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General Discussion => This 'n' That => Topic started by: walkingthedog on August 02, 2017, 08:16:32 PM

Title: Tea
Post by: walkingthedog on August 02, 2017, 08:16:32 PM
Think there may already be a thread on tea but i can't find it.
I have just discovered cherry rose green tea, its delicious and has a calming effect , thought I'd recommend it
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Post by: Butterfly22 on August 02, 2017, 08:35:29 PM
Mmm that sounds yummy xx
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Post by: Salad on August 02, 2017, 10:28:49 PM
Weak and black for me - I'm also loving gingerbread flavoured green tea  :)
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Post by: walkingthedog on August 03, 2017, 06:26:50 AM
Snap salad , weak and black 🙂
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Post by: Salad on August 03, 2017, 07:07:20 AM
Snap salad , weak and black 🙂

It's the only way!  :yes:
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Post by: DaisyB on August 03, 2017, 07:45:34 AM
Sparkle I'm going to try that. Mine is earl grey with no milk - and chamomile at bedtime. 😋
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Post by: DaisyB on August 03, 2017, 07:46:41 AM
Think there may already be a thread on tea but i can't find it.
I have just discovered cherry rose green tea, its delicious and has a calming effect , thought I'd recommend it
walkingthedog what brand is that?
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Post by: walkingthedog on August 03, 2017, 08:43:23 AM
DaisyB its called sencha the brand
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Post by: CLKD on August 03, 2017, 09:19:34 AM
Darjeeling : black, weak, 2 sugars
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Post by: DaisyB on August 03, 2017, 09:56:45 AM
DaisyB its called sencha the brand
thank you!
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Post by: cubagirl on August 03, 2017, 10:30:15 AM
Can't get my head round tea, never have. My mum in an effort to give me a hot drink in the winter resorted to drinking chocolate.  I've tried & tried, flavoured teas too, but no. Coffee is my drink of preference.
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Post by: Yorkshire Girl on August 03, 2017, 06:52:31 PM
Walkingthedog they sound rather nice. I only drink peppermint tea but if none available earl grey black or with a tiny bit of almond milk.
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Post by: CaroleM on August 04, 2017, 12:34:26 AM
Earl Grey for me, please or Lady Grey if no Earl Grey. Wonder why they called Lady Grey, Lady Grey and not Countess Grey.  Just a thought
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Post by: walkingthedog on August 04, 2017, 05:40:28 AM
Bright eyes, you can buy countess grey Fortnum and mason sell it, i was given a few bags  yo try from a friend. It's lovely.
Yorkshire girl peppermint tea is one of my favourite's plus recently discovered rose lemonade by Taylors
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Post by: CaroleM on August 04, 2017, 05:02:52 PM
Looks like I need to plan a trip to London and Fortnum and Mason in particularly.  MIL bought Earl Grey for a cake she wanted to make, neither she nor FIL liked it. We like it ;D
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Post by: DaisyB on August 04, 2017, 05:12:00 PM
I got the chai tea and it's delicious!!! :)
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Post by: DaisyB on August 05, 2017, 08:07:38 AM
Black sparkle - shingles back in mouth so have to avoid almonds😞
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Post by: Roseneath on August 05, 2017, 12:08:59 PM
Chi is lovely, Twinings do a nice one. Boil it up with a good teaspoon of sugar in a pan for 10 minutes, add boiled (full fat best) milk (50milk / 50 water) then boil again. Very comforting.
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Post by: CLKD on August 05, 2017, 04:11:39 PM
Darjeeling is likely to become rare due to problems in that part of India  :-\

Financial Times:


Ethnic unrest in north-east India has forced the closure of Darjeeling's tea plantations at the peak of the harvest season, threatening to push prices for the crop up 20 per cent.

Growers in the Himalayan foothills should be picking the season's “second flush” of Darjeeling tea, a leaf so prized it has previously sold for as much as $1,850 a kilogramme. This harvest provides the bulk of the 8m kilogrammes of tea that Darjeeling sells, mainly to Europe, each year.

But clashes between ethnic Gorkhas and the government that have led to three deaths and the army being deployed on the streets of Darjeeling have halted harvesting since early June.
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Post by: peri on August 05, 2017, 04:22:48 PM
Lady Grey is my favourite, black and weak with no sugar.  In fact I can't drink builders tea anymore.  Also M&S do an Empress Grey. The Cherry Rose green tea sounds nice though walkinthedog, will have to look out for it x
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Post by: katsclaws on August 05, 2017, 05:00:36 PM
I seem to be in the minority here. I drink loose leaf Assam tea, very strong with lots of milk.
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Post by: DaisyB on August 05, 2017, 05:35:47 PM
Black sparkle - shingles back in mouth so have to avoid almonds😞
Oh no DaisyB, how awful for you, that must be so painful.  When did you last have it?

S x
March this year on lip 😬 I've been on a diet high in good fats but realised yesterday a lot of Ingredients are high in L-arginine - pretty sure that's what caused this breakout. Yup scalp face and mouth was thumping with pain but I got my stash of lysine into me and it's easing off. DH and DD telling me off for not taking acyclovir - what can I say 😬 I'm stubborn and much prefer a natural route if I can get away with it. 😉
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Post by: CLKD on August 05, 2017, 07:51:57 PM
Herpes is a sign that the body is stressed, once people are prone to cold sores/shingles it will continue as it remains in the body.  M in L had a fall and within 5 weeks shingles attacked, due to shock  :-\.  If there is a medication to prevent it occurring, maybe take it?  Herpes is 'natural'  ;) .......

Sorry breeze - hadn't read your comment about a Darjeeling shortage  ::) [must try harder]
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Post by: Yorkshire Girl on August 05, 2017, 08:46:30 PM
I used to love builders tea, but since I stopped having milk only drink peppermint tea
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Post by: DaisyB on August 05, 2017, 10:05:05 PM
Herpes is a sign that the body is stressed, once people are prone to cold sores/shingles it will continue as it remains in the body.  M in L had a fall and within 5 weeks shingles attacked, due to shock  :-\ .  If there is a medication to prevent it occurring, maybe take it?  Herpes is 'natural'  ;) .......

Sorry breeze - hadn't read your comment about a Darjeeling shortage  ::) [must try harder]
I gave in😇 Chatted to very sensible friend in health store. His rationale was take the meds the dr gave you as well as lysine and concentrate on supporting your liver afterwards -  😬 I get breakouts from either stress or high l-arginine - had to quit diet claire Snowdon Darling has me on as most of the good fats have a poor l-arginine v lysine ratio :-\
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Post by: CaroleM on August 05, 2017, 11:02:22 PM
My worst 'gift' of tea was from a, now late, Aunt.  Loose leaf jasmine.  The loose leaf was no problem, nor would have been the jasmine.  What was a big problem was the fact that the tea might well have been 10 years old, it was so musty.  Didn't dare try it, which was sad.  Still, it was the thought that counted, I think!
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Post by: Salad on August 06, 2017, 10:51:28 AM
My worst 'gift' of tea was from a, now late, Aunt.  Loose leaf jasmine.  The loose leaf was no problem, nor would have been the jasmine.  What was a big problem was the fact that the tea might well have been 10 years old, it was so musty.  Didn't dare try it, which was sad.  Still, it was the thought that counted, I think!

Think you need to start a 'worst gift' thread Brighteyes - reading this made me laugh and remember a gift from a friend for my daughter, a beautiful journal
...then I flicked through the pages and found some pages already written on - not all re gifting works out I guess  ;D
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Post by: CLKD on August 06, 2017, 03:26:03 PM
Old tea can be poured cooled round rose bushes or under camellias  ;)
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Post by: Yorkshire Girl on August 06, 2017, 04:12:14 PM
I used to do that, my mum & her mum gave me that tip CKLD!
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Post by: CLKD on November 11, 2019, 01:11:47 PM
Seems that unless the UK Government pays £B of compensation, tea farms in Kenya are likely to be over-run .......... can't remember the Company name but I will jot it down and avoid paying for their products.  Also be buying other varieties. 
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Post by: CLKD on November 11, 2019, 10:38:08 PM
Ginger in many forms is good for the gut.  DH uses a lot grated in foods.