Tea, not coffee - Totally Off the Beam

[bluesqueak]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "meidbh" <meidbh at y...> wrote:
> 
> 
> Steve:
> "On to another beam...To what extent is Ice Tea available in 
Britain?
> The next logical question is why? Why would a great tea drinking 
> country like Britain (OK, group of countries) not seize every 
excuse
> they could find to drink tea."
> 
> Meidbh:
> Errr - it's pretty cold here most of the time. So a hot cuppa tea 
> is the thing. And the cool drink of choice in summer tends to be 
> beer!M.

Yup. For some reason the thought of cold tea makes us Brits shudder. 
We can manage Iced Coffee, but Iced tea? No. Despite several 
attempts to market it, it doesn't catch on. 

We often drink hot tea in the heat of summer (which is usually about 
70 degrees farenheit, for a maximum of two weeks. 80 degrees 
is 'bloody hot today'. 90 degrees is national headline time). 

The theory is that hot tea will make you sweat, therefore cooling 
you down. Go figure.

Pip!Squeak