I'm like that with coffee, I can drink a 24 oz expresso, lol. If the spoon doesn't stand up in the cup by itself, the coffee is NOT strong enough !!

Or Delphine's tea!

I liked the spiced teas (chai spice) best, though I've been a long time fan of Earl Grey tea as well.

I hear in Mongolia, Afghanistan and Pakistan they make tea with butter. Huh. I'm not sure I have the courage to try that one!

I drink mine black - no cream, sugar, or lemon. Just as straight as my coffee (which I like as black as a January night).

For mugs I alternate. Today I'm drinking out of my black mug which has in simple fonts "got wind?" on it. I got it at the John Hancock SkyDeck in Chicago. The other one is the requisite cat mug, this one with a Laurel Burch "Fantastic Cats" design on it.

At church and in restaurants, I drink black coffee - none of that wimpy decaf stuff. And sometimes I'll have it with a shot of Jameson's Irish or sambuca on the side.

Sometimes I drink my tea black, and I rarely use sugar. But for coffee I can't stand drinking it without milk and sugar. My husband is the exact opposite--he'll only drink it black.

I never drink decaf, either. Not for me--I need my caffeine!

I haven't been on in a couple of days but in the read-over I do have to point out the clarification that Treydog made about "printing"....Just be thankful that he does that because if anyone found anything he had "written" instead of "printed" they would think they had found a new language that needed to be translated.....

Just sayin"

JK Treydog, well, not really but...well you know

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I actually drink very little coffee or tea. Orange juice, yes, and spiked with a Swarm caffeine pill if I need it. Usually, though, I drink a ton of water at night (helps put me to sleep), and in the morning it's get up and hit the white porcelain receptacle. Easy way to get myself up in the morning. Second best way to wake up.

I do enjoy coffee with Bailey's, or occasionally a half-shot o' whiskey. Obviously not a usual "Wake up and greet the morning with your cup of coffee before heading out for the day" drink. Might interfere with that morning commute.

Hope everyone enjoyed their Memorial Day weekend!

Not sure about Pakistan, certainly in the cities they make it the same way as the Indians - boil milk, tea and lots of sugar together - though I don't know about in the hills. Salt tea is a Tibetan/Mongolian thing mainly (though it might well have spread to other high lying areas), I drank a lot of it while I was living in that bit of the world. It's pretty horrid until you clear the 2000m mark but then you start to dehydrate quickly and need salty liquid to replace water. Another aspect is most poeple tend to prefer fattier things when they go high.

The way the Tibetans make it is boil milk water and tea (ideally chinese brick tea (good luck getting that in the west)) together with salt to taste (around a third of a teaspoon per cup) and a bit of butter about half the size of a die per cup. Boil it and whisk until it's the right colour (a couple of minutes if I recall correctly). The result is savoury, best described as chicken soup without the chicken flavour.

Best tea I ever had was in Rajhistan, it was very heavily spiced and made with condensed milk. More than a little sweet but delicious, and nothing like tea as it's drank here.

As far as de-caf goes, I wouldn't mind if taking the caffeine didn't kill he flavour, but it does. I have been known to mix half and half caf and de-caf if I want to drink lots of coffee and not get too jittery. As far as booze goes it has to be an Irish coffee for me.

Memorial Day was a fine day. After hoisting my flag, as I do every day the weather allows, I went for a long run and enjoyed a beautiful morning.

Upon returning home, the house smelled of something burning. An agitated Mrs Acadian informed me she had attempted cooking breakfast. The result was a pair of charcoal brickettes in the sink that she informed me had only recently been bagels.

She proudly chirped, "I was able to get several windows open before the smoke alarm could go off."

"Were you trying to cook with a Flare spell?"

"No, silly," she replied with a frown. "I just stuck them in the toastmaking altar. And no blonde jokes, if you please."

"How about I take you out to breakfast?"

"Oh that would be a great idea," she said. "Where shall we go?"

"How about Bravil for some strawberries, sweet rolls and tea?"

"I'm not drinking Delphine's tea."

Well....If you put two teabags into boiling water, I suspect what will come out is not milk but a man-scream...

lol. You and Mrs. Acadian sound charming! But I'm afraid I'm unaware of what's wrong with Delphine's tea...?

Lapsang Souchong is exactly how I imagine Delphine’s tea tasting. Sign me up! I agree about the decaf. I have to double the amount of leaves/grounds to water just to consider it.

I had a great weekend. Summer has definitely arrived around here. You can break a sweat before dawn just walking out to get the paper.

It sounds like Mrs. Acadian has found the perfect recipe for breakfast. How funny!

Foxy!!




ETA: Lady Syl, in SubRosa’s Teresa of the Faint Smile page 44 post 862.

This post has been edited by Grits: May 31 2011, 04:19 PM

Thank you!
Between the stories of Teresa and Buffy, you will come across several references to Delphine's rather stout tea. Here is just one from Episode 104 of Buffy's Journal:

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"I saw her earlier in the basement recharging some weapons," chimed in Ardaline. After briefly sticking her tongue out at the Breton in blue velvet, she added, "Ita said she's not coming anywhere near Delphine's tea."

"Hmmph!" retored the bubbly Breton. "If she'd drink it instead of spill it on herself, it wouldn't eat holes in her blouse."

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Mrs Acadian graciously suffers through a verbal rendition of each episode before it is posted, so she is well-familiar with life in Tamriel. We have Mrs Treydog to thank for that policy.

This post has been edited by Acadian: May 31 2011, 04:32 PM

Ah, I see. Thank you for explaining that to me.

Yes, my very own "Thadon" also suffers through verbal renditions of my stories, as well. He likes the stories, but he does grow tired of hearing it over and over again because of changes, lol! He's lucky we've been too busy to read through it in the last few months, though.

This post has been edited by Lady Syl: May 31 2011, 07:17 PM

As for all the talk of tea, I prefer grean tea with mint. I used to work for a janitorial company at the University of Arkansas and one of the female professors from Morocco always used to stop me when I was around her office and practically force me to sit and have some of the mint tea that she'd brought from Morocco. I gotta admit it was probably twice as good as the stuff we have here but after experiencing it I started drinking it all the time.

I also use two single serve bags of it in a single cup because I like the taste of my tea to be strong.

Argh, these baby birds are wrecking my head! They sit in the hollies right outside and screech all day long. And the baby hawks do the same from up in the pines. I love the Wild Kingdom atmosphere most of the time. But right now I’m thinking, grow up already!!

And now there’s a squirrel trying to jump up into a hanging basket. What does it think is in there?! I need to move to a different window.

This post has been edited by Grits: Jun 1 2011, 01:39 PM

Maybe it's mALX looking for Alix? Or perhaps that Golden Saint Armor?

If the squirrels could think, we would not have foreign outsourcing.

But back to tea and coffee. I either drink my coffee with cream and (brown) sugar, or make espresso and use white sugar, but tea is always unsweetened. I have about twenty different varieties of tea and some get milk, and some don't. Rarely add lemon, even when I make iced tea (which is usually Jasmine).

Oh, I love Jasmine tea! But I always drink mine hot and without anything added to it. The flavor is perfect alone--it doesn't need anything added.

As for Grits's squirrel and bird problem...lol. Moving to a different window was probably a good choice.

But I must say, I wish I had more like that to see. I live in a small city, and there's a fair amount of nature here, but I badly miss living out in the country, surrounded by trees and crazy animals getting into everything.

That actually reminds me of a near-miss I had when living on a farm just out of high school. I was coming home one night from a date with my boyfriend at the time (who is now my husband ), and I was on my cell phone talking to him as I walked up the sidewalk toward the house, and I saw a "kitty" and started to greet it--but then I stopped dead in my tracks when I realized it was not a kitty, but a skunk! I saw that same skunk around the house at night on a couple of occasions, and thankfully it never sprayed me! It was attracted to our house because of the big dish of catfood we always left outside for all the farm cats....

ARGH !!! "KABOOOM !!!!!"


[mALX grew to enormous proportions and ripped shirt off in a fit of squirrely wrath just before exploding]


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This post has been edited by mALX: Jun 1 2011, 08:01 PM