diet drinks: myth or fact?

[OakLeaf]

It is difficult for me to fathom people who have a pop drink for breakfast/early morning. Just a foreign concept unless you're out in the desert.

I thought that myself, and I'm very sensitive to cold foods and drinks, but it does sometimes get hot and humid enough in the summer that I've resorted to drinking iced tea at breakfast. (Home brewed of course.)

Actually, in true desert, it gets cold overnight, so a hot beverage at breakfast would probably still be refreshing. It's in the very humid climates that the temperature will drop only 5 or 10 degrees overnight, and it's then, when I wake up sweaty after sweating all night with nothing but the corner of a sheet over my heinie, that's when I just can't bear to brew hot tea.


I was introduced to Gyokuro this summer and I'm totally spoiled for cheap tea now. Oh, I still drink the cheap stuff, I can't justify spending that much on tea all the time, but now I know what I'm missing.

[badger]

there are so many different types of green tea I'd say if you were sit and taste each one, you'll be sitting for months!

I cringe whenever I'm out for breakfast and someone's ordering ice water. I can't ingest anything cold in the morning (no juice, cereal, nothing), it really throws my system off.

I can't really drink soda comfortably either, too fizzy. And since I'm not a burper, the bubbly comes out in another way

[Miranda]

Brew green tea with 175 degree water for 2 minutes. It gets really bitter with a longer steep or hotter water. Hopefully that will help

CA

That I did not do. But I will now. Thx! My lame tea prep was a cup of H2O in the microwave with a baggie dipped in it.