Hm... I usually get mine at the store. Arizona Black and White Tea lol. I think there’s a certain way that you have to make it if you make it yourself, otherwise it comes out bitter. You could probably look up a couple recipes and they’d work just fine. They seem fairly easy to follow. I’d recommend making your tea sweetened though, at least a little. As for milk, I don’t think so. There is milk tea which is served cold, but that’s a bit different from what I’m talking about, probably made differently too. As for the avatar... lol, I understand . looking forward to seeing the monkey again, but like this one too
You just make really REALLY REALLY strong tea, let it cool down. Then put lots of ice in it, so the strength of tea/ice is the same as the strength of tea to water when you drink it hot. I don't know if you sugar your tea (I don't) but you can sweeten it, or add whatever you like, including milk. I like hot tea and iced tea, but I never use powdered tea. Always 'real' tea, although I do use tea bags. I also LOVE coffee and iced coffee. In fact I'm going to have some now. I make the coffee very strong in a stovetop espresso pot, then add lots of ice. Wonderful.
very well then, I'll just go back to enjoying my iced coffee, while you suffer the heat, LOL. I'm not much of a tea drinker at all, but but ice tea is pretty good sometimes
Im gonna be honest, your descriptions of iced tea sound really unappealing I’m English though, and we tend to be snobs when it comes to tea.
Re-reading that post today I was actually mortified and asked myself questions, not least "why did you actually post this? (instead of letting the thought slip through your head)", and then "why on this thread?" This brain.
I've lost my copy of Night Watch. Hundreds of books and that's the one I want to read. Re-read, no less. Crap.
Spotted dick is fucking lovely. A nice, slightly sweet suet sponge with spicy dried fruit, served hot with treacle or custard. What the hell is there not to love?! Except the name, of course. The name makes it sound repellant, admittedly.
I grew up on sun tea, my mom would put the lemon slices in the container as it brewed. @mashers, I can't guarantee you'll like it, but like with coffee, there's a difference between iced tea and tea or coffee that's simply gone cold in the cup. When there's ice in the cup, and viewed with the expectation of it being a refreshing cool drink, it's quite nice, whereas coffee or tea that's just gone cool is... yeah, ugh.
Never took to spotted dick, TBH. Every mealtime at school, they'd write what we were having on a big whiteboard, and people used to rub letters off ("roast toes", etc.). Whenever we had spotted dick, the "spotted" would always disappear faster than blinking! I think someone once told me that Kool-Aid was the American Ribena. Vile stuff, never liked blackcurrant and apple. It took me forever and a day to work out that Cheetos were just transatlantic Wotsits, though! My First World Whinge is that the spell checker on my tablet is beyond useless. It never corrects my typos, instead preferring to spend its time changing stuff that isn't actually wrong, and it's a pig to change back. It won't let me change letters without re-writing the whole word, and it keeps inserting spaces where they aren't wanted or needed. As a final touch, where most autocorrects give up on a "wrong" word after two or three goes, this one's so convinced it's right and just won't accept that yes, I really did mean "past" and not "last". I've wrestled with it about eight times in this post alone.
To add to what's already been said, then there's the difference between cold brew coffee and iced coffee as well. Iced coffee is made hot, then poured over ice, which can give it a bit of a bitter aftertaste if it's done improperly. Cold brew is generally just coffee that's steeped in cold water for 24 or so hours, so it gets some deeper flavors without nearly as much of the bitter component. I'm American, and I live in Satan's asshole (Arizona), so hot drinks really aren't an option, especially around this time of year. Yesterday it was 115 degrees (46 c). I don't know about anyone else, but hot drinks just don't appeal to me in this kind of heat.
Me neither, Spence. My apartment in L.A. doesn't have central air, so in the summer I keep cold brew in the fridge for my morning coffee. It was 100 at the beach the other day, and 113 at my apartment. Glad I wasn't there.
Delivery man won't come upstairs cause he's afraid of getting robbed. I understand that, really, I do, but its still annoying. Least the Thai spot could do was tell me he wouldn't come up so I could, you know, get dressed. *Old man grumbling sounds*
Yeah, it's not fair to greet people naked when you called* for them to come to your place. Jehovah's Witnesses, on the other hand... *excepting, of course, out-call workers, if that's your thing.
