When I was in London I witnessed people eating perfectly good sandwiches with a knife and fork. Why would anyone care what these people have to say about food or drink?
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The English term 'cream tea' refers to the ritual of tea in the afternoon served with cream cakes or scones.
Served in best quality porcelain, and silver cutlery is to be used. As are also linen napkins.
A dainty repast indeed.
Served in best quality porcelain, and silver cutlery is to be used. As are also linen napkins.
A dainty repast indeed.
Scones with jam and clotted cream are lovely with a cup of tea.
i like decent loose leaf tea.
Irish breakfast, Russian Caravan, Earl Grey and Lapsang Souchon, each have their place as my mood decides.
I also have a nice Rwandan tea.
Tried Pu'erh a few times. I don't like that one. Tastes like stagnant ditch water.
i like decent loose leaf tea.
Irish breakfast, Russian Caravan, Earl Grey and Lapsang Souchon, each have their place as my mood decides.
I also have a nice Rwandan tea.
Tried Pu'erh a few times. I don't like that one. Tastes like stagnant ditch water.
INCOMING!! ?
When I was last in America I saw people so fat they were storing the excess excess in their foreheads, but I’m not going to generalise about all Americans being massively overweight…oh no, wait a second! ????
Somebody probably reads Clarkson.
I for one love the English cuisine ( I use "cuisine" loosely.) as they have properly adapted Curry to Western tastes, know their way around a joint of beef and can't, well until recently, be bothered with the "haute cuisine" from across the Channel.
Major Grey's was a major step forward in condiments. 
They have their quirks, certainly. But, they know their beef and, beef is really all that matters when it comes to supper/dinner. Just fully undering how to prepare a "joint" puts them miles ahead of the French and Italians. And, I might add, I will in fact add, the fully understand proper serving portions.
I add milk to cool the tea. Adding milk gives sort of that fishy thing to the taste and sweetener kills that thing. When I used to work in office, drank without milk or sweetener. Long time ago, I tried cream instead of milk. Cream curdles in hot tea.
I drink tea daily - Indian, Chinese, Japanese. Mostly without sugar or milk.
Occasionally when in the mood, I will make myself an ultra strong brew and add condensed milk - a leftover of my childhood years in Malaysia. Bloody delicious.
BTW, I don't allow the tea Nazis to dictate what temperature I brew my tea. It is almost impossible to get the temperature exact - factors such as the teapot size, its ambient temperature (dud you warm up the teapot with hot water ?), how much tea you've packed into the pot, what material the pot is made from (clay, porcelain or metal ?). Whether you've rinsed the tea or not, and did you use cold, warm or hot
water ? It's all too anal for me. ?
Hence the milk and sugar.
Likewise the addition of spices to make "chai".
The best/better grades of tea were exported and the broken up leaf and tea "fines" (ie dust) was for local consumption. Spices were added to make it palatable. And inevitably served with milk and lashings of sugar.
I think the waiter/waitress is looking to make one trip not influence how you drink your tea. Its how you ask for it. Hot Tea with milk usually does it. Sugar and saccharine are usually on the table. I was in the south once and asked for hot tea with milk and the girl brought be a 32 oz cup of ice tea that had been microwaved and a 32oz cup of cold milk. She thought it was a strange thing to order ! I thought it was a strange thing to deliver ! Everyone's experiences are different !
P.S. The milk was actually appreciated back at our hotel where we knew how to make our own real hot tea !
Curry is different all over the planet, and I like the various versions with equal gusto.
And I won't generalize about the lousy state of British dentistry.
That's an outdated stereotype. Universal healthcare and all that you know.
Tonight at tea time I had steak and chips.
Yeah, a bunch of high end stores and hotels in London put on a sumptuous cream tea, mostly for Yankees and other miscreants. With stellar prices. Try Fortnum and Mason!
Said I wasn't going to generalize about it, though watching Britbox can impel me reach for the Enamelon.
You obviously haven't tasted a French or Japanese curry ?
But before I taint other cuisines unfairly, I have to say that the Australian versions I was subjected to at boarding school in the late 1960s were diabolical. But then so was all boarding school tucker generally. Only saved from starvation by unlimited quantities of bread and butter.
Bullocks Wilshire had a beautiful Art Deco tea room where they served an elaborate high tea every Sunday for decades. It was spectacular.
I preferred the high tea at Rose Tree Cottage in Pasadena. Not so grand, but done with style and grace.
Wife #2, who had gone to school in Blighty, could turn out a very respectable high tea.
I preferred the high tea at Rose Tree Cottage in Pasadena. Not so grand, but done with style and grace.
Wife #2, who had gone to school in Blighty, could turn out a very respectable high tea.
I love Japanese curry, you Philistine! Haven't tried French curry. Dutch curries are delicious, and I've had curries from numerous regions of India. Chinese curries also run a wide gamut.
Do tell. I've weighed 114lbs for 34 years. I have to take in at least 4000 calories per day to keep from loosing weight.