diet drinks: myth or fact?

[Eden]

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

Very true! Interestingly enough I've found the better the tea, the more carefully you must treat it.... an inexpensive green tea will be more forgiving than a very good one. Some brands can just be icky... I had one Chinese tea that no matter how you brewed it tasted salty and grassy. I don't think I've ever had a Japanese tea I didn't like (and have had plenty of good Chinese teas too).

I also really like Japanese Genmaicha, which is green tea with roasted rice and sometimes pop corn in it. It's very hearty.

[Blueberry]

I also really like Japanese Genmaicha, which is green tea with roasted rice and sometimes pop corn in it. It's very hearty.

Just goes to show we're all different - Genmaicha is the one tea I've found that I absolutely do not like

CA

[shootingstar]

Very true! Interestingly enough I've found the better the tea, the more carefully you must treat it.... an inexpensive green tea will be more forgiving than a very good one. Some brands can just be icky... I had one Chinese tea that no matter how you brewed it tasted salty and grassy. I don't think I've ever had a Japanese tea I didn't like (and have had plenty of good Chinese teas too).

I also really like Japanese Genmaicha, which is green tea with roasted rice and sometimes pop corn in it. It's very hearty.

I enjoy Genmaicha -it has a pleasant natural green tea with slight toast undernotes.

My palate does distinguish between strong black teas and green teas...in that I dislike straight black tea. I must have a black tea with abit of milk, but no sugar. I never take any sugar nor honey in any tea I drink --black or green.

Sweetened green tea is unnatural to me so I never buy boxed/bottled sweetened teas (greeen or black) at all.

[shootingstar]

I do eat desserts but have never been thrilled nor interested in any soda/pop drink, regardless whether it was diet or non-diet. And not as a child, but then there was no choice for our family. Any pop was given to us only during special occasional meals (if that) or going out to restaurants.

At most I will drink some Mountain Dew if I had no other type of drink/juice to drink. I actually find a whole can of Coke or Pepsi too strong for my taste. Only a few baby sips. That's it. And better to keep it this way for me.

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've had some incredible jasmine (green) teas. There is 1 brand served by one of the Chinese restaurants in Vancouver that has a powerful floral jasmine smell when tea steeps a few seconds. It is incredible.. The experience is truly fragrant and all-natural. Most definitely higher grade green teas (and not in tea bags, but loose inside clay teapot) must drunk .naked...all natural. Nothing else and it..must be sipped hot within 30 seconds after it has steeped.

These are not expensive experiences at all if you know where to go.

[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

[shootingstar]

Ever since I was a tiny child, my father (and sometimes mom) drank a large bowl of boiled hot water on hot, humid summer days...100% humidity and temperatures over 85-90 degrees F. For ages, I never understood this practice --until I started cycling again in humid climates and found myself occasinonally drinking hot coffee during rides.

He still does this. I suspect it's a long old practice for them, from China. He actually does not drink much of any type of tea (but of course, will drink green tea served to him as a guest or in restaurants).

He finds it cooling, but I suspect that is was also the only way to have healthy water back in the old days (and even now) by boiling water first.