so are you guys just fundamentally opposed to the idea of iced tea? i can't think of anything better in 110 degree weather than iced tea. light, refreshing, no annoying bubbles, you can make it as sweet or not as you like. you can add lemon, you can add mint, you can use whatever sort of tea you like. i'm partial to orange pekoe for the iced tea, but there's a really good raspberry tea i've started making.
KC, i think most Brits (well include welsh, scots, and irish as well) consider it sacreligious to mess with a cup of hot tea I'm with ya though. I haven't made any in awhile, but I found a jug so I could make some Iced tea. Oh, and as a side note, on a swelteringly hot day, after doing loads of manual labor, my FIL will always ask for a cup of tea. :tongue: bit mental if you ask me.
that's just horrible. can't think there's anything right about INCREASING your core temperature with hot tea. though now i think on it, i thought gramma was a bit crazy, too. in july, in 100% humidity in the middle of tornado alley in a home with no cooling system, she'd still drink her tea hot and with some milk she got from her cow that morning. but i guess that repeated heat stroke WOULD explain a lot of about the british mentality.
Well, it's the same mentality that makes desert people eat spicy hot curry - the hot tea/curry makes you sweat which cools you down. For cold drinks, think of pouring cold water on hot iron. Not a good thing to do.
justify it all you like, pouring cold water on something hot cools it down. but i do love the spicy food, sweatworthy spicy food. i just prefer it with a cold beverage: beer, cherry-limeade, iced tea...
Now we are getting somewhere, BOOZE. I do like the Busch brewing range, Budweiser is a good drink. Anyway, I needed to censor the obvious to protect the innocent. I can only imagine there are very young people accessing this site and they don't need to read that type offensive language. What you are proposing is an affront on our rights as human beings; and I'll just not have it!!!! KC man, next you'll be giving us recipes that 'COST-A lot for coffee' sell with a dash of this, side of that, double the quantity with something green because it helps the digestive system. No. As I said your drink does sound nice but it isn't a cup of tea.
I don't want to be pedantic even though I'm being so. To be British can only be if you are Scottish, Welsh, N. Irish or English. To be anything other is to be a national to your respective country. I know you know but I feel I needed to make this point for your/our American friends across the huge divide called the Atlantic, which isn't a friggin' pond! And also to our fellow European neighbours. Where the coffee drinkers live, and I guess those who bastardize tea.
