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

2legs is right.The best way to stay hydrated is to drink your beverage of choice and enjoy it.

Also it's not necessary to drink more water than you would normally, just stick to what you do everyday.pop,squash,milk fruit juice are all just as good.

Remember you also get water from the food you eat so all those stews,casseroles,curries,soups and other sloppier meals will hydrate you as well.

Another I think especially as I haven't been called into work this morning.

>> Remember you also get water from the food you eat...<<

Yes, but many overweight people get that way from eating when they
should just be having a drink. As an overweight smoker it was very
late in life before I discovered that I regularly ate to satisfy my thirst.

The idea of drinking a glass of water was unappealing, uncool, a
stupid idea from my youth that resulted in a bad habit of eating to
quench my palette. I have only recently overcome this and with
significant weight loss!


~jwf~

Tea is simply...more civilised.

(I like coffee - but one in the morning and one in the evening is my limit. Any more and I start punching people.)

tea more civilised? True, if like me you cannot possibly drink tea if it is served in anything other than a bone china teacup, poured from a Staffordshire teapot, preferably made by an ancient relative (long since departed)

Not civilised if brewed in a mug with a vile teabag, served with dried milk and five spoons of sugar. Usually by the bloke tiling your kitchen who has come with his own kettle. (yours being in a cardboard box under the stairs)

Lanzababy that has got to win the award for the most snobbish post of the week! and I for one love it!

GoOd stuff sah!

FB

I can but try!

I'm famous for my Magic Cups of Tea. If I make tea, whether for myself or anyone else, it always stays hot for longer than expected. And if anyone makes it for me, mine is still hot while theirs has gone cold.

Several people have remarked on this. I can't explain it.

>> There's no more oxygen in cold water than there is in hot water than there is in lukewarm water.

Oh yes there is.

What Effers is referring to is the air dissolved in the water, not the O in the H2O. You know how if you let a glass of water stand for a while you'll see little air bubbles in it? That's the air that Effers is referring to. It is driven out of warm and hot water, but remains dissolved in cold water. That's the reason why fish suffocate without an air pump.



I love tea and drink everything from what my brother called "Sargent Major tea that would kill most Sargent Majors" with almost a quarter of a pint of milk in for added robustness, through the hot sweet milky spiced chais from India and the smoky China tea called "Russian Caravan" on to the most delicate fragranced China Teas. Moroccan tea with mint in tall glasses, and small glasses of hot bitter Turkish tea with sugar. Iced tea. Any kind of tea: I'll drink it all.

I have just discovered (but not yet bought) flowering teas: http://tinyurl.com/floweringtea

Incidentally, fruit tea is an abomination, and I am not overly fond of teabags.

If you want to know more about tea, this site has detailed information about how to prepare each tea: http://www.palaisdesthes.com/en/

Ben
PS - if you get an in-cup filter you can re-use the leaves of a good tea two, three or four times, making it cheaper to drink expensive tea than it is to drink cheap tea. http://www.northern-tea.com/buy-tea-coffee-online.asp?link=196

My default tea is PG Tips, *no sugar* and a homeopathic amount of milk. (The rumour that there may once have been a cow in land far, far away). Plus - an idiosyncrasy - I don't stir.

I also like most kinds of tea taken without milk - Chinese, Turkish, Russsian - whatever. White tea is a recent-ish discovery, as is (pricey!) silver needle. And I bought some of that flowering tea for a Swedelish friend a while back.

Herb teas - meh. Although rooibos is nice. And I agree - fruit teas and flavoured teas are awful.

btw:
>>if you get an in-cup filter you can re-use the leaves of a good tea two, three or four times,

According to Jimmy Saville, you can get three cups out of any teabag. All you have to do is dry it on the radiator.

'Ow's about that then, guys and gals?

I am a tea monster 20 + mugs a day , I have been given fancy tea by people in the past but its just an interesting drink , no more .
A mug of PG tips with the bag left to stew for 5 minutes , a little milk , no sugar . The perfect mug of tea should have patches of brown scum floating on the top , like mini techtonic plates . Tea , marmite and real ale . can't live without them .

So, just me drinking the fruit teas then? I really like them. And if I don't finish my cup before I go to sleep, I can drink it cold when I wake up. There's thrift for you.

I love white tea but for some reason tend to save it for a late-night treat.

At work I drink proper coffee in the morning and tea in the afternoon ... which is how it should be.

Mol

>> The perfect mug of tea should have patches of brown scum floating on the top , like mini techtonic plates

That's a hard water artefact. The flavour of your tea does depend on the flavour of your water. There was an independent tea merchants in Cirencester who blended tea specifically for Cotswold water which is definitely nearer diamond than talc in the hardness scale.

Yorkshire Tea is available in 'normal' and a 'hard water' varieties.

Ben

Yes I get the hard water variety but so does everyone else round here so all too often I find an empty shelf..

The original Yokshire tea was advertised as 'Yorkshire Tea for Yorkshire water' which always made me laugh because I grew up in Hull ('ull that should be) which has hard chalky water, then lived in Dewsbury in West Yorkshire which has limestone hard water (a totally different beast) and then in Doncaster which had chalky hard water from Artesian wells east of the river Don and soft water west of the river which came from various sources including the Trent and indirectly from Kielder Water via the grid.

We use Sainsos Gold Label tealeaves for every day and I have tea bags at w*rk (usuallt PG Tips). I'm not a fan of bags though.

Here in North Wales the water is very soft indeed, no scale in the kettle at all after 7 years of use.

t.

the ultimate tea is

NAAFI Tea

NATO standard

milk 2 sugar stewed to death in a chipped mug

one cup of that and you would fight the entire massed armies of the world........mainly to get something decent to drink

*Reads Wikipedia.*

Huh. How 'bout that.