Why are there so many types of tea?
Back before I was disabused of the notion that tea is tea is tea I went round to a friend’s house once and was offered a cup of tea. I said yes. I was asked what I would like. "Milk and half a sugar please." She gave me one of those looks, the 'I'm far too polite to say this out loud, but you're an absolute fucking cretin' kind of look, sighed and said. "No, I mean what kind of tea do you want." "Oh, any. I don't mind."
I ended up drinking purple boiling water that tasted of scalding.
I still don't know why people drink that crap, when real actual tea is so much better.
(Roger McGough-Pipe, Fri 16 Oct 2009, 14:35, 5 replies)

I was about to defend your friend...
...until the description of what you then had to imbibe. Assam, Lapsang Souchong, Darjeeling; these are types of tea. The bland purple stuff that smells like cheap hand soap is not, largely on account of not containing any leaves from the tea plant. Bah.
(ThomsonsPier consumes, Fri 16 Oct 2009, 14:45, closed)

A good hearty Assam is robust enough to support milk and sugar
...and what a fucking fine cup of Bruce that is
(Super Jet Shoes, Fri 16 Oct 2009, 14:55, closed)

Fruit "teas"
are shit and should properly be described as infusions, so as to avoid confusion
( emvee cruor deo cruoris, Fri 16 Oct 2009, 14:47, closed)

proper tea
is theft.
(apeloverage committed the vile act of onanism on, Fri 16 Oct 2009, 15:32, closed)

*snigger*

( snee held his breath since, Mon 19 Oct 2009, 10:31, closed)