Having been to a "High Tea"

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Post #234,987 by imqwerky 11/18/05 8:11:36 PM Reply	Having been to a "High Tea" Presented at the St. Paul Women's Guild by a proper citizen of the Crown, we were instructed on the correct ways to drink tea: 1) with milk 2) with lemon 3) plain (her words) We were asked how many lumps of sugar we would like as well. It is quite acceptable to forego sugar, lemon, and/or milk. One never puts both lemon and milk in one's tea for obvious reasons (yuk!) Cheerio! Amy One interesting tidbit, tea used to be drunk from the saucer! "It's never too late to be who you might have been." ~ George Eliot
Post #234,992 by Another Scott 11/18/05 8:28:34 PM Reply	English tea time is just playing compared to Japan. [link\|http://www.holymtn.com/tea/Japanesetea.htm\|Japanese Tea Ceremony]. Drinking tea is a big deal in Japan: Chaji is a full tea presentation with a meal. As in virtually every tea ceremony, the host may spend days going over minutiae to insure that this ceremony will be perfect. Through tea, recognition is given that every human encounter is a singular occasion which can, and will, never recur again exactly. Thus every aspect of tea must be savored for what it gives the participants. Milk in Japanese tea would probably lead to blows with swords. ;-) Cheers, Scott.
Post #235,025 by boxley 11/19/05 12:17:39 AM Reply	there is only 2 ways to drink tea, sweet and unsweet :-) "the reason people don't buy conspiracy theories is that they think conspiracy means everyone is on the same program. Thats not how it works. Everybody has a different program. They just all want the same guy dead. Socrates was a gadfly, but I bet he took time out to screw somebodies wife" Gus Vitelli Any opinions expressed by me are mine alone, posted from my home computer, on my own time as a free american and do not reflect the opinions of any person or company that I have had professional relations with in the past 49 years. meep questions, help? [link\|mailto:pappas@catholic.org\|email pappas at catholic.org]

Is it bad form not to put milk in your tea in the UK? - (bionerd) - (13) - Nov. 18, 2005, 05:48:26 PM EST

I call it black tea. - (Meerkat) - Nov. 18, 2005, 06:54:47 PM EST

Having been to a "High Tea" - (imqwerky) - (2) - Nov. 18, 2005, 08:11:36 PM EST

English tea time is just playing compared to Japan. - (Another Scott) - Nov. 18, 2005, 08:28:34 PM EST

there is only 2 ways to drink tea, sweet and unsweet :-) -NT - (boxley) - Nov. 19, 2005, 12:17:39 AM EST

Depends on the kind of tea - (jake123) - (2) - Nov. 18, 2005, 09:16:20 PM EST

Interesting - (bionerd) - (1) - Nov. 19, 2005, 10:59:08 AM EST

Yeah - (jake123) - Nov. 21, 2005, 10:16:53 AM EST

No. -NT - (pwhysall) - (1) - Nov. 18, 2005, 10:12:30 PM EST

To this point - (bepatient) - Nov. 19, 2005, 10:32:28 AM EST

I prefer my tea... - (cforde) - Nov. 19, 2005, 12:56:59 AM EST

Ben!!!! I think it might be time for my tea joke! -NT - (imqwerky) - (2) - Nov. 21, 2005, 02:23:32 PM EST

If you feel like telling it, then tell it. - (ben_tilly) - Nov. 21, 2005, 10:15:10 PM EST

Does it involve Count Dracula and a cup of hot water? - (CRConrad) - Nov. 22, 2005, 01:46:55 AM EST

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