Tea

[fragment]

Originally Posted by godfry n. glad

Massala Chai?

Isn't that just spiced tea? Massala = mixed spices, chai = tea.

Man....marketing these days. Next we'll be calling toilet paper "le papier du buttwipe", or something similar.

Well, yeah, lot's of food and drink items done in the style of particular countries are referred to in the language of said countries. Practically every vegetable meal on an Indian menu translates as "potatoes and peas" or similar. Hell, many English words for meat derive from the French words for the animal. I guess that makes people who refer to "beef" pretentious suckers for marketing consultants.

[godfry n. glad]

Originally Posted by fragment

Well, yeah, lot's of food and drink items done in the style of particular countries are referred to in the language of said countries. Practically every vegetable meal on an Indian menu translates as "potatoes and peas" or similar. Hell, many English words for meat derive from the French words for the animal. I guess that makes people who refer to "beef" pretentious suckers for marketing consultants.

Yep...Arrogant and bellicose Normans with pretentions of French culture (as Norman culture was not too far from their Northmen roots*) are responsible. They imposed their pretentious usages upon the existing mixed Celto-Saxon population of the British Isles. Of course, the lickspittle sycophantic native underlings, gullible in their attempts to aspire to higher social station, aped their conquerers in matters like calling bovine meat "beef", pig meat as "pork" and chicken, goose and duck meats as "poultry". It's nuthin' but lowly social climber PR.

A couple of hundred years, and...viola!...a large violin.

uh...wait...a couple hundred years and it "became" English usage.

*anybody here know what French sounds like with a Norwegian accent?

[quiet bear]

Originally Posted by godfry n. glad

lickspittle sycophantic native underling

i think you just found Crumb's new screen name.

[D. Scarlatti]

Originally Posted by godfry n. glad

A couple of hundred years, and...viola!...a large violin.

Very good.

[fragment]

I don't think my humour card drivers booted properly yesterday, sorry godfry. As long as "marketing these days" extends back at least as far as the Norman conquest, I'll agree with ya.

[livius drusus]

Originally Posted by Miss Shelby

I have the same problem regarding sleep and I think that herbal tea helps. I think it must have some sort of relaxant effect. Not only do I find it helps with sleep, but it can calm my nerves after as stressful day as well.

Chamomile is a known (and delicious) sleep aid.

Has anyone tried the fancy new pyramid-shaped loose tea bags? Fancy Lipton.

[Shelli]

I'm trying Twinnings, English Breakfast Tea now. mmm.. very good.

[Shelli]

I think I found my new staple tea in place of oolong tea for a bit. At the normal grocery store this past weekend, I decided to try Tetley British Blend.

While it is not a specialty tea, it is definitely different from the regular black tea on the market and for just under 3.00 for a box of 80 tea bags, it's a bargain compared to the specialty teas.

[seebs]

I switched to iced tea from pop, then I got a crippling caffeine-withdrawal headache one day, so I switched to decaf.

Since this is pretty much all I drink, I've developed a fairly involved setup.

Equipment: Two 1-gallon rubbermaid drink pitchers, one twelve-cup coffeemaker, lots of decaf tea.

Procedure: Make a full 12-cup carafe of tea, using any four tea bags. Combinations are great; 50/50 good earth original and chai is a wonderful combination. In fact, good earth goes with nearly anything. Fill a pitcher about half way with cold water, add tea, top off, put in fridge. When it's cool, remove the teabags.

Note that a 12-cup coffee maker is about 60oz. It is not the 96 you would expect if you can do simple arithmetic. My guess is that a "cup" is about 5oz in coffee land.

[seebs]

BTW, I'm pretty sure Chai is also used to refer to a specific blend, because everything I've seen labeled chai has the same flavor.

[Shelli]

I've recently decaffeinated myself and my new current favorite decaf teas are Vanilla Chai, Vanilla Rooibos and Vanilla Maple.

[Ensign Steve]

So you like vanilla, then?

[Shelli]

Just a tad.

Actually, I used to hate vanilla.

[Legs]

We are going for Tea at a Hotel this weekend, the full Tea with little finger sammiches, scones, devon cream, tarts. I'd like to try a specialty variety but I usually end up getting a boring breakfast tea.

[Shelli]

Go for specialness, Legs! You can do eet!

[Shelli]

Originally Posted by Ensign Steve

So you like vanilla, then?

but not just vanilla.

[Shelli]

Right now I'm having a cuppa Vanilla Rooibos further flavored by my chocolate martini lip gloss.

[AnaBanana]

strong, sweet black tea in Turkey, which every carpet merchant is eager to offer

Loved it! We lived in Yolava Turkey we drank a lot of tea. How did you like the Turkish Coffee? I liked that as well, but you sure can not find it in Arkansas!

[Legs]

I was just in Turkey a few weeks ago, LOVED the turkish coffee, didn't try the tea though.

[livius drusus]

I remember the tea fondly from my childhood visit to Turkey. I loved the sugar-cube-in-cheek sweetening trick and the beautiful samovars.

[Shelli]

[Qingdai]

Samovar has got to be one of the most beautiful words.

I get a decalf Tazo Tea chai which is quite nice.

[Shelli]

Ooo, I need to get some of that.

[Ensign Steve]

AnaBanana, are you from Arkansas? I was just remarking the other day that we lacked Arkie members.

This afternoon I had a "Chai" flavored black tea. Whatever that means.

[fragment]

Believe it or not, I didn't have any genuine Turkish coffee in Turkey. I did have a fair few of those "coffees" - from all-in-one packets of instant coffee, sugar and dried milk - that they hand out on long bus journeys.