Do Brits drink green tea?

[Saint_Ann]

They seem to take their tea very seriously. It did cost them the New World...sorta.

 

[dolf]

It's not the standard cuppa. It's like drinking mint tea. Not weird, but definitely less common. It's in the supermarket, but probably probably not in your grandma's cupboard.

 

[Champakian]

It's all I drink.

Only heathens take it black or do stupid shit to it like Earl Grey...

 

[Champakian]

Growing up was horrible.

The obligatory pitcher of boiled black iced tea to go with supper.
It took a ton of sugar to make that crap halfway palatable...

 

[dolf]

I've never met an American who made a decent cup of tea. In my experience, you guys treat it like coffee, leave it too long in water too hot, in an attempt to replicate the strength and bitterness of the bean. Tea is a subtle drink, and America isn't enamoured with subtlety.

 

[JohnnySavage]

I boil the hell out of some green tea bags and ginger, then pour it in a pitcher for iced tea. Hot tea is swill.

 

[dolf]

 

[dolf]

I boil the hell out of some green tea bags and ginger, then pour it in a pitcher for iced tea. Hot tea is swill.

The only flavour you're going to get is an overwhelmingly hit of bitter tannins.

 

[JohnnySavage]

And ginger

 

[where_is_RUTH]

Helped us get an empire (boiled water, so less disease, that the fuzzy wuzzies)

I'm guessing many of the natives wished we'd just kept our hands to ourselves.

Yes, I drink loose leaf tea.
Gunpowder is a go to green tea. This time of year a favourite is lapsang souchong

 

[dolf]

"Slurping Russian Caravan"

 

[oggbashan]

Our local supermarkets have about ten different standard English teas and about fifty alternative teas from green, mint, roobush, eucalyptus etc.

My wife and eldest daughter drink speciality teas. I prefer Darjeeling.

 

[Chernosoth]

No milk, just honey. I have black tea and calendula (marigolds), but no green until my next shopping trip.

 

[Sean]

Proper tea should be from an urn in a back street caff. The urn should never actually be washed out, merely topped up. You should be able to tar roads with the stuff.

 

[oggbashan]

In Australia I used to make tea in a billy can over an open fire.

One Imperial gallon of water, a 1/4 pound of basic tea; bliss!

 

[Wat_Tyler]

I prefer the Darjeeling also. And I do pretty well making tea. I used to game with some Brits and we'd chat about things between killings. They passed along a couple of tea tips.


I certainly don't confuse it with coffee.


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[girlsmiley]

I probably have 10 different types of tea in the cupboard. My go to is Dilmah. With milk. Goes with sandwiches and cakes and pretty much any food. I like chamomile to relax and I drink Roogenic when I’m chilling. Native Detox tastes really good with Manuka honey. Can’t say I’m a huge fan of green tea. I also like bubble tea.

https://roogenic.com.au/?gclid=Cj0K...8Y9H4QTgqBeriB8vt5TPIQyjAeRsCxDkaAjhDEALw_wcB

 

[Brains_N_Boobs]

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[hobbit.]

Proper tea should be from an urn in a back street caff. The urn should never actually be washed out, merely topped up. You should be able to tar roads with the stuff.

KArl max resents your mention of capitalist theft!!!

In Australia I used to make tea in a billy can over an open fire.

One Imperial gallon of water, a 1/4 pound of basic tea; bliss!

so you were the not quite so jolly swagman

I probably have 10 different types of tea in the cupboard.

I have a range similar, bio degradable bags, non bio degradable bags, square bags, round bags, pyramid bags, yorkshire tea (bought by the missus because the advert had sean bean with a sword in it) lancashire tea (pure nectar) out of date bargain tea, aldi own brand, lidl own brand - indeed a whole range.

 

[Saint_Ann]

I never really cared for it until I figured out I wasn't making it strong enough. Then I make plant food out of the whatever you call what's left over.

 

[PMarky]

I have a dim recollection that green tea had a vogue in the UK around 1800 before we nicked India. Since then, "Builders' Black" has been the go-to. Living in the US where they haven't brewed a decent cup of tea since 1773 poses certain challenges for a Brit.

 

[Brains_N_Boobs]

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[Champakian]

I learned to prepare tea in China.

I like Ti Kwan Yin...