Do Americans drink tea?

[bricolage]

Question to the Americans here, do you drink tea ('hot tea', not iced tea)? Am curious.

[citizen of industry]

Was working fast food at 17 in the US when a customer, a British doctor in scrubs, ordered tea. So I gave him the Lipton tea bag with the styrofoam cup full of hot water, as per the menu. Then he starts screaming at me, "where the fuck is the milk!?" And I'm thinking tea? Milk? What the fuck are you talking about you crazy fuck? So I charge him for the jug of milk we carried, which was more expensive then the tea, and then he stormed out of the joint. That night I talked to some people, discovered that Brits put milk in their tea (a completely foreign idea to me) and gave it a try. It was okay, but coffee was better.

Now I live in Asia- people love tea and there are many varities, but I mostly like water or juice. Jasmin tea has a pretty good smell and flavor, and green tea is alright if there isn't any coffee, but I won't pay for either.

My family is from Arizona - they love iced tea, I don't.

[Susurrus]

I enjoy a cuppa about once a day.

[NoOneIsIllegal]

yes, we occasionally know what is up.

[thefinalmarch]

Tea is the drink of satan.



And so is coffee. Come at me bro.

[RedAnarchist]

I prefer green tea or peppermint tea, personally. I've tried black tea without milk and it's OK, but isn't something I would drink often.

[NoOneIsIllegal]

Tea is the drink of satan.



And so is coffee. Come at me bro.
hail satan and his fresh brewed beverages \m/

[eyeheartlenin]

In response to what sailorjay, my fellow prole, wrote, Brits drink tea with milk because it is either a fact or an urban legend there that the rate of esophogeal cancer went down when people in the UK started adding milk to their tea. The idea is that milk binds the tannins in tea, which may play a role, people think, in carcinogenesis. Being prudent, I always put skim milk, a lot of it, in my tea.

If there were a twelve-step program for teadrinkers, I would consider attending, since, when I was a reputable person with an actual job (I am now retired), I drank a lot of tea every day to keep alert, because I had a commute between RI and Boston 5 days a week, for nine phreakin' years. Everyone on that commute is exhausted on the after-work train back to Rhode Island, tea or no tea.

Forgive my digression; revleft is kind of a social network for me.

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The remark by thefinalmarch, that tea and coffee come from Hades, is interesting, since Mormons believe that tea and coffee heat up the brain, if I remember correctly, and, consequently, they drink Postum. So the tea and coffee thing may be the one matter in which cde finalmarch agrees with the Latter Day Saints.

[Dumb]

I'll have some tea if it's plain, cold, black, bitter, without ice. Otherwise...meh.

[coda]

i drink green tea multiple times per day..

[Il Medico]

Fuck yes!

[Rusty Shackleford]

what is tea?

[The Douche]

I drink black tea with a good amount of sugar or honey. I also drink green tea with honey.

I also drink sweet iced tea every day during the summer.

[Metacomet]

All sorts

Green tea.

herbal tea.

Earl Grey.

I don't use tea bags either. Once I started using loose-leaf tea there was no going back.

[tbasherizer]

On my opening shift days, all I remember of my mornings is stumbling into the kitchen, starting the kettle, plunking a bag of Twining's Earl Grey into a cup, pouring and drinking that bitter, slightly orange-y goodness down.

[Susurrus]

My fav is green or white mixed with chai.

[Pioneers_Violin]

All kinds of tea here...

I used to have some English friends.... they do put a lot of milk in their tea!
As a joke ask them: "Will you be having some tea in your milk?"

I drink tea strong and plain. Green teas were my favorites for years but lately I've stumbled upon Russian teas and pow! I got addicted.

Stop by for Tea... No Teabags ever!

[Agent Ducky]

Occasionally, with 9,001 spoonfuls of sugar.

My mom is an avid tea drinker tho.

[socialistjustin]

Iced tea is fucking amazing. Nothing better than grabbing a jug of that after being out in the hot sun.

[NoOneIsIllegal]

Get some bubble tea up in here. Mmmmmmm sugar overdose.

[praxis1966]

IThe remark by thefinalmarch, that tea and coffee come from Hades, is interesting, since Mormons believe that tea and coffee heat up the brain, if I remember correctly, and, consequently, they drink Postum. So the tea and coffee thing may be the one matter in which cde finalmarch agrees with the Latter Day Saints.

Not for nothing, but Mormon opposition to coffee and tea is more political than it is religious... Or, more properly, it was politics masquerading as religion. (Point of order, the line from the Book of Mormon that bans coffee and tea actually says "hot drinks and liquor" which is often interpreted to mean "No soup for you!" as well.) Joseph Smith, at the time of his writing the Book of Mormon in 1830, was well aware of some recent political developments in Europe (specifically the French Revolution which by and large began as discussions in cafes) which led him to believe that drinking coffee (at the least) led to disobedience and rebelliousness. The phrasing "hot drinks," which covers tea as well, I'm not so sure about. But, if I had to guess, I'd say that had to do with a typically American attitude of being anti-English at the time.

EDIT: Before anybody accuses me of being a Mormon (lol) I'd just like it noted for the record that I have particularly sharp dislike of that particular church and all this knowledge comes from a desire to know one's enemy, as it were.

Oh, and to address the OP, yes, I do drink tea from time to time... But generally only either herbal teas or this Japanese green tea called hojicha which has a surprisingly high stimulant quality despite its low caffeine content.

[Tablo]

I love tea and need it to get through the day a lot of the time. I don't like it sweet though.

[Red Commissar]

I drink tea because my parents drank it a lot. Not frequently though, more of a weekly thing really. I try to limit my caffeine and sugar intake.

[ellipsis]

I do, but my mom's family is english-canadian, so i grew up on english style tea.

[Delenda Carthago]

English breakfast. Thats my shit...

http://www.cafebar.co.uk/images/english-breakfast-100.jpg

[Wanted Man]

What is "English breakfast" tea? Just a mix of Assam and Ceylon? They call that "Engelse melange" (English blend) here, although there is nothing particularly English about it. It's very popular here as well.

Anyway, I used to have tea at breakfast every morning until I moved on to coffee. Now I rarely ever drink tea any more. I still rather like it though, I just don't drink it much.

[Lobotomy]

Where I am, people like to pretend they drink tea but they don't really. It just sits in their pantry.

[Le Socialiste]

I enjoy it, but don't drink it very often. I have a cousin who drinks tea all the time, though. But yes, Americans drink tea.

[Dzerzhinsky's Ghost]

I love a nice masala chai or some Indian black.


English breakfast. Thats my shit...

http://www.cafebar.co.uk/images/english-breakfast-100.jpg

Fuck packets, it's all about the loose leaf.

[#FF0000]

I drink tea. I drank a ton when i started my third shift job, and I just knew coffee wasn't giving me the caffeine I needed to not get fired

[Xenophiliac]

I love tea.

Twinings Irish Breakfast during the day and Celestial Seasonings Sleepy Time chamomile tea in the evenings.