirs and I decided "hmmm this is quite a tasty beverage"), I still wouldnt drink it out of principle. Tea is just supposed to be hot, nuff said.
Like I said, if I'm hot, I'll drink a proper cold drink, one that was DESIGNED to be drunk cold.
Apr 25th 2007, 3:50 pm
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Re: Tea?
Yes we will! 
I'll bet you a box of PG Tips, how about that?
I'll bet you a box of PG Tips, how about that?
Apr 25th 2007, 3:57 pm
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Dukey, I never drank tea when I lived in England. Only person in my family - I only drank squash. My mum never made me drink tea. Strange thing, I drink iced tea with lemon almost every day here. Try it, you'll like it. I'll get back with you in August!
Apr 25th 2007, 4:03 pm
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shhhh don't tell anyone BUT even i like iced tea, no sugar but has to be loaded with ice
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Apr 25th 2007, 8:34 pm
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No, no.... it's OK....farmerswife to the rescue. Cold tea is really an old BRITISH tradition! Farmers and miners used to take it to work.
(Well OK, farmers would take it when there was no cider around)
Apr 25th 2007, 11:21 pm
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Re: Tea?
Are you sure that they didnt just take HOT tea to work and then forgot to drink it and so finished it off later, when it was COLD?
Makes more sense to me.