Anonymous
07/12/2024 20:10
Subject: Re:Why do people pretend to like tea?
Anonymous wrote:When I was younger I pretended to like to tea - not because I’m pretentious but because my gram and my great gram drank tea and had tea cup collections and I wanted to be like them. But most of the time I didn’t like it very much.
During the pandemic when everyone got into something, I got into tea. I bought a bunch of varieties from Harney & Sons (very good quality teas at decent prices) and I also bought an electric kettle with preprogrammed temperature settings. And Harney sent me a nice little guide to tea with my first big order.
I learned that I hadn’t liked tea in the past because I’d always brewed it incorrectly, I’d ruined it by squeezing tea bags and thus getting all the bitter tannins into the cup instead of leaving them in the spent teabags, I’d burnt green and white teas by boiling them at black tea temperature, etc.
Now I really love tea! Not all varieties, but many of them - I especially love green tea which is great because it’s so healthy for me.
But sure, some people don’t like tea. Some people do. Pretentiousness has nothing to do with it.
I'm a tea lover...and my favorite is Harney's Paris. Did you know you can subscribe to their tea--I get a lb of Paris delivered monthly
Anonymous
07/12/2024 20:00
Subject: Re:Why do people pretend to like tea?
When I was younger I pretended to like to tea - not because I’m pretentious but because my gram and my great gram drank tea and had tea cup collections and I wanted to be like them. But most of the time I didn’t like it very much.
During the pandemic when everyone got into something, I got into tea. I bought a bunch of varieties from Harney & Sons (very good quality teas at decent prices) and I also bought an electric kettle with preprogrammed temperature settings. And Harney sent me a nice little guide to tea with my first big order.
I learned that I hadn’t liked tea in the past because I’d always brewed it incorrectly, I’d ruined it by squeezing tea bags and thus getting all the bitter tannins into the cup instead of leaving them in the spent teabags, I’d burnt green and white teas by boiling them at black tea temperature, etc.
Now I really love tea! Not all varieties, but many of them - I especially love green tea which is great because it’s so healthy for me.
But sure, some people don’t like tea. Some people do. Pretentiousness has nothing to do with it.
During the pandemic when everyone got into something, I got into tea. I bought a bunch of varieties from Harney & Sons (very good quality teas at decent prices) and I also bought an electric kettle with preprogrammed temperature settings. And Harney sent me a nice little guide to tea with my first big order.
I learned that I hadn’t liked tea in the past because I’d always brewed it incorrectly, I’d ruined it by squeezing tea bags and thus getting all the bitter tannins into the cup instead of leaving them in the spent teabags, I’d burnt green and white teas by boiling them at black tea temperature, etc.
Now I really love tea! Not all varieties, but many of them - I especially love green tea which is great because it’s so healthy for me.
But sure, some people don’t like tea. Some people do. Pretentiousness has nothing to do with it.
Anonymous
07/12/2024 19:54
Subject: Why do people pretend to like tea?
I think coffee is one of the most disgusting tastes in the world. I can barely take one sip without gagging. But I understand that millions of people genuinely love coffee. See what I did there?
Anonymous
07/12/2024 17:59
Subject: Why do people pretend to like tea?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Obviously. The same way people pretend to like spicy food and beer and cilantro and blue cheese. If there's a food that some people don't like, clearly no one likes it.
I personally will never understand the appeal of blue cheese!
Me too, pp. But isn't it nice that we all like different things?
Anonymous
07/12/2024 17:57
Subject: Why do people pretend to like tea?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I'm an adult who doesn't understand different tastes.
Tea is definitely having a trendy moment right now. People are acting like it’s better than coffee. Or that they’re upper rung because they gave up coffee for tea. It literally tastes like earthy water. Nasty.
I drink both. Tea is not nasty because you say so. You are allowed your opinion as we are. Do I knock what you like? No. Live and let live, pp
Anonymous
07/12/2024 17:51
Subject: Why do people pretend to like tea?
Anonymous wrote:What? I drink tea everyday! You must be brewing it wrong.
Me too! I drink at least 2 cups, one in the morning and 1 before bed. I grew up drinking tea, my mom back in the Caribbean still has a tea garden.
Anonymous
07/12/2024 17:48
Subject: Why do people pretend to like tea?
Anonymous wrote:Is it like a pretentious thing? Tea tastes like dirt/Earth and it’s like nobody will admit this out loud.
lol. I find it calming.
Anonymous
07/12/2024 17:39
Subject: Why do people pretend to like tea?
I love tea. For real. On the other hand, I don’t like coffee, the Im an adult so I don’t go around calling people who like coffee idiots.
Anonymous
07/12/2024 17:34
Subject: Why do people pretend to like tea?
Anonymous wrote:There are a couple of things I believe everyone should consider terrible because the taste makes me want to vomit, monkfruit and stevia. It's ruined beverages, caprisuns, supplement powders and candies. I refuse to believe those companies have any taste quality inspectors
Preach.
I opened and began eating a yogurt the other day. Almost spit it out. It was a "low sugar" version that I bought by mistake and it had ... stevia.
Anonymous
07/12/2024 17:32
Subject: Why do people pretend to like tea?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Obviously. The same way people pretend to like spicy food and beer and cilantro and blue cheese. If there's a food that some people don't like, clearly no one likes it.
I personally will never understand the appeal of blue cheese!
Whereas I will eat it if it has blue cheese in it.
Anonymous
07/12/2024 17:29
Subject: Re:Why do people pretend to like tea?
I love tea. My mom wouldn't let me drink coffee growing up so I started drinking tea. I like an occasional cup of coffee but I drink multiple cups of tea a day.
Anonymous
07/12/2024 17:26
Subject: Why do people pretend to like tea?
I love 💕 tea!
Anonymous
07/12/2024 17:17
Subject: Why do people pretend to like tea?
I love tea. I'm a continental European who comes from a family of die-hard coffee drinkers in a country of die-hard coffee drinkers. But I love most black and fermented teas because I spent a portion of my childhood in the UK. We had tea with our tea (dinner) in boarding school. People offered you cups of tea all the time. There were tea shops, not coffee shops. It was very traditional, and I loved it. Now of course the UK has jumped on the coffee train like everyone else.
Anonymous
07/12/2024 16:57
Subject: Why do people pretend to like tea?
Anonymous wrote:Is it like a pretentious thing? Tea tastes like dirt/Earth and it’s like nobody will admit this out loud.
How do you know what dirt tastes like?
Anonymous
07/12/2024 16:34
Subject: Why do people pretend to like tea?
There are a couple of things I believe everyone should consider terrible because the taste makes me want to vomit, monkfruit and stevia. It's ruined beverages, caprisuns, supplement powders and candies. I refuse to believe those companies have any taste quality inspectors