Clotted Cream

[sistermagpie]

> 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.
>

Magpie:
Wait, huh? It's hard to get a cup of hot tea in America? 

Because I've never been to a restaurant or a deli where I live where 
you couldn't get hot tea, often of different types. Though granted 
not all places sell loose tea (though you can get it). But tea as a 
beverage is as common as coffee.

-m