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Thank you Peter, you are a light in a cloudy world.
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I regularly drink Iced Tea; Long Island Iced Tea. 
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To wash down the gin's aftertaste, I presume.
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I used to drink 64 oz of unsweetened iced tear per day. Used about 7 teabags.
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wizardzz wrote: unsweetened iced tear
Has visions of a crowd of peasants being cruelly punished to supply sufficient tears for the ice cube maker.
Besides, wouldn't that be a bit salty?
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It would be more strange to sweeten it, wouldn't it?
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Don't know about that, I'm reliably informed that it makes the medicine go down, in a most delightful way.
<edit>(Can't believe I just quoted Mary Poppins)
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There is a place in the world for fruit-flavoured teas.
It's just nowhere near me.
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Not near me either! *shudders*
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Darjeeling for a lighter tea or Lapsang Souchong for a stronger one, or at work, green tea as I don't trust the milk.
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Lapsang is the one tea I detest - it tastes like liquidised kippers!
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If your tea has a fishy taste, it actually means that you've got a good quality one.
The fishy taste comes from cottage-industry style farms, where they use ancient-recipe fish glue to bond the tea together into round cakes, for distribution (They look like this[^]).
Rinse the tea with a tablespoonful or so of hot water before filling the pot, to get rid of the (perfectly harmless) glue.
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It's not the fishiness I don't like, but the smokiness - I believe Lapsang is dried over smouldering pine branches.
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I think we should give our slow friends over the pond a bit of a break.
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Especially since Kevin can't spell "biscuit"?
...or use the correct plural for "Lorries".
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- Of all the things I have lost, it is my mind that I miss the most.
- I vaguely remember having a good memory...
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Kevin Marois wrote: Remember, the Brits are the same people who call trucks 'Lorrys' and crackers 'Bisquets' can spell "Briton" and "bisquit".
If your shoe size is bigger than your mouth size, you may have a problem.
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Not being limited in my range of tastes by being a Brit, I too enjoy a glass of clear, cold iced tea on a warm day. Cloudiness can be caused by a number of things, the water used being foremost. Quality water is a must. But the method of preparation is important, too. Boiling the tea leaves releases oils in addition to the other goodies which, when chilled, tend to turn opaque and make the tea appear cloudy. I prefer to use a cold-brew tea, or to use regular tea but prepare it in the Sun, rather than on the stove. Even so, chilling the elixir too quickly can also increase cloudiness, so I let the whole jug cool slowly indoors on the counter, before I place it in the fridge.
Will Rogers never met me.
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A helpful post.
Kinda caught me off guard there.
Thanks for the information.
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Quote: The tea I buy from our local cafe is cloudy.
Don't worry, they are probably just spitting into the pot  .
I used to drink a lot of tea way back when I was in college - it became more or less a ritual when doing my homework. My favorite tea is Earl Grey with Jasmine, topped off with milk and sugar. I brew it until the color is very much like that of the honey you have linked to, but the last cup from the pot is often darker and cloudy.
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Having access to teas like pu-erh and longjing (not the sweepings that you get in Europe; the real thing, direct from China) has made me incredibly fussy about tea.
These days, I wouldn't use PG Tips as kindling.
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Mark_Wallace wrote: These days, I wouldn't use PG Tips as kindling.
I don't believe they would even be good for that.
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I'm sorry to say that yes, you're drinking mud.
Tea is (or at least should be) an infusion, not a suspension.
Incidentally, I quite like iced tea. Spent several weeks working in Georgia in June-July a few years back - iced-anything was welcome, and the iced tea was fine as long as you accept that it's a completely different drink to hot tea.
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Tea came from China. You should ask the Chinese about the tea issue you are having. If it backing up your plumbing, then do not swallow the tea leaves.
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