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Re: Tea thread as suggested by WolFish!
« Reply #15 on: October 18, 2016, 07:10:54 PM »
I have a hard time with sugar now so I tend to "dilute" my store bought iced tea with brewed tea, and I've gone from 3 packets to one or none in cheap cafeteria tea.

When I am not feeling well I still like green tea. For some reason it it less nauseating than other things and it doesn't need any sugar at all. Most of the green tea I buy already made is kind of disgusting, but if I make it myself it doesn't taste like dishwater.

i am pretty sure that cross wiring is the reason i don't like bergamot. either that or because it's a perfume oil.
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Re: Tea thread as suggested by WolFish!
« Reply #16 on: April 02, 2017, 10:24:05 AM »
  I have some boxes of teabags here in the apartment, I may take up drinking spicy tea  :tea:
  in the evening in place of desserts.  It would be a good new habit to help me lose weight.
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Re: Tea thread as suggested by WolFish!
« Reply #17 on: April 02, 2017, 11:00:05 AM »
Earl Grey, Constant Comment, Lipton tea bags, apple/cranberry and peach/passion fruit.
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Re: Tea thread as suggested by WolFish!
« Reply #18 on: April 02, 2017, 11:04:05 AM »
  Peach tea sounds delicious.  Likewise orange and Bengal Spice.  8)
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Re: Tea thread as suggested by WolFish!
« Reply #19 on: April 02, 2017, 11:51:13 AM »
Thank you for the reminder. I had put the kettle on but forgot to make myself some tea.

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Re: Tea thread as suggested by WolFish!
« Reply #20 on: April 02, 2017, 11:56:17 AM »
Lipton ice tea powder made up, tastes just like the ready made bottled drink.
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Re: Tea thread as suggested by WolFish!
« Reply #21 on: April 02, 2017, 12:38:49 PM »
Again, here, not much of a green tea. I do  have some loose leaf green tea in my collection, but favourites are white teas and lady grey, only I make the latter using a hot infusion of freshly picked lemon balm and sweeten with a little honey. Absolutely divine. Especially when the balm is picked in flower, so the nectar helps sweeten.

Not a fan of earl grey, but lady grey is nice stuff. Had another good one recently, a black tea, flavored with some sort of rose extract. That was pretty good and didn't need anything else to improve it.  But white teas have always been my favourite, or lady grey made with balm decoction, can't buy that as one product, but lemon balm is a member of the mint family, and as such will spread like plague in a middle-ages slum, given half a chance it will take off and make a run for it, to the extent that its best grown in pots, or if in the garden, harvested pretty aggressively. Otherwise it'll take over given the slightest chance.

Easy to grow, and it helps smooth the tea out, because it contains compounds that inhibit GABA-transaminase, an enzyme that breaks down GABA, the primary inhibitory neurotransmitter in the CNS. So it has a calming, gently sedative type effect. More of a relaxant, perfectly safe, and has even been used by herbalists for treating fractious babies.

As far as taste changes go I've had a few. I used to like cointreau, but now I can't bear even the smell of it, the very thought of it makes my stomach twitch. And synthetic strawberry flavors. Used to tolerate them if not LIKE them, now I don't eat the likes of strawberry yoghurt, candies, drinks. Used to detest sandwiches, no matter what was in them, a texture mismatch type thing I think. In my first secondary school, I used to squash them into a ball and slap them up against the bottom of the table so I wouldn't have to eat them. Now, I don't mind them and actually make one if I'm hungry and its all there is.

Didn't use to be able to stomach vodka as a kid, I  gagged at the thought even before opening a bottle, now I can drink it by the bottle, downed in one and not so much as bat an eyelid. But cointreau...I'd throw up if I tried to drink it.
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Re: Tea thread as suggested by WolFish!
« Reply #22 on: April 02, 2017, 01:07:32 PM »
Dilmah has a nice black tea with roses and vanilla. Where I used to buy it they threw Dilmah out of their assortment. Have tried other black teas with roses, but none was as good as the Dilmah.

Lestat, how old were you, when you tried vodka for the first time?


Didn't use to be able to stomach vodka as a kid, I  gagged at the thought even before opening a bottle, now I can drink it by the bottle, downed in one and not so much as bat an eyelid. But cointreau...I'd throw up if I tried to drink it.
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Re: Tea thread as suggested by WolFish!
« Reply #23 on: April 02, 2017, 03:34:46 PM »
9-10.

Had a friend about that time that shocked pretty much everyone. Damon his name was. Myself and several friends of mine had seen him take a bottle of spirits and drink it like water. I think he was about 9 at the time.The cointreau thing was earlier, too much, monster hangover, never wanted to be within a mile of it again, ever.
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Re: Tea thread as suggested by WolFish!
« Reply #24 on: April 02, 2017, 04:41:50 PM »
in florida the tea assortment was much larger.
wouldn't mind something calming today, drunk with a good friend.
tea is good for that.
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Re: Tea thread as suggested by WolFish!
« Reply #25 on: April 02, 2017, 04:43:50 PM »
in florida the tea assortment was much larger.
wouldn't mind something calming today, drunk with a good friend.
tea is good for that.

  Now I picture you having a tea party with the gopher.  :tea: :tea: :gopher:
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Re: Tea thread as suggested by WolFish!
« Reply #26 on: April 02, 2017, 05:47:05 PM »
Hey ! I , too,  am up for being drunk with a good friend, wolfish .  :eyelash:

But can we skip the tea?  i just can't stand tea.

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Re: Tea thread as suggested by WolFish!
« Reply #27 on: April 02, 2017, 08:32:16 PM »
in florida the tea assortment was much larger.
wouldn't mind something calming today, drunk with a good friend.
tea is good for that.

  Now I picture you having a tea party with the gopher.  :tea: :tea: :gopher:

Just be warned, I've been known to wreck a tea party.  :zoinks:
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Re: Tea thread as suggested by WolFish!
« Reply #28 on: April 03, 2017, 07:51:56 AM »
in florida the tea assortment was much larger.
wouldn't mind something calming today, drunk with a good friend.
tea is good for that.

  Now I picture you having a tea party with the gopher.  :tea: :tea: :gopher:

Just be warned, I've been known to wreck a tea party.  :zoinks:

  If you start to get rowdy, you will be escorted out.  :police:  :gopher: :police:


   Either that, or the wolf will impose discipline!  Don't piss off the wolf! :gopher: :loup:
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Re: Tea thread as suggested by WolFish!
« Reply #29 on: April 03, 2017, 07:35:06 PM »
in florida the tea assortment was much larger.
wouldn't mind something calming today, drunk with a good friend.
tea is good for that.

  Now I picture you having a tea party with the gopher.  :tea: :tea: :gopher:

Just be warned, I've been known to wreck a tea party.  :zoinks:

  If you start to get rowdy, you will be escorted out.  :police:  :gopher: :police:


   Either that, or the wolf will impose discipline!  Don't piss off the wolf! :gopher: :loup:


Judging from the company he keeps, I'm guessing he likes a little rowdy.  :zoinks:
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