What is in your cup? - Page 490

SeaBookGuy · 01-29-2011, 05:18 PM

Do you folks take your own tea with you when travelling?

desertblues · 01-29-2011, 05:20 PM

White wine and water.

ProfCrash · 01-29-2011, 05:23 PM

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Originally Posted by SeaBookGuy

Do you folks take your own tea with you when travelling?

Yup. My parents got me this great travel set when they were in Barcelona that I use. It is a nice wooden box with 12 cigar sized tubes filled with tea. Each of the tubes holds about 25 teaspoons worth of tea. I have been using up the teas that it came with but will be replacing the teas with my favorites for travel as the others run out. It fits nicely in my carry on and lets me have a nice variety of tea with me. I can also fit in a whole bunch of tea filter bags into the box.

I have also been known to pre make tea bags before a long trip. Make the tea bags, store them in a ziploc bag that is labeled with what type of tea is in each bag. It works nicely.

astra · 01-29-2011, 05:27 PM

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Originally Posted by SeaBookGuy

Do you folks take your own tea with you when travelling?

I have not travelled since converting to Teaist.
To be honest, I am not there yet. If I were to travel somewhere tomorrow, I would take many Yorkshire Gold dust bags.

Girl Read Write · 01-29-2011, 05:40 PM

Chocolate milk.

astra · 01-29-2011, 05:42 PM

Lapacho, Sony Reader PRS-650, wife, off to bed.

SeaBookGuy · 01-29-2011, 05:58 PM

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Originally Posted by ProfCrash

Yup. My parents got me this great travel set when they were in Barcelona that I use. It is a nice wooden box with 12 cigar sized tubes filled with tea. Each of the tubes holds about 25 teaspoons worth of tea. I have been using up the teas that it came with but will be replacing the teas with my favorites for travel as the others run out. It fits nicely in my carry on and lets me have a nice variety of tea with me. I can also fit in a whole bunch of tea filter bags into the box.

I have also been known to pre make tea bags before a long trip. Make the tea bags, store them in a ziploc bag that is labeled with what type of tea is in each bag. It works nicely.

Impressive!

My local Japanese restaurant serves genmaicha (barley green tea), which I've grown partial to, but haven't gotten around to buying any for home yet.

ProfCrash · 01-29-2011, 07:23 PM

Most genmaicha is green tea with toasted rice but barley sounds like an interesting twist.

Stitchawl · 01-29-2011, 07:51 PM

Sunshine came softly through my a-window today
Could've tripped out easy a-but I've a-changed my ways
It'll take time, I know it but in a while
You're gonna be mine, I know it, we'll do it in style
'Cause I made my mind up you're going to be mine

Sunday morning sunshine is the best! Combine it with hot Royal Blend tea by Fortnum & Mason, some Belgian waffles, and a rasher of bacon, it's enough to make one want to sing! Hey... wait a minute... it DID make me sing!

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Originally Posted by astra

Fortnum & Mason Nothing to write home about

Astra, I think I could die a happy man if I were to do it inside that store! Any website that only needs two and a half colors to make it work is worth my time! You simply can't imagine how much I envy your visit there.

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Originally Posted by phenomshel

I'm not sure who Fortnum & Mason were, or are, but I'm pretty sure they'd be horrified at any connection between their tea nectar and McDonald's anything, LOL!!

I have this feeling that Mssrs. Fortnum and Mason never visited a McD's. They were 'au courrent' in the early 1700's, importing and blending teas for the English royalty. Sort of the "Starbucks" of their day, I guess. I only wish that today's Starbucks sold their tea instead of the dreaded Tazo stuff!

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Originally Posted by SeaBookGuy

Do you folks take your own tea with you when travelling?

Many of us do. Especially when traveling in the US. Waaay too many places serve Lipton, and that stuff can be/ is vile.

And that's it for this cup. On to a mug of Taylor's of Harrogate's Yorkshire tea!

Stitchawl

Stitchawl · 01-29-2011, 07:54 PM

ATTENTION POOHBEAR! ATTENTION POOHBEAR! ATTENTION POOHBEAR!

You are only a few small steps away from waking up thinking about which tea to begin your day.

The transition wasn't too painful, was it? Resistance is futile.

Stitchawl

poohbear_nc · 01-29-2011, 07:59 PM

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Originally Posted by Stitchawl

ATTENTION POOHBEAR! ATTENTION POOHBEAR! ATTENTION POOHBEAR!

You are only a few small steps away from waking up thinking about which tea to begin your day.

The transition wasn't too painful, was it? Resistance is futile.

Stitchawl

Sorry! Can't hear you over the shrieking tea kettle!

Just had a cup of Adagio Earl Grey moonlight - odd, but pleasant hint of vanilla/milk.

How could I resist your delicious blandishments?

Resistance? What resistance?

SeaBookGuy · 01-29-2011, 08:05 PM

Milk ... in tea???

How I managed to avoid "chai" through multiple visits to India I'm still not sure!

poohbear_nc · 01-29-2011, 08:12 PM

I too abhor milk in tea. This Early Grey midnight had an extremely light hint of vanilla/milk flavor - rather unusual for an Adagio tea - which seem to go heavy on the flavorings, light on the tea.

kindlekitten · 01-29-2011, 08:13 PM

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Originally Posted by poohbear_nc

YOU FIENDS!!!

YOU MERCILESS FIENDS!!

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all that and you can have your single malt too!

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Originally Posted by astra

In the last couple of months Stitchawl has been raving about Fortnum & Mason's English Breakfast, Royal Blend and Ceylon teas.
I dreamed one night about brewing teas

I go to London in a couple of weeks and will pay a humble visit to Fortnum & Mason

When I saw Fountain coke from McDonald, all I have noticed were F&M. I had to re-read your post twice to realise the mistake

While typing, I finish Pu-Erh aged.
The next one will be something green.

you are getting a tea brain!

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Originally Posted by SeaBookGuy

Do you folks take your own tea with you when travelling?

I do. I have a small tin that will hold about 8 teabags always in my purse, and when traveling I have a ziploc of tea and another of coffee as well as a small french press that I travel with

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Originally Posted by SeaBookGuy

Milk ... in tea???

How I managed to avoid "chai" through multiple visits to India I'm still not sure!

there are certain times (today is one) when chai is perfect in our drizzly/foggy climate!

Stitchawl · 01-29-2011, 08:14 PM

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Originally Posted by SeaBookGuy

Milk ... in tea???

How I managed to avoid "chai" through multiple visits to India I'm still not sure!

That's the only type of tea that I WILL use milk and sweetener.

We have a few folks here who talk of adding milk to their tea, but I just realized that I haven't seen anyone here add lemon to hot tea! I thought that was a common European style.

We also don't have anyone drinking tea the Eastern European style with a lump of rock sugar held between the teeth when drinking... My paternal grandmother used to drink her tea that way... I hadn't thought of that in many years. She passed away when I was a young child, but I remember her slipping me pieces of sugar under the table so my parents wouldn't notice.

Stitchawl

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SeaBookGuy Can one read too much? Posts: 2,029 Karma: 2487799 Join Date: Aug 2010 Location: Naples, FL Device: Kindle PW 3, Sony 350 and 650	Do you folks take your own tea with you when travelling?

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desertblues Home for the moment Posts: 5,127 Karma: 27718936 Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: travelling Device: various	White wine and water.

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Girl Read Write Literary Goodness Posts: 57 Karma: 34 Join Date: Dec 2010 Device: Nook Color, iPad 2, iPhone 4, iPhone 5, Samsung Infuse	Chocolate milk.

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astra The Introvert Posts: 8,307 Karma: 1000077497 Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: United Kingdom Device: Sony Reader PRS-650 & 505 & 500	Lapacho, Sony Reader PRS-650, wife, off to bed.

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ProfCrash Tea Enthusiast Posts: 8,554 Karma: 75384937 Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: Somewhere in the USA Device: Kindle1, Kindle DX Graphite, K3 3G, IPad 3, PW2	Most genmaicha is green tea with toasted rice but barley sounds like an interesting twist.

01-29-2011, 07:54 PM	#7345
Stitchawl Opsimath Posts: 12,344 Karma: 187123287 Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Chiang Mai, Northern Thailand Device: Sony PRS-650, iPhone 5, Kobo Glo, Sony PRS-350, iPad, Samsung Galaxy	ATTENTION POOHBEAR! ATTENTION POOHBEAR! ATTENTION POOHBEAR! You are only a few small steps away from waking up thinking about which tea to begin your day. The transition wasn't too painful, was it? Resistance is futile. Stitchawl

01-29-2011, 08:05 PM	#7347
SeaBookGuy Can one read too much? Posts: 2,029 Karma: 2487799 Join Date: Aug 2010 Location: Naples, FL Device: Kindle PW 3, Sony 350 and 650	Milk ... in tea??? How I managed to avoid "chai" through multiple visits to India I'm still not sure!

01-29-2011, 08:12 PM	#7348
poohbear_nc Bah! Humbug! Posts: 63,648 Karma: 135239851 Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Durham, NC Device: Every Kindle Ever Made & To Be Made!	I too abhor milk in tea. This Early Grey midnight had an extremely light hint of vanilla/milk flavor - rather unusual for an Adagio tea - which seem to go heavy on the flavorings, light on the tea.