[HPFGU-OTChatter] Re: Potterverse characters and tea.

[Janette]

>
> --- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "xuxunette" <chonpschonps at ...>
> wrote:
> >
> >  I've been musing about how the HP characters take
> > their tea.
> >
> > I'd say Snape being from the north and a modest family
> > would favor
> > strong blends, and probably good Assam when he has the
> > means - maybe
> > with sugar, but never milk.
>
> Geoff:
> That's an interesting deduction with which I would disagree.
> :-)
>
> My background is that of being from a modest family in the
> North and I have always taken milk with my tea. Along that
> line of beverages, the only thing I will occasionally drink
> without milk is coffee.


montims:
and ditto from me.  I disagreed with all of the original poster's
deductions.  I agree Northerners like strong teas, but they usually drink it
with milk (and often with sugar, in my experience), and the average Brit has
no idea about Assam, or Darjeeling, or herbal teas...  I would pin Snape as
a PG Tips or Typhoo kind of guy, as in fact I would nost of the rest, the
only difference being in how strong/weak/sweet they take it.  When Brits
visit me in America, and see me drinking fruit teas, or my husband drinking
iced tea (something I still can't bring myself to do), they shudder and
exclaim... It's not "real tea", you see...  Tea is what you ask for in a
cafe, when they hand you a hot mugful, already milked...  No poncy holding
out a box full of different tea bags filled with tasteless dust to dip in
your barely hot water, which will be flavoured by the lemon wedge they
provide here...
While we're kind of on the subject - maybe this is one for Carol :)  - why
do Americans call it cream, and use a creamer, when what they mean is milk,
please?  My first few times of visiting places for coffee, and being offered
cream, I was thrilled, as I envisaged little jugs of thick yellow delight.
I drink my coffee black usually, but for that pleasure I would indulge.  But
no... it means (usually) little plastic tubs of skimmed, pasteurized milk,
or else a jug of ditto.  Then again, the fancier places ask me if I want
cream in my tea, which sounds disgusting, so I say no, just milk, and they
explain that is what they meant all along...  I've never really understood
that one...


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