Re: Question for English tea drinkers

"blues Lyne" would love some suggestions on how best to give his/her uncle a trip back to England in a tea cup.

I think the ambience is more important than the actual brand of the tea. In which settings did your uncle drank tea? Was he working in factory or was he staying at the Ritz? In a big city or in the country? Etc.

- Find pictures of him with a tea cup. Recreate this picture. or

- Ask him. Let him choose the right tea and tea room.

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Julie C.
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He is a pastor and would spend several months in England as an exchange pastor. He would pastor their church and they would come to the US to pastor his. I'm not sure where exactly he was when he was there.

I'm not so concerned with finding the exact tea he drank while there, as getting him something that is distinctly English.

Thanks,

Blues

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blues Lyne
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Matthias Scholz

I would love some suggestions on how best to give him a trip back to England in a tea cup.

Thanks, Blues

Hi Blues,

Go and get some PG Tips tea bags then, that´s typical English. I´m sure, that there are loads of online English grocery stores or Indian (Asia) shops in the US which offer you those original PG Tips packs (one with 80 bags will do -- in England, it´s about 1.99 GBP). Put four or five bags in a pot, pour one litre hot boiling water over the bags, stir for one minute or less, remove the bags while sqeezing them for at least two seconds, serve the tea to your uncle with good, fresh, fat milk and he suddenly will believe, he´s back to England again.

Bye, Matthias.

Apparently I have not kept up with the trends in England for the last time I was there, they would not think of using a tea bag! Miles

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Miles
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Matthias Scholz

On 15 Jul 2003 10:12:48 -0700, ms snipped-for-privacy@web.de (Matthias Scholz) spoketh thusly.....:

Typhoo Tea (both loose and bagged) also makes a very robust cuppa.

Tee

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Tee

Twinings has many many varieties. It seems to be universally available in the hotels that I have stayed in on the Continent and USA. I think this is because they do that flashy box thing where several varieties are all neatly stacked in their individually coloured sachets. I look for the "English Breakfast" and this has usually been OK.

It's hard to be definitive because in my opinion the taste of tea depends on the water (flavour and temperature) that it is made with. Some teas work better than others.

Mind you, when you are presented with a cup of water that is already off the boil you tend to treat the resulting beverage just as liquid and accept any taste that it has (accepting the horrible mint flavoured stuff I had to drink in Germany when they ran out of "Schwartz tee")

Derek

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Derek McBryde

I think Twinings gets a lot of mileage from the Royal Seal that they've managed to obtain: "By Appointment of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II.." In general, I've found that to be a pretty good indicator of quality of goods in general, but I'm sure there's a lot of horse trading and "donations" that go into awarding those seals. One time in Japan, someone saw me drinking a cup of Twinings and wondered why I, as an American, was drinking British tea. I guess this was unusual to him for some reason. I simply turned toward him and deadpanned that I had special permission from the Queen. He was satisfied and moved on.

Bert

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Bert Fuller

"Miles" wrote

Apparently I have not kept up with the trends in England for the last time I was there, they would not think of using a tea bag!

I'm not surprised. After all, tea bags were invented and patented by the English.

(Yes, I know Americans prefer to think that tea bags were discovered by mistake by compatriotes. But, in my book, mistakes are just that, mistakes. Inventing is a volontary act.)

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Julie C.

"blues Lyne" wrote

They are fine.

Their best is the "Vintage Darjeeling Tea". But this one is almost never sold in the US.

"English Breakfast", "Queen Mary" and "Earl Grey" are your best bet.

Stay away from the regular "Darjeeling Tea".

Twinning is selling a sampler box with six of their tea blends. Could be interresting if you want to try them before making your final choice.

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Julie C.
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Matthias Scholz

Here, in Canada, Twining is one of the most affordable tea you can buy (~6$CDN/100g). I would be very surprised if their Earl Grey was flavoured with anything but real bergamot oil.

Just to say how perceptions can differ...

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Julie C.

Bagged stuff is a chemical additive.

Keith

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Keith Snyder

As far as I am familiar with (german) food laws, especially the declaration orders, this does most probably mean 'artificial aroma', otherwise it would have said 'natural' or (at best) 'Bergamott-oel'. According to these orders strawberry aroma made from shredded wood can be called 'natural aroma' because its made from a plant ;o) no kidding...

All the best, Ralf

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Ralf Schreiner
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Matthias Scholz

Well... germany is paradise for food-technicians ;o)

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Ralf Schreiner

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