Tea

I don't like tea at all, which is very strange to anyone who lives in the South as we're all good ol' sweet tea drinkers.

If I have to drink tea though, it has to have some sort of fruityness to it and it has to be cold! I don't drink hot drinks either :p

I didn't mention one of my favorites - Stash Tea has a black chai which I love. I have to pick up a box of that soon.

Bri, if ya don't like any hot drinks, well, move a few states North and I bet you'd develop a liking for them, especially come February!

I also know I am lucky as Virtuous Teas is nearby, and they have hundreds of jars of black, green, white, herbal, red and all kinds of tea. You could spend all day in there opening jars and sniffing to decide! They have some scrumptious fruit teas ... and they are far more reasonable in price than places like Teavana, and never try to up-sell you on anything.

But I figured I would just mentioned teas that everyone can probably get! If we ever do a Gift Swap again, it'd be fun to try teas from different places!

For cold teas, I like Snapples peach tea. :) I also do like the Arizona green teas.

I enjoy earl grey with milk and sugar and recently discovered good earthy sweet and spicy it is so yummy and caffeine free for the evenings...I also enjoy with milk and sugar.

I am having a glass of egg nog right now :)

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This "T" don't need no sugar......;)

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Originally Posted by RICHARD

This "T" don't need no sugar......;)

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I dunno, might improve his disposition a little!

I'm not a huge fan of tea, particularly fruit teas. However I recently tried a ginger, galangal and turmeric tea - strangely very relaxing!

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Originally Posted by Randi

I also like plain English Breakfast tea. A good one is Yorkshire Tea. I usually get 80 bags of those when I'm in England, but I've recently seen it in a supermarket here. :)

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I too like Yorkshire tea! Although I try to stick with the Red Rose, and buy its lesser known rival, Lancashire tea! ;) I just love the old fashioned map of my home county on the box, especially when I'm away in London.

http://www.lancashiretea.co.uk/

Whittards are probably the best here in London, their shop in Covent Garden is fantastic.

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I too like Yorkshire tea! Although I try to stick with the Red Rose, and buy its lesser known rival, Lancashire tea!

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I haven't come across that one, yet. Do you find there's a lot of difference? I got an English Breakfast tea from Harvey Nics one year, that was good, too. Oh, one place I'd love to shopping for an unlimited amount, is Fortnum and Mason - and I wish BIBA was still open.

I drink green tea regularly . . . daily when it's cooler out. I usually do one bag each of decaf and regular, and share it with Clara. I water hers down and sweeten it up a bit with coconut water (it helps cool it off, too, so she doesn't have to wait for it). I typically just put a bit of agave nectar or a pack of sweetener like Truvia in it.

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I haven't come across that one, yet. Do you find there's a lot of difference? I got an English Breakfast tea from Harvey Nics one year, that was good, too.

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In all honesty I find there's barely any difference in taste, it's really just a question of personal allegiance. :p

I bet the Harvey Nics' tea was indeed rather good!

PG Tips, a bit of sugar, nothing else in it.

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Hmm, I looked it up, and if it is just sweetened with sugar, I may give it a try sometime. I tend to drink my teas black, with sugar depending on the tea, but might try that as an indulgence! I used to every now and then get a vanilla chai from Dunkin Donuts, but it has coconut oil in it, so cannot any more.

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@Karen - are you allergic to milk?
@Jenn- I have made my Pioneer Woman's iced coffee and used sweetened condensed milk in it. YUMMY -

but alas - after having my blood work done a few weeks back the numbers don't agree with it. So I've been drinking my iced coffee with just flavored creamer, no sweetener or sugar. Tho I do use Stevia/Truvia if needed. And when drinking my tea I've been not sweetening it at all. Which about sent my mom over the edge a few weeks ago when she took a big swig of my rose hips and hibiscus tea UNsweet. (which I found in the Oriental foods aisle)
Have you ever been to Teavana the Heaven of Tea? Talk about TEA HEAVEN! I LOVE IT!:love::love:
I've been drinking mint tea with a packet of true lemon or true lime in it.

Typically I don't care for green tea's after taste, but Trader Joe's has a peppermint ~ Decaf Candy Cane green tea that is quite good.
ZippyKat sent me a Lemon Blueberry or something tea for the Kuerig awhile ago. It was really good. I tried to duplicate it by buying lemon zinger and blueberry - close buy not the same!
When I was in New Mexico visiting Zippy Kat - we stopped at Sonic and I got a Cranberry Iced Tea Sweetened. Which I thought was awesome, but even without tasting it Zippy said she doesn't like to drink Hummingbird water! (:p)

I have a sweet tooth which obviously has gotten me into trouble with my bloodwork! :( So re-training myself to get used to tea/coffee etc UNsweet is going to take some time!

I am not, thankfully, allergic to milk! Thank goodness.

And I have been experimenting, with the sweetened condensed milk and the Stash black chai I like, and finally settled on double-strength (2 teabags in a cup) chai with sweetened condensed milk - good yummy treat when I am feeling like something luxurious. I never even take milk in my tea usually, so this is a big treat, thanks, Jennie!

I worked at a Teavana briefly, and while they have lots of cool stuff, it is largely way, way overpriced. Especially compared to my beloved Virtuous Teas - they have a website http://virtuousteas.com - but if you are ever in the Boston area, Stacy, I will bring you to the store. It's wonderful, just jar upon jar of interesting teas of all sorts, and absolutely no pressure to buy - the salesperson never hovers.