Bubble Tea?

[Tonks]

> --- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "Mrs. Lee Storm" <n2fgc@> 
> wrote:
> >
> > [Jen Reese]:
> > | Tapioca reminds me, do others like bubble tea drinks with the 
> tapioca 
> > | pearls?  Yum, way too sweet but fun to scoop up the pearls. 
> > [Lee]:
> > Never heard of bubble tea drinks...where would one find these?  
> Something
> > new here.
> 
> 
> Jen: It's usually some version of milk, tea, ice, and flavoring 
> blended into a milkshake, except not that thick, more like a drink 
> than a shake.  You can get lots of different flavors; I've tried 
> coconut, different berries, almond...think that's it.  There are 
big 
> tapioca balls at the bottom and you get a huge straw to suck them 
up 
> as you drink.  Here's a picture and better description:
> 
> http://whatscookingamerica.net/BubbleTea.htm
> 
> Try one if you get the chance!

Tonks:

Ugh!! I can't imagine anything with tea and 'sugar' as good. I hate 
what is called 'sweet tea'. I guess they drink it that way in the 
South, and it is the one thing that I hate about visiting Canada. 
You can not get a decent ice tea anywhere in Canada. It all has 
SUGAR in it. Uck!!!  Now I have had some of the ice coffees and I 
don't mind sugar in that, but if I drink coffee by itself I only use 
milk or cream. And tea has to be 'straight' or on the rocks, but no 
sugar and no lemon either. I like a good cup of hot tea and have one 
every day. I think the British are the only ones who really know how 
to make it properly. A friend once told me that when you become an 
Anglican the first thing you must learn is the correct way to make 
tea.

And for Sister Magpie.. you could try one of those blended coffees 
that come in a can, I think they are called International coffees, 
that are mostly sugar and fake milk. They are good. A good drip 
coffee for smell and flavor is Hazelnut. Add a lot of milk. I like 
it the way the Italians drink it. They heat the milk and do half 
coffee and half milk. Very good. 

Keep the sugar for the chocolate.

Tonks_op
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