'Shindig'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
I'm told that you should properly pour the milk into your cup first, anyone know why?
There was actually a study just done, where they said that for some reason steeping the tea bag with the milk in the water resulted in better-tasting tea. So now I put the milk in right after I put the water in (if I'm drinking tea with a bag).
But I also drink hippie fruit "tea" which doesn't actually have tea of any kind (black, green, white) and is more accurately categorized as an "herbal infusion" or some shit. But no one knows what an herbal infusion is, so I always just say "hippie fruit tea."
It's a tisane, isn't it?
Ooh, thanks, 'Suela, I hadn't heard about that. Interesting.
I brew teas and coffees as if I want to etch something with them. Apparently, I embrace the bitter. Shocker!
It's a tisane, isn't it?
In Quebec for sure. I don't think I've ever (until now) heard the word used in the States.
I think I only know that from books, honestly.
It's one of those words I don't know how to pronounce because I've only read it, not heard it.
They're always having tisanes in Regency romances!
In my experience Canadian tea bags can definitely make a decent second cup but American ones cannot.
Canadian tea bags have to survive sitting in a tea pot all day in a simmering tea pot when a Newfoundlander gets their hand on them.
I've always preferred teas to coffees, and I like quite a range of teas, green, white, black, etc, but not that big on tisanes. Hibiscus and cinnamon are about it. I'm nuttier about this particular jasmine green tea that I have a bushel of than I have been any variety in a while. It's pretty much all I drink now. But not more than two cups a day (same leaves) and rarely after noon, just in case.