Tea (and a bit of Austria)

[Jen Faulkner]

On Wed, 4 Apr 2001, Scott 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?

Maybe it depends on the part of the country you live in...  any
supermarket around where I live (NJ), or any one I've been to anyway,
carries Twinings.  (In fact, the one I go to regularly (Acme) has one
whole floor-top section of shelves filled with teas of various sorts.)
Trader Joe's, the other grocery I frequent, doesn't carry it, I don't
think, but it's otherwise such a great store I won't hold that against
them! *g*)

Starbucks' tea, like their coffee, is ridiculously overpriced,
IMO...  you can buy the Tazo tea they serve in the grocery by the box
for a lot less, and it's far from my favorite kind of tea... I'm
actually quite partial to Bigelow's Oolong tea...

You know, it's funny; I drink quite a bit of tea now (since I hate
coffee and otherwise one would be left out, which is why I started
drinking it, though now I drink it, you know, on purpose *g*), but
despised it as a child...  because any time I had it, people would add
milk to it.  I really, really don't like milk...  including tea-flavored
milk.  Yecch.  So I thought for years that it was tea I didn't like,
when it was really just the milk...

> 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.

See, now, I'm one of those Northerners who'll drink unsweetened iced
tea; I never, ever like bottled iced tea, because it's so sweet...  

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

Oh, Austria is beautiful...  I loved, loved, loved Salzburg (second
prettiest city I've ever been to, after Prague), though the whole Mozart
focus can get a bit overwhelming.

--jen, about to make, you guessed it, tea :)

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