why are people even questioning obesity in america
why is your tea liquidised?
….. Where exactly do you live that the tea isn’t liquid?!?
ENGLAND. WHERE IT IS IN A BAG AND YOU MAKE IT YOURSELF.
like what do you do with already liquid tea? Microwave it?
No it’s sweet tea you drink it cold
WHO DRINKS COLD TEA???
HAVE YOU NEVER HAD ICED/SWEET TEA BEFORE?!?
so i reblogged this from a british person and i’ve been laughing at their tags for 600 years
England, you stole tea from China. You’ve had it a mere 4 centuries compared to their 30+. Don’t play like you’re some kind of authority.
[skeletons ooh-ing]
Shots fired. World War Tea has officially begun.
#INTO THE HARBOR
Englad doesn’t own anything
except that time we owned most of the world
If I stop reblogging this, I’ve gone to the other side.
I have only seen this legendary post in screenshots, so today is a blessed day.
HAH
BOSTON TEA PARTY PART 2
HOLY HELL I FOUND IT
And this is why I love Tumblr
Drinking cold tea is like drinking cold hot chocolate. Sure, you *can* do it, but you *really shouldn’t*
Behold concerned Brit. Chocolate Milk
I only see this on pinterest omg….
OMFG
@riverwriter
BEHOLD THE GREATEST TUMBLR POST
“world war tea” is the best play on words i’ve heard in weeks
this post is a wild ride from start to finish
I haven’t seen this since chocolate milk was added. Is that really just an American thing? You’re missing out guys!
😂😂😂
Cold tea
Cold hot chocolate aka chocolate milk
Cold coffee
I mean, do yall even know about cold water or is that an American thing too???
YOU GUYS DRINK COFFEE COLD AS WELL???
Does the rest of the world not use ice cubes? Do y'all not have freezers? What is going on?
Just thought I’d put my 2 cents in this post, it’s iced tea and not sweet tea. Idk what Americans r smoking 💀
I’m relatively new to Tumblr but it seems like sort of a big deal that I found this post so I’m gonna reblog
Imagine not liking iced tea- actually im gonna go drink some now
I don’t even know what to say…
i drink iced tea every day >:)
Iced tea is brilliant but hot tea is nice too
@dazzling-rubabe
Behold concerned Brit
World War Tea Situation
This post is a relic
Me seeing this for the 14th time in my 5 years on tumblr and seeing more notes and comments but still reblogging it since it’s literally a World Heritage Post
@dazzling-rubabe please go back to the McD’s ad.
Read the jug.
NOW LOOK ME IN THE EYES AND TELL ME WHAT KIND OF TEA IT IS.
(The following may not apply outside the Southeastern United States, aka “The South”.)
“Sweet tea” is specifically Orange Pekoe* tea with a minimum of “enough sugar to give a British person apoplexy”. Sometimes the Orange Pekoe is mixed with other black teas and/or an additional flavor such as Peach or Raspberry. Some lemon is allowed, but if you add too much it becomes Lemonade Tea**. “Sweet tea” is usually iced, but sometimes just chilled, and can be bought in cans or jugs***.
* known in (at least) The South as “tea.” If you asked most drinkers if they liked “Orange Pekoe Tea”, they would not know what was meant, and many might go so far as to ask “Is that like Lipton or Luzianne?” Just… say “yes” and move on.
** Not to be confused with the “Arnold Palmer”, which is three parts unsweet tea and one part actual lemonade. In the case of an Arnold Palmer, the Lemonade sweetens the tea. I would say that the Arnold Palmer is a perfectly respectable beverage, but not “sweet tea”, but I was raised in Alabama.
*** You can also buy cans or jugs of “Iced Tea”, but that’s marketing departments for you.
Note that “Iced Tea” and “Sweet Tea” are overlapping categories, but “Unsweet Tea” is absolutely a thing, and is almost always iced. Although there are, in fact, people who drink “unsweet tea” as ordered, it is very often an excuse for the drinker to take care of the sweetening themselves because they don’t know who decided how sweet the tea would be***. (Alternately, they want to use artificial sweeteners.) Some restaurants avoid this problem altogether by just serving “Unsweet Tea” and having a shaker of sugar the size of a 20-ounce beer can on the table. Meals served in these restaurants usually subtract from your total lifespan, but are also usually worth it.
Also, while it’s easy and entertaining for us to mock the Brits on their tea choices, it’s worth noting that when it gets into the high 70s there, it’s considered a heat wave and people die, whereas that’s a moderate summer day in Virginia. I suspect if I lived in a place where a 75F day in August was considered unusual, I might drink my tea hot more often.
Iced tea is for when it’s 110 in the shade, and there ain’t no shade. And, for many Texans, there is no thing as “a little” sugar – you load in the sugar until there is a sludge of sugar at the bottom of the glass that won’t dissolve no matter how much you stir it. A super-saturated tea/sugar solution.
(I don’t drink tea myself, I have a weird reaction to it, an allergy to some ingredient I think.)
Yeah, to clarify for the Brits, here’s the weather where I am RIGHT NOW, and I put it in Celsius for you:
You can see why we prefer our drinks cold in summer.
Also, I should emphasize you don’t make hot tea and iced tea the same way. You’re probably thinking of the nasty bitter “I forgot my bag was brewing,” and it isn’t like that. What you do is you boil about 1L of water with teabags to taste (I use eight), fill a pitcher to the brim with ice, and when your boiling tea is super nice and dark and a bit murky you pour it IMMEDIATELY over the ice. The tannins that create that bitter flavor have no time to develop.
First time I’ve seen this. I am an English Brit. I drink my tea hot, made with boiling water, cold milk, no sugar .I prefer using a black leaf tea from India. For a special treat I mix black tea leaves with Earl Grey leaf tea. Mixing black tea with Earl Grey means you can have the bergamot flavouring but still drink it with milk.
