Nile
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TeaOK...............you Brits are the experts on tea and sometime ago we talked about tea. Someone had the worst tea he ever had at Starbucks in New York (I can understand that). We discussed how we, the Yanks, make that disgusting stuff "iced tea". Well, here in sunny Florida I decided to make some, and what's even worse...........I am making "sun tea". The container is a commercial one available at most retail stores. It holds a U.S. gallon, is glass (Plastic doesn't work well being in the sun. It gets a plastic taste to the tea.), has a screw on lid, a spigot and I also included the tea carton from Lipton in the picture. Regular teabags work also but you must use more teabags because the heat brewing the tea is missing. My wife likes the Lipton's "iced tea" variety. Leave it sit in the sun all day. Some people put lemon and/or sugar. I like mine without either.
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Andrew
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OMG that just confirms it - I'm staying put this side of the pond.
My dear wife Judith is even more of a tea purist than I and when we stayed in Boston last year she worked out a way of using the coffee maker in the hotel room to heat water, bought milk from a corner shop and made her tea with the tea bags she had brought with her - and was I pleased? I would not want to be confined in an hotel with her without access to decent tea, it just does not bear thinking about.
By the way it was me that was served undrinkable tea in a Starbucks on 5th Avenue.
Even given the fact that decent tea is patently unavailable in Boston it does remain one of my favourite spots on this earth. A wonderful city. Mind you I wouldn't care if I never set foot in New York ever again, bad tea aside, I just did not like it. London, Paris, Rome, even Amsterdam are places I realy like to spend time but I found New York drab and dirty.
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vincent ryder
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I make my iced tea with a little kick. Vodka or Bourbon work quite well. Sort of Long Island variety. At least it makes it drinkable ! As for regular tea I suppose I have become used to it after 40 years here. I probably wouldn't know a goodun from a badun. Having said that, I don't drink coffee except on very rare occasions. Think I'll put the kettle on. Tetley time.
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sandie seward
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No Thanks! Sticking with my "Yorkshire" and "P.G. Tips." 
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alice
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I only have a cup of tea in the morning the rest of the time i need caffiene 
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james_autos
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I started a new job a few weeks ago and was pleased to see that they all drank my favoruite 'Tetley' tea there .gif)
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Andrew
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My programmers function only on PG Tips, applied regularly and someone else has to wash the cups.
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Nile
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I agree with you about New York. Easily the dirtiest most disgusting city I was ever in. Drunks, street urchins, beggars, I was there once and I will never return.......ever. Yuck. Noisy, dirty, too crowded. It's a shame too because all over the world when you say U.S., you immediately think of New York. Anybody on a vacation that's foreign goes to New York and then they judge the U.S. by New York. I would say of all places in the U.S. New York is number 1 on my list for cities to avoid.
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Nile
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New York. During my working years I had customers from New York and they told me of their way to grill outdoors. They rigged up a contraption that would hold a small charcoal grill with a counterweight they would carefully put out the window and they would grill that way. You could grill out on the roof but that was way too much trouble.
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