[HPFGU-OTChatter] Re: Clotted Cream

[Sharon Hayes]

>   Alla:
>
>   Heeee, you guys are making me SOOOOO hungry and
>   thirsty with all the
>   puddings, jams, scones, clotted creams. I love tea
>   and coffee with
>   half and half or milk and sugar or tea with sugar or
>   lemon.
>
>   OR just tea with nothing or honey.
>
>   Just quick question - what does that have to do with
>   being american?
>
>   Liking or not liking tea with milk? :)
>

Sharon:
Tea originally  was brought from India (or somewhere there) to England and was 
always served hot with milk and sugar to taste. It's a traditional English 
beverage.  Americans tend to put a different spin on it and most Americans 
drink tea iced, though as you say, some do drink it hot.  So Iced tea is very 
American and it's hard to get a cup of hot tea anywhere in the US unless you 
make it yourself.  In my experience anyhow.  I lived in the US for 5 years and 
used to get my mum to send me packets of leaf tea because I couldn't buy 
anything but tea bags in the US. Of course, this is New Orleans in the 90s, so 
things may have changed since then. You can probably buy leaf tea there now. I 
have to say though, that Americans make the best coffee.