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[dianec42]

From Nice Cup of Tea and a Sit Down (dot com), "Wallace and Gromit inspired tea inventions"!

Must steal tea icon now.

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[cahwyguy.livejournal.com]

Ahhhh. Tea icons.

[dianec42.livejournal.com]

Tea-hee! Now you're just showing off.

I still need to steal a good food icon from somewhere...

[cahwyguy.livejournal.com]

You have to understand I'm a tea person. Coffee is only good covered in dark chocolate or in ice cream. Looking over my shoulder at my work tea stach, I see: Mango, Dragonwell Green, English Breakfast, Gunpowsder, Darjeeling, Gunpowder Green, Sweet Berries, Darjeeling #23, Apricot Green, and Ceylon Sonata. Some are Stash, some are Adiagio, some are from Barclays, and some are from Cost Plus.

I have a few cooking icons that I use, and one or two for food in general.

[dianec42.livejournal.com]

Wow. And no Earl Grey in sight... a man after my own heart.

Around the house we have a lovely set of 4 Harrods caddies containing Darjeeling, Assam, English Breakfast, and Earl Grey for my insane husband. We also have some (British-market) Twinings "Chai", which always confuses me because in Russian "chai" just means "tea"; and some Tesco's Finest lemon and ginger herbal stuff which we only ever seem to drink when we're home sick. (Tesco is roughly the British equivalent of Albertson's, if that helps.)

Much of our current stash has actually come from Britain, but then we were just there for Worldcon (and Stuart had to go to London on a business trip a few weeks ago). Our primary other source is Ye Olde King's Head shoppe in Santa Monica. I hadn't considered Cost Plus, that's a good idea!

[cahwyguy.livejournal.com]

I'm not a particular fan of Earl Grey... it tends to repeat on me. Darjeeling is my favorite. I distrust anyplace that calls themselves a tea shop that doesn't have it.

Cost Plus has gone down in their selection of teas. Of course, Starbucks is pointless. I suggest Barclays Coffee and Tea Company (http://www.barclayscoffee.com/) in Northridge (right near the mall, and less than 1 mile from our house). Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf (http://www.coffeebean.com/) is feh!, as they don't appear to have loose tea so much (I'm sorry, but bags are only for when you can't get loose). Peets (http://www.peets.com/default.asp?rdir=1&) has a fair selection. For mail order, I prefer Stash Tea (http://www.stashtea.com/) or Adagio (http://www.adagio.com/) (the latter come in the nicest containers). Of course, when in New Orleans, I go to Royal Blend Coffee and Tea (http://www.royalblendcoffee.com/) in the French Quarter (they do mail order as well).

[dianec42.livejournal.com]

P.S. - I think we also have some Lapdog Shoeshine (aka Lapsang Souchong) tightly sealed in its own container someplace far away from the lss fragrant teas. (-:

[feste-sylvain.livejournal.com]

You have to understand I'm a tea person. Coffee is only good covered in dark chocolate or in ice cream.

Heretic. Not for liking tea, but for only consuming coffee in its most polluted forms.

(I can't drink black tea myself. Well, okay, I can, but if I do, my stomach will declare war on the rest of my internal organs until I can flush the tea out of my system.)

Those of us with a nose for coffee can identify the continent or island chain it comes from on the first sip, and narrow it down to a particular area upon savoring the rest of the cup. From the more nutty Kona to the highly acidic (but wonderful) Tanzanian Peaberry to the full-bodied Sumatran Mandeeling, and around the world several more times (Ethiopian Yrgacheffee, Kenyan AA, Kulawasi, Colombia High Andes, and the justly famous Jamaican Blue Mountain), we got connoisseurs and varieties to keep up with any tea snob. Hecque, we can even grant our custom to the good organic varieties from Mexico (as Ben & Jerry does for their coffee flavored ice creams).

That, and caffeine kicks theophylline's ass.

[cahwyguy.livejournal.com]

Enjoy your coffee. That leaves more tea for me (which I drink unadulterated... no sugar, no milk, no lemon, thank you).

I know many coffee snobs. Different strokes for different folks.

[dianec42.livejournal.com]

leaves more tea

Mmm, leaves of tea.

[feste-sylvain.livejournal.com]

Oh, dianec42? I believe that appropriating a copy of a publicly distributed image (such as your tea icon) is not "stolen", but rather "ganked".

And yes, cahwyguy, my metabolism's refusal to allow me to enjoy a cup of tea does indeed mean "more for you". This would be true whether or not I drank coffee (my brother seems to have the same tea aversion that I do, but he doesn't touch coffee, beer, wine, or any of those "acquired tastes").

[dianec42.livejournal.com]

I have hear "ganked" and also "gacked". However, "ganking" definitely refers to the gratuitous killing of much-lower-level player characters, so it doesn't really seem appropriate for this usage.

BTW, tea does have Actual Caffeine, no matter what lies you have been told. One of the labs in my Organic Chem book from college was "The extraction of caffeine from tea leaves". It said so in my textbook, so it must be true!

And finally... Fight nice, you two! DON'T MAKE ME COME OVER THERE...

[cahwyguy.livejournal.com]

You're welcome to come over. I'll make you a cup of tea :-)