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Wed Jul 09, 2008 13:20 pm How do you drink your tea? |
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Hi Ralf,
Tea first. Then the milk, only a little. Can't stand weak tea. And that reminds me. When I first visited Germany 50 years ago, I met a charming family who invited me to stay with them a couple of days. At a certain point (around tea time I suppose) they ceremoniously offered me a hot drink. As I sipped it before an expectant audience, I remarked: I've always wanted to have a cup of real German coffee. There was a silence. The father of the family with an anguished look on his face said: But that's tea, Alan.
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Wed Jul 09, 2008 14:27 pm How do you drink your tea? |
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I like tea tepid and not too strong (even weak). But most of the time I drink coffee. |
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Wed Jul 09, 2008 14:35 pm How do you drink your tea? |
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Hi Alex,
Some Brits call their tea 'char' and someone once told me that this colloquial expression is derived from the Russian word for tea. Is that true? _________________ Test of English as a Foreign Language TOEFL Preparation & TOEFL Vocabulary Learn more about: Ralf Breheny |
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Wed Jul 09, 2008 14:38 pm How do you drink your tea? |
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Hi, Ralf
I'm not sure, but the word chair very closely resembles the Russian word for tea (which is Чай [chai])  |
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Wed Jul 09, 2008 14:41 pm How do you drink your tea? |
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All right, that sounds more like chai then. Maybe you should try this variety since it's supposedly just as strong as coffee. But ever so much healthier  _________________ Test of English as a Foreign Language TOEFL Preparation & TOEFL Vocabulary Learn more about: Ralf Breheny |
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Wed Jul 09, 2008 17:00 pm How do you drink your tea? |
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I swear by this beverage. There is no single day that I go without it.
My favourites in any order are:
1)Milk tea-with ginger, cinnamon,cloves,star anis-chai like 2)Karada meguricha-it's a brand actually and it contains eight Eastern ingredients including Korean ginseng, and four types of tea including pu-erh tea and oolong tea 3)Houji-cha 4)Oolong 5)Green tea-known here as Ocha 6)Matcha-thick green tea
Any tea, really. If people make tea out of green grass, I think I'll drink it too. _________________ Okotteru Papa mo suki dakedo, nikoniko yasashii Papa ha mo~tto suki! |
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Wed Jul 09, 2008 19:09 pm How do you drink your tea? |
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| Ralf wrote: | | Today it happened again; someone saw me pouring milk into my (black) tea and said "You English are strange!". The cheeky git. | My dad used to drink his tea with milk, and I used to tease him regularly about the extreme weirdness of this habit. 
Seriously, though, I don't drink tea very often, but when I do, it is generally one of these: - hot black tea (preferably fairly weak) - iced tea with lemon and a little bit of sugar . _________________ Amy
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Wed Jul 09, 2008 19:23 pm How do you drink your tea? |
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Hi Ralf
Any habits of one culture seem strange to another, innit. 
Just point out the habit of pouring (ruining) condensed milk into good coffee (typically German, and regional to Saxony).
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Wed Jul 09, 2008 19:41 pm How do you drink your tea? |
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| stew.t. wrote: | | Just point out the habit of pouring (ruining) condensed milk into good coffee (typically German, and regional to Saxony). | Saxony's not alone! That's a typical way to destroy a perfectly good cup of coffee in Swabia, too.  . _________________ Amy
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Wed Jul 09, 2008 19:47 pm How do you drink your tea? |
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| Ralf wrote: | Your comment reminded me of a guy I heard on the bbc breakfast show the other day, and here's what I found on youtube. Make sure you don't miss the end of the clip!
Not bad, the young fella  |
Hi Ralf,
I agree -- the guy is quite funny. Did you notice that he says "least but not last"? Did you do that intentionally or was it just a slip of the tongue? _________________ Test Of English for International Communication TOEIC Preparation & TOEIC Vocabulary |
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Wed Jul 09, 2008 23:20 pm How do you drink your tea? |
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| Torsten wrote: | | Did you notice that he says "least but not last"? Did you do that intentionally or was it just a slip of the tongue? |
Yeah, that's just a little pun. _________________ Test of English as a Foreign Language TOEFL Preparation & TOEFL Vocabulary Learn more about: Ralf Breheny |
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Wed Jul 09, 2008 23:25 pm How do you drink your tea? |
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| NinaZara wrote: | I swear by this beverage. There is no single day that I go without it.
My favourites in any order are:
1)Milk tea-with ginger, cinnamon,cloves,star anis-chai like 2)Karada meguricha-it's a brand actually and it contains eight Eastern ingredients including Korean ginseng, and four types of tea including pu-erh tea and oolong tea 3)Houji-cha 4)Oolong 5)Green tea-known here as Ocha 6)Matcha-thick green tea
Any tea, really. If people make tea out of green grass, I think I'll drink it too. |
Nina, your country's far to civilised for mortal European standards. Although I've once spat out green tea, I'm only familiar with Barry's and Lyon's black tea. They both come in bags, but there's a pretty safe way to distinguish them. One's square, you see, whereas the other is round  _________________ Test of English as a Foreign Language TOEFL Preparation & TOEFL Vocabulary Learn more about: Ralf Breheny |
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Thu Jul 10, 2008 17:10 pm How do you drink your tea? |
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Yes, green tea can be intimidating for some. In Malaysia, they add sugar to it.
It was around two years ago when green tea started gaining its popularity in Malaysia. I tried it, assuming it was the usual green tea, like the one I am used to in Japan. I nearly spat it out. Who on earth would add sugar to green tea? Preposterous. Simply outrageous. Down right blasphemous.
Although my sisters enjoy it, me, never again.
Whenever they refer to it as green tea, I always reply "Oh, the one you think is green tea?"
By the way, black tea is already good enough for health. _________________ Okotteru Papa mo suki dakedo, nikoniko yasashii Papa ha mo~tto suki! |
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