Tea, and how you get it

[thebitterguy]

To consider, when filling out the poll: If you go into your local eatery, and reqeust a tea, how is it delivered? Is it naturally iced, unless you request it hot, or is it hot, unless you request it iced?

[Poll #683839]

Comments

[cinn48.livejournal.com]

Hot, unless specifically iced, much like coffee! As well, iced tea is sweet, with sugar or honey or something added.

[whiteadelphi.livejournal.com]

Tea? Tea? ::peers around:: Nope. We don't drink that here.

[jeffreyab.livejournal.com]

Or both!

[thebitterguy]

It can be either, yes. But I'm trying to figure out what a person expects if they order a tea without specifying: do they expect it hot, or cold.

[framlingem.livejournal.com]

I expect a teabag, a cup, and some hot water.

Which makes for a lousy cup of tea.

[gurudata.livejournal.com]

Hiho,

I expect it to be hot, because I don't live in the USA. :)

Even at the Wendy's in Michgan, they have "hot tea" on the menu instead of just "tea".

Cu,
Andrew

[gurudata.livejournal.com]

Hiho,

I expect it to be hot, because I don't live in the USA. :)

Even at the Wendy's in Michgan, they have "hot tea" on the menu instead of just "tea".

Cu,
Andrew

[mollpeartree.livejournal.com]

Woopsy then, better go change my answer. I thought you were asking what kind of tea we drink more often ...

[eviltofu.livejournal.com]

In a can.

[jeffreyab.livejournal.com]

Depends on where you are, in the American South it will be brewed iced tea for sure.

I always specify because in my experience it could be either.

[anidada.livejournal.com]

Canada: "tea" = hot tea, usually (in a restaurant) either in a wee tin pot with a bag in it and lukewarm water (feh) or in a cup with a bag in it and lukewarm water (feh). If one is lucky, it comes in a proper pot with sufficient tea bags and boiling water (one reason I can forgive much at The Only in Ptbo is the fact that tea comes in brown betties and is hot enough to warm your hands through three pairs of mitties). "Iced tea" is either homemade (rare), the heavily-sugared stuff in a can or bottle (usually), or if the restaurant's really cheap, from a powdered mix (gaaaah).

The States seem to have "tea" (which is iced), "sweet tea" (which I think is also iced?), and "hot tea" (which is a bag in a cup of lukewarm water).

Restaurants in Britain, thank g-d, seem to still be in the pot-with-scalding-water-and-sufficient-tea-to-make-a-decent-cuppa zone (hardly surprising), and you might even get your tea via loose leaves (rapture!), but they often make up for that by trying to pass off instant coffee as the real thing, which is just depressing. Granted, I haven't been there since the real coffee shops started invading, but ten years ago, practically all you could get was instant. Even french press coffee was a rarity. :P

And now, the Dead Milkmen (this made no sense to me until I realized how different "tea" is in the States):

"We went to the Philly Pizza Company and we ordered some hot tea. But the waitress said 'oh no, we only have it iced.' So we jumped up on the table and we shouted, 'ANARCHY!' And someone played the jukebox, it was California Dreamin', and so we started screamin', on such a winter's day..." -- Punk Rock Girl.

[thebitterguy]

This makes me harken back to when I met you on the Gaimanblog comments. You have preferences much like anidada, right?

[framlingem.livejournal.com]

So that's how I met you! I was looking at my friendslist just yesterday and scratching my head and wondering "where did all these people come from?"

I remember now.

I like my tea made with boiling water, in a teapot, and the milk in the cup first.

(Also more sugar that is good for me)

[anidada.livejournal.com]

Oh, and: I never saw anything remotely like iced tea in the UK, not on menus and not on shelves.

However, you could buy Snakebite in the Safeway, so perhaps I was a tad distracted... *hiccup*

[thebitterguy]

Heh. That is the greatest song ever.

I guess coffee and tea must ever be at odds.

Cindy squealed with delight when she saw that Arthur Dent had the same pot and kettle setup we do in the new film of HHGttG.

[anidada.livejournal.com]

If I ever go to the States, I'm ordering hot tea at every opportunity until I get to play out that scene. Because, well, who wouldn't? :D

[thebitterguy]

Indeed. The south seems to prefer their tea iced. And bitter, unless you request Sweet.