Earl Grey is Awful!

[sbk1234]

It tastes like Fruit Loops.

 

[Tim]

Dr. Chandra said:
The coffee service that our office uses recently left some samples of green teas, lemon teas, and Earl Grey. I jumped at the chance to try a cup, and it sux. To be fair, it is in individual bags, so I'm not sure how fresh it was, and I don't know if there are different varieties of it, but...blech! Picard can keep it. Back to my fresh ground columbian coffee!

Teabags aren't real tea. It isn't referred to as "dust in a bag" for nothing.

That said, I tend to prefer a Darjeeling or Longjing green tea.

 

[C.E. Evans]

Earl Grey depends on the brand. Like all teas bought from supermarkets, some are good, others are "meh," and other still are poor. It also depends on personal tastes too. If you're really not into strongly flavored teas, Earl Grey and many other teas are not for you, 'nuff said.

Just because Captain Picard likes it doesn't mean it's the greatest tea in the Galaxy, 'y'know. Some people hate coffee (of any kind) with a passion, but that's just a matter of personal preference.

Personally, I always order red tea, hot, slightly sweet, from my office replicator...

 

[Borjis]

to me it has a "perfume like" flavor to it.

not my fav, but I'll drink a cup now and then.

 

[The Laughing Vulcan]

Earl Grey is the left over dust that Indians export, while drinking the real stuff themselves.

Tried it once, tasted just like milky hot water, which is what it is.

You don't even know how to make proper tea. It takes a good ten minutes, and none of this warming the pot, brewing stuff.

50 percent water 50 percent milk. Bring water to boil on hob. Add tea, one teaspoon per person. Add cloves, add cardamom pod, add stick of cinammon, add sugar to taste. Continue to boil until tea has infused. Then add milk, and bring back to boil and then cut heat. Strain into cups and enjoy with Indian sweets.

Then go to Doctor to have your cholestorol checked. That's Tea!

 

[Forbin]

Yeah, I hated it too when I tried it. Plain ol' Lipton teabags for me.

Ironically, when we bought a coffee maker for our office at work, the supplier offered a selection of brewing "pods" for it that includes a couple of kinds of coffee, and only one kind of tea: Yup, Earl Gray.

 

[WillsBabe]

Borjis said:

to me it has a "perfume like" flavor to it.

Great description! Exactly why I like it.

 

[DanTheGrey]

I don't mind Earl Grey, but the Vanilla Earl Grey is a definite improvement. Hell I liked the stuff even before TNG aired when I was 11

 

[Sharr Khan]

Earl Grey is a sublime tea!

Its my favorite and I love it with double bergomont!
Drunk it long before I saw Picard do so as well.

Sharr

 

[Brutal Strudel]

Dr. Chandra said:
The coffee service that our office uses recently left some samples of green teas, lemon teas, and Earl Grey. I jumped at the chance to try a cup, and it sux. To be fair, it is in individual bags, so I'm not sure how fresh it was, and I don't know if there are different varieties of it, but...blech! Picard can keep it. Back to my fresh ground columbian coffee!

Like Captain Jack Aubrey and Dr. Stephen Maturin, I'll always prefer coffee to tea.

 

[Tim]

The Laughing Vulcan said:
Earl Grey is the left over dust that Indians export, while drinking the real stuff themselves.

Tried it once, tasted just like milky hot water, which is what it is.

You don't even know how to make proper tea. It takes a good ten minutes, and none of this warming the pot, brewing stuff.

50 percent water 50 percent milk. Bring water to boil on hob. Add tea, one teaspoon per person. Add cloves, add cardamom pod, add stick of cinammon, add sugar to taste. Continue to boil until tea has infused. Then add milk, and bring back to boil and then cut heat. Strain into cups and enjoy with Indian sweets.

Then go to Doctor to have your cholestorol checked. That's Tea!

Well, the above would be for making tea the English way. Some of us prefer our tea how the Chinese and Indians intended it. For example, I never add milk or sugar to Chinese teas; to me, those additives are for masking the flavor of bad tea.

 

[Pingfah]

Earl Grey is disgusting, I prefer Assam or Kenyan.

Those lipton teabags they have in the states though, the ones on a bit of string, they are disgusting too. You need 2 or 3 of them to make one half decent strength mug of tea. A disgrace!

 

[Sharr Khan]

Tim M said:

The Laughing Vulcan said:
Earl Grey is the left over dust that Indians export, while drinking the real stuff themselves.

Tried it once, tasted just like milky hot water, which is what it is.

You don't even know how to make proper tea. It takes a good ten minutes, and none of this warming the pot, brewing stuff.

50 percent water 50 percent milk. Bring water to boil on hob. Add tea, one teaspoon per person. Add cloves, add cardamom pod, add stick of cinammon, add sugar to taste. Continue to boil until tea has infused. Then add milk, and bring back to boil and then cut heat. Strain into cups and enjoy with Indian sweets.

Then go to Doctor to have your cholestorol checked. That's Tea!

Well, the above would be for making tea the English way. Some of us prefer our tea how the Chinese and Indians intended it. For example, I never add milk or sugar to Chinese teas; to me, those additives are for masking the flavor of bad tea.

Some of us prefer our tea how the Chinese and Indians intended it.

Ironically or maybe not: what the Laughing Vulcan dscribed is how the Indians I've known to drink tea - its called "chai" here in America though that just means "tea".

Sharr

 

[K-Star]

Well I think tea in general is disgusting so...

 

[Tim]

Sharr Khan said:

Tim M said:

The Laughing Vulcan said:
Earl Grey is the left over dust that Indians export, while drinking the real stuff themselves.

Tried it once, tasted just like milky hot water, which is what it is.

You don't even know how to make proper tea. It takes a good ten minutes, and none of this warming the pot, brewing stuff.

50 percent water 50 percent milk. Bring water to boil on hob. Add tea, one teaspoon per person. Add cloves, add cardamom pod, add stick of cinammon, add sugar to taste. Continue to boil until tea has infused. Then add milk, and bring back to boil and then cut heat. Strain into cups and enjoy with Indian sweets.

Then go to Doctor to have your cholestorol checked. That's Tea!

Well, the above would be for making tea the English way. Some of us prefer our tea how the Chinese and Indians intended it. For example, I never add milk or sugar to Chinese teas; to me, those additives are for masking the flavor of bad tea.

Some of us prefer our tea how the Chinese and Indians intended it.

Ironically or maybe not: what the Laughing Vulcan dscribed is how the Indians I've known to drink tea - its called "chai" here in America though that just means "tea".

Sharr

Interesting. Most of my experience is with Asian (specifically Chinese) teas, so perhaps I should have restricted my comments to those.

Some of the teas have such subtle flavors that adding anything will ruin them.

 

[Brennyren]

For me, coffee is what I use to pry my eyes open first thing in the morning -- and to prop them open, if needed, during the day. I'm pretty indiscriminate as to the brand or type of coffee (as long as it's not Folgers -- Folgers is disgusting!). Coffee is fuel.

If I have time to relax and savor my hot drink, then I'll make some tea. I like Earl Grey, and I think it smells wonderful, though I do admit to compromising my cuppa with a bit of honey or a packet of sweetener. No milk, though; IMO it distorts the flavor of the tea.

Brennyren

 

[KeepOnTrekking]

Blech. Earl Grey is not my "cup of tea"!

 

[Who_Trek]

I pretty much like all tea (don't much care for coffee (although don't mind cold milky coffee). Earl Grey isn't my favorite, but it's not bad. I prefer milk teas and herbal teas, but like I said, I like all of them.

 

[Tomalak]

The Laughing Vulcan said:
50 percent water 50 percent milk. Bring water to boil on hob. Add tea, one teaspoon per person. Add cloves, add cardamom pod, add stick of cinammon, add sugar to taste. Continue to boil until tea has infused. Then add milk, and bring back to boil and then cut heat. Strain into cups and enjoy with Indian sweets.

May way is much easier.

1. Boil required water in kettle. If covered in limescale, boil anyway, but make a mental note to "see to it".

2. Open cupboard.

3. Remove box of Lancashire (or Yorkshire if you are on the wrong side of the Pennines) tea.

4. Place one bag in base of large mug.

5. Read back page of newspaper, noting that Liverpool were well robbed/ are in league-winning form (delete as appropriate)

6. Pour water into mug.

7. Read front page of newspaper, noting that David Cameron is a squashy-faced toffish wanker. This should take five minutes.

8. Decant teabag into bin (or compost if you are very good). Be sure not to squash the bag against the side of the mug, as this can only result in the release of nasty-tasting tannin.

9. Put one glug of milk into mug.

10. Stir.

11. Open packet of Jaffa Cakes.

12. Bliss.


It's the British way.

 

[WillsBabe]

Tomalak said:
11. Open packet of Jaffa Cakes.

12. Bliss.


It's the British way.

Why, this is the method I employ myself, substituting only the Liverpool woz robbed stage for something involving a trash gossip mag and handbags.