Tea anyone?!

Posted: Thu, Oct 23 2008, 3:59 am Post subject: Tea anyone?!

For you Brits out there. I just came across this and I thought I'd share. Razz

I Have the kettle on for a brew! because ...

" Every nation in creation has its favourite drink
France is famous for its wine, it's beer in Germany
Turkey has its coffee and they serve it blacker than ink
Russians go for vodka and England loves its tea

Oh, the factories may be roaring
With a boom-a-lacka, zoom-a-lacka, wee
But there isn't any roar when the clock strikes four
Everything stops for tea

Oh, a lawyer in the courtroom
In the middle of an alimony plea
Has to stop and help 'em pour when the clock strikes four
Everything stops for tea

It's a very good English custom
Though the weather be cold or hot
When you need a little pick-up, you'll find a little tea cup
Will always hit the spot

You remember Cleopatra
Had a date to meet Mark Anthony at three
When he came an hour late she said "You'll have to wait"
For everything stops for tea

Oh, they may be playing football
And the crowd is yelling "Kill the referee!"
But no matter what the score, when the clock strikes four
Everything stops for tea

Oh, the golfer may be golfing
And is just about to make a hole-in-three
But it always gets them sore when the clock yells "four!"
Everything stops for tea

It's a very good English custom
And a stimulant for the brain
When you feel a little weary, a cup'll make you cheery
And it's cheaper than champagne

Now I know just why Franz Schubert
Didn't finish his unfinished symphony
He might have written more but the clock struck four
And everything stops for tea"

Biscuit anyone?

Posted: Thu, Oct 23 2008, 4:03 am Post subject: re: Tea anyone?!

As a former coffee-drinker turned tea-drinker...I love this little song...
I even drink tea with milk now...(how British can you get?)
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Posted: Thu, Oct 23 2008, 4:09 am Post subject:

I'm drinking a homemade chai tea (with milk obviously) while reading this, so cute! Thanks!

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Not British but love tea:)

Posted: Thu, Oct 23 2008, 8:52 am Post subject:

we have a shelf full of quite a variety of teas ... wonderful to keep you warm & cozy on a cold evening ... when I was sick I had regular tea with a spot of milk as the closest thing to my cafe con leche ... my sister went home saying she never realized how soothing tea was and she is going to buy some mint tea ... my mother drinks coffee at 3:00 pm - that's her tea time ...
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Posted: Thu, Oct 23 2008, 9:06 am Post subject: re: Tea anyone?!

Well, I'm as British as they come (even though I've not been there for about four years and have been living in Israel for 17 years), and my London accent is so strong that people sometimes think I'm straight off the boat!

Nonetheless, if there is one thing that I can't abide, it's a cup of tea!!!! Give me coffee any day!

Oh, and sorry to burst the American dream, but I never knew anyone in England who had an official "tea time" apart from a few middle-class non jews, and not so many of them did that either!

Posted: Thu, Oct 23 2008, 9:32 am Post subject:

I have one of these next to my bed. On weekdays, the alarm clock rings and I hit the snooze button and the button for my water heater at the same time. By the time the alarm rings again, I have a cup of tea waiting for me. I don't get out of bed on weekdays without tea. (On Shabbat, I shuffle all. the. way. to. the. kitchen. to get to the urn and have tea.)

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As for tea-time? All the time is tea time!

Posted: Thu, Oct 23 2008, 3:34 pm Post subject: re: Tea anyone?!

I'm English and can safely say that I have never drunk tea with milk. My grandparents all drank tea with milk and over Sukkot I taught my Israeli DH how to make tea for my Savta. My parents don't drink tea with milk either. Coffee, however, I can only drink with milk.
I drink herbal teas and also lemon tea especially green cap Lift (the Brits will know what I mean) - when my parents or friends come to visit, they bring me supplies.

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DH is English. When we first got married and he asked for tea with milk I thought of leaving him Rolling Eyes

How more crazy can this man get? Tea with milk? I am married for a number of years and drink tea here and there but never with milk. In mils house when someone makes a tea I run out. I cant imagine how it tastes.........
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Posted: Fri, Oct 24 2008, 1:23 am Post subject: re: Tea anyone?!

Oh ESB (BTW I pictue you as being tall and elegan because of your screen name)
tea without milk is for the sick !
but tea should be drunk strong and with milk.

After 28 years in Israel I still like a strong cuppa (English teabags of course)

Shabbat Shalom
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Posted: Fri, Oct 24 2008, 1:41 am Post subject: Re: re: Tea anyone?!

Posted: Fri, Oct 24 2008, 2:31 am Post subject:

My mother is one of the few people I know who actually does the tea-time thing. She will stop at around 3.30 - 4 o'clock and have a cup of tea with a digestive or other 'dunking' biscuit or a scone.

Me, I love tea, I definitely drink far too much. I'm on my first cuppa of the day as I type this. Hila is right, English tea is much stronger and flavoursome than Israeli tea, when I was in Sem I would use 2 Israeli teabags and still I found it wasn't strong enough.

Posted: Fri, Oct 24 2008, 2:52 am Post subject: re: Tea anyone?!

mummy hila Shosh or other British ladies:

Why do the English call those biscuits "digestive" biscuits? I was so fascinated when I came to England and saw "digestive" written on all these "big cookies" Are they supposed to aid the digestion?

Posted: Fri, Oct 24 2008, 7:35 am Post subject: Re: re: Tea anyone?!

Posted: Fri, Oct 24 2008, 7:39 am Post subject:

Nooooooo! How can you possibly buy anything other than Tetley???????

Posted: Fri, Oct 24 2008, 7:44 am Post subject:

Hey Mrs Bissli - I agree. PG Tips is the way to go!

Tetley is bearable.

And please - when I come for tea - offer me some chocolate digestives Smile

Shabbat Shalom

Posted: Fri, Oct 24 2008, 8:15 am Post subject:

we have a tea game where someone makes a pot of tea and we have to guess which flavour tea bags they put in ... it's always an interesting mix ... Drunken Smile

Posted: Mon, Dec 29 2008, 12:21 pm Post subject: re: Tea anyone?!

I'm all for a strong cuppa english tea with milk!! way to go pg tips, tetley can be ok... I'm actually addicted, I have at least 5 (large) cuppas a day of very strong english tea!!! (the 5 count is on days I'm trying to watch my tea intake!!)
funny; it's 4:20 english time and I'm just thinkin it's time for a good cuppa and a biscuit! lol
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Posted: Mon, Dec 29 2008, 12:23 pm Post subject:

I thought they were crumpets ... What

Posted: Mon, Dec 29 2008, 12:29 pm Post subject:

A biscuit is what you guys call a cookie. Cheers