[HPFGU-OTChatter] Tea,

[Denise R]

Here is one area Lipton does excel.

In bottled form, during my first two years of college, I downed at least one
or two bottles of their Tea, no lemon, EXTRA Sweet Iced Tea a day.

I LOVED IT!

Still do. :)

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Horst or Rebecca J. Bohner" <bohners at pobox.com>
To: <HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, April 03, 2001 10:44 PM
Subject: Re: [HPFGU-OTChatter] Tea, Jam, and Ice


> > 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!
>
> I can believe it.  When my husband and I went to a conference in Florida
> shortly after we were married, everybody was drinking coffee.  I can't
stand
> coffee, so I immediately gravitated toward the pot of hot water and the
bags
> of Lipton tea.  "Aha," thought I to myself, "I have never had a good cup
of
> tea at an American restaurant before, but since I'm making this cup
myself,
> it's sure to be all right."
>
> Let me assure you that it was NOT all right.  Doctor it ever so nicely,
> there was no redeeming that bag of sawdust.  I poured it down the sink,
went
> back to my husband and said, "No wonder the Americans drink coffee, if
> *that's* all they've got for tea."
>
> I'm not even that picky, either.  I mean, I enjoy a cup of nicely brewed
> loose leaf when I can get it, but at home I buy Tetley's Decaffeinated
Earl
> Grey in little round bags and it suits me just fine.  Whoever buys the tea
> for Lipton's in the US, though, should be taken out and shot.
>
> > As much I like fine teas I also appreciate good ol' southern iced
> > tea...wich is full of ice and extremely sweet.
>
> Much as I adore hot tea, sweet is the only way that iced tea is drinkable,
> IMO.  Another nasty shock for me in American restaurants north of the
> Mason-Dixon line is that "iced tea" equals a cup of cold tannic acid with
no
> sweetening whatsoever.  And adding sugar after the fact most assuredly
does
> not help!  Give me a Snapple any day.
>
> > they don't have ice in any country I've traveled to, other than in
> > the US of course.
>
> There's almost always ice in drinks here in Canada.  In fact you usually
> have to tell them NOT to put it in, if you're that way inclined.  I don't
> care either way so long as the drink is cold, but I admit there's
something
> gratifying about tipping up the glass and crunching the ice when there's
> nothing else left.
>
> > This reminded me of jam from Britain (don't ask how), and especially
> > Lemon Curd which I found recently. Yum!
>
> Me, I envy the English their Devonshire clotted cream.  There is a tea
room
> about ten minutes from my hometown that serves scones with jam and clotted
> cream, but it's dreadfully expensive since the cream is imported.  Still,
> every now and then I have to splurge.
> --
> Rebecca J. Bohner
> rebeccaj at pobox.com
> http://home.golden.net/~rebeccaj
>
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