Poll
Question:
When offered at someone's house what would you have?
Option 1: Tea. Black
votes: 1
Option 2: Tea. Milk.
votes: 2
Option 3: Tea. Sugar.
votes: 0
Option 4: Tea. Milk+ Sugar
votes: 0
Option 5: Coffee. Black
votes: 11
Option 6: Coffee. Milk
votes: 3
Option 7: Coffee. Sugar
votes: 1
Option 8: Coffee. Milk + sugar.
votes: 3
Option 9: Green tea
votes: 0
Option 10: Tea. But with something odd.
votes: 1
Option 11: Coffee. But with something odd.
votes: 0
Option 12: In my country a default choice is also _______________
votes: 0
Option 13: I refuse to drink something anyone else offers. What if its poison?
votes: 1
Option 14: geoihjgwioj hbwoibjwipobjkwpojgbpowj wpohjwpojhpowj
votes: 1
THE WORLD NEEDS TO KNOW
Coffee sugar if I have a morning beverage besides water. Although I rarely drink coffee.
Also, tea with milk is weird unless it's cold and served with tapioca inside :P
Black coffee. Tea only when I'm ill.
Coffee with Milk & Sugar. Altho, I carry water with me like I carry my cellphone. I am never without hydration.
I'll normally go for tea (with milk) in the UK because I'm a coffee snob and don't want instant :ph34r:
Black coffee
Quote from: HVC on December 23, 2022, 07:30:49 AMAlso, tea with milk is weird unless it's cold and served with tapioca inside :P
Tell that to the Indian subcontinent :P
I always love that map of whether you call it something like chai means you got it through land routes or tea which means it came via sea. Up there with the Mongols spreading dumplings.
Quote from: Grey Fox on December 23, 2022, 07:42:22 AMCoffee with Milk & Sugar. Altho, I carry water with me like I carry my cellphone. I am never without hydration.
It's weird the only other hydration-obsessed guy I have encountered (some YouTube guy) was also Canadian. One would thing it would be more of a thing in more arid climates.
Tea, splash of milk. 6 mugs a day.
4 mugs of coffee a day (instant, because I'm a tea snob), one pot of tea a day, orange squash morning and evening, plenty of water, no alcohol for no particular reason.
No carbonated fizzy drinks, unless in extremis I'm suffering caffeine withdrawl when I'm out.
Generally not fruit juices as, there's too much sugars in them for me.
Quote from: Sheilbh on December 23, 2022, 08:14:27 AMQuote from: HVC on December 23, 2022, 07:30:49 AMAlso, tea with milk is weird unless it's cold and served with tapioca inside :P
Tell that to the Indian subcontinent :P
I always love that map of whether you call it something like chai means you got it through land routes or tea which means it came via sea. Up there with the Mongols spreading dumplings.
Just because they invented it doesn't mean they're good at it. Look at England and all the sports they suck at :P
*edit you sure about the name thing? Chai in portugal but I'm pretty sure it came by sea.
The poll question doesn't match the thread title. I normally have tea with milk and the morning and a glass of water. At someone's house I'd normally just ask for water as simple and everyone has it.
So we get a million iterations of tea but no water/beer/wine options? :bowler:
That said, black coffee for me. Beer when I'm at a friend's.
Quote from: HVC on December 23, 2022, 08:42:30 AMJust because they invented it doesn't mean they're good at it. Look at England and all the sports they suck at :P
Chai is delicious too! :o
Quote*edit you sure about the name thing? Chai in portugal but I'm pretty sure it came by sea.
I think I was a bit simplistic :blush:
This is the map I meant and I think it's basically "cha" = probably overland and from the Mandarin; "te" = probably by sea and from the Fujianese dialect.
The Portuguese get it first from India (spread by land) and the Dutch get it first from Sri Lanka, South-East Asia and Fujian where it's a variation on te. The Dutch then spread it to the rest of Europe:
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Fej-vR1akAMlvy4.png)
Coffee with milk
I love is the only one upside-down :lol:
Coffee black. As Hod intended.
Quote from: celedhring on December 23, 2022, 09:16:53 AMSo we get a million iterations of tea but no water/beer/wine options? :bowler:
That said, black coffee for me. Beer when I'm at a friend's.
Alcoholic much? :p
Quote from: Sheilbh on December 23, 2022, 09:37:57 AMQuote from: HVC on December 23, 2022, 08:42:30 AMJust because they invented it doesn't mean they're good at it. Look at England and all the sports they suck at :P
Chai is delicious too! :o
Quote*edit you sure about the name thing? Chá (corrected) in Portugal but I'm pretty sure it came by sea.
QuoteI think I was a bit simplistic :blush:
This is the map I meant and I think it's basically "cha" = probably overland and from the Mandarin; "te" = probably by sea and from the Fujianese dialect.
QuoteThe Portuguese get it first from India (spread by land) and the Dutch get it first from Sri Lanka, South-East Asia and Fujian where it's a variation on te. The Dutch then spread it to the rest of Europe:
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Fej-vR1akAMlvy4.png)
Disagree with this part. The Portuguese got it through Cantonese in Southern China cf. chá vs tea.
Wiki also disagrees, for what it's worth
QuoteTea was first introduced to Western priests and merchants in China during the 16th century, at which time it was termed chá.[13]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tea#Worldwide_spread (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tea#Worldwide_spread)
As for the Dutch spreading it to Europe, D. Catarina of Bragança had her part in Great Britain:
QuoteINFLUENCE OF A PORTUGUESE PRINCESS
In the contemporary era tea is so much associated with the British way of life that it can come as a surprise to learn that it owes much of its popularity here to a foreign princess. While it is not true to say that Catherine of Braganza, the queen-consort of Charles II of England, actually introduced tea to Britain, she certainly had much to do with it becoming a fashionable and widely drunk beverage.
https://www.tea.co.uk/catherine-of-braganza (https://www.tea.co.uk/catherine-of-braganza)[/quote]
Tea. But with something odd.
A glass of water? I don't drink coffee or tea.
Cola. I don't drink coffee and tea.
Coffee, black, for breakfast and after lunch.
Otherwise water.
Quote from: Sheilbh on December 23, 2022, 09:37:57 AMQuote from: HVC on December 23, 2022, 08:42:30 AMJust because they invented it doesn't mean they're good at it. Look at England and all the sports they suck at :P
Chai is delicious too! :o
Quote*edit you sure about the name thing? Chai in portugal but I'm pretty sure it came by sea.
I think I was a bit simplistic :blush:
This is the map I meant and I think it's basically "cha" = probably overland and from the Mandarin; "te" = probably by sea and from the Fujianese dialect.
The Portuguese get it first from India (spread by land) and the Dutch get it first from Sri Lanka, South-East Asia and Fujian where it's a variation on te. The Dutch then spread it to the rest of Europe:
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Fej-vR1akAMlvy4.png)
My understanding of the tea/Chai difference is that it depended from which part of China the traders sourced it.
It is archaic but "char" was certainly used by British people as an alternative to "tea"; I still use it on occasion though I'm not sure people under 40yo would know what I was talking about.
My main drink is black tea.
Quote from: Richard Hakluyt on December 26, 2022, 07:07:55 AMIt is archaic but "char" was certainly used by British people as an alternative to "tea"; I still use it on occasion though I'm not sure people under 40yo would know what I was talking about.
Yeah although I think that's an imperial hangover from India :hmm:
Quote from: Sheilbh on December 26, 2022, 07:18:26 AMQuote from: Richard Hakluyt on December 26, 2022, 07:07:55 AMIt is archaic but "char" was certainly used by British people as an alternative to "tea"; I still use it on occasion though I'm not sure people under 40yo would know what I was talking about.
Yeah although I think that's an imperial hangover from India :hmm:
Isnt it a Cockney thing to call tea chai?
Quote from: Josquius on December 26, 2022, 08:15:14 AMQuote from: Sheilbh on December 26, 2022, 07:18:26 AMQuote from: Richard Hakluyt on December 26, 2022, 07:07:55 AMIt is archaic but "char" was certainly used by British people as an alternative to "tea"; I still use it on occasion though I'm not sure people under 40yo would know what I was talking about.
Yeah although I think that's an imperial hangover from India :hmm:
Isnt it a Cockney thing to call tea chai?
Not that I know of. Rhyming slang is Rosie Lee but nobody says that either.
Quote from: Gups on December 26, 2022, 08:25:29 AMNot that I know of. Rhyming slang is Rosie Lee but nobody says that either.
Yes, I don't ever remember hearing anyone use either, maybe in film/tv for an authentic flavour of the time it's set in.
Water.