Apparently I have a problem.
October 25, 2010 12:55 PM Subscribe
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I liked the part where the person made tea.
Also, Orwell says you should put the milk in after the tea.
posted by jedicus at 12:58 PM on October 25, 2010 [1 favorite]
Also, Orwell says you should put the milk in after the tea.
posted by jedicus at 12:58 PM on October 25, 2010 [1 favorite]
...when are they going to get to the fireworks factory!?
posted by The Whelk at 12:58 PM on October 25, 2010 [1 favorite]
posted by The Whelk at 12:58 PM on October 25, 2010 [1 favorite]
Also, Orwell says you should put the milk in after the tea.
Bitter wars have been thought over that sort of thing.
Note the use of bags in a teapot. This is clearly flamebait.
posted by Artw at 12:59 PM on October 25, 2010
Bitter wars have been thought over that sort of thing.
Note the use of bags in a teapot. This is clearly flamebait.
posted by Artw at 12:59 PM on October 25, 2010
Milk should not be in tea. Sugar, maybe. Sugar and lemon if you're just starting. But I remains, now and forever, against milk in tea.
posted by GuyZero at 12:59 PM on October 25, 2010 [2 favorites]
posted by GuyZero at 12:59 PM on October 25, 2010 [2 favorites]
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Look, just go have some hippy twigs in water or whatever it is that you people call tea.
posted by Artw at 1:00 PM on October 25, 2010 [7 favorites]
Location: Sunnyvale, CA
Look, just go have some hippy twigs in water or whatever it is that you people call tea.
posted by Artw at 1:00 PM on October 25, 2010 [7 favorites]
Wroooooong.
1) Real addicts have a zojirushi so there is hot water available AT ALL TIMES.
2) The tea leaves seem to be restricted by some sort of pouch--I don't understand?
3) Introduction of non-tea items to the tea.
posted by phunniemee at 1:02 PM on October 25, 2010 [7 favorites]
1) Real addicts have a zojirushi so there is hot water available AT ALL TIMES.
2) The tea leaves seem to be restricted by some sort of pouch--I don't understand?
3) Introduction of non-tea items to the tea.
posted by phunniemee at 1:02 PM on October 25, 2010 [7 favorites]
Actually, my milk/tea opinion is the best one.
posted by theodolite at 1:02 PM on October 25, 2010 [1 favorite]
posted by theodolite at 1:02 PM on October 25, 2010 [1 favorite]
What, if I watched the whole thing then I'm a tea addict? You could have asked, "Do you now resort to free-basing tea to get the same high you used to when you first started injecting tea?"
posted by Increase at 1:02 PM on October 25, 2010 [1 favorite]
posted by Increase at 1:02 PM on October 25, 2010 [1 favorite]
"Ode to Tea" by Richard Trott Fisher:
O TEA! so fresh, so delicately fragrant,
So never palling, pure and comfortable!
Truly thy birth-placo is well named Celestial,
For thou dost bear
A type of heaven graven in thy nature:
I read it there.
Thou art no Siren luring us to danger:
Unlike thy sister of the sunny hillside,
The flaunty Vine, who pours her sparkling nectar
Of heavenly smell,
While in the bowl there lurks invisible
A smack of hell:
Pregnant of wild desire and frantic folly,
And fairy sounds that seem to chaunt our names
And welcome us to brilliant enterprise;
While in the air
A painted beacon tempts us to the swamp
Of sad Despair.
But Tea! thou innocent, that, like a child
Playing before us, mak’st the world look gay!
With thee the maid may trust her forward fancy;
The matron sage
May safely count with thee her oft-told reckoning
Of bygone age.
For thee the weakling tossing on his pillow
With nervous longing watches in the morning:
The tinkling cup strikes on his ear like music;
Thy odorous breath
Wafted around redeems his flagging spirit,
As if from death.
To me, who wander idly down life’s byways,
Thou art the spring of health and fantasy.
So morn and evening will I court thy presence,
To pay my vow;
And fondly linger at thy pleasant fountain,
As I do now.
posted by fight or flight at 1:04 PM on October 25, 2010 [4 favorites]
O TEA! so fresh, so delicately fragrant,
So never palling, pure and comfortable!
Truly thy birth-placo is well named Celestial,
For thou dost bear
A type of heaven graven in thy nature:
I read it there.
Thou art no Siren luring us to danger:
Unlike thy sister of the sunny hillside,
The flaunty Vine, who pours her sparkling nectar
Of heavenly smell,
While in the bowl there lurks invisible
A smack of hell:
Pregnant of wild desire and frantic folly,
And fairy sounds that seem to chaunt our names
And welcome us to brilliant enterprise;
While in the air
A painted beacon tempts us to the swamp
Of sad Despair.
But Tea! thou innocent, that, like a child
Playing before us, mak’st the world look gay!
With thee the maid may trust her forward fancy;
The matron sage
May safely count with thee her oft-told reckoning
Of bygone age.
For thee the weakling tossing on his pillow
With nervous longing watches in the morning:
The tinkling cup strikes on his ear like music;
Thy odorous breath
Wafted around redeems his flagging spirit,
As if from death.
To me, who wander idly down life’s byways,
Thou art the spring of health and fantasy.
So morn and evening will I court thy presence,
To pay my vow;
And fondly linger at thy pleasant fountain,
As I do now.
posted by fight or flight at 1:04 PM on October 25, 2010 [4 favorites]
Bitter wars have been thought over that sort of thing.
Luckily, they never go beyond the planning stage, as you can't go off fighting before you've had a cup of tea, but then the whole thing starts all over again.
posted by daniel_charms at 1:04 PM on October 25, 2010 [1 favorite]
Luckily, they never go beyond the planning stage, as you can't go off fighting before you've had a cup of tea, but then the whole thing starts all over again.
posted by daniel_charms at 1:04 PM on October 25, 2010 [1 favorite]
MILKFIRSTERS UNITE
posted by elizardbits at 1:04 PM on October 25, 2010 [1 favorite]
posted by elizardbits at 1:04 PM on October 25, 2010 [1 favorite]
Sugar? Nonsense. A little honey perhaps, but not sugar.
Anyway, I don't care for milk in mine anyway, except spiced tea drinks like Thai-style tea, but not in regular tea. But were I to use it I'd add the milk to the tea, not the other way around. I don't see how else to properly regulate the amount of milk added, especially if you don't normally add any at all.
And lemon. I mean really. Just have some Lipton in a can already.
posted by jedicus at 1:04 PM on October 25, 2010
Anyway, I don't care for milk in mine anyway, except spiced tea drinks like Thai-style tea, but not in regular tea. But were I to use it I'd add the milk to the tea, not the other way around. I don't see how else to properly regulate the amount of milk added, especially if you don't normally add any at all.
And lemon. I mean really. Just have some Lipton in a can already.
posted by jedicus at 1:04 PM on October 25, 2010
You definitely have a problem if you're using bags. Get this out of my sight!
posted by katillathehun at 1:05 PM on October 25, 2010
posted by katillathehun at 1:05 PM on October 25, 2010
You can't get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me. - C.S. Lewis
posted by Joe Beese at 1:05 PM on October 25, 2010 [2 favorites]
posted by Joe Beese at 1:05 PM on October 25, 2010 [2 favorites]
I have fallen off the wagon. For I am a slave to tea.
posted by munchingzombie at 1:06 PM on October 25, 2010
posted by munchingzombie at 1:06 PM on October 25, 2010
In my opinion, this is not how SLYT is done.
posted by hermitosis at 1:06 PM on October 25, 2010
posted by hermitosis at 1:06 PM on October 25, 2010
Wait. I think I can get it now. The video is just a pretext. The real litmus test for tea addiction is whether you participate in online arguments about tea consumption like this one.
posted by jedicus at 1:07 PM on October 25, 2010 [4 favorites]
posted by jedicus at 1:07 PM on October 25, 2010 [4 favorites]
An additional must read for tea enthusiasts: A Nice Cup of Tea and A Sit Down.
Their biscuit reviews are especially useful.
posted by fight or flight at 1:07 PM on October 25, 2010 [1 favorite]
Their biscuit reviews are especially useful.
posted by fight or flight at 1:07 PM on October 25, 2010 [1 favorite]
First of all, he puts way too little milk in. What was that, like an eyedropperful?
I don't have anything against putting the milk first, but I never do it that way.
And no sugar? No way.
Loose tea is a wondrous luxury. I'm not living luxuriously.
posted by blucevalo at 1:08 PM on October 25, 2010
I don't have anything against putting the milk first, but I never do it that way.
And no sugar? No way.
Loose tea is a wondrous luxury. I'm not living luxuriously.
posted by blucevalo at 1:08 PM on October 25, 2010
Loose tea is a wondrous luxury.
I dunno about luxury in the expensive sense. It's pretty cheap if you buy a pound at once, and unlike coffee it keeps practically forever, so buying in bulk is sensible.
posted by jedicus at 1:09 PM on October 25, 2010
I dunno about luxury in the expensive sense. It's pretty cheap if you buy a pound at once, and unlike coffee it keeps practically forever, so buying in bulk is sensible.
posted by jedicus at 1:09 PM on October 25, 2010
Obviously the correct answer to the test is, "They didn't swish a bit of hot water in the the tea pot first." (Barbarians!)
posted by ErikaB at 1:09 PM on October 25, 2010 [2 favorites]
posted by ErikaB at 1:09 PM on October 25, 2010 [2 favorites]
remind me to never make you tea bluevalo, as you clearly don't drink it.
posted by The Whelk at 1:10 PM on October 25, 2010
posted by The Whelk at 1:10 PM on October 25, 2010
Personally, I only find it acceptable to cut my tea with gin. Anything else overpowers the flavor of the tea. Bergamot is also an exception to this rule in the case of Earl Grey.
That being said, I try to maintain a pluralistic attitude in regard others and tea. I request that if one is going to sully an Earl Grey (or, forbid, a sencha) with some dairy product that my eyes be spared from witnessing the act.
posted by banal evil at 1:12 PM on October 25, 2010
That being said, I try to maintain a pluralistic attitude in regard others and tea. I request that if one is going to sully an Earl Grey (or, forbid, a sencha) with some dairy product that my eyes be spared from witnessing the act.
posted by banal evil at 1:12 PM on October 25, 2010
"Do you now resort to free-basing tea to get the same high you used to when you first started injecting tea?"
How to freebase coffee.
posted by empath at 1:16 PM on October 25, 2010
How to freebase coffee.
posted by empath at 1:16 PM on October 25, 2010
FINALLY A TEA PARTY I AS AN AMERICAN CAN GET BEHIND
posted by infinitywaltz at 1:16 PM on October 25, 2010 [2 favorites]
posted by infinitywaltz at 1:16 PM on October 25, 2010 [2 favorites]
Man, would you people hate this Taiwanese powdered-milk+sugar+tea packet I'm drinking.
posted by maryr at 1:16 PM on October 25, 2010
posted by maryr at 1:16 PM on October 25, 2010
If minimizing the maximum temperature reached by the milk is a goal (i.e. to avoid "scalding" the milk), then milk first is better.
(I don't care, myself.)
posted by CaseyB at 1:17 PM on October 25, 2010
(I don't care, myself.)
posted by CaseyB at 1:17 PM on October 25, 2010
Real addicts have a zojirushi so there is hot water available AT ALL TIMES.
Problem drinkers have the four-liter Zojirushi and secretly hope that it will break so that they will have an excuse to buy the five-liter Zojirushi so they don't have to keep refilling it every other thing. And they wonder why Zojirushi doesn't make one bigger than five liters.
I CAN QUIT ANY TIME I WANT.
posted by enn at 1:17 PM on October 25, 2010 [2 favorites]
Problem drinkers have the four-liter Zojirushi and secretly hope that it will break so that they will have an excuse to buy the five-liter Zojirushi so they don't have to keep refilling it every other thing. And they wonder why Zojirushi doesn't make one bigger than five liters.
I CAN QUIT ANY TIME I WANT.
posted by enn at 1:17 PM on October 25, 2010 [2 favorites]
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