I'm British, so I love a cup of tea. I mean seriously love it. Every morning, when life drags me kicking and screaming from the soft embrace of sleep, a cup of tea readies me to face the world. But I've been wondering - does Canada drink tea? And if so, how does it take it (teapot, one-cup, iced, green?) and what brands are big there?
Posted Oct 30, 2012, 3:23 PM UTC
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Not as frequently as coffee I'd say. But anywhere you can get coffee you can get tea.
I prefer peppermint or lemon with no milk or sugar. But we have hundreds of different kinds.
In Britain when you say "a cup of tea" you'd typically mean a cup of black tea with milk. Everything else (like tea with lemon, peppermint tea, green tea, Earl Grey etc) is seen as a speciality drink, and not "tea tea", if you know what I mean. Would you make that kind of distinction, or would you say tea is tea no matter whether it's black with milk, peppermint or otherwise?
Canadian. It's mostly all considered tea. If it comes in a bag and goes in hot water, it's tea. But I see where you're coming from. Someone once tried to tell me the dish they had was "poutine" but it had mozzarella, not cheese curd. I couldn't stand for that.
I fuckin LOVE Tea. I have had 3 cups this morning.
Red Rose, Tetley,Lipton, Higgins and Burke (if you are fancy) are the major brands of black tea. Which I would say is the most common.
But we have definitely hopped on the tea train the last couple of years. You see Camomile, Green (obviously), Lemon all of the newer types of teas you might expect.
The only major difference between us and the states when it comes to tea is that almost all Iced Tea is sweet. Which I hate. You have to ask for it unsweetened rather than the other way around.
Canadian. Tea, one-cup, Orange Pekoe / English Breakfast.
Orange pekoe is just normal black tea, right? Is it different from English Breakfast?
Yeah, Orange Pekoe is black tea. English breakfast is more of a blend of teas.
(I don't know why they show a tea box from a dutch manufacturer)
Edit: Hmmm according to the article they say that English Breakfast can mean a bunch of different things in North America. When I think English Breakfast I do refer to the Pickwick brand made by Douwe Egberts though. I'm not sure if the dutch have gotten it right. :D
Most of my family/friends drink coffee except for my grandmother, who moved here from England, my father, her oldest son, and my younger brother. I know a couple people who drink tea on occasion but only a few. I think coffee is more common here. I personally don't like either.
Yes, yes we do. One of the many things we
stoleinherited from our English foundation.What brands are big over there for black tea? We have Yorkshire Tea, PG Tips and Tetley, and people get quite patriotic about them.
I'm partial to Tetley myself, but you can get all kinds here.