"when did everyone suddenly become obsessed with drinking tea?!"
Not 'til student days did drinking tea become habitual for me. Prior to then, I remember clearly one of my first trips into tea sips on a freezing cold, wet and dreary day out. I don't like chocolate - a cup of hot cocoa was never going to be an option - so I had some tea to warm me up. I wasn't overly enamoured with the stuff, but then it did come from a machine - grey, bitty, lukewarm liquid in a polystyrene cup - so perhaps not the best start.
Once at uni, tea-drinking was to the daytime as alcohol-drinking was to the night. That is, there was the potential to find yourself left out without a mug in hand, or alternatively, a part of a fabulous group of friends purely based on the fact that you shared hot water from the same kettle. It was a bonding thing, to make a cup of tea was to make people like you. And since I was Queen of Mugs and Chief Milk Provider, I was quite popular with the tea-drinkers. We'd sit and sip and chat and share and watch banal daytime TV as if we had nothing better to do, which in actuality is not so far from the truth, we were students after all...
Do you care for tea?
Why yes, I'm very fond of teaSo yes, it's tea all the way. Milk, no sugar, thanks. Ordinary or Earl Grey, preferably, sometimes Green, White or Chamomile in the evening - too much caffeine makes me jittery and aids insomnia. No biscuits, no chocolate wafers, no jam & bread. Just tea will do me. Tea's comforting. Tea's wonderful. I love the Tea. (and the jewellry...)
it's always tea time
On the jukebox: Arcade Fire ~ Wake Up
I'm not that keen on tea, except for very occasionally when I do actually want it. But I try to keep off both it and coffee because I don't want to become addicted to caffeine. (And no, a chocolate addiction doesn't count...)
ReplyDeleteFruit tea, on the other hand, is tasty!
I have never drunk tea like I used to at uni - my tea drinking voracity knew no bounds! When I was bored of doing work, I'd come down to the kitchen in the hope that someone else would appear. When we would be lounging about I would make another cup in the hope that it would keep people lounging just a little bit longer.
ReplyDeleteTea doesn't hold the same magical qualities now that it did for me back then. Now I just look forward to my one cup of tea a day, in the evening. But I make it a big one.
PS Thank you for coming out of the lurky woodwork!!
Tea and I will maintain an everlastin' relationship because it's awesome stuff. Herbal tea is plain awful and don't start me on that verde stuff :p Stephen Fry tea for me!
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