What is your favourite tea?

[Lachlan09]

When I was a boy in the early 1960’s, we used to drink Typhoo tea, loose in the box. What I liked best was you could cut out and collect the football team photos on the side. Save so many and you could send away for a big, coloured team photo. I sent away for my favourites (as they still are) – Heart of Midlothian FC. For those of you who know Scottish football of that era, the photo included players like Jim Cruickshank, Chris Shevlane, Davie Holt, Roy Barrie, Tommy Traynor, Billy Wallace, John Cumming, Johnny Hamilton etc.

Tough being a Jambo in 2009-10 though !

[macwilkin]

When I was a boy in the early 1960’s, we used to drink Typhoo tea, loose in the box. What I liked best was you could cut out and collect the football team photos on the side. Save so many and you could send away for a big, coloured team photo. I sent away for my favourites (as they still are) – Heart of Midlothian FC. For those of you who know Scottish football of that era, the photo included players like Jim Cruickshank, Chris Shevlane, Davie Holt, Roy Barrie, Tommy Traynor, Billy Wallace, John Cumming, Johnny Hamilton etc.

Tough being a Jambo in 2009-10 though !

Aye, but better a loyal supporter, even in the tough times, then a "bandwagoner"!

H-E-A-R-T-S -- if ye cannae spell, then here's what it says: Hearts, Hearts, Glorious Hearts...

T.

[Lachlan09]

Aye, but better a loyal supporter, even in the tough times, then a "bandwagoner"!

H-E-A-R-T-S -- if ye cannae spell, then here's what it says: Hearts, Hearts, Glorious Hearts...

T.

Well rememberd Cajun ! Are you a fellow sufferer too ?

Aye, Cajun, I’d never support another team. Hearts owner, the Lithuanian entrepreneur-millionnaire, Vladimir Romanoff, announced in the press that Scottish football is a joke and is going downhill due to the continuing domination of the Rangers/Celtic cartel which is strangling opportunities for other teams in Scotland and creating a floundering “sub-league”. He’s probably right ! That, plus the standard of referreeing nose-diving too. Far days from Tiny Wharton and Hugh Dallas !

All Hearts can hope to do this season is keep out of the regulation zone ! What a change from 4 years ago, when after several excellent seasons, they were still regularly at or near the top of the league and won the Scottish Cup twice in 7 years (now written off by the R/C cartel as an unimportant trophy - though they'd kill for it if they reached the final !)

[KiltedKnome]

English Breakfast for me, Rooibos for Steve.

[Jock Scot]

Loose Ceylon for us.

[Frank McGrath]

I drink Lipton at work and Earl Gray at home. Unless Mama's making something else.

Lipton, because the company supplies it. Earl Gray, because I have the freedom of choice. Unless Mama's making a pot of something else.

[WClarkB]

Earl Grey (and for about 20yrs before "Jean Paul" started ordering it)

[Jack Daw]

Although I am from Texas, when I drink tea it is hot and not iced. I drink coffee every morning, and tea in the evenings. I drink both without cream, milk, or sweeteners, as the Almighty intended.

My preferred tea brand and flavor is Bigalow's Constant Comment (flavored with orange rinds and spices). Others that I drink regularly are also Bigalow's: Earl Grey, Earl Grey Green, Green, Lemon Lift, and Darjeeling.

[Lallans]

I enjoy the western black teas that are designed to be taken with milk, sugar, etc, if desired (for Canadians, I recommend an almost-as-good substitute for the late lamented Red Rose loose tea, which is Lipton's Yellow Label loose tea). Via the Japanese tea ceremony, which for me was a bit of a wedge thing, I developed a taste for Asian blends- the real ones made for Asians and not what the big companies sell as such. Once you find them, the trick is to abandon your previous habits about water termperature and steeping times, etc, and try the ways a good vendor recommends- it doesn't take long to appreciate they know what they're about. The Japanese teas are relatively easy to find but thanks to a short-lived tea shop in my home area, I also learned about Taiwanese High Mountain oolong teas. They actually have a remarkably variety once you find a good store- the only one I can personally recommend is the Ten Ren Tea Store on Dundas St in Toronto, Ontario. Ten Ren stores have a website but in my experience you only get the best stuff if you vist one of their big stores in person, with a big bag of money. They tend to sound you out with offers of ordinary teas that Westerners are used to, but once they decide you're serious about oolongs, and if they have the staff time available, they may offer you a tasting that embodies the Taiwanese Chinese tea ceremony.

[Tartan Tess]

Yogi Teas.....Licorice spiced Egyptian tea