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Author Topic: How Do You Like Your Tea? Phil Hill I love my cootie bug Posts: 7595 From: Hollywood, CA USA Registered: Mar 2000 posted 12-29-2003 03:50 AM                  I make my "tea" as follows: Pour Bacardi Light 1/4 way up in a 16 oz glass. Top off with Coke from a can. Add ice. It ain't Long Island "Iced Tea", But! YUM! >>> Phil  |  IP: Logged Jeff Stricker Master Film Handler Posts: 481 From: Calumet, Mi USA Registered: Nov 1999 posted 12-29-2003 05:57 AM                     Float a Lipton's teabag in a cup of cold water. Place in microwave and heat just to the point of boiling (keep an eye on things while the microwave is running). Remove and let steep for approx 3 minutes, add sweetener to your liking and away you go...  |  IP: Logged Randy Stankey Film God Posts: 6539 From: Erie, Pennsylvania Registered: Jun 99 posted 12-29-2003 08:39 AM                     Iced Tea! I got the bug for it while living down South. If you go to virtually any restaurant in the South you'll usually have a choice of two drinks: Coca Cola or iced tea... SWEET tea. There is no real standard of what sweetened iced tea means. It could be anywhere from a couple of spoons full of sugar in a whole pot to a couple of spoons full of tea in a whole pot of sugar. You'll often see a waitress in the restaurant just dump sugar into the pot until it "looks about right". In the North it's hard to get decent iced tea. Nobody here makes it sweetened unless it comes from a soda fountain, in which case it's probably pretty grody. It's hard to explain to people why iced tea should be MADE sweetened... Sugar doesn't dissolve in cold water nearly as well. I'm reduced to drinking bottled Lipton iced tea from a soda machine. It's nowhere near as good as freshly made. As for hot tea, I don't drink it too often. Usually only in the evenings after dinner because it has less caffeine. I often don't want to be up late with a coffee buzz. Many times it'll be herb tea. I'm not particular which kind of herb tea... depends on mood, I guess.  |  IP: Logged Chris Hipp Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1462 From: Mesquite, Tx (east of Dallas) Registered: Jul 2003 posted 12-29-2003 08:44 AM                     a lot of people use non sugar sweeteners such as sweet n low or that new splenda stuff, its supposed to dissolve better. I prefer it to not be so sweet that you cant taste the tea, I put 1/2 cup of sugar for 3 quarts.  |  IP: Logged Rachel Craven Madam Moderator Posts: 2190 From: Pensacola, FL Registered: Dec 2000 posted 12-29-2003 09:15 AM                     I hate tea. Just give me a coke in the morning, afternoon, night (ANYTIME) for my pick-me-up.  |  IP: Logged Manny Knowles "What are these things and WHY are they BLUE???" Posts: 4247 From: Bloomington, IN, USA Registered: Feb 2002 posted 12-29-2003 11:36 AM                     I haven't seen this personally but I'm told that Lipton's "Brisk" Ice Tea is specially made and packaged for the "Southern" markets. It is extra sweet. Here's how I make Ice Tea: 4 cups boiled water 4 tea bags: Lipton Yellow Label 4 tea bags: Earl Grey (usually Bigelow) 1 tea bag: Coconut 1 cup sugar -- add to hot tea and stir to dissolve Pour into an ice-filled pitcher. If necessary, it is a simple matter to dilute the ice tea for reduced sweetness. On the other hand, it is a real bitch to add sugar to cold ice tea.  |  IP: Logged Chris Hipp Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1462 From: Mesquite, Tx (east of Dallas) Registered: Jul 2003 posted 12-29-2003 09:07 PM                     I kinda like the liptoon brisk, but I dont think it is really tea. It seems like the "Orange Drink" equivelant to tea. It's not real tea. It's not bad, just not tea.  |  IP: Logged Charles Everett Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1470 From: New Jersey Registered: May 2001 posted 12-30-2003 08:36 AM                     I prefer my tea straight -- no milk, no sugar. Some of the Celestial Seasonings flavoured teas are good.  |  IP: Logged Gary Crawford Expert Film Handler Posts: 200 From: Neptune NJ USA Registered: Nov 2003 posted 12-30-2003 01:23 PM                     In the morning and during the day I'm a coffee person. But after say about 7 PM I drink tea, otherwise I'd be up for 3 days. Tea's caffeine doesn't wire me like coffee does. We have most any kind of tea you can name at home. My wife loves her tea and she is easy to buy for, just a gift set of assorted teas. I can go from fancy loose tea down to the 100-for-a-dollar cheap tea bags (Tetley makes the store brands here in the East BTW). Soda is a rarity at home. We drink powdered iced tea mix all year long. Fast and tasty, make it in a 2-gallon jug. Want something tasty? Add bourbon to the onstant iced tea and it makes a great hot toddy, or great cold too. Somehow the combination of flavors gives it an apple taste. Don't know why, it just does. I am a fan of sun tea. Always an old gallon pickle jar brewing in the sun. Add fresh mint leaves to the mix and it is great! I can take hot tea most any way. Plain (no sugar or anything), or with honey, or maple syrup, or sugar, or lemon, or evaporated milk.  |  IP: Logged

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