I've noticed

[Colabomb]

We have a large proportion of Aussies and Brits.

Is that due to the Strong Position of Anglicanism in both countries?

Just something I've noticed.

Now back to your tea

 

[ebia]

We have a large proportion of Aussies and Brits.

Including some of us who are both. (Got my Australian Citizenship last week.)

 

[Iosias]

We have a large proportion of Aussies and Brits.

Is that due to the Strong Position of Anglicanism in both countries?

Just something I've noticed.

There are also quite a few Americans

Now back to your tea

I will have an Early Grey thanks and some biscuits

 

[picnic]

We have a large proportion of Aussies and Brits.

Is that due to the Strong Position of Anglicanism in both countries?

Just something I've noticed.

Probably, anglicanism in the UK covers pretty much the whole spectrum of beliefs. I suspect that if I lived in the USA I wouldn't be anglican.

Now back to your tea

Americans are funny about tea. I asked for the some the other week on a domestic flight in the US. The response I got was "Hot?". Not a question you would hear in the UK.

 

[norbie]

Including some of us who are both. (Got my Australian Citizenship last week.)

Congratulation Ebia! G'day, G'day how is it going?

 

[Tomoz]

Congratulation Ebia! G'day, G'day how is it going?

Whaddya know - well strike-a-light!

 

[longhair75]

In the mid 70's work was very scarce due to an economic recession. I came very close to emigrating to Australia. There was a lack of skilled trades to meet a building boom there and they were recruiting carpenters, electricians and pipe fitters. I ended up finding work, but I had the forms ready to fill out.

 

[Albion]

Americans are funny about tea. I asked for the some the other week on a domestic flight in the US. The response I got was "Hot?". Not a question you would hear in the UK.

All Praise be unto them to them for having any, period!

However, it is easy enough to throw a few basic, paper tea bags into whatever kitchen or galley one is running to cover this possibility. I've been at enough dinners and banquets to know the "Oh, yes, we also have Joe who likes to drink tea, so keep some hot water on hand for him" footnote.

It's as though Joe, the malcontent, was insistsent upon drinking kumquat juice and nothing but.

But yes, iced tea is probably more popular than hot tea in the US. Say...Maybe your situation is the corollary to what Americans often say about ordering a cola in the UK: "Don't you have any ice for it?"

 

[Colabomb]

Actually, I may be a minority, but I don't put ice in cola, it just waters down the flavor.

 

[Albion]

Actually, I may be a minority, but I don't put ice in cola, it just waters down the flavor.

Well, you are the expert, as I understand it, COLABOMB . (I'm not sure how to spell afficionado or connoisseur!)

Ice also takes up space, which may account for most Americans expecting it. I mean, merchants routinely use ice to cut down on the amount of fluid in your purchase, so maybe we've just become accustomed to it.

 

[Colabomb]

Well, you are the expert, as I understand it, COLABOMB . (I'm not sure how to spell afficionado or connoisseur!)

Ice also takes up space, which may account for most Americans expecting it. I mean, merchants routinely use ice to cut down on the amount of fluid in your purchase, so maybe we've just become accustomed to it.

Haha, perhaps.

And yes, I AM TEH COLAMASTORZZZZZZ

 

[longhair75]

I don't know if I could ever get used to warm beer.

 

[TomUK]

I'm of the crowd that considers iced tea on a par with blasphemy against the holy spirit.

 

[Colabomb]

I'm of the crowd that considers iced tea on a par with blasphemy against the holy spirit.

Yeah, but you also a fan of a "sport" that involves stoppage for tea.

 

[TomUK]

Everything stops for tea.

 

[Albion]

Everything stops for tea.

OK. Now for the subject of "sweet tea...."

(a particular fave of mine and, no doubt, another abomination in the eyes of the purist, right?)

 

[Colabomb]

OK. Now for the subject of "sweet tea...."

(a particular fave of mine and, no doubt, another abomination in the eyes of the purist, right?)

Even though I'm a Yank, I'm salivating.

 

[TomUK]

What on earth is sweet tea?

 

[Colabomb]

What on earth is sweet tea?

What it sounds like.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweet_tea

 

[TomUK]