Tea

Living in the UK, tea is as part and parcel as the rain we get here. We love tea and it is mainly taken with milk and sugar, what we call here a builders brekkie lol.

Steeping tea is the same process used to extract water-soluble medicine that pharmaceutical companies use... so yeah, it's a major source of medicine for most people. If you have a decent tea collection and know a bit about the ingredients, you can self-medicate for many maladies and "live long and prosper".

As usual, I didn't read through everything yet.
I should learn to do that before I post, but.. it's more interesting this way.

The other day I read that white tea and green tea come from the same plant. White tea is harvested earlier and is normally more pure and full of antioxidants than green tea is. It's a little sweeter and contains less caffeine than green tea as well. I've been an avid green tea drinker for many years and recently switched to white tea. I haven't noticed much of a difference, to be completely honest, but I'll give it some more time before I say that indefinitely.

Yogi Green Tea is the best tasting green tea I've ever had. It's very difficult for me to find white tea around here, so if anyone knows of a good one, please let me know!

I'm English and I don't really get tea, it doesn't seem to taste all that good to me...

Please accept this picture of a teapot that looks like Hitler as a reparation for this clearly anti-English treachery!

Hahahah. Very nice.

I tend to like ALL teas. Peppermint is my favorite, especially when sweetened.

But, any herbal teas I will gladly drink. Black teas, I really only enjoy when it's iced. That's the Southern American in me.

I think tea is healthy and a good sub for coffee but I drink green tea for the flavor, straight up.

It definitely is a good substitute for coffee.

Though, caffeine is still pretty bad. hahaha.

Connor Lidell wrote: It definitely is a good substitute for coffee.

Though, caffeine is still pretty bad. hahaha.

I need a little caffeine. Tea can have a lot of caffeine but you have to make it stonger to get it. I like my tea on the light side, it tastes better.

Aye. I do enjoy a good Chai tea every now and then.

I'm on Jasmine Green at the moment, but sometimes I do my own blends with strange herbs. Traditional Chinese Medicine has some nice/foul tasting blends, and it reminds me of a witches cauldron with all the strange looking things that get thrown in!