Tea Porn

[Batch]

Things could be worse.

Should hope never to know what that feels like.

 

[gypsyTX]

I love Red Rose tea, drink almost a gallon a day. It's delicious and each box comes with a toy surprise!

I tried white rose tea once but it really didn't work for me. I still have the rest of the expensive lot.
Is red rose tea pretty much the same taste wise?

It is both.

It refers to any tea, usually strong and black, brewed by boiling water in a tin colloquially called a 'billy' over an open fire then throwing a handful of tea leaves loose into the rolling water.

Its almost an Australian tea ceremony when camping. Traditionally after pitching the tea (throwing in the leaves) the billy is removed from the fire and stirred and someone then 'swings the billy'. This means they hold it by the handle and swing it around the shoulder in a full circle to push all the leaves to the bottom. It is also the source of much hilarity and third degree burns when the handle of the billy breaks off.

Here's a link to some old cock-waffle going about the show.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yrJa23WyAr4


You then drink it from enamel mugs that someone didn't wash up properly the night before.

It's also a brand of tea that is sold here. There have been several tea companies package and brand a "billy tea".

That is so cool.
Although, I probably wouldn't have sat right in front of where he swings the "billy.'

http://soocurious.com/fr/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/bombardement-allemand-the.jpg
Une femme londonienne qui boit une tasse de thé après la destruction de sa maison par les bombardements allemands – 1940

 

[Hard_Rom]

White Rose?

White Rose!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AjhTCskZMiY

 

[gypsyTX]

White Rose?

White Rose!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AjhTCskZMiY

Oh. I thought it was gonna be a Rose Rage link but this was way better.

 

[Magicscreen2]

Oh. I thought it was gonna be a Rose Rage link but this was way better.

(Other than Star Wars, obviously) the cultural references in this were completely lost on me.

 

[Hard_Rom]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNTgLBBvhjg
Where tea time is very important.

 

[Hard_Rom]

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2yp5w2

 

[Magicscreen2]

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2yp5w2

"Tea time is me time...."

That was funny.

 

[Hard_Rom]

Do you use boiling water and pre-heat your teapot first? Pour some in, give a swirl and then pour out before filling properly with boiling water.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H0q-SWnSP2U

 

[Hard_Rom]

The Tea Song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFfn8L2saYI

 

[Rollinbones]

http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g35/thatp1g/CeFyeVMWAAAKkrq_zpsjjkfycdr.jpg

http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g35/thatp1g/tea_on_the_beach_zps9oeive3t.jpg

 

[Batch]

“Peter swept aside Yogi Tea and Harmony Herbal Blend, though he hesitated a second over the chamomile. .... But no. Violent death demanded Earl Grey.”
― Louise Penny, Still Life

 

[Batch]

my tea has gone
cold

sadness, I need

more.

 

[Magicscreen2]

Tea is usually an easy fix for most of what ails you.

Tea on!

 

[gypsyTX]

(Other than Star Wars, obviously) the cultural references in this were completely lost on me.

Rose Rage is Edward Hall's adaptation of the three parts of Shakespeare's Henry VI, which pretty much follows the Wars of the Roses.

 

[Magicscreen2]

Rose Rage is Edward Hall's adaptation of the three parts of Shakespeare's Henry VI, which pretty much follows the Wars of the Roses.

Easy for you to say.

So, who was Darth Vader?

 

[gypsyTX]

Easy for you to say.

So, who was Darth Vader?

Hm. I'm not sure. Maybe Edmund Beaufort, 2nd (or 1st) Duke of Somerset?

 

[Magicscreen2]

Hm. I'm not sure. Maybe Edmund Beaufort, 2nd (or 1st) Duke of Somerset?

I was thinking maybe it was intended just to lampoon "Yorkshire men", whatever that means. Maybe they have a reputation as hot-headed, bare-chested brawlers?

 

[gypsyTX]

I was thinking maybe it was intended just to lampoon "Yorkshire men", whatever that means. Maybe they have a reputation as hot-headed, bare-chested brawlers?

I'm quite sure you're guess is closer to the truth.

 

[Magicscreen2]

I'm quite sure you're guess is closer to the truth.

But now I also know the origin of the battle cry "White Rose, White Rose!"

Makes me want to tear my shirt off and rush into battle.

 

[gypsyTX]

But now I also know the origin of the battle cry "White Rose, White Rose!"

Makes me want to tear my shirt off and rush into battle.

Of course I still don't know if white rose tea tastes anything like red rose tea.

 

[Magicscreen2]

Of course I still don't know if white rose tea tastes anything like red rose tea.

I've never had white rose. Red rose is very nice, however.

Mild and a little malty. Plus, it came with the ceramic conch!

Tough to beat.

 

[Batch]

As far as her mom was concerned, tea fixed everything. Have a cold? Have some tea. Broken bones? There's a tea for that too. Somewhere in her mother's pantry, Laurel suspected, was a box of tea that said, 'In case of Armageddon, steep three to five minutes'.”
― Aprilynne Pike, Illusions

 

[Magicscreen2]

I love this. ^

 

[Batch]

If I, the boiling water,
And you, the tea;
Then your fragrance
Has to depend solely upon my plainness....
I have to be hot, even boiled
Before we consume each other....
~Dominic Cheung (Chang Ts'o), Drifting