This is about a certain chain coffee shop. I was a regular customer at your establishment for years getting a steeped tea with 2 milk for my morning commute to work every day. Slowly the service has been declining AFTER prices have gone up… drinks made incorrectly, hot beverages not ready during rush hour, wrong food items in orders…. the list goes on.
Recently to add to these frustrations there has been construction next to your establishment making it difficult or impossible to get into the building and confusing to access the drive thru(it’s been moved 3 times!!!). NOW to top off all of your down falls your tea has tasted like trash for over a week. If I’m able to walk into your business I could see what your serving me but I can’t and therefore must accept what I receive at the window. To get to work and find I have a compost flavoured tea and the wrong muffin on a consistent basis is just ridiculous. I’ve switched locations and they’re friendly, efficient and have yet to screw up my order. NOT going back and I hope no one else does either. —It’s motha f*ckin tea time.
This article appears in Jan 22-28, 2015.
how do you make tea that isn’t steeped?
You want it done right, do it yourself, mate.
Give me my Red Rosey baptized with canned Carnation Milk and a teaspoon of sugar or honey.
yeah, i like hardcore tea. never mind all that fancy smanchy shite, infused with baby’s breath…piss orf
My grandmother kept a huge see-through pyrex pot of tea simmering on the back of the coal stove at all times in case someone dropped by. It was as dark as tar most of the time. You could stand a spoon up in it. She would just keep adding more tea bags and water all day – then empty out the tea bags and start a fresh pot the next day.
Kenyan Tinderet from David’s and Gopaldhara darjeeling from The Tea Brewery all day.
Go to Pavia on the fifth floor of the Central Library; don’t bring a newspaper.
only coffee flinging allowed at Pavia
<< red rose from the bottom of the pot, lots of sugar and milk, in the cup BEFORE the tea gramma molly’s cure all
Excellent cure Molly. English Breakfast is my fave 🙂
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@babyshambles: love ya 😉
Pete’s sometimes carries Builders Tea which is ……
“So strong you’ll grow a third bolllock!”
not to mention other side effects … http://claire-watson.com/builders-tea/4575…
The feeling’s mutual, good lady. I fell in love with your moniker the moment I saw it.
I drink herbal tea and like it strong and this chain just doesn’t cut it. Passion Tazo tea with two splenda for me, plz.
Fuck Tea! Tea is the worst fucking drank evar!!! Hate it.
Why would anyone spend 2 bucks every day on a cup of hot tap water and a shitty teabag?
I have a bunch of old tea bags that taste like compost up in the cupboard you can have.
I’ll take an extra strong coffee with one cream!
“A NICE CUP OF TEA”
As with so much else one must appeal to those who know what they are talking about and George Orwell was unquestionably one of these. In his “A Nice Cup of Tea” (“As I Please,” The Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters of George Orwell, Vol.3, 1943-1945) Orwell gives his eleven “golden rules” for making a nice cup of tea.
I will not rehearse the eleven golden rules but will come directly to his conclusion. “Lastly,” he writes, “unless one is drinking it in the Russian style – should be drunk WITHOUT SUGAR. I know very well that I am in the minority here. But still, how can you call yourself a true tea-lover if you destroy the flavour of your tea by putting sugar in it? Tea is meant to be bitter, just as beer is meant to be bitter. If you sweeten it you are no longer tasting the tea, you are merely tasting the sugar; you could make a very similar drink by dissolving sugar in lain hot water.”
So there you are. If you disagree with Orwell, you can just shut up and go away.
A pleasure as always,
Cheerio!
Coffee. Black like Zwarte Piet’s shoes. And given that I am so sweet already, no sugar!
yahoo, mr. cat you can copy and paste, i am so proud^^
The very first thing I learned when I first moved to Halifax from Tarsandland is that Nova Scotians take their tea VERY seriously. Whatever you do, DON’T MESS WITH THE TEA.
In the 20 years I have lived here, I have ALMOST learned how to make a cup of tea that meets the very high standards set by everyone’s Cape Breton grandmother–but obviously, I still have quite a long way to go before I can ever be considered remotely competent enough to be entrusted with this task.
Angel, you sound awesome, so I am nominating you for dual citizenship. Anyone with 20 years of patience who learns to make tea like a Nova Scotia Nana gets my vote!! I learned to make tea from my nan and my mum (took me about 20 years too 😉 )–molly is correct, tea is best with milk in first (sugar too), then pour tea in after steeped. 2 tea bags to a little more than half of a pyrex teapot filled with boiling h20, steeped for 5-10 minutes makes a most awesome cup of tea! Keep warm on stove on min heat. Bag in cup works too, just not as well 🙂
Aaaaaawwwwwwwww, shucks, SheSang, how sweet of you to say!
: )
I think I’ll go make a nice cup right now.
Are you talking about the Tim’s in Bayer’s lake? Way over on the other side of Bayer’s Lake? If so, I don’t have a comment.
“Crispy Critters” ??? “The One and Only Cereal that Comes in the Shape of Animals” ???
Oh my, now that is a pop culture reference I have not heard for a long time.
I must see if I can find the ad on YouTube.
the Portland Street McDonalds is BRUTAL for fucking up orders. I once ordered 2 double cheeseburgers with bacon. got home, there was only bacon, bun, smear of ketchup and mustard and a pickle…on BOTH!! Ordered 2 chicken snack wraps and a big mac meal with 2 pies…checked before i drove away, no chicken snack wraps and no pies, after sitting at the drivethrough without ever getting answered i drove up to the window and knocked and found the texting bubblehead shocked out of her mind. you are asking a LOT of people in the service industry now to do their SIMPLEST of jobs. I managed a large truck stop in Ontario for 5 years, i know how hard it was to get the teens looking for part time jobs to actually give a fuck and do what they were asked.
as for tea…earl grey with a bit of milk and honey, english breakfast with some lemon and milk, MAYBE some darjheeling with honey. Apple cider is best though…or a mulled wine at night…mmmmm
oh good lord, MM you have lapsed into paranoia. nukka no longer lives here. paingirls comment was addressed to mr meow.
how COULD you think paingirl capable of such a sentiment??? how COULD you?
Her cat can copy and paste? Right. Tell me another one. Let’s leave it at that.
comment posted jan 26 by ‘the cat’ aka mr meow aka something else before that, who finally figured out how to copy a link so it autolinked.
New comment from The Cat Re: “Taking my tea time elsewhere…”
Pete’s sometimes carries Builders Tea which is ……
“So strong you’ll grow a third bolllock!”
not to mention other side effects … http://claire-watson.com/builders-tea/4575…
thanks ivan and molly, i was referring to the cat with my comment
How bloody hard is it to make tea like my ole nana’s aunts etc did & in fact those left alive still do, you make a pot in the morning with 3 bags in boiled water, let it steep & keep adding more hot water & more tea bags as the day progresses … part of the reason why i don’t drink tea , you can’t buy that around town anywhere.
They all have/had those glass ‘pyrex’ I believe they were tea pots & the boiling water came either from a kettle or a pot of water boiling on the stove.
So unless its real tea like that, No thanks … just give me a coffee exactly the way I like my women…Steamin’ hot, dark & bitter .
Cause like Hing Frogg, I’m fuk’en sweet enough already .
Most of the tea drinkers I see around work , are hauling on a string ,pulling’ the damn bag outta their cup of hot water (reminds me of having to get the tampon outta the way before you can get down to enjoying yourself). Whatever happened to buying a tea & actually getting a nice cup of steeped tea in your cup , instead of that BS ????
^^ tampon tea! (tea for vampires)
I cannot use those things with strings. I like my tea same as my dad did, like wimmin – loose, hot and sweet.
Well, Ivan’s scatological reply to me appears to have been deleted and my mild. humorous reply to him was deleted as well so I suppose that evens things out. Of course, my initial reply to paingirl was deleted so it looks like I’m in the lead, at least for now. Stay tuned.
Yes. My live links are working now. I’m not doing anything differently but they suddenly started to copy properly. Keep in mind, though, that it’s lot harder to type with paws so my typing isn’t as accurate as you homo sapiens with your bloody ten fingers. (Must be nice!)
I wonder why someone disliked my reply to SheSang wherein I thanked her for being sweet and then mentioned I was going to make a cup of tea?
Did I inadvertently contravene one of the lesser-known rules of the BitchBoard?
no, ignore the thumbs, they will make you miserable