Zombie The Best Damn Tea in Portland

[Lanny]

Most of the tea I drink is not bastardized with anything, however I love both honey and milk in earl gray and other bergamot teas

I prefer jasmine tea but settle for lipton tea bag black tea. I sweeten my hot tea with clover honey which I stir slightly leaving most on the bottom for a sweet surprise when I get to the bottom of the cup.

I drink a lot of iced tea, again Lipton black tea, unsweetened except for a squeeze of lemon. It's got to be frozen enough for some ice to form inside. Yep, that makes it 32.01 degrees fahrenheit. Nothing quenches your thirst better.

 

[Lanny]

I drink tea with everything, never having acquired a taste for coffee. Meals and between. Due to insomnia, had to switch to chamomile with dinner, 5 PM being my caffeine cutoff. Sometimes splenda, when I go out it depends, some places serve "raw" sugar, which is not really raw, or honey. Chinese/Japanese tea is taken plain. Thai iced tea does not taste like tea to me at all, more like tea flavored milk shake. Don't like milk in my tea. In fact I consider milk in tea a British perversion.

On really cold days, a small dash of rum in tea.

There's not enough caffeine in tea to amount to anything. I think it's typically about 20% as much as a cup of coffee. I'm very sensitive to caffeine at bedtime but tea has no effect on me.

 

[Lanny]

What do you all flavor your tea with? I tend to use honey or splenda. Also tend to like biscuits with my tea.

Biscuits? You mean the kind my Alabama grandmother used to make with flour, water, baking soda and a hot oven? Or are you talking about the English kind where you hold your tea cup with two fingers and your little finger pointed high in the air and you nibble on your 'biscuit'?

 

[ripcityboy]

Biscuits? You mean the kind my Alabama grandmother used to make with flour, water, baking soda and a hot oven? Or are you talking about the English kind where you hold your tea cup with two fingers and your little finger pointed high in the air and you nibble on your 'biscuit'?

The Second. Hey man, if you're gunna do high culture might as well go all the way.

 

[UncleCliffy'sDaddy]

To the moon you say? I'd rather get sent to either to the old Mustang Ranch, the Love Ranch or the Cottontail Ranch.

What?? No Bella’s Hacienda in Wells NV....???

 

[Further]

34 posts in and nobody has made a tea bagging joke yet. Sad.

 

[UncleCliffy'sDaddy]

34 posts in and nobody has made a tea bagging joke yet. Sad.

No, shockingly civilized. Must be the tea........

 

[Lanny]

34 posts in and nobody has made a tea bagging joke yet. Sad.

What's tea bagging? Is this something you know about from experience?

 

[andalusian]

Anyone but me remembers the Tetley tea jingle from the 80s in the UK?

Get the round Tetley tea bag in your cup
Get the round Tetley tea bag, you'll like it a lot


Damn it, stuck in my head now

 

[BrianFromWA]

High tea in Britain was tea served at a high (dining) table, a more substantial meal with meat, cheese, etc. Regular tea was served at low tables (what we call coffee tables) and included sandwiches, bread and butter, cakes.

That was tea time at my resort in St. Lucia. 3pm Kobe sliders, a salumi/antipasto plate, cheese and exotic fruits with cocktails. I was thinking "this is gonna be expensive, but holy cow it's good"

 

[MarAzul]

Earl Grey!
Brew up a big pot everyday.
Keeps the gout at bay.

 

[Further]

What's tea bagging? Is this something you know about from experience?

Yes, that’s what I did to your wife last night.

 

[crandc]

There's not enough caffeine in tea to amount to anything. I think it's typically about 20% as much as a cup of coffee. I'm very sensitive to caffeine at bedtime but tea has no effect on me.

If you drink coffee tea probably has little effect but I don't drink coffee and I can assure you the caffeine has an impact.