Tea, Jam, and Ice

[Scott]

Starling wrote:
"We do so have twinnings!"
--We do? I'd love to get some but haven't seen any around here. I 
actually love hot tea a lot more than coffee. What could be better 
than a cup of tea and a good book (preferably HP :-) on a rainy 
afternoon...not even OT-Chatter. I like the tea you get at Starbucks 
too...what is it, Republic of Tea? 

"at the moment my loyalties are divided between blackcurrant and lady 
grey...although lipton's has some delightful flavored teas --go ahead 
and make fun but i love their amaretto flavour."

--Amaretto flavoured tea or tea flavoured with Amaretto...hmm the 
latter could be interesting. 

"I know most americans don't understand the concept of tea, but for 
some reason my mom and i both do, and it is a constant pain to walk 
the supermarkets and see all the **** they try to pass for "tea" 
here..."

--I saw a show (I think it was an episode of Martha Stewart) where 
they had a tea tasting. (A bit like a wine tasting, only not.) They 
were saying that the tea leaves which are picked for true teas are 
only from the top part of the plant (which I can't for the life of me 
think of the name of) but tea's like Lipton grind up everything 
including the bark! 

As much I like fine teas I also appreciate good ol' southern iced 
tea...wich is full of ice and extremely sweet. You can get cold tea 
in most places, but it's rarely as sweet as North Carolina tea. 

BTW, can anyone explain to me why England's beverages seem to be 
completely devoid of that frozen water stuff they call ice.  Actually 
they don't have ice in any country I've traveled to, other than in 
the US of course. I just don't get this. How can you live without ice 
(in anything soda, water etc...) 

"if anyone who's in the states knows of anyplace in NYC area that 
sells blackcurrant juice, i'll be forever indebted to you... (I 
became very addicted to blackcurrant juice in Austria while i studied 
there last semester...Johannisbeere g'spritzt, if anyone has been 
there -- the Rauch kind, for some reason there's a Formel 1 driver on 
the label these days...)  anyway...I miss it and the tea just isn't 
the same...has anyone seen anything even remotely like that?  i've 
been looking..."

--Sounds wonderful, Austria is such a beautiful place. (Well I've 
heard as I've never been there.)

This reminded me of jam from Britain (don't ask how), and especially 
Lemon Curd which I found recently. Yum! 

Scott