LL-L "De;ectables" 2006.05.10 (04) [E]

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L O W L A N D S - L * 10 May 2006 * Volume 04
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From: "Global Moose Translations" <globalmoose at t-online.de>
Subject: LL-L "Delectables" 2006.05.10 (02) [E]

Mark Brooks wrote:
>Hugo, that shure duz soun' lahke uh chicken frahd steak to me!  An' you
>thought CFS meant chronic fatigue syndrome...well, not in Texas.

But as far as I know, the chicken in chicken fried steak is shredded and
processed in some way that I shudder to think of. Schnitzel is always a
whole slab of meat.

Ron:
>Miracles do happen, but I've heard of weirder things happening, and our
>occasional agreements don't surprise me given that we are really separated
>identical twins.  (Darn it! I wasn't supposed to divulge that!)

And then I ran off with all the hair and left you with almost nothing, and
it looks like you just can't get over it, hee hee...

Gabriele Kahn

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From: "Kevin Caldwell" <kevin.caldwell1963 at verizon.net>
Subject: LL-L "Delectables" 2006.05.10 (02) [E]

> From: "Global Moose Translations" <globalmoose at t-online.de>
> Subject: LL-L "Delectables" 2006.05.09 (11) [E]
>
> Ron wrote:
> >I know what you mean.  I haven't found a decent American sort of tea yet.
> >They all taste muddy or twiggy or both.  Goodness knows what they do to
> >it. Yeah, even American Lipton's Tea isn't anywhere as good as its
> >relatives elsewhere.
>
> Also, there is no real American "tea culture".

Maybe not a hot tea culture, but I grew up drinking that good old Southern
staple of the supper table, sweetened iced tea. The best American brands for
making iced tea are Lusianne and Tetley. I stay away from Lipton.

Here's how I make iced tea:

Put 1 cup of sugar in a 2-quart pitcher.

Bring 2 quarts of water just barely to a boil, then pour into the pitcher.
Stir to dissolve the sugar completely. Then put in three tea bags and let
the tea steep for 5-10 minutes. Remove tea bags. Pour into glasses over ice
cubes.

Nothing is more refreshing on those hot, humid, and hazy summer days in the
American South!

Kevin Caldwell

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From: "Paul Finlow-Bates" <wolf_thunder51 at yahoo.co.uk>
Subject: LL-L "Delectables" 2006.05.10 (02) [E]

Hi all,

Yes, Ben, I've never found any good black tea in the US
unless it is imported from South Africa or made by Twinings.

My family there order Five Roses, Joko as well as rooibos tea
from the Out of Africa Trading company in Canada. You might
want to try their website:
http://www.outofafricatrading.com/products.asp?subcategoryID=Tea

Regards,
Elsie Zinsser

  From Paul Finlow-Bates

  Hi Elsie,
  Never could acquire a taste for rooibostee myself.  I tried it with and
without
all combinations of milk and sugar.  Rhubarb juice was about the closest
analogy I
could think of!

  Paul

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From: "Ed Alexander" <edsells at cogeco.ca>
Subject: LL-L "Delectables" 2006.05.10 (02) [E]

At 05:25 PM 05/10/06 +0200, you wrote:

>This has begun to change, probably due to a combination of wareness of the
>health benefits and people traveling to Europe and Asia.  I know a number
>of Americans of various ages that drink only tea, not coffee.  Also,
>specialty tea shops and afternoon tea rooms are on the increase
>(kaching!).  It's more prominent in some areas than in others.  It's
>strong here in the Northwest (close to Canada), but I have also seen it
>happen in Portland, the San Francisco Bay Area and San Diego.  So it's at
>least along the West Coast.  It isn't only urban either.  Tea houses are
>now common in rural touristy places as well.  Also, I'm not talking about
>herbal tea and spiced tea (which have been around for a long time) but
>about "European" black tea and various South and East Asian black and
>green teas.  East Asian tea culture is particularly strongly represented
>here in the Seattle area and also in the San Francisco area.  There are
>now Chinese and Japanese tea shops and tea houses, some of them really
>neat.  Also, the South Asian presence here has resulted in chai being a
>type of staple around here, at least in certain population sectors.

For those of you in an area where this phenomena does not exist, there is
the world's absolutely best tea web site,
http://www.specialteas.com/.  Interestingly, they are based in Connecticut,
USA.  Nice to see that you Yanks have finally stopped dumping it in the
harbour and are pouring hot water over it instead.

Ed Alexander, from Canada where we've always drunk a lot of tea.

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From: "jonny" <jonny.meibohm at arcor.de>
Subject: LL-L "Delectables" 2006.05.10 (02) [E]

Dear Gabriele,

you wrote:

> Also, there is no real American "tea culture".

How could it- did you forget the 'Boston Tea Party' ;-)??

Best' Greutens

Johannes "Jonny" Meibohm

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From: R. F. Hahn <sassisch at yahoo.com>
Subject: Delectables

Ed:

> Nice to see that you Yanks have finally stopped dumping it in the
> harbour and are pouring hot water over it instead.

By the taste of them, most teas are brewed *after* being dumped into
Boston Harbor, pulled up again and then dried.  It's an honored old
tradition, and it explains why the same brands taste different.  It also
explains why foreign teas are all the rage now.

Regards,
Reinhard/Ron

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