A local tea vendor sells all the chocolate flavored tea he can get to
coffee drinkers. Put in a lot of milk and voila expresso. It's just
been a couple of years since I caved into chai thinking it was an
abomination. A local dive serves tapioca tea and I've been back more
than once. I think one of the great distinctions of tea over coffee
is the enchancement of sweetness for the taste buds. So marshmallows
and Butterfingers sounds fine with me. You couldn't do that with
coffee. The same local tea vendor while I was perusing his 50% sale
this weekend made a batch of biscoti and was the perfect compliment
with a pot of Sikkim. I too am guilty of traditional thinking that
tea stands alone as a cup but forget what it can add to other culinary
delights. However I still don't see how a nation could drink tea with
roasted brown rice.

Jim

crymad wrote in message ...
ChipsChap wrote:

crymad writes:

Sure, load it up with all sorts of alien flavors. Top it with mini
marshmallows and sprinkle on some crushed Butterfingers. Whatever
floats your boat, right?

As a matter of fact, right....with a certain 'however'... as I see one of the
purposes of this newsgroup and many tea sites as education. Perhaps someone
may like their tea with crushed Butterfingers, but perhaps we might persuade
them to try other methods and variants. Perhaps then they will move to more
'orthodox' enjoyment.

Or perhaps not. In the end what you like IS what matters.

Well, this was a real shot out of the dark. Isn't this thread months
old? At any rate, I'm always up for some bickering. And so to that
end, I maintain that what one likes doesn't necessarily matter one
speck. That is, if it's a liking that's hopelessly uninformed. In
matters of taste, experience matters. The judgments of children -- or
those with the palates of children -- should be rightly held in
suspect. As should their happiness, their miserable happiness.

--crymad