h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

When I first came across the phenomenon of iced-tea a good few years ago it seemed like an odd concept to want to drink tea that had gone cold. But I tried it and found that I liked it, a cool and very refreshing beveridge that is a nice alternative to gassy chemical cocktails like Coca Cola and Sunny Delight (the latter having been as close to any kind of fruit as it has been to moon-dust).

So there you have it, a palatable and adult drink perfect for a hot day. But you try suggesting it as such to the average Brit in the street. "Ergh, cold tea? with ice in it!?! dat's not proper tea." And this from a nation that religiously calls for a "cuppa" of poor quality tea that has been stewed beyond reason and topped up with milk and sugar. What the British public call tea in the common sense of the word does not deserve the title.

In a world full of aromatic and delightful blends such as Assam, Dargling, Earl Grey and Lapsang Sauchong, how on earth can a stewed cuppa in a chipped mug even be called tea?

Join me in my fight against the tyranny of crap English tea my people!

Give me Earl Grey, or give me death!

Chacun a son gôut. Which, I think, roughly translated means something like 'To each his own'

Persoanlly I love the iced tea recipe here, and I also love a cup of good strong tea (milk, no sugar thank you) - not stewed, that would be too ghastly, but strong enough that you could walk across it and leave footprints

I just object to the fact that the average Brit will look at tea from the orient as if it were poison and yet crave the traditional english cup of mud...we live in a very strange world!

I didn't even realize the English were drinking iced tea now! (I'm an American.) I remember laughing uproariously at the twisted face of an English friend whom I prevailed on to at least try my glass of iced tea nearly 20 years ago. When he recovered enough to talk he said, "What a travesty of a cup of tea!" I enjoy it cold or hot, green, herbal or good old pekoe. Recommendation: The iced tea in New York restaurants is pallid, unless they have waiters from the Southern U.S. working there, who know how to make it. I have this on good authority from a New Yorker who's a transplanted Southerner.

Ah well, you see northen bristish tea is much stronger, not stewed. it's a pot of lose tea leaves, poured though a traditional strainer, the milk and sugar are optional.

I gota say my boss at work puts 33% milk in the tea, Uag! horrible. I can take it without but I can't take UHT milk in that quantity.

NEVER try earl grey with milk and sugar. you'll just be sick. a nice hurbal tea is good hot or cold I don't mind.

-- DoctorMO --

and we do get ALL those types of tea. and it has the bonus of not tasting like cold lemony piss...

Herbal tea for me please. Mint, Apple & Cinnamon, anything like that. I keep meaning to try it with fresh stuff rather than that ready-made gunk one buys in the shop out of laziness, but I've not got around to raiding Mum's herb garden yet, and I don't have my own

I'm reliably informed that if you make tea out of fresh, home-grown herbs it's far, far nicer. Rosemary and thyme tea sounds nice...

hmmm, reminds me of lemon excreation

-- DoctorMO --

You could always sod the tea altogether and have a Long Island iced-tea instead...

Are we to assume that this beverage has no tea in it?

I believe it's a rather potent cocktail...

Ah yes - A71614

hehe.

-- DoctorMO --

and then some...

as in asnic potent? or stripta cockus potent?

-- DoctorMO --

You'll ride the beer scooter home after a dozen of them, believe me

Ah good, space will be a quatuim vacume when I do that

-- DoctorMO --

Don't forget the beer goggles and beer overcoat when you do.

either thats a joke or you fail to understand.

perhaps ebola has the same effects?

-- DoctorMO --

As far I recall a vacum tends to be a bit parky, I just didn't want you to go catching a chill, that's all.

Ah, theres just a difrence between space (a spacius vacume) and space (a quantum vacume) hehe