I make enough to fill a Stanley cup. If there's half a cup remaining by lunchtime, it gets iced.
Yes, I am from the southern USA. No, neither my mom nor her mom (also from the southern US) made "sweet tea" as treacly as what lots of people make around here that makes your CGM sound off like a 3-alarm fire. If it's not sweetened just right (you should still be able to taste the tea!), I take it unsweetened.
Sir, while your tentative steps towards good tea etiquette are noted, there is never any justification for icing tea. Stop that at once. You have eschewed the teeth melting amounts of sugar. Now eschew the ice.
I don't know what size spoon you measure your tea out with, but I can assure you that a rounded high tablespoon of quality loose black tea leaves makes a six-cup pot plenty strong enough to put hair on a man's chest, even if you choose, for some reason unfathomable to me, to adulterate it with a bovine lactation product.
Btw, the teas from Mark T. Wendell (where Julia Child bought her tea) and Harney and Sons are excellent - easily far better and less expensive than the brands you mentioned. These purveyors will up one's tea game significantly.
Good on you for writing this treatise! Ginger Baker, the drummer of Cream, tackled the topic in 1992:
"Full-fat, skimmed or semi-skimmed milk is acceptable for this purpose, thus allowing for individual autonomy"
If you accept skimmed milk in tea out of a misguided respect for personal autonomy you are no longer a liberal and have crossed over to full, foaming-at-the-mouth libertarianism.
Best writing since Cynical Theories
Honestly, I thought zapping the water in the microwave and then tossing in a Lipton bag was sufficient, but I guess I'll try this method ;)
Alexander! A man who can make as much sense as you has no excuse to be talking this way.
I just had to do it! Also it’s our 250th birthday, we’re allowed one zing! 😉
Do better!
Builders Tea is good.
What are your thoughts on Typhoo?
I make enough to fill a Stanley cup. If there's half a cup remaining by lunchtime, it gets iced.
Yes, I am from the southern USA. No, neither my mom nor her mom (also from the southern US) made "sweet tea" as treacly as what lots of people make around here that makes your CGM sound off like a 3-alarm fire. If it's not sweetened just right (you should still be able to taste the tea!), I take it unsweetened.
Sir, while your tentative steps towards good tea etiquette are noted, there is never any justification for icing tea. Stop that at once. You have eschewed the teeth melting amounts of sugar. Now eschew the ice.
I’m going to do it the Japanese way out of pure spite now. Stop telling me what to do, Redcoat.
Now, where are my teabags….
I don't know what size spoon you measure your tea out with, but I can assure you that a rounded high tablespoon of quality loose black tea leaves makes a six-cup pot plenty strong enough to put hair on a man's chest, even if you choose, for some reason unfathomable to me, to adulterate it with a bovine lactation product.
Btw, the teas from Mark T. Wendell (where Julia Child bought her tea) and Harney and Sons are excellent - easily far better and less expensive than the brands you mentioned. These purveyors will up one's tea game significantly.
Good on you for writing this treatise! Ginger Baker, the drummer of Cream, tackled the topic in 1992:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6WKH_MQ1tSc
Best regards!
My biscuit of preference for tea dunking is a malted milk. I was saddened to not see it on the list.
"Full-fat, skimmed or semi-skimmed milk is acceptable for this purpose, thus allowing for individual autonomy"
If you accept skimmed milk in tea out of a misguided respect for personal autonomy you are no longer a liberal and have crossed over to full, foaming-at-the-mouth libertarianism.
As a coffee person, I am flabbergasted by this. There you go, I am out of the closet. Untasteful, I know.