Eating is one thing, drinking is other:
:beer: :drunk:
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Italian Pinot Noir (from Venice)
First my morning tea then a glass of freshly pressed orange juice
Should I say what I've been drinking last night, last few weeks, or just what I am drinking at the moment...
Well, at the moment it's hectolitres of mineral water because of the last few weeks... ;)
I just drank a Stella Artois with my brunch but I'm still thirsty.
Mmm, should I drink some healthy water, or start my caffeine intake?
Perhaps the latter :mrgreen:
Pepsi One
A&W Cream Soda
T ;)
Quote from: Kiyoodle the Gambrinous on June 30, 2007, 11:51:22 AM
Should I say what I've been drinking last night, last few weeks, or just what I am drinking at the moment...
Well, at the moment it's hectolitres of mineral water because of the last few weeks... ;)
:ROFL:
So that explains the huge tab at the Balckspot!
Coke Zero( last night an obscene amount of Midori)
(bottled) orange juice
A disgusting protein shake, made with some stuff that smells like old gym socks. Bleagh.
again the letter between s and u.
More caffeine in soda form
San Pellegrino.
Tea.
There's no coffee filters about, so I made coffee this morning by simply mixing grounds and boiling water.... ::)
Tea and orange juice (not mixed).
Why not?
(http://i10.ebayimg.com/07/i/000/89/41/430b_1.JPG)
:mrgreen:
We had Ballintine's scotch , I'm glad it's all gone since I didn't like it very much...had to add lots of ice just so I could manage to sip it.
a glass of M&S wine that cost my host £40 in the Albert Hall (i nicked it..... with permission of course!) and probably costs £6 in M&S
the 20th letter again
Coffee.
Quote from: goat starer on July 04, 2007, 11:36:08 PM
a glass of M&S wine that cost my host £40 in the Albert Hall (i nicked it..... with permission of course!) and probably costs £6 in M&S
Goat, while you were there, did you figure out how many holes it takes to fill it? ;D
Quote from: Swatopluk on July 05, 2007, 08:38:55 AM
the 20th letter again
Heh, I think Swato and I should have a T-off one day. ;D
I'm drinking less since the summer is here (should switch to iced) - probably only 4 or 5 cups a day (2 or 3 bags, since I refill once usually). Also 1 or 2 cups of coffee.
Brandenburger Mineralwasser, classic (about 2 ltr.)
Na+ --- 4.5 mg/l
K+ ---- 0.6 mg/l
Mg2+ --- 6.5 mg/l
Ca2+ --- 60.9 mg/l
Cl- --- 5.6 mg/l
HCO3- -- 204.0 mg/l
F- ---- 0.16 mg/l
Silicic Acid (meta) --- 23.1 mg/l
There's reputedly one German brand of mineral water which blatantly lists concentrations of a certain ion in excess of CDN drinking water standards. ;)
Can't remember the brand, and could only guess at the ion (most listed are not a concern).
The usual suspects would be CN-, NO3-, Ra2+ or As3+/5+
Among commonly listed ions, it's likely to be NO3- (NO2- is worse but unlikely to be on a label) or SO42-, not toxic but can act as a laxative. Had some mineral water recently with notably high levels of SO42-.
It may actually have been arsenic, fairly common for this to occur naturally in groundwater. Found some Armenian sources with that issue:
http://www.consumeraffairs.com/news04/2007/03/fda_mineral_water.html
First had to check that Armenian was not a misspelled US :D (given that one of Bush's first actions in the WH was cancelling Clinton's stricter As in drinking water regulations)
Beer (stella artois) with my lunch
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Now I'm having a nice Australian Merlot :D
What else at this time than Tea?
Tea. Twinings tea.
British, old boy.
Can I enter if there ever is a tea-off?
but I warn you, the prize will be mine.....
The last bit of the Australian merlot. I was a big bottle (1.5 lt) :D
See last post.
Coffee, despite the fact it is 3pm.
Once I have finished this antacid pill there will be a glass of carbonated mineral water (details see up-thread)
Lunchtime tea.
I told you I would win in a tea-off....
the milk of human kindness, eh...no, just mineral water (now with not much CO2 left in it)
As it is now half past three, Tea.
Now the bottle is empty and if I open another it will be also decarbonated to-morrow.
Must wait for home to make some tea instead.
Let's see if you can guess...
A rather improperly prepared cup of mate.
You can find them in bags, you know?
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Tangerine flavored home made iced tea.
sweet tea
A mild sort of black tea. One can leave the bag in for a quarter of an hour and it is still drinkable while with other sorts after 3 minutes it's beyond that.
Quote from: Sibling Zono (anon1mat0) on July 10, 2007, 01:20:51 AM
You can find them in bags, you know?
Aye, but it's cheaper by the bag, so I just percolate water through the leaves in a filter cone. ;D
Some juice (mango passionfruit).
Now I am drinking some yerba mate.
From a bag ;)
Aqua nondemineralisata cum carbone dioxidata
Coffee! It's Kick Ass....
(http://kickinghorsecoffee.com/images/Label_KA.gif) (http://kickinghorsecoffee.com/index.php?section=prod_detail&selection=1&cPath=41&products_id=75)
Just had a green tea
Coffee. Not "Kick Ass", but I still like it.
It's some sort of organic fair trade stuff that was on sale at Costco.
Yah, Costco does some good cheap coffee. I don't drink enough to go through a bag (picked up a lb of my fav earlier this month from the local roaster).
More Kick Ass.....
OI ! Another weekend with Captain Morgans rum , I've had enuff alcohol fer this month ...i'm now enjoying water.
Just the usual cheap black tea
Still that evil caffeinated beverage sweetened with splenda.
Chocolate-peppermint soy muck (Mom gave me all the xmas leftovers) with whey powder. :P
Tea. Wonderful, magical tea.
H2O
Tea for breakfast (i.e. accompanying, not replacing it)
Orange juice when arriving at the university office.
Mineral water (carbonated) to wash the residual juice from the tumbler.
Green tea with ginkgo and ginseng (homebrew version). Bitter!
Peach Pleasure with strawberries (Jamba juice)
Just finished a nice cup of the elixir of life... coffee. ;D
oh, I need one of those.... corn tea isn't giving me my daily allotment of Vitamin Caffeine
Currently the usual T before that a small amount of bitter lemon
Paulaner Hefe-Weizen
Quote from: Swatopluk on July 21, 2007, 09:15:52 AM
Currently the usual T before that a small amount of bitter lemon
The same but the latter replaced with a coffeinated beverage.
I am currently drinking a rather large bottle of St. Bernardus Abt 12. It's very good. :mrgreen:
the usual brand of mineral water
Iced coffee. It's the only way I ever drink it.
Had a miserable day thanks to my boss.
Now I am having a "southern beauty" and all is good! :mrgreen:
What else but tea at this hour?
I just went to a wine tasting ;D so...
I arrived with some desire for cheese and given that no one wanted more wine I just drank a Stella Artois with my compte and my jarlsberg.
Green tea with ginseng and ginko.
*O2 to Aisle Brain.... any available O2 to Aisle Brain please...*
Home made raspberry and mango smoothy. :)
coke zero--- told ya- i'm a coke addict now- i don't understand it but there it is
No aspartame (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aspartame_controversy)for me. Instead my caffeinated poison of choice is sweetened with splenda.
Quote from: Darlica on July 26, 2007, 01:10:47 PM
Home made raspberry and mango smoothy. :)
:o Dang it, Darlica.... I'm having a mango smoothy (2 atauflo mangos, half a carton of egg whites and a good dollop of yogurt) for breakfast. Much tastier than endless scrambled eggwhites for breakfast. No raspberries, though.
And no egg whites for me... I certainly don't need to bulk up.
That's one of the main reasons I'm pretty sure I'm not your long lost clone... I have a completely different body type. :D
That and the double-X chromosome thing. ;)
The interesting part is that the similarities have to be environmental (i.e. mostly learned rather than genetic), but it's across widely different cultures.
I found another very close cross-cultural personality match from South Korea as well... but we are engaged. ;)
So now we have to find our remaining CCPM's from other continents; shouldn't be hard, except for the penguin... :mrgreen:
Isn't the ideal partnership between people that share certain characteristics and are the exact opposites on others?
No experience on that and currently drinking water (details see farther up the thread).
Quote from: Swatopluk on July 26, 2007, 04:11:22 PM
Isn't the ideal partnership between people that share certain characteristics and are the exact opposites on others?
No experience on that and currently drinking water (details see farther up the thread).
As long as you have opposite cooking styles but similar tastes in food, it works. ;)
But you're right - a couple is best when you share similar opinions on most things and at least a few hobbies, but different talents, skills & educational areas. Less arguments AND direct competition, more interesting conversation and ability to learn from one another.
Coffee (but it's all gone now).
Quote from: Agujjim on July 26, 2007, 03:41:48 PM
That and the double-X chromosome thing. ;)
The interesting part is that the similarities have to be environmental (i.e. mostly learned rather than genetic), but it's across widely different cultures.
I found another very close cross-cultural personality match from South Korea as well... but we are engaged. ;)
So now we have to find our remaining CCPM's from other continents; shouldn't be hard, except for the penguin... :mrgreen:
Edit: and I'm drinking tea.
Similarities are good but if you have too much in common I think it gets boring after a while, at least for the surroundings, couples that share on brain can be a tad bit irritating... ;)
My SO and I are different enough to make things interesting, I guess that's part of the reason we are still together after 14 years.
With friends is is a whole other ball game, I have a very dear friend who probably are who I would be if I was born with an XY set up and not XX. :)
A nice French Bordeaux. :D
becks... loads of it... to drowbn out the sorrow
whiskey would be better
Rofl.
Blackberry tea, kinda. Tea with syrup of that flavor in it. Tasty, but a little flat. But hey, I'm thirsty and I just woke up.
Gout en himmel! Im so wasrted , Ive gest bin with sib Vasleny nave an somn e his firenss, IM so wasteid om rum aAN RYE, IM GOING TO P[ASS OUT . MA6T A TRUIE PIRATE ABN HOPPE HE CXOPME SIN SOME TIME SOONM. WE HAVBE CONNAN FIODDER LASDS !.
Only a soda water.... with lime... and some vodka.
Tough Monday, Sibs? ;)
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Egg-and-fruit-in-a-blender-with-yogurt (mango pineapple edition), and Vietnamese-style coffee.
Orange juice (cheap and good but high on calories even without addition of sugar)
Yah, going to start spiking my workout drinks with OJ concentrate for that reason.
42 cal/ml, that would mean about 2.5 ml to get one from freezing to boiling ;D
No, that's the ginseng extract I'm taking. ;)
On several levels, and about that dosage.
I recently watched a movie where (involuntary) time travellers had to turn a ginseng smuggler into the needed national hero.
Good movie despite that.
More blackberry tea.
more becks... it si prabably not helping!
It's certainly not helping your typing. ;)
Swato: Where was it set?
Quote from: Agujjim on August 01, 2007, 06:01:21 AM
It's certainly not helping your typing. ;)
Swato: Where was it set?
Korea
There is quite a number of good movies coming from there these days but they share the East Asian defective humor gene (i.e. they would consider custard pie oversophisticated)
Quote from: Swatopluk on August 01, 2007, 09:54:10 AM
Quote from: Agujjim on August 01, 2007, 06:01:21 AM
It's certainly not helping your typing. ;)
Swato: Where was it set?
Korea
There is quite a number of good movies coming from there these days but they share the East Asian defective humor gene (i.e. they would consider custard pie oversophisticated)
Heh, was assuming/hoping as much... Korean ginseng is and was historically very highly regarded.
And agree on humour... although there's some fairly funny slapstick here and there if you don't mind a little cheese (My Wife is Gangster, for example). Hmm... it's either Korean movies in general or just m'lady's tastes, but I have noticed a recurring theme of violence against men by women in Korean comedy (MWiG, My Sassy Girl).
Have you taken a run at Dae Jang Geum (TV drama) yet?
Another breakfast of smoothie & Vn. coffee.... (out of filters, so I am stuck with this style).
Usually I don't know them by the original title but by the international one e.g. Once Upon a Time in a Battlefleld instead of Hwangsanbul.
What I observe is a general brutality of the "survivors, we don't need no stinkin' survivors" kind, a tendency towards very strong pathos and a very strong nationalism/xenophobia (but with a remarkable absence of North/South emnity).
But I guess the (subtitled) DVD availability acts as a strong filter, so I can't say what the "average" Korean flick looks like.
I'd like to see a complete affordable edition (and with subtitles that don't start to increasingly lag behind as in the 3 hour version available here) of Undercover Police Woman (TV series).
In order not to be completely off topic: tea in the morning, orange juice when arriving at the Uni, since then carbonated mineral water. Likely more tea in the evening plus coke (ALDI brand, not Coca Cola or Pepsi) and bitter lemon.
Swato, I hauled over to the Last Post thread re: movies
Last drinking coffee and 2 cups of tea Post ;)
William Terence Frank?
:o ::)
Pepsi One
Quote from: Agujjim on August 01, 2007, 05:25:26 PM
Swato, I hauled over to the Last Post thread re: movies
Last drinking coffee and 2 cups of tea Post ;)
I notice.
Drinking plan still unchanged
coke zero
it is crack-- is "carbonated water" really Yiddish for crack or something-
seriously
I have strong suspicions regarding artificial sweeteners and addiction... but given that I've developed quite a habit of drinking plain soda water, you may have a point. ;)
I have read some articles about artificial sweetners myself that are disturbing- I suppose like most anything we consume that time will tell. I don't really get headaches it more of a craving for soda and the last couple of months it is Coke Zero--- not regular diet or cherry diet or any other diet but Zero. It used to be diet Mt. Dew so I just think I get fixated on something and wear it out.
Another habit(but Oh my what a wonderful one!) my sister in law is visiting and cooking and last night I got home to a crock-pot full of carne seca, falling apart and wonderfully chili-peppered up(yes I fall off the vegetarian wagon when she is around and it is just fine)- it was so good with warm homemade tortillas(yes she makes them) that I almost could not quit- just roll up the beef with a little lime juice and cabbage in the tortillas and mmmmmmmmmm
OH YUMMY!
Hey, if you kicked Mountain Dew, you are ahead of the game. Brominated Vegetable Oils are on my 'pour it down the sink' list. I have a can of diet root beer that appeared in the fridge that I might drink eventually, but only if I've had enough ethanol to overwhelm my oxidases and prevent the methanol (breakdown product of aspartame) from being transformed into formaldehyde. :P
Not surprisingly, I'm drinking coffee.
Surprisingly, it's organic. :) And Ethiopian. And Fair Trade certified, according to the label.
Those Ethiopians make one tasty Yergacheffe. ;D
Tea.
Just made a lovely pot of tea.
I love tea.
Quote from: Pachyderm on August 01, 2007, 10:23:46 PM
Tea.
Just made a lovely pot of tea.
I love tea.
Nothing to add to that
Italian "Prinz lager"
Picked it up at a local supermarket, It's not bad but I still prefer Czech Pils. :toasty:
Quote from: Darlica on August 02, 2007, 09:37:45 PM
I still prefer Czech Pils. :toasty:
I understand that... :)
As a Czech, I can relate to that.... :)
Not drinking anything at the moment, as I had a few beers (only seven) and a few shots of slivovitz (only five), so now I'm just chilling...
Moosehead.
Water, eu de tap, passed through the reverse osmosis filter to try to keep from abusing my already damaged liver with any more assorted nasties that needed.
I need a good root beer...
Dr. Pepper
Quote from: Kiyoodle the Gambrinous on August 02, 2007, 10:32:04 PM
I understand that... :)
As a Czech, I can relate to that.... :)
Not drinking anything at the moment, as I had a few beers (only seven) and a few shots of slivovitz (only five), so now I'm just chilling...
Mmmmm, slivovitz...
That stuff is dangerous... It makes me sing indecent little drinking songs... And I don't sing well... :toasted:
And I'm drinking Tea right now English Breakfast blend.
Just finished my tea
Quote from: Darlica on August 03, 2007, 07:32:38 AM
Mmmmm, slivovitz...
That stuff is dangerous... It makes me sing indecent little drinking songs... And I don't sing well... :toasted:
And I'm drinking Tea right now English Breakfast blend.
Heh, you know the Hedgehog song? ;)
Morning egg-muck, then I'm going to have some coffee-muck.
(ran out of filters, so I'm straining my coffee with a stainless steel coffee cone - it doesn't work because I grind mine somewhere between espresso and Turkish. Very high TSS content.... )
Dihydrogen monoxide
Quote from: Agujjim on August 03, 2007, 03:13:51 PM
Heh, you know the Hedgehog song? ;)
Not sure about that, do you mean "the hedgehog can't be buggered at all" song? ;D
I love to learn any song about hedgehogs, I love the little critters... I even draw my SO as one (I'm a plush rat). PM me.
Drinking: Tea, Blackcurrant this time.
The las tgu lpf rom the wat erb ott le.
Berghoff Root Beer.
Expensive, but good.
Tea and a small glass of bitter lemon (to counter the effect of the pepper on the sausage)
Chocolate milk.
Gatorade
Is that distilled crocodile ;)?
Tea still a bit too hot to drink
Colombian Popayan Supremo Coffee, fresh ground and brewed.
Edit: And that has nothing to do with papayas. Because that's disgusting.
Tea, naturally.
BTW, what's disgusting about papaya?
Coffee Coffee Coffee Coffee Coffee Coffee Coffee Coffee
:mrgreen:
Quote from: Alpaca on August 05, 2007, 03:32:37 PM
Colombian Popayan Supremo Coffee, fresh ground and brewed.
Edit: And that has nothing to do with papayas. Because that's disgusting.
Quote from: Pachyderm on August 05, 2007, 04:51:26 PM
BTW, what's disgusting about papaya?
Papayas may grow in Popayan (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Popay%C3%A1n) (atitude 1700 mts) but not for full scale fruit production. Although there is a relative that grows in colder climates, the papayuela, that is great to make a typical dessert. :D
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Had some green tea some time ago
Quote from: Pachyderm on August 05, 2007, 04:51:26 PM
BTW, what's disgusting about papaya?
Nothing wrong with papaya.
Papaya coffee, though... :puke:
Anyway, at the present moment, I'm having my evening tea.
A&W Cream Soda
Pretty yummy...
Just finished my morning tea
I'm sipping in a glass of white wine...
I work weekends so Monday is a part of my weekend.
I bought a bottle of a new (to us in Sweden) Argentinian (Gamela, Torrontes, 2007, Cafayate ,Bodegas Felix Lavaque).
It's nice, very nice for it's price range. It has a generous citrus flavour, a light mineral tone and manage to be fruity without becoming too sweet and perfume like.
Scotland's solution to the problem of too many teeth,
Irn Bru.
If you ignore your teeth, the will go away ;D
Tea just finished
Egg-fruit blender mess again.
I think the blueberries did something weird to the egg.... it jellied up similar to Japanese egg custard soup....
Too much acid maybe?
A glass (actually opaque orange plastic) of orange juice some time ago, now the usual carbonated mineral water.
Must be. Though why watermelon and blueberries did it today, but watermelon and pineapple did not yesterday is very curious. This morning also had yogurt, but it's never been a problem with mango.
Maybe it is a vampire watermelon (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vampire_watermelon)
Quote from: Kanaloa the Squidly on August 05, 2007, 05:24:46 PM
Coffee Coffee Coffee Coffee Coffee Coffee Coffee Coffee
:mrgreen:
Ditto Ditto Ditto Ditto Ditto Ditto Ditto Ditto
:mrgreen:
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Plain ole water.
Soda water.
Had a few beers (six or seven...) down in the pub...
Now drinking water, as I've found out that I've got no more beer at home...
predictably at this hour: tea
Blueberry sludge (subbed whey protein powder for eggs this morning, and got mild jellying still... it's not just the eggs doing it via denaturation), lemon green tea, coffee.
Coffee. Need some more, speaking of which.
Tea with condensed milk :D :D
Pint o' grog.
I just finished a bottle of Carolinas , I added some appletons rum to it and much ice, it was good .
Again, how boring, tea. But I must remember to buy a new package soon.
Ludicrously strong coffee
Orange juice
Fauxju.
(that's vodka cut with distilled water, and a hint of sugar, salt and citric acid, all in a soju bottle ;))
OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
OTTTTTTTTTTTTOOOEEEEEEEEEEEOOAAAAAAAAAAOOOOOO
OTTTTTTTTTTTTOOOEEEEEEEEEEEOOAAAAAAAAAAOOOOOO
OOOOOTTOOOOOOEEOOOOOOOOOAAOOOOOOAAOOOOOO
OOOOOTTOOOOOOEEEEEOOOOOOOAAOOOOOOAAOOOOOO
OOOOOTTOOOOOOEEEEEOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAAAOOOOOO
OOOOOTTOOOOOOEEOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAAAOOOOOOO
OOOOOTTOOOOOOEEEEEEEEEEEOOAAOOOOOOAAOOOOOOO
OOOOOTTOOOOOOEEEEEEEEEEEOOAAOOOOOOAAOOOOOO
OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
What's TER? ;)
Strong coffee....
Papaya coffee. ;D
Really... y'all made it sound like a challenge.... s'good.
Oh dear.
Coffee. As usual.
Joining the as ususal chorus with tea
Lime ice tea.
Mineral water (CO2 almost completely gone)
I just finished some coffee (Sumatra Mandeheling).
Now I'm making a cup of tea (Tetley British Blend)
:)
People seem to think I'm strange when I have Coffee and Tea , with a meal, for example. ???
grolsh......
and now becks!
And which one you like better? (I lean towards Becks but Grolsh is good too, anyways I like Stella Artois better than those too :D )
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Just finished a can of Tangerine Diet Rite
Water, glorious water , I don't want any alcohol around this house till maybe Thanksgiving , my head is just starting to clear , that was alot of money for me being cheap as i am . I coulda bought a doz of those oversized HOT mugs I that I have my eye on instead .
Just the last gulp of tea
orange juice
That would be my choice, if I were at the office at the moment. that not being the case I poured a glass of coke.
Quote from: The Meromorph (Quasimodo) on August 13, 2007, 08:21:44 PM
I just finished some coffee (Sumatra Mandeheling).
Now I'm making a cup of tea (Tetley British Blend)
:)
People seem to think I'm strange when I have Coffee and Tea , with a meal, for example. ???
I love the coffee/tea series.... actually, I prefer to start with tea in the morning, then a cup of coffee, and then back to tea. Progressive caffeination, with supplemental support.
Nearly always green tea or variations on it (jasmine, lemon green, white tea....).
Bitter Lemon. had green tea when I tried unsuccessfully to reach the forum a few hours ago.
ginger and lemon tea
Why's there never beer in the fridgem, when I come home from a drinking session. Just had seven beers and would love to have more...
Now I need to satisfy myself with water.... :(
Frühmorgens wach ich auf 16 Uhr 10
Die ganze Welt scheint sich um mich zu drehn
Nur im Magen fühle ich mich nicht so recht
Eins von den 30 Bierchen gestern war wohl schlecht
Quote from: Kiyoodle the Gambrinous on August 17, 2007, 11:54:00 PM
Why's there never beer in the fridgem, when I come home from a drinking session. Just had seven beers and would love to have more...
Now I need to satisfy myself with water.... :(
Hey Kiyo.... I have most of a case of Moosehead in the fridge.
Green bottles like this -> :drunk:
And it's the Reggae Festival tomorrow; we're volunteering in the morning so we get to hang out and watch the concert for free from 11 am -11 pm, and my apartment is within five blocks for 'refueling'. I have some good Jamaican rum here too.... :mrgreen:
You should grab a flight here. The couch will probably be taken but I've got a very nice double air bed. ;)
And bring Goatie, so it's like that Adam Sandler sketch on
the Bodega channel (http://toadfishradio.imeem.com/playlist/AjcQnzJT/). :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen:
Tea still too hot to drink safely
Agie... I think I know where I want to be right now...
I don't need a bed or couch, I'll just camp on your front lawn... :)
Tea now safe if drunk slowly
Quote from: Kiyoodle the Gambrinous on August 18, 2007, 09:51:50 AM
Agie... I think I know where I want to be right now...
I don't need a bed or couch, I'll just camp on your front lawn... :)
Hah! It's a long drop to the front lawn (I'm on the 14th floor), but the balcony is nice. ;)
Drinking the morning glass of water since I just got up.
Half past four pm (16:33) over here and I contemplate the idea of brewing a mug of green tea
Beer!
Gambrinus...
And I blame it all on you Kiyoodle ;D
Actually it's the first evening of a week off for me and I felt like celebrating a little. :toast:
Had the green tea. And half a liter of orange juice recently.
Quote from: AgieHah! It's a long drop to the front lawn (I'm on the 14th floor), but the balcony is nice. Wink
Drinking the morning glass of water since I just got up.
Balcony's fine with me as well, as long as it's not cold outside... :P
Quote from: DarlicaBeer!
Gambrinus...
And I blame it all on you Kiyoodle Grin
Everyone keeps on blaming me for the lack of alcohol around here or their own drinking... I wonder why? ;D
Btw, Gambrinus isn't a bad beer, but there are others that are better... :)
Currently only my stomach acid
Bailey's
(oops, its over..)
Pint o' grog....
Just finished the tea
Just finshed a bottle of good Chardonnay...
Had some leftovers from yesterday, I was cooking a dish that needed wine in it...
Tea and bitter lemon (separate)
coffee
coke (rather decarbonated)
Diet orange soda
Soluble painkillers
Agua. But I want tea.
A mug of tea and a glass of coke
Coffee....mmm, delicious coffee.
Diet ginger ale
Large glass of milk
Bitter lemon
Water by the gallon, trying to stay ahead of the dehydration fairy.
A scary fairy.
Iced coffee (as usual) and an orange julius type thing.
Just finished the green tea and ready to move to the glass of coke.
Drinking a nice cold Baron Trenck...
(http://www.svetpiva.cz/images/articles/Baron%20Trenck.jpg)
A&W Cream Soda.
(http://www.spritlager.com/produktfotos/340.gif) and black tea
Chocolate milk.
Filtered water.
French Pinot Noir
Black tea about an hour ago. Time for something carbonated.
(http://www.stern.de/_content/35/08/350859/Rivercola_250.jpg)
Ozarka Spring Water
Jamba juice (peach pleasure with strawberries)
Just finished a pumpkin spice frappacino with mocha sauce. :drool: The best Starbucks drink ever.
just finished the afternoon black tea
Barq's
Don't tell Qwerty...
A caffeinated beverage to remain awake (so much work, so little will...)
Quote from: Sibling Chatty on September 14, 2007, 04:21:38 AM
Barq's
Don't tell Qwerty...
that pounding you hear on your door right now is Q, he has a mug, he wants in.
Coke Zero
The juice out of my half of a miniature watermelon.
Ha, I just finished my own Barqs. And I'll fight Qwert if he tries to steal the rest of the cans from me.
Currently steeping a glass of African Red Brush tea. Best tea ever. EVER.
I am content with cheap green tea at the moment
Filtered water.
the last gulp of the tea
Barqs again.
diet ginger ale
English breakfast tea.
Time for the next glass of carbonated beverage
Pepsi float ^__^
Something I made at work-- reduced fat cinnamon coffee cake blended into a creme frappacino base.
Good, but only in small amounts. It's a bit greasy. But delish!
A&W Cream Soda
black T and O juice ;)
A cheap (but nice) French Bordeaux
Black tea an hour ago, now some coke
PG Tips tea.
Iced China Green Tips tea.
Same as yesterday at this time
A nice (and cheap) Beaujolais Villages.
Darn, this stuff is so good and and becoming so cheap I should get a case!
:D :winebottle: :partyglass:
Some truly repulsive health food protein water stuff.
Damn, if the alternative is food, I'll eat, already :P
:puke:
:barf:
Forty five years of my life with the whole damn world (minus a few) telling me to NOT eat, and NOW when I don't want to eat, I still HAVE to. (They do not care that I can point out that I am STILL grossly overweight, I am also malnourished. ::) ::) )
Which is not uncommon in the US (and part of Famine's insidious plan, if you've read Good Omens)
---
Black tea
Quote from: Sibling Zono (anon1mat0) on November 12, 2007, 02:08:21 AM
A nice (and cheap) Beaujolais Villages.
Darn, this stuff is so good and and becoming so cheap I should get a case!
What brand would this be? I'm well stocked with wine (particularly the cheap-but-drinkable variety), but it's always good to know.
Still nursing a raging soda water habit (low sodium with only a little potassium citrate in it), but coffee or jasmine tea next.
The green tea is brewing currently
It is a white label but I forgot the name. I'll find it and let you know.
The first sips from the above mentioned green tea
Sounds good Zono - wine is not as cheap up here so recommendations are appreciated (s'why I am a beer connoisseur - even top-quality beers are generally under $10/750 ml bottle, and even less for small ones).
Just hijacked the coffee pot to run some decent coffee as opposed to the sour insipid stuff that is normally around.... gotta get it.
Finished the green tea (OK enough of regurgitated sequels)
I had another bottle lying around. Georges Duboeuf (French in a white label 3 flowers at the bottom of it) and is from 2006. I found it at ~US$6.50 a bottle. Not too strong or alcoholic (just how I like it).
---
Said Beaujolais :mrgreen:
A&W Root Beer
Finished the black tea. Now eyeing for the orange juice.
A cup of ice cold coffee.
Publix diet lemon soda
southern Comfort and apple juice on the rocks. Curiously good, since I normally dislike alcohol.
A&W Creme Soda
One mug o'tea and one wee glass of o-juice
Spaniard Tempranillo. A bit stronger than usual.
...a glass of tangerine Fanta wid me sangwutch...
Fuze White tea
A spot o' Arrowleaf Merlot (tiny home-local vinyard that I have a soft spot for).
Earl Grey Tea
I'm going down for a cup of milk... maybe that might stave of this headache trying to take hold....
What am I drinking? Hmmm... I'll let you know later when all the Pirates are gone!!! LMAO ;D
The pirates I know drink almost anything but milk.
I OTOH am drinking a nice Stella Artois :D
Oh! and welcome Mathesa!
The pirates are now all hiding, hoping that Mathesa will let us know what she's drinking. But we can tell where they are by their ripe aromas wafting on the sea breeze.
Hi Mathesa.
Do not let the Pirates know if you have r-u-m. If you spell it, though, you can be far enough away by the time they figure it out that you're safe!
I'm drinking orange juice. Whoopie. Where's the sloe gin when ya need it?
The sloe gin is in my fridge...
but there isn't much left :P
I'm drinking black Ceylon tea.
Spaniard Rioja.
:winebottle:
::packing the gallon of OJ and some extra warm clothes, heading out for the sloe gin::
Drinking water. (Not Somerville Crunchy Brown Water, but Brenham Starbucks water.)
Peppermint tea
I'm not sure peppermint will be very good for your stomach. Ginger teas will though. I also recommend drinking Red Zinger or hibiscus teas as they are tasty and sans caffeine.
Currently, some Earl Grey.
It does better than expected (and the hospital had no objection). Chamomile is an alternative. Black or green clearly isn't. The stomach disliked it and I felt like having a barely sublethal caffeine direct injection. I mainly do with mineral water and a limited amount of orange juice (the latter not on an empty stomach though, that's low pH stuff)
Hmm, well, whatever works. Regardless, if you get tired of those there's the others I suggested.
Cranberry-raspberry fuze thingy.
chamomile tea with a bit too much of sugar (1.3 teaspoons in 0.25 ltr didn't seem too much but it was)
gingerbread latte
chamomile tea
Aztec mocha.
OJ
chamomile tea again. orange juice may follow later
Beaujolais Villages slightly chilled
Sweet Tea (It's the house wine of the South)
And is delicious!
Milk
Publix diet orange soda
Since I like it regular, the tea again.
A cheap Spaniard Syrah (not bad for $4, not bad at all).
Did I put sugar into the tea or not. Still too hot to find out.
Coffee.
I did not put sugar into the tea of yesterday but I did this morning (fresh tea, not any leftover from yesterday ;))
Eggnog with a dash of Kaluha
Chamomile tea (still too hot to drink)
Hoegaarden.
I decided a beer was needed to celebrate as it has now become the Worst. Job. Ever. officially (had about 2 more things that needed to go wrong, today we had 3).
It's still been more spread out than the :censored: that hit the fan in the previous title holder (aka Pump Test 666), but it gets points for duration.
Dry sherry
It's still too hot to drink?? :o
:mrgreen:
It usually is when I am in this thread. Currently drinking the stuff after a bit of cooling down (both of me and the tea)
monsoon malabar
(coffee)
Red wine.
Inca, Merlot & Bonarda grapes from the Calchaqui valley, Argentina.
It's nice, pretty cheap, but nice.
Still with the coffee. No sleep for me....
Hot tea...rum flavored.
A&W Cream Soda
Hoegaarden again.
carbonated mineral water
Hot tea.
Magnesium citrate.
Then clear liquids.
:P Poor Bubu!
Stash Chai spice black tea.
Tea. Bog standard Twinings Everyday Tea.
It's good for the soul.
A triple upside down caramel macchiatto with extra extra caramel. (Three shots of espresso in what's basically a caramel and vanilla latte)
Quote from: The Meromorph on January 23, 2008, 04:58:09 PM
Magnesium citrate.
Then clear liquids.
Ach, the fun part.
Bon fortuna... :hug:
Soda water.
In a case of sheer predictability: chamomile tea
I was thinking of making a mug of hot chocolate. As a matter of fact, I'm going to do it right now.
green tea and in a few minutes I'm going to go see what my new best friend Wiggy is up too on another forum--- and yes I use 'best friend' in the most sarcastic and vile way :mrgreen:
Tea just empty
Quote from: anthrobabe on January 24, 2008, 01:51:15 PM
green tea and in a few minutes I'm going to go see what my new best friend Wiggy is up too on another forum--- and yes I use 'best friend' in the most sarcastic and vile way :mrgreen:
I, too, am having some green tea.
And I admit, Wiggy is a character...and not in such a good way. Typical creationist/IDiot...very opinionated on things he knows almost nothing about.
Coffee! Best coffee in nearly 3 weeks....
Then I will climb aboard the green tea train with the rest of y'all.
More green tea--- see I actually cleaned out my locker-- I know it was bad anyway -actually I had about 2 lockers-- so I cleaned them out and now have one large locker and can find things-- like the 3 boxes of green tea so now I'm actually able to get to it and drink it!
I also found a Darwin Day tee from that I was grieving because I just knew I'd lost it- but I found it!
had some O juice some time ago and just finished the chamomile
orange juice
I'm bein' all healty and stuff...
Red wine, same as a couple of days ago, I had a glass left in the bottle.
Some amaretto tea. Good.
A pumpkin cream frappacino.
(Cream base with about six pumps of pumpkins syrup...)
Delicious.
Tea is on the treshold of becoming drinkable
Cup of coffee
Anti-migraine cocktails of infinite variety
Tetleys British Blend tea. Milk, no sugar.
Chamomile tea, still too hot
Some more amaretto tea. Just a bit too hot yet.
Tea's finished, now for o juice
Coffee. It be morning after all.
Tea time, here. Haven't decided.
Coffee. No school + no work + lots of homework = need coffee
Tea, as anyone could have predicted
Really strong coffee
(See also: What are you eating?)
Hot water & irish cream.
T&O, so to say
Cheap French Syrah (a bit stronger than usual but OK).
Tea has just entered drinkable temperature range
Tea, lovely tea. (See What are you listening to...)
Just finished the tea
Thai tea. It is delicious.
Publix diet lemon soda
last sip of tea
Coffee. My wife made an awful lot and I hate waste (I'm on my 3rd cup).
Maybe I should have another tea
coffee and a bottle of water(to wash down the Tylenol)
Just brewing the tea
Strong, black coffee with cardamom.
Tea just becoming drinkable
I'm half way through a cup of Tetly tea and shall have another before I go off to work .
Tea's drunk
A smoothie made with way too much protein powder and not enough fruit. It feels like I am drinking liquid chalk (or bones) with a touch of blueberries. (For this I paid $4.95?? Never again!)
Tea, what else at this time of day?
Diet Coke
Alexander Keith's so-called IPA. Nice Canadian beer, not an IPA IMHO.
Hot sweet tea, the real ambrosia
I think you can guess it
3:25 in the blessed AM and I'm drinking a chocolate-cherry milkshake.
There are some damn stupid medicinal reasons for this, but I am too amused by the whole thing to care...
Hot sweet tea, the real ambrosia. Again
Green tea, about the eighteenth cup today (well, maybe only the eighth, but still.... ::) )
The first 0.25 ltr of chamomile tea almost finished
17 year old Bowmore Islay whisky
Lemon soda
T
I hope to be drinking a Murphy's Stout in about three hours.
Right now it's pineapple juice.
Tea. Iced, sweet.
Sweet tea, the House Wine of the South...
T gn
A raspberry cream thingy. (Milk, ice, a bit of ice cream and raspberry puree)
coffee (sorry - decaf) with a hint of chocolate
T finished, time for some H2O (carbonated)
coffee with vanilla
Bad coffee, but very strong. I was sick of the insipid weak crap in the hotel breakfast room so I filched a carafe-sized pack and ran it through my room coffeemaker. Now it's brutally strong crap. Much better! ;)
T 4 1
A cup of iced Guatemala Antigua. Not as strong as I like it, but pretty good.
Lemonade
Time for a bit of carbonated mineral water. I put too much salt on the pretzels
The last of my Antigua. Properly strong. Good coffee. I recommend it if you ever wander in to one of our stores.
Tea right now, but am looking longingly at a bottle of armagnac.
Half past T
After too much coffee, I think it is time for some of that armagnac I never touched yesterday.
(http://www.goodnessdirect.co.uk/detail/426008b.jpg)
http://www.goodnessdirect.co.uk/detail/426008b.jpg
Not that brand though but cheap ones from the discounter
Quote from: Swatopluk on March 31, 2008, 09:31:08 AM
(http://www.goodnessdirect.co.uk/detail/426008b.jpg)
http://www.goodnessdirect.co.uk/detail/426008b.jpg
Not that brand though but cheap ones from the discounter
Gets me ACCESS FORBIDDEN!!
They don't like Uhmurrikins??
Quote from: Sibling Chatty on March 31, 2008, 05:20:14 PM
Quote from: Swatopluk on March 31, 2008, 09:31:08 AM
(http://www.goodnessdirect.co.uk/detail/426008b.jpg)
http://www.goodnessdirect.co.uk/detail/426008b.jpg
Not that brand though but cheap ones from the discounter
Gets me ACCESS FORBIDDEN!!
They don't like Uhmurrikins??
I suspect it's a security-thing. Many shopping sites forbid direct-to-picture links-- they want you to experience the whole "thang".
I got the same error, but I could go to the top-level domain (basically the home page) just fine.
I can see it both in my post and in the quotes.
Maybe this is better (still not the right brand but I can't find a picture of that)
(http://picnic.ciao.com/de/24621.jpg)
http://picnic.ciao.com/de/24621.jpg
Lol.
Black coffee. With a bit of sugar. More Antigua (I <3 my free pound every week. I <3 it good).
I think about drinking another 0.25 l of that tea.
More coffee. I made the last batch too strong to drink it black, so I'm having it the usual way.
Just finished the first tea of the day
Coffee's done. I can smell it!
Mmmmmm.
Cooooofffffeeeee.....!
Quote from: Swatopluk on April 02, 2008, 09:13:09 AM
I can see it both in my post and in the quotes.
Maybe this is better (still not the right brand but I can't find a picture of that)
(http://picnic.ciao.com/de/24621.jpg)
http://picnic.ciao.com/de/24621.jpg
ok does anyone else notice that there is absolutely no dust anywhere in this photo? duje I am so impressed, and is that a computer monitor on/behind the box, and a tea maker with red light? You seem to have such a cozy set up there. I am a bit envious. I want a tea/coffee maker on my desk.
That picture is googled. I do not own a digital camera.
If the monitor collects all the dust, why is there so much on the desk nonetheless?
A cheap but good French Bordeaux.
:winebottle:
carbonated mineral water
Quote from: Swatopluk on April 04, 2008, 03:48:48 PM
That picture is googled. I do not own a digital camera.
If the monitor collects all the dust, why is there so much on the desk nonetheless?
because desk = dust magnet; it is a law of physics or something
seriously
don't I look like I know what I'm talking about ;D
Decaf. Ugh. Actually not much worse than that the regular here, but still.... ::)
I've been off coffee* for a week, and got tempted.
*nominally off caffeine, but am still drinking green tea. I occasionally try to drop my caffeine tolerance a bit so I can get my *BUZZ* back. :mrgreen:
A gin and tonic.
Tonic for cramps and gin and lemon because it goes down easier that way...
I'm having another dose off cola .
Predictably T and carbonated mineral H2O
Iced green matte (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yerba_mate) with milk and cinnamon. Sweet and sort of tastes like hay smells. And has this interesting lightly buttery feel.
By now the tea is drinkable
I guess, It's about time to tell Pirates what I'm drinking right now! Oh well... I'm a Baby - Cute - Pirate so I've been drinking Milk this lately... Joke Only!!! :P And still I won't tell 'coz it's my secret... Heheheh!!!
Hey! Mathesa. Good to see you. Do any Pirates tell the truth about what they drink? I think not.
coke (neither Coca Cola nor Pepsi but the variant produced by Aldi)
(http://picnic.ciao.com/de/8343796.jpg)
http://picnic.ciao.com/de/8343796.jpg
I'm drinking a large (40oz) mug of dilute* Tang (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tang_(drink)), in honor of the Astronauts and the Mars Lander.
Mmmm.
* dilute: I don't like it made as strong as advertised. I make it about 1/3 as strong-- basically flavored water.
Organic green tea.
This stuff.
(http://tbn0.google.com/images?q=tbn:7XxCX8-ymrj7KM:http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1383/1336587203_a71601121e.jpg)
Cranberry juice, out of the fridge, and over ice. It's so cold it gives me a head freeze, but it's so good...
Cranberry juice is good. :)
Inycon, white wine, Chardonnay from Sicily.
Herbal lemon tea spliced with apple cider.
An honest to goodness Coca Cola from the Dairy Queen.
It feels like 1967, except that the cup and straw aren't paper.
Quote from: Sibling Chatty on May 30, 2008, 01:59:08 AM
An honest to goodness Coca Cola from the Dairy Queen.
It feels like 1967, except that the cup and straw aren't paper.
Paper straws! That takes me back.
Remember wax-covered cardboard milk containers? Those, cut up into squares, made EXCELLENT campfire starters..... one match on the corner, then the paper/wax caught....
Nowadays, milk's in
plastic, no matter what. Even cardboard containers use a plastic-coated process.
*bleah* What're they gonna do, when the oil runs out? :P :P
Go back to wax...
chamomile tea
---
The wax could be a problem too with all the bees dying (synthetic wax would be either oil-related or coming from plants that will be (ab)used otherwise)
What would be wrong with going back to 100% recyclable glass?
Even if the bottles don't get re-used "as is", glass is 100% recyclable... just needs energy to re-melt---and not nearly as much as some industrial processes, either. Relatively low melting point, is glass.
I remember glass baby bottles, as the girls got juice and very thin cereals added to the diet when about 6 months old we had 4 ounce glass bottles, in fact I think I made banks out of them as they got older-- they were always so nice, and I never managed to break any of them, run them through the dishwasher (my hands and hot water ;) - and they were sparkling.
now everything is plastic--- ugh! but I saw some glass bottles at a 'specialty store' the othe day-- sigh it is bad when good old glass is a specialty item
and I agree- something must be done to salvage the wild bee population, I think it is the wild populations that are in the most critical trouble and they are the influx of new genetics that all healthy polpulations need--- but then again I may be incorrect
Now glass seems to be mainly used for mustard*, sausages and (pickled) cucumbers.
*Those glasses are pretty useful because they are intended to be used as drinking glasses once they are empty of their original content.
Plastic is resistant while thin and -so far- very cheap. As oil keeps rising in cost glass will come back.
---
Pepsi One
The one thing that seems to have vanished for good is the metal beverage can (at least over here)
You mean the typical aluminum can? Now that I think about it, last year I didn't see many of those in France or Italy. Here in the states are extremely ubiquitous.
Given the amount of power required to process aluminum its use should be limited to less wasteful industries though.
Indeed.
:coffeemug: :coffeemug: :coffeemug: :coffeemug:
What else but coffee?
Drinking iced tea.
It's the house wine of the South...
Chamomile tea with a wee bit too much sugar (although it is about a third of what I used to put in a few years ago)
Cheap Bordeaux :partyglass:
H20, enhanced wiv mint fresh from thee garrrdin.
Same beverage, but mine has a Schnauzer hair in it from the Large Economy Sized Lap Dog that wants to sit ON Mommy, not WITH Mommy.
Mint's probably better... :mrgreen:
Picking up dad from the airport tonight, so I didn't have a taste, but among the beverages served at dinner tonight was some sort of Mexican liquor that came in a bottle shaped like some sort of deformed Buddha.
A nice cuppa orange flavored tea. Ummmmmmmmmmmmm.
the chamomile tea again. This time the sugar dose was adjusted a bit better
Ice-cold pomegranate juice.
Luxury!
Freshly squeezed grapefruit juice.
Chai-mocha latte.
I had chamomile tea and orange juice for breakfast
More cheap Bordeaux.
I am about halfway down the mug of chamomile tea
A nice glass of Alka Seltzer. Oye, my head!
A drink one of my shifts calls 'the hulk.' Green tea, a scoop of matcha and melon syrup. Delicious.
Cheeeeap Bordeaux... and I practically drank the bottle.
:toasted: :drunk: :partyglass: :winebottle:
Just emptied the mug o'tea.
Coffee. Fresh-ground.
Over ice. With cream and sugar (just a bit).
Mmmmm.
Again, cheap Bordeaux (can you tell it was so cheap I bought half a case?). :mrgreen:
Ribena
Utterly predictable: Chamomile tea
Bottles and bottles of water to balance cans and cans of Canuckistani-style energy drinks.
Carbonated mineral water
Several years ago I traveled to Sweden to visit my brother and his Swedish wife. This was in July. While there, somehow the conversation came around to iced tea. My sister-in-law asked what is was with Americans and iced tea. Who would want to drink ICED tea?
I replied that it was 105 F (41 C) the day I left, and iced tea is very refreshing.
Highly diluted (but *very* cold) lemonade. First break in what will be a long, hot (90's F) workday.
I also consider cold tea an abomination.
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Orange juice and mineral water (separate!!!)
Target peach-pear soda
Quote from: Swatopluk on June 26, 2008, 05:25:16 PM
I also consider cold tea an abomination.
Call me when you live in an area where 108*F is not unusual in the summer. :P
Iced Antigua, still. Old, from this morning, but still surprisingly good.
But they drink the tea or cofee very hot in hot countries (clearly not because they lack ice)
Chamomile tea as usual at this time of day
Quote from: Aphos on June 26, 2008, 10:25:06 AM
Several years ago I traveled to Sweden to visit my brother and his Swedish wife. This was in July. While there, somehow the conversation came around to iced tea. My sister-in-law asked what is was with Americans and iced tea. Who would want to drink ICED tea?
I replied that it was 105 F (41 C) the day I left, and iced tea is very refreshing.
Nowadays you can find Ice Tea on the shelf's of almost every grocery store here, either in the form of little bags with a sugary powder to be mixed with water or ready made in bottles.
Swedes in general haven't learned how to make their own much cheaper and less sugary Ice Tea them self yet, I think it will take a couple of summers more with temperatures around 35-40 C (yes, we have those too at least in the south half of the country) before we learn. ;)
I'm drinking orange juice BTW.
Quote from: Sibling Zono (anon1mat0) on June 27, 2008, 01:47:27 AM
Target peach-pear soda
WANT!!
Current Target doesn't have it. Maybe the New SuperTarget will...
Drinking Sweet Tea (iced) the House Wine of the South.
Sweet Tea!
Just finished the tea before it could turn to ice
Drinking Mint Green Tea. No sweetener*
_____
* a personal preference: I don't like sweet cold drinks all that much, with the exception of iced coffee.
Time to drink that tea
drum roll please
Chamomile tea -yes, seriously, and it is hot and I have the tea bag on my left eye to sooth the redness it has (chamomile tea bags are great for refreshing the eyes-works for me anyway)
Yes I am typing sitting in a funny position-- wish I had a web cam-- you would all just die!
I thought chamomile extract was more against inflammation of the mucous membranes (esp. in mouth and throat).
Just finished my mug of chamomile tea
Iced green tea with mint. Fairly weak. No sweetner, natch.
Aaaaaah, that's the stuff...
Quote from: Swatopluk on June 30, 2008, 09:58:36 AM
I thought chamomile extract was more against inflammation of the mucous membranes (esp. in mouth and throat).
Just finished my mug of chamomile tea
Oh sure thing-- but one day I tried it with a sore, inflamed, red eye and it seems to give me some relief- it might simply be the heat and moisture-- but it helps me a bit so whether is should or not I put them on my eyes. The steam is good as well if one is stuffy in the nose and throat-besides drinking it. It is also conductive to sleep in some people.
Drinking water right now --not bottled water.
In episode (big number) of our ongoing series: Another mug of chamomile tea is drunken (and now rampaging in the neighbourhood)
Drinkin' root beer...and wondering what Q's up to!
Carbonated mineral water (quickly running out in this heat)
1/2 iced tea & 1/2 lemonade
A&W Cream Soda
Just used the tea to wash down the pills (blood pressure, sinuses, prostrate*, Mg, Ca)
*stinging nettle
I didn't know stinging nettle was used to treat getting laid flat out on the ground (it's tasty as a spring green).... must look into brewing stinging nettle beer. ;)
Drinking various teas, mostly uncaffeinated, to help with cold symptoms.
I think there actually is something like stinging nettel beer, there definitely is wine produced from that plant.
First postdoc tea :Tcup:
Ayuh, I think I've seen recipes. Good plant, bad reputation.
More herb tea.
I doubt that the stinging part is going into it really. All the silicic acid from the stinging trichomes would probably precipitate.
But I am no expert on this eco beverages.
Black Bush Irish whisky.
You make nettle tea by using the nettle plants leafs, and those indeed sting... but when heated up in water the nettle cells (the small hook like cells on the surface of the leafs and the stem) softens and looses their stinging ability, the leafs can if memory serves me right even be used to treat burn injures if they get dipped in boiling water and then cooled down before you put them on the the burned skin.
I think about drinking another mug-o-tea
A pineapple boysenberry shake thingy (pineapple juice, a lot of ice, some berries and some vanilla ice cream).
Raspberry iced tea. Mmmmm. (no, no sugar added, thankyouverymuch)
Quote from: Scriblerus the Philosophe on July 14, 2008, 12:06:16 AM
A pineapple boysenberry shake thingy (pineapple juice, a lot of ice, some berries and some vanilla ice cream).
Sounds YUM!!
I used to take frozen pineapple, any fresh berries and ginger ale and make a slush that was wonderful. It was wonderfuller poured over ice cream, though.
T
new batch of freshly rehydrated dehydrated water---- seriously funny stuff (http://www.buydehydratedwater.com/free.htm)
apple and raspberry juice
Carbonated mineral water
Btw, dehydrated water is the main feature of the Discworld deserts
orange juice
Tea approaching temperature of drinkability
still nothing alcoholic... been stone cold sober for 5 months now!!!
Quote from: goat starer on July 15, 2008, 11:18:06 PM
still nothing alcoholic... been stone cold sober for 5 months now!!!
Heavens fore fend!
'Nother weirdo blended drink-- about half a cantaloupe, some water, about four tablespoons of sugar, bit of ice and some vanilla ice cream.
Delicious dinner, I must say.
The tea is finished, the mug all done
nothing at all... god nows what has come over my team at work. nobody has offered me a drink all day. In a minute I may have top go so far as to get up and make one myself... then they will all expect me to make one for everyone and that will set a precedent. So I will struggle on with dehydration for a bit longer in the hopes that a minion buckles first (and in future I will put making the tea in their job descriptions)
Carbonated mineral water (nothing special)
Not enough coffee.
I have the choice: tea, bitter lemon or carbonated mineral water
Coffee. What else?
Citrus flavored bubbling water.
T finished. Now, should I follow-up with just H2CO3-ted H2O or should I use a flavored variant?
lemsip... I am poorly :'(
More tea, this time black and cheap
Tea, organic green with lemon.
Not cheap, but worth it (eh, it's still only about $0.18/bag).
Tea, Iced, Texas Style Sweetea...
chamomile tea, also cheap
Quote from: Sibling Chatty on August 07, 2008, 04:59:01 AM
Tea, Iced, Texas Style Sweetea...
Chatty, would you mind giving me your recipe for that? :)
I'm drinking water with lime.
umm, I don't actually DO recipes...I just sorta...do.
Basic orange pekoe tea, hot water, time. Let it steep and halfway cool, remove tea bags (we have brands of tea here that are "iced tea blends", basically just a basic medium strong tea). While it's still hot, or at least fairly warm, add sugar (depending on taste). For a gallon of tea (about 4 liters, about 12 teabags worth) I would use a cup (8 ounces or about 225 grams) of sugar, stirred in well. (I don't like it quite that sweet, but it seems to be "below" the norm.)
If you're serving it NOW (yummy) and have plenty of ice, don't bother to add a little cool water, just pour it over the ice. If serving a bit later (and you've got room) add about a liter of cool water.
This site
http://www.texascooking.com/features/aug2001icedtea.htm
does it a little differently, but then she's making a half gallon. With my family around, that's not enough to get started. For just me, it's too much. (Dan doesn't drink sweet tea.) My friend makes a full gallon, but sends me over a quart on a regular basis... :mrgreen:
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chamomile tea, also cheap
Alas! I am down to selfquoting
The gazebo blend of coffee we have. It's one of my favorites, I think.
Whisky.
I ate something I shouldn't been eating and now I'm doing damage control...
I would like to send down a miniature Ripley with a flame-thrower but since that seem impossible I just settle with the Scottish way to bane all evil, ;D
Not much left in the orange juice bottle
A very watered carrot juice.
I'm chewing ice, because I ran out of tea...
I just used he last tea bag from the package (but there is another package in store)
A short (6 oz. I think) chai latte, made with heavy cream.
Very weak iced tea with no sugar or lemon.
In another totally predicatble move (at this time of day): chamomile tea (1 teaspoon of sugar on 0.25 ltr.)
Target branded peach-pear italian soda
Quote from: Swatopluk on August 15, 2008, 08:29:56 AM
In another totally predictable move (at this time of day): chamomile tea (1 teaspoon of sugar on 0.25 ltr.)
Who could have thought it? deja quaff
Sumatran coffee, brewed in a Senseo. With heavy cream. :D
Black and cheap Westminster tea
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Sumatran coffee, brewed in a Senseo. With heavy cream. :D
Delicious!
Coffee.
Heineken (no Stella available).
A strawberry lemonade.
The chamomile tea is still a bit too hot too drink
A smoothie thingy--peach, plum and blueberry.
It's the time to sin!
Gimme (http://img364.imageshack.us/img364/5687/rivercola250dz0.jpg)!
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Raspberry ice tea (my beverage of choice since I banished splenda from my diet).
I fancy a nice home made Banana Milk shake...
Oh alright...with rum in it.
I had tea recently (the ol' cheap Aldi Westminster black tea <see somewhere above>)
A power vitaminwater. They're surprisingly tasty.
Plain old green tea, brewed with boiling water to extract maximum "goodness" from the scant two teabags I used (for roughly 2 quarts).
I use an old all-glass coffee pot in the microwave for heating the water to boiling. I tear open the bags, and dump the tea loose into the pot, add hot tap water (my local water is very, very good, actually-- has won awards).
Nuke until water just boils. Remove from microwave carefully (the handle gets warm, even though it's plastic).
Pour whole through a stainless steel mesh coffee filter into a pitcher. Add ice.
Makes a very mild brew that way-- the ice dilutes it to the consistency I like (light brown tint, easily seen through). It's more of "flavored water" but it IS green tea, with it's inherent anti-oxidents. The caffeine content is so low, that I can drink this anytime.
*sip*
Mmmmm.
Chamomile just entering drinkability range
Water, as is customary upon waking.
Black tea, still too hot for me.
Fresh new just-changed-the-filters water.
Our water has...issues (hydroflorocarbons especially) that make it prudent for the health impaired (me) to have a filter for drinking water. $58 for new filters. Meh, beats more problems.
I am surprised that a filter works on those. I'd suspect them to just slip through. What kind of filters do you use?
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Chamomile tea (who would have thought at this time of day? ;))
The guy at MD Anderson (my former cancer hospital) that specialized in "environmental prevention" (HOW do you prevent an environment of one kind or another??) suggested reverse osmosis might help. Or might not. But it would be better if we tried. So, reverse osmosis filters, actually two different systems, one after the other. It's what he suggested, It's what we did.
The water here isn't that great, really. Some parts of town (the other end, where Mom lives, and my friend Denise as well) have foully sulfurous smelling water. So, we faithfully drag fresh non-stinky drinking water to them. After Sunday, just to Denise, because Mom's moving. And the filters will last longer!
The actual parts per whatever of bad stuff are "within acceptable levels" most of the time with our water, but it's a precautionary thing...as if it makes much difference with a cancer that's going to continue to pop up in new places and grow in the old ones anyway. It provided an illusion of doing something positive, and that's what Dan needed. :dontknow:
Blind fate pretty much sucks. You need at least the illusion of SOME sort of control.
Reverse osmosis can handle many dissolved substances. Whether it also works on fluorinated compounds I can't say (depends on the membrane material). What pressure do you use?
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Different brand but essentially the same stuff (a Berlin specialty, practically unknown eslsewhere).
Carbon filtration would probably take care of 'em.... cartridges should be cheaper than RO filters (but RO is better for inorganic nasties AFAIK).
Too much coffee... tea time.
Safest would of course be electrolyzing the water and recombining the hydrogen with oxygen from air ;)
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Carbonated mineral water
I dunno...Dan took what the guy at MDA said, hooked up stuff we bought at Loew's and we went with it. I choose to remain ignorant, because in my opinion, it's all been Bandaid-on-a-corpse thinking all along. This is most likely genetic and ya can't change genetic issues like this by cleaning out the water a bit.
I'm still drinking the water, though.
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Safest would of course be electrolyzing the water and recombining the hydrogen with oxygen from air ;)
Using a fuel cell? I have one of those crazy ideas on the subject: is it easier to electrolyze sea water or fresh water? You could set a hydrogen plant in the ocean using wind turbines for the electrolysis (using the power then might be inefficient but you could use the now desalinated water).
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Raspberry iced tea again.
Thinking about some bitter lemon before going to bed.
Mojito therapy :beer:
Quote from: Sibling Chatty on August 29, 2008, 12:53:38 AM
I dunno...Dan took what the guy at MDA said, hooked up stuff we bought at Loew's and we went with it. I choose to remain ignorant, because in my opinion, it's all been Bandaid-on-a-corpse thinking all along. This is most likely genetic and ya can't change genetic issues like this by cleaning out the water a bit.
I'm still drinking the water, though.
Most RO filters include carbon, too-- usually "upstream" of the actual RO parts. Helps the whole last longer that way-- any solids that are trapped in the carbon pack will not clog the fine osmosis membrane as quickly.
Most consumer grade RO also just use whatever water pressure comes into them from the supply side. As such, with well water, the installer really should check the well pump's pressure settings, to make sure it is operating properly. But, higher pressure does not automatically mean "better" just likely faster, is all. I've seen hand-pumped RO getups for hiking and such.
You may consider it a waste of money, but.... the poison's in the dose, as my Industrial Radiography buddy would say. In your case (or your SO's) any chemicals are likely to exacerbate the problem, so any dose is "poison".
Water IS the solvent your body uses to rid itself of toxins--if your toxin filtration system is not working at "peak", then any assist can be of benefit....such as toxin-free water itself.
If you can stand the taste, that is.... I find ultra-filtered water to be.... very bland.
I guess I've grown accustomed to industrial waste as flavorings.... :ROFL:
That is also the problem in parts of Africa. People want to taste the earth in the water that is lost when standard filters are used. the problem is to find a filter that keeps out the worms but keeps in the flavor.
Hey, tequila drinkers insist on the worm being kept in ;)
It's a three filter system...Dan says one at least has carbon.
For drinking water only, it was the most expensive of the small systems they had. Also, according to the literature there, the most thorough.
Gotta remember, this is a small, poor town. We have one or two times a year where something breaks and they cut off the water for anywhere from 4 to 36 hours, and you have to boil your drinking, cooking and tooth-brushing water for the next few days. (I get sent to stay with Laurel and Stuart until it's all clear again. Dan doesn't take chances.)
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Drinking? Water...
RO water tastes just like distilled to me , that is , completely tasteless with a bit of a metallic "tinge" to it .
Be careful to get the minerals from other sources, or quasi-distilled water can be harmful in the long run.
I know that on ships that get part of their drinking wtaer from the sea, they put a bit of the salt back in after the cleaning procedure for that reason (and because the taste is indeed different.
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Carbonated mineral water
A mixture of solid H2O and liquid H2O.
Flavored with a small packet euphemistically called "Iced Tea To Go" by Lipton. Supposed to pour the whole thing into a water bottle I guess. Not bad, as instant drinks go. My "glass" is really a 48 oz insulated mug, so it's quite dilute as compared to the "recommended" concentration.
Ingredients? Actually, I'm a bit afraid to actually look.... :P
Fake tea-- Oh Bob what am I gonna do with ya. :dontknow:
However, there is a product called True Lemon (http://www.truelemon.com/sample.html) (or lime or orange) that is a packet you can mix in water and it actually tastes good--- I put the liquid lemon (Real Lemon stuff) concentrate in my water at home-- because I don't like plain water-- and this is just as good.
:mrgreen:
Actually, at 1/2 the recommended concentration? That Lipton stuff ain't that bad. Certainly not the worst thing I've poured down my throat.
And I was just too hot to brew up some real tea anyways.
I used to for many years, add a scant teaspoon of Real Lemon or Real Lime to my ice water... I've got out of the habit, of late. I must needs remember to get some of that again. 'Twas good.
Just the standard chamomile
Mead. In a teacup. :cup:
aaaaahhhhhhhhh
Raspberry iced tea
A gigantic cup of coffee. :mrgreen:
Black tea. It's now cold enough to warrant drinking hot black tea (jeez, went swimming last week and now I need to go find my box of sweaters).
Tea approaching drinkability temperature range
Innocent stawberry and banana smoothy.
I got a free Innocent Orange Drink from the supermarket last week - it puzzled me.
Tropicana are trying to take their market share (using methods like having control of store refrigerators and big price cutting). Probably fighting back.
Or did you just mean you couldn't work out how to open it? ;)
Orange tea lemonade sweetened with vanilla syrup. Best. Thing. Ever.
Tea just finished
Finishing off the last of my cup of Kona. I will be sad to see it go. But it is delicious.
Rooibus tea.
Rasberry smoothie / protein feed.
And a nother mug-o'chamomile was downed
African Nectar (http://www.mightyleaf.com/product.aspx?ID=80&CategoryID=52) tea. I needed some rooibos.
Ready to down the tea
Kettle is boiling. Impending rooibos.
Tea has been downed
sweet sweet tea ^_^
Some good coffee from Rwanda combined with some of Dad's quality brandy (so glad I'm moving)
Tea still too hot for me too drink
i hate that--- waiting for the tea to cool- always so hard to do ;D
Tea's finished (an advantage of sitting in front of the PC)
Blue gatorade (no brominated oil in the ingredient list)
Again in front of the PC with tea still too hot to drink
Repeat of coffee with brandy
Tea still in the phase of preparation
Effervescent Vit C tablets are dissolving as I type.
The tea is drunk!
that reminds me- i have to make another batch of tea when i get home
we go through a container almost every day!
Orange juice with Miralax in it.
There are disadvantages to having the 'good drugs'.
Tea entering drinkability range
Coffee so strong you could pave a road with it.
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Coffee so strong you could pave a road with it.
Did it pass the horseshoe test?
That depends. If the test was dissolving the horseshoe, yes, with flying colours. I may never sleep again...
Very diluted raspberry iced tea
water with raspberry flavoring in it
Green tea with ginseng
sweet tea- as usual
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That depends. If the test was dissolving the horseshoe, yes, with flying colours. I may never sleep again...
The horseshoe test (How to make good coffee):
Take 2 pounds of coffee, moisten with water and let boil for 2 hours.
Put the horseshoe in
If the iron sinks, it was not enough coffee.
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Just took the bag out of the tea mug.
Still too hot for drinking by me
Good test. I like it. You would end up with something like Turkish coffee, the only difference being the Turks, who are famously sweet-toothed, would add a pound of sugar.
Now I am uninspired by the water sitting in front of me, and am off to make strong coffee...
Tea has approached drinkability but not swallow-down-pills-with-it areas.
water
Alas! the tea is finished
Back to the ridiculously strong coffee (with brandy).
At ten past one in the morning, this may explain my becoming nocturnal....
I have a bad habit of drinking Jones Cola at that time in the morning- it makes me nocturnal
right now i'm drinking Jones ^_^
then going to McDonalds- and i'm going to have a Chocolate shake ^_^
At 7:20 am????
What did your mother do to you when you were a child to make you think drinking a chocolate shake at 7:30 am is alright.
Oh
OK
gotcha
the one who taught you how to make sweet tea in a gallon milk jug before breakfast. *
:woot:
I am drinking some hot tea-- orange spice flavor-- pretty good actually.
*take a clean empty gallon milk jug you have washed well, boil water, steep tea bags in boiling water-turn heat off first, put a funnel in the mouth of the jug, pour in a few cups of cold water, pour in the sugar (lots of sugar), add the hot tea, cap jug and shake the devil out of it over the sink while holding onto the lid, open lid and fill to the brim with cold water. Now that's tea baby.
lol- yup you taught me the bad habits ^_^
ya know i love you---
and i'm drinking Dr. Pepper with vanilla ^_^
Tea, wonderful tea
Kashmiri style green chai
:Tcup:
hot green tea
bag not yet removed from mug
water
Caribou coffee and OJ. Vitamin C and caffeine.
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Caribou coffee
Say it ain't so, Scrib! Say it ain't so!
:mrgreen:
hokay, hokay...oi *nose* hit ain't frum Halaska, but hits best not to tayke chances...
Jones Cola-
and i'm excited- they are talking about putting a Sonic here in CO- i love the onion rings *drool*
tea
also tea (just finished)
Darn! If this keeps going this should be renamed as the Tea Thread.
(and indeed I'm drinking tea...)
And I just emptied the mug
HA! I shall break the chain of tea!
Currently, a quad eggnog latte. I hafta pull an all-nighter, and I am NOT doing that without massive amounts of caffeinated goodness.
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Caribou coffee
Say it ain't so, Scrib! Say it ain't so!
:mrgreen:
hokay, hokay...oi *nose* hit ain't frum Halaska, but hits best not to tayke chances...
:D I'm afraid it was. They don't brew Starbucks at school anymore (they lost the license to do so, since they were mangling the coffee*) and Caribou is pretty tasty, actually. :mrgreen:
*When Schultz took the throne again, he got really picky about who was allowed to brew our stuff. My school would make it once in the morning and never again the rest of the day, therefore besmirching the company's brand image. They still get to use Seattle's Best, which is actually a sub brand of Starbucks (they get to use the beans Starbucks itself rejects [which is still damn good]) but not the main brand.
Water
Time to pull the bag from the tea
Açai-Raspberry juice
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Açai-Raspberry juice
Omg, that sounds delicous.
Fuze black and white tea.
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Açai-Raspberry juice
Omg, that sounds delicous.
It is! Tropicana came up with a premium line and the Raspberry-Açai is the winner IMHO. It's on the expensive side although @$1.84 for a liter doesn't seem too expensive to me. :D
Oh, it's tea again
The mild chamomile is here
Ready to be drunk
Water with Mirilax in it.
Beats the uncomfortable alternative...Da good drugs are good but they're blessed with lousy side effects.
Since the world is repetitive, the tea is here again
Mm, repeat performance here, too.
Iced coffee.
Cheap bordeaux
Ewige Wiederkehr des Gleichen
Chamomile Tea
Currently sitting on my desk are a bottle of Coke, a bottle of water and a vat of tea (office mugs are the size of fishbowls. Loving it)
Tea's finito
Diet Coke--
So you want a big cup?
Ok
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I want one!!
Or an IV drip of hot, sweet tea...
Lol, we have one of those at work--it sits on top of our pastry case, filled to the brim with beans.
Iced green matte tea with cream and cinnamon. Sooo delicious.
Heineken
lukewarm but it used to be very hot green tea
(they are locking the coffee up again-- like it's a drug or something :mrgreen:)
Just downed the pills with the chamomile tea (Ca, Mg, stinging nettle*, more botany**, metroprolol***)
Not to forget the omeprazole to counter the reflux disease downed with mineral water pre-breakfast.
And I am still relatively healthy.
*for the prostrate
**for the sinuses
***too keep the blood pressure in healthy regions
Blood orange italian soda
Time for tea
I'm psychic I knew Swatopluk was drinking tea even before I clicked on this thread. ;)
I am drinking-- you guessed it-- Diet Coke
Hm, is it time already for the afternoon tea?
Sierra Mist Free
Half past ten in the morning sitting in fornt of the PC?
What could that mean?
Tea
2:30 in the afternoon? Rooibos time!
I put a little half and half in it and it's a pretty orange color.
Tea had to be drunk. It was cooling down.
Tea for me, again. Actually, it's all gone, now. I think I'll put the kettle back on!
Trying to drink a Wendy's frosty
Eeyow, I'm getting brain-freeze just thinking about that!
I'm trying a sample tea I got at a Wegman's grocery store opening. It's called Throat Coat (http://www.traditionalmedicinals.com/?id=28&pid=75) and it's really sweet and licoricy! Yum!
Had some balck tea a while ago. Otherwise carbonated mineral water.
My new favorite drink--chai tea with espresso!
Isn't chai tea a tautology? :mrgreen:
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Tea's been over for an hour. Next step carbonated mineral water
Lemsip.
There is a small drawback drawback to working outside in the winter...
Black tea
Chai spice black tea, here.
Cloudy days call for black tea, somehow. Maybe it's the caffiene.
Chai and espresso again, with some mocha this time.
Quote from: Swatopluk on December 04, 2008, 10:11:24 AM
Isn't chai tea a tautology? :mrgreen:
Nnneh, to you I say, sir! :P
My wonderful Miralax enhanced water.
(Those on narcotic meds for chronic pain need Miralax. Learned that by bad experience, I did...)
Chamomile tea. 4 hours earlier than normal! I hate to get up early!!
Taylors of Harrogate's Hot Java Lava coffee.
(they offer a sliding scale of coffee, from 1 to 6 in strength. This is 6. And made strong, with honey, is magnificent. if I hadn't sold my brother into slavery years ago, I'd do it for this...)
Carbonated mineral water
Organic Acai berry juice.
AS 'spensive as that stuff is, it should taste better...
Nothing since my last post in this thread
cheap Bordeaux
A gigantic glass of iced chai with milk and sugar.
Got some Epicuro Salice Salentino. Italian red wine.
Cherry 7-Up
chamomile tea
Chiaaaaaaaaaaaa.
A martini with a cocktail gherkin in it.
(Hi! New in town. Acting all casual, like.)
Very wise. Don't drink the water, you wouldn't believe what the fish do in it.
The gherkin is a nice touch. Can't think why James Bond didn't think of it.
Ridiculously strong coffee, with Greek mountain honey in it.
Sleep is for the weak....
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Ridiculously strong coffee, with Greek mountain honey in it.
Sleep is for the weak....
Ja.
Orange...slurry is the best description I think. Two orange thrown in the blender, water, ice and a little sugar. Nomnomnom.
Argentinian Merlot. Surprisingly good I must say.
Berocca "Tropical" tablets.
Tropical my hairy arse! Synthetic pineapple and mango.
It's horrible.
Black tea
Raspberry iced tea
Chocolate milk.
Time to pull the bag from the chamomile tea
Vanilla chai.
I just had some grape juice mmm mmm good , I wish I could find some wine that tasted as good as grape juice .
A nice cup of Lady Grey tea
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chamomile tea
I fear I repeat myself
and again
and again (actually it is still too hot to drink)
just finished it
and again
Coffee with the honey.
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chamomile tea
I fear I repeat myself
and again
and again (actually it is still too hot to drink)
just finished it
and again
iterum atque iterum (no rum involved)
The kind of espresso that makes you pull a 'whisky face'.
Coffee with non dairy cream and a wee bit of milk .
Are imaginary drinks allowed? I'd love to drink a Beaujolais Villages, a dry Bordeaux or perhaps a Montepulziano d'Abruzzo or...
:(
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chamomile tea
I fear I repeat myself
and again
and again (actually it is still too hot to drink)
just finished it
and again
iterum atque iterum (no rum involved)
Tea still too hot
Raspberry-Açai juice
I just had a mug of decaf coffee .
I'm thinking about having water , and then orange juice later in the day .
C-c-c-c-coffee!
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chamomile tea
I fear I repeat myself
and again
and again (actually it is still too hot to drink)
just finished it
and again
iterum atque iterum (no rum involved)
Tea still too hot
again still too hot to drink
Dude, break the cycle. Live a little. Try the Ginseng instead. ;D
As for me, water.
A venti upside-down caramel macchiato, six shots, exxxxxtra caramel....I think my friend it trying to give me diabetes....
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chamomile tea
I fear I repeat myself
and again
and again (actually it is still too hot to drink)
just finished it
and again
iterum atque iterum (no rum involved)
Tea still too hot
again still too hot to drink
Maybe in ten minutes I will be able to drink that chamomile tea
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Dude, break the cycle. Live a little. Try the Ginseng instead. ;D
I haz some goooooood Korean Red Ginseng extract. :scared:
But am finishing up a little bit of open wine (leftovers from the reception - it wasn't improving in the cellar after a year, so why wait longer?).
Yum! I having Green Chai. I've been having trouble locating Rooibos lately. Anyone have a clue?
Uh, well, Starbucks has a rooibos tea, African Red Bush. I hate to push company products here, but that's the best I know of, off hand, that isn't in my local tea shop.
Raspberry juice with a lot of ice.
Argentinian Cabernet (see the wine thread).
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chamomile tea
I fear I repeat myself
and again
and again (actually it is still too hot to drink)
just finished it
and again
iterum atque iterum (no rum involved)
Tea still too hot
again still too hot to drink
Maybe in ten minutes I will be able to drink that chamomile tea
Looks like this has turned into some form of a habit (not the monk robes)
Ginger ale.
The last cup of cabernet from said bottle
Miller Chill
(needed a boost after watching Jumper :barf:)
Water. Water everywhere, and not a drop to drink... :'(
Have you heard of distillation?
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Iced tea
Someone put me onto Redbush Tea.
I can't understand it. What is it supposed to taste of? I don't seem to taste much of anything. Are there good enhancers (like honey or whatever)? How long to steep? With milk?
I feel I am even a failure at tea tight now. In England, it doesn't get much sadder than that.
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chamomile tea
I fear I repeat myself
and again
and again (actually it is still too hot to drink)
just finished it
and again
iterum atque iterum (no rum involved)
Tea still too hot
again still too hot to drink
Maybe in ten minutes I will be able to drink that chamomile tea
Looks like this has turned into some form of a habit (not the monk robes)
had a lot of tea today but at the moment it is Bitter Lemon that lost most of its CO
2
I always get a little tart flavor out of it, and it's got it's own weird flavor that I happen to like. A bit of sugar always worked for me, but add some lemon?
Pepsi.
Quote from: Griffin NoName on February 26, 2009, 03:20:59 PM
Someone put me onto Redbush Tea.
I can't understand it. What is it supposed to taste of? I don't seem to taste much of anything. Are there good enhancers (like honey or whatever)? How long to steep? With milk?
I feel I am even a failure at tea tight now. In England, it doesn't get much sadder than that.
I rarely get beyond Indian or Green Ceylon or Darjeeling.
Tells you here. (http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A12644020)
Cures pretty much anything according to that. Sell your pharmaceutical stocks.
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chamomile tea
I fear I repeat myself
and again
and again (actually it is still too hot to drink)
just finished it
and again
iterum atque iterum (no rum involved)
Tea still too hot
again still too hot to drink
Maybe in ten minutes I will be able to drink that chamomile tea
Looks like this has turned into some form of a habit (not the monk robes)
had a lot of tea today but at the moment it is Bitter Lemon that lost most of its CO2
tea again too hot to drink yet (and the Bitter lemon of the former post was about the carbonated beverage, not a tea additive)
Quote from: beagle on February 26, 2009, 09:20:17 PM
I rarely get beyond Indian or Green Ceylon or Darjeeling.
Tells you here. (http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A12644020)
Cures pretty much anything according to that. Sell your pharmaceutical stocks.
Too tired to read the linkage. Need tea !
Sell what pharmaceutical stocks? Last time I looked there were none ;)
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chamomile tea
I fear I repeat myself
and again
and again (actually it is still too hot to drink)
just finished it
and again
iterum atque iterum (no rum involved)
Tea still too hot
again still too hot to drink
Maybe in ten minutes I will be able to drink that chamomile tea
Looks like this has turned into some form of a habit (not the monk robes)
had a lot of tea today but at the moment it is Bitter Lemon that lost most of its CO2
tea again too hot to drink yet (and the Bitter lemon of the former post was about the carbonated beverage, not a tea additive)
Tea still brewing (slipping backwards as far as this row of posts goes, isn't it?)
Swato - could we go onto Tea Story 2 ?
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chamomile tea
I fear I repeat myself
and again
and again (actually it is still too hot to drink)
just finished it
and again
iterum atque iterum (no rum involved)
Tea still too hot
again still too hot to drink
Maybe in ten minutes I will be able to drink that chamomile tea
Looks like this has turned into some form of a habit (not the monk robes)
had a lot of tea today but at the moment it is Bitter Lemon that lost most of its CO2
tea again too hot to drink yet (and the Bitter lemon of the former post was about the carbonated beverage, not a tea additive)
Tea still brewing (slipping backwards as far as this row of posts goes, isn't it?)
Quote from: Griffin NoName on February 28, 2009, 12:59:33 PM
Swato - could we go onto Tea Story 2 ?
Actually I drank the tea before coming here today, so this would have to be either "after the tea" or "return of the tea"
Finally found some 'Salada Green Tea with Red Antioxidents' which has Rooibos in it. It has natural orange and strawberry flavors. I taste a lot of strawberry in it, and it's pretty nice.
I like straight Rooibos best, though. It's one of those teas that you can steep a long time without spoiling the flavor. It's a good apple-and-buttered-bread flavor. A bit on the subtle side, but very pleasant. It's sweet enough by itself. I never sweeten it, but I like it with milk. That turns it into comfort food.
Rooibos is a South African shrubbery (nih! nih!) which is supposed to be a cure-all. It seems to work well in cutting short the duration of a cold.
Really? It reminds me of playdough. Not a big fan of rooibos.
Cherry coke.
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chamomile tea
I fear I repeat myself
and again
and again (actually it is still too hot to drink)
just finished it
and again
iterum atque iterum (no rum involved)
Tea still too hot
again still too hot to drink
Maybe in ten minutes I will be able to drink that chamomile tea
Looks like this has turned into some form of a habit (not the monk robes)
had a lot of tea today but at the moment it is Bitter Lemon that lost most of its CO2
tea again too hot to drink yet (and the Bitter lemon of the former post was about the carbonated beverage, not a tea additive)
Tea still brewing (slipping backwards as far as this row of posts goes, isn't it?)
Quote from: Griffin NoName on February 28, 2009, 12:59:33 PM
Swato - could we go onto Tea Story 2 ?
Actually I drank the tea before coming here today, so this would have to be either "after the tea" or "return of the tea"
Tea, wonderful tea. Too hot to drink still the chamomile.
I am imbibing some olde fashioned Teatley tea , my new favorite ( started with Red Rose then Salada ) packaged tea with filler material .
My most favorite teas are Japanese Green ( with toasted rice , grains removed ) and good old fashioned Chinese black tea ( common to all Chinese eating joints ) which are ruined by milk or sweeteners .
Mango juice.
On the tea front, I like rooibos, but the current favourite is Lady Grey.
I wish didn't have that cup of tea , although it was diluted I'm still awake after tossing around in my bunk for the past three hours *sigh* .
Ah yes, black tea can keep you up, but in a more subtle way than coffee.
Having more Salada Green with Red. Weirdly, I don't ever rememeber the Play-Dough taste, but now that Scrib has mentioned it, I am tasting it.
Watered down gatorade
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chamomile tea
I fear I repeat myself
and again
and again (actually it is still too hot to drink)
just finished it
and again
iterum atque iterum (no rum involved)
Tea still too hot
again still too hot to drink
Maybe in ten minutes I will be able to drink that chamomile tea
Looks like this has turned into some form of a habit (not the monk robes)
had a lot of tea today but at the moment it is Bitter Lemon that lost most of its CO2
tea again too hot to drink yet (and the Bitter lemon of the former post was about the carbonated beverage, not a tea additive)
Tea still brewing (slipping backwards as far as this row of posts goes, isn't it?)
Quote from: Griffin NoName on February 28, 2009, 12:59:33 PM
Swato - could we go onto Tea Story 2 ?
Actually I drank the tea before coming here today, so this would have to be either "after the tea" or "return of the tea"
Tea, wonderful tea. Too hot to drink still the chamomile.
For me it's chamomile in the morning and (mild) black tea in the afternoon.
Drinking water from Starbucks. Not the bottled kind, the ice and water in a cup kind.
Whenever we get Denise a "Venti Breve Toffenut Latte with one extra pump of syrup and whipped cream on top" (translation=lotsa sugar, flavoring and fats with a little coffee in) I get an ice water. Their 'cold drink' cups are excellent to have in the car when you have people with...regurgitation issues. (Me and Denise both. Dan's so lucky...he gets to hang out with TWO sickly women!)
In our neverending (and therefore repetitive) stoooooory of a chemist's addiction to tea we are at the "still too hot to drink" stage again.
Peach punch for frozen concentrate .
I'm going back to the concentrate stuff after the past few years of sodas and pricey fresh squeezed stuff .
I estimate it will save me over three hundred dollars a year :).
OK, now the tea has reached the edges of drinkability.
I have a nice cup of Lady Grey on my desk.
In the cup would have been better....
Raspberry iced tea for a change... ::)
Aren't we all a bit predictable now?
Completely unpredictable: nothing
Inycon Sicilian Chardonnay.
Fresh, but not ingratiating and with a hint of ripe pineapples.
I still have to decide:
Tea (too early for the afternoon tea and the morning tea is past about 3 hours)
Coke (all those calories)
Carbonated mineral water (the most healthy but also most boring choice)
Bitter lemon (do I need malaria prophylaxis yet?)
May take a while
I agree with you, Chatty. That triple filtering works wonders.
Quote from: Opsanus tau on March 04, 2009, 05:01:02 PM
Ah yes, black tea can keep you up, but in a more subtle way than coffee.
Having more Salada Green with Red. Weirdly, I don't ever rememeber the Play-Dough taste, but now that Scrib has mentioned it, I am tasting it.
I'm sorry, lol.
I continue my own predictable pattern of drinking coffee, though I've taken a page out of Pachy's book and am trying it with honey. Excellent page there, friend.
Ahm a drankin' a home made (by mah neighbor) rootbeer that's VERY tasty, and SOO sugar-loaded that I'll have a really high blood sugar for two days.
Worth it. It's phenomenal!
I will have drunk the tea once it will have reached the temperature range I consider to be within drinkability boundaries.
Coffee. With blossom honey.
Glad you like it, Scrib. 8)
;D
Cheery coke.
Time for tea
Pinot Noir
Vanilla Chai
The six o'clock tea (6 in the morning that is)
Beaujolais Villages (darn the bottle is empty, now what?)
Nothing in the last several hours
Cheap Bordeaux
:partyglass:
Tea still too hot and I read yesterday that drinking tea that is still to hot significantly increases the risk of throat and esophagus cancer.
Coffee, with a pinch of salt (it truly works well). There is not enough coffee in the world for this morning, however... 6:30am is a stupid time to get up, when you have nowhere to go and nothing planned.
English Breakfast Tea
Tea still not cooled down enough
Glenmorangie, floating on a sea of ice.
Going to need a coffee after this, though.
Generic diet orange soda, and it tastes just like baby aspirin. :P
Do you have to ask? It should be obvious.
ditto
Yogi Tea's Chai Redbush, a blend of Rooibos and Chai. Am liking!
I came home early, so I had no afternoon tea at the office
Watered gatorade
still nothing algoholic... been over a year
but i am wired on coffee
Smile, smile, smile at the chamomile
Ice cold cranberry and raspberry juice. MMmmm....
First office tea finished
Iced tea.
I wish it were Ouzo but alas, it's chai.
Half through the first mug O'tea
cold water
The first sip of tea
Cocoa. Might as well enjoy the flurries!
orange juice
A shake made with chocolate ice cream and whole cream.
Guess who lost 9 pounds in 6 days...and is on a forced high calorie diet. ::)
Next they'll have me eating a sack of sugar. (Washed down with 2 metformin.)
Oh, it's tea again...
Coffee and honey. I love coffee and honey, much as Swato loves tea.
Black tea, chamomile tea, carbonated mineral water
i refer you to the post two above this one. ;D
As most know I don't really drink but I just had a divine glass of Chablis*. !!!!!
*which is one of the rare wines that I can occasionally tolerate
Sipping just a sip of that old chamomile, doobeedoobeedoo...
Calamity! Catastrophe! Disaster! No honey. :o
Coffee with sugar, then.
Just this moment I am pulling the bags from the tea (black in the mug, chamomile in the thermos)
Joy! Rapture! Happiness!
(guess who remembered to buy more honey)
Normal service is resumed...
Pepsi, a significantly better sugar and caffeine mix than Coca-Cola, though possibly even more amoral and corrupt (they employed Richard Nixon, after all...)
Carbonated mineral water right after the afternoon chamomile tea
Water, tap variety.
The tap water in Stockholm is considered really good the water at my mothers place taste even better though.
There are really no need to buy bottled water anywhere in Sweden unless we talk about a very local contamination of some sort.
Twining Herbal Revive (http://www.buythecase.net/product/9006/twinings_herbal_revive_black_currants_ginseng_tea_bags/?engine=googlebase) with black currants and ginseng!
My second mug of chamomile tea
Pure white tea.
Iced Caribou coffee.
What do you expect at this time of day? Chamomile tea of course
Cranberry juice, chilled and over ice.
Valerian tea. mmmmm.... stanky!
Just poured the tea from the thermos into the mug. Still too hot.
The Coffee with The Honey
Waiting for the tea to cool
Lemsip
Have you caught a cold poor thing!
*tries really hard not to think of a elephant with sniffles* ;)
Staropramen
Constant comment tea, with milk, sugar, and ice.
Iced tea with some lemon juice and stevia as a sweetener.
I doubt that it will surprise anyone here that it is chamomile tea that I am drinking currently.
very cold lemonade, with 400% of the manufacturer's recommended water added.
Feeling not very well today, I should be cautious about what to drink. Despite me loving very cold lemonade, I better avoid that for the moment. I fear it will be carbonated mineral water at room temperature instead.
Italian pear soda.
Back to the roots (and chamomile tea)
Black coffee. (No honey, on a diet)
H2O
Carbonated mineral water
Ginger ale
Grape juice. No really. Some idiot must have forgotten to ferment it.
Earl Grey tea.
Somebody ask me in half an hour when this chamomile tea has reached drinkable temperature ranges.
The Black Coffee
(it's so strong, it deserves the capitals)
A last glass of carbonated mineral water before leaving for home
Ginger Ale here, too.
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Grape juice. No really. Some idiot must have forgotten to ferment it.
:ROFL:
Was it some extra light zinfandel, or some other sweet rose not even good for cooking?
;)
Just the old chamomile again
Ginger ale again
Iced Tea, but really it has no ice. It's just refrigerated.
Bitter Lemon
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Yum!
Seagram's Ginger Ale again. Ginless, alas, as the day is long....
Oh, that tea again...
Pear soda
Time to take the teabag out of the mug
A glass of water to which I added something called Lipton's Green Tea to Go. Unfortunately it tastes nothing like green tea, more like some unidentified sweet soda. Yeaughh.
But I'm too thrifty to toss it out and am drinking it anyway. :-[
Lemsip. Done got the Lurgi again... :'(
Cheap Bordeaux. ;D
It's that tea again
Rum. :yar:
Appelton Estate V/X Rum to be precise, it is absolutely gorgeous!
It was quite a time since you recommended it Aggi, but thank you! :) Better late than never ay? ;D
Time to get out of the seat, walk into the kitchen and pull that teabag out of the mug*.
*as a result of this teabagging pseudo movement in the US, now I think that sounds vaguely obscene.
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Bitter Lemon
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Wow...
Last time I had any of that, it was in a glass bottle, with the label saying "Stammbetrieb VII, VEB Getränkekombinat Berlin"
I had no idea that they had survived "die Wende", but apparently they did. One day, I must see if I can scrounge up a bottle of Rotkäppchen. ;)
Oh bouy , I'm on my seventh ounce of Wiser's and cola , all inibitions ( and correct spelling ) has faded .
Oh give me that old time chamomile ;)
Coffee. Black.
This stuff. A Berlin speciality
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A big glass of lemon ice tea and a small glass of rum. ;D
First mug of chamomile at the office, second in the day
Iced tea with lemon, just half liter in my mug.
carbonated mineral water
More disgusting black coffe. Barely even warm. Bleah.
The thermos of chamomile just empty. Need for a refill.
Cheap imitation Airborne (http://www.airbornehealth.com/about_index.php).
City water. Mispronounciation of the descriptor is appropriate.
Pepsi (evil stuff)
Just pulled the bag from the mug. Of what? You guess!
Cola with lots of ice.
Well I'm eating the ice :mrgreen: it numbs my sore throat.
Mine is sore too for the last few days and despite it being recommended, the chamomile seems not to help*. The fridge at the office does not go down far enough with the temperature to store ice.
*just downed a mug.
Hot sweet tea.
Just been clambering around a survey site with our intern, hunting the wily badger by application of Bronze Age skills. (See, the trails lead to the holes. No, that is a rabbit hole. You can tell by all the bunny footprints, copious piles of rabbit crap and the fact that the hole is small. The badger is somewhat stockier than the rabbit. Compare to this one you just walked past, with the sodding big pile of freshly excavated earth covered in badger prints just outside it....)
He is keen as mustard, I'll freely give him that.
:ROFL:
Are you sure you don't need a more shall we say stronger type of sugar in your tea with an intern like that? Like rum? ;)
Jeebus.
Me: water with ice.
Look at it from the intern's point of view. He probably intended to be fetching champagne for City bankers from Soho wine bars by now, but due to a cock-up on the collateralised debt front instead finds himself in the rain traipsing after Crocodile Dundee.
Still, worse thing happen to Asok in Dilbert.
And that despite Asok's superhuman powers. The force is strong in him but he is not allowed to use it. I think he envies Alice's Fist of Death.
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Chamomile tea. You could have guessed it, am I right?
In my colleague's calendar he met a nasty end piloting Dilbert's moon shuttle, only to cloned from previously stored DNA (and bits of chocolate the jar previously held).
Actually it hasn't happened yet;I've read several months ahead.
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Apple juice
Apparently fruit juice weakens tooth enamel by 80%, but my dentist hates me already.
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This stuff again
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Dilbert was also cloned by the hyperintelligent garbage man after he was shot dead by Mother Nature in an explicitly Gary Larson inspired strip.
Green tea.
(The intern has a Master's degree, and wants to be an ecological consultant. Gawd help us all. Still, have heard some top-class bullshit from people who are consultants. Personal favourite happened a few months ago. Consultant (not for us, I hasten to add) announced he'd found a badger sett a few metres up a river bank, with slides running from the hole to the water. Cue James and I looking at each other, and quietly telling the Uni student who was following him around for her placement that it was an otter holt...)
Carbonated mineral water after having finished 0.3 l of black and a further 0.3 l of chamomile tea.
Cold, cold beer. And it is goood...
jeebus. again... ::)
Nature must be something very exotic to most people in the UK even the nature that's just around the corner!
Pachy if you ever consider to start a blog or a thread there about your work I would be an avid reader.
I'm drinking water from our own well at the moment, much tastier than city water!
Iced tea with lemon
Waiting for the first office chamomile to cool down a bit
Coffee. Black, and slightly above room temperature. I wish I had some coffee beans to munch for a caffeine source instead of this crap.
Pachy, I'll trade you one of my consultants for your guy. I inspected a ... *ahem* ... "road" ... Tuesday. Background - oy, this may go on for a bit. I received an application for a subdivision permit about a year and a half ago. The application is an inch or so thick, about normal for a five-lot Level II subdivision. The first part of the application is supposed to show that the applicant has sufficient RTI - Right, Title or Interest - to undertake the development, i.e., that he legally owns a legally created piece of real estate. There are a bunch of rules about how you can legally create a new lot without permit review, and the consultant's interpretation was that this guy's lot was OK. FAIL #1. The information they provided showed four illegal land divisions, and minimal research on my part turned up a fifth. The intervening 18 months or so has been spent resolving these illegal divisions, to the pointr where last month we (my agency) decided that we were willing to consider the applicant's lot to be legally created and properly owned. So now it becomes appropriate for me to invest my time in reviewing the rest of the application package. I find the section about the proposed road, and the consultant has cited a section of Chapter 15 of our rules to show that the road is exempt from permit review. This is a residential subdivision. Chapter 15 is specifically and exclusively for land management roads - logging roads. Facepalm. I look at the plan, figuring that we might be able to consider it to be a residential driveway with potential to upgrade to a subdivision road. The plan clearly shows a 10% slope. Driveways are allowed without a permit up to 8% slope. Violation no matter how you slice it. I visit the site. It's more like 15%. It crosses a high energy stream, 6 feet wide and at least 1 foot deep. Culvert requirements would be XC area=min3X average XC area of the stream, or 18 sq. ft. They used a 12" culvert. The road ditches are a straight shot for 420 feet, right into the stream. The culvert is hanging by 4 feet on the downstream side, completely unprotected. The side slopes on the road are about 1:3, max allowable is 2:1. Travel surface is 12 to 14 feet, for a road with that much slope accessing 5 or more lots I would require at least 22 feet. The road itself is cut int the ground, interrupting the groundwater table for its whole length. We would probably have required them to build across the hillside rather than straight up it, and to build the road on top of the pre-existing ground surface rather than cutting it in. It's probably going to take another year to get the road fixed, and then I'll be ready to look at the next section of the application. This particular consultant has been around for decades. I have yet to see anything from them that has been corect the first time. Last year I had a different subdivision application from them. I had a meeting with the person from the consultant firm that was working on it, attempting to get the plan (never mind the rest of the package) up to snuff. It took me 45 minutes just to tell him what was wrong with it. We have on our website a document that very specifically describes what is required. I had sent it to him long before he sent me the plan. I brought it to the meeting. He had gotten about three out of twenty things done. Gawd, I hate it when imbeciles get paid for screwing up. :aargh:
Rant ends. Thanks for listening.
Gee! Are you sure this 'consultant' didn't have other intere$t$?
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a sip of water until lunch is ready.
Ah, Intern isn't too bad. Just a city boy. ::) And while there is nothing wrong with that, it amazes me that people have no interest in the world around them. Still, I have no doubt that the "Dear God, what is that? Is that nature? What does it do? Reproduces, you say? And how does that work?" crowd are equally confused about me.
Ginger beer, with alcohol.
Bitter Lemon for a change
i has sum soda ! ;D
wif sum ice burg bits innit ! :D
The wife and I just finished approximately 1.5 bottles of our most recent wine, a very nice chianti. Running about 17% or 18% alcohol. Ya gotta love the homemade wines.
In the eternal return of the same it is chamomile tea again
Tea
That'll be my next choice also
Cranberry juice, chilled, over ice. 8)
Carbonated mineral water (not enough time for another tea before going home
powerade-- lemon lime. we have the plague here at work and I am attempting to stave it off as I begin my new job next week and can not call in the first day- will not call in the first day- will take an ambulance if I must- naturally they would turn me back at the door and I wouldn't be allowed to infect anyone but they would know that I was sick and not malingering.
Peach pear soda (I love the stuff).
Waiting for the chamomile tea to cool down sufficiently to drink
Lemsip. I has the Lurgi. Blegh.
In a totally predictable move: chamomile tea
Cold tea.
Drank mine before it got cold.
Now, I have to switch to carbonated mineral water because I have consumed my daily dose of tea.
Water. Lovely soft Scottish water.
Delicious Regional Office well water. Yum.
Saliva at thee moment .
Getting a thirst for something else though .
Oh that teas is still too hot
To drink it yet I'm able not
The Coffee.
Maybe I should down some water (carbonated mineral) before lunch.
Tulsi (holy basil) tea.
coke (but neither Coca Cola nor Pepsi, I prefer the brand from the ALDI discounter)
Iced tea with lemon
Milk.
In an attempt to sober up a bit.
chamomile tea
Water
Bacardi Silver Raz.
Quote from: Swatopluk on September 13, 2009, 08:00:32 AM
chamomile tea
again. But my stomach is nonethteless upset
Lemsip.
:puke:
Out of tera error
Iced tea with lemon juice and stevia in drops as sweetener.
I belatedly finished my morning chamomile tea
Homemade smoothie trying to emulate the ones from jamba juice, quite successfully I must say. I can give the recipe (ingredients, really) somewhere if you like.
Ok, do I have to even spell it? ;)
^ Is it camel mile tea?
(http://www.orensdailyroast.com/images/products/large/Camel%20Tea%20Pot.jpg)
Yes, but unfortunately just from a simple (insulated) steel mug.
I am drinking very boring ice water with unsweetened cranberry juice.
I think after my run I might go hardcore and have some green tea.
Speaking of iced tea with lemon...
White tea, here.
Actually, I quite like the idea of a Green Tea.
So that's what I'll have. Ah, the freedom..
I'm getting funky now. Having Oolong.
Whoa now gurl- don't be going all Oolong on us!
Twining's Fujiian White tea, again. I love that camel teapot. He would toadily Oolong my day.
I had Oolong this morning... this might be my seasonal tea this year. It's yummy!
Red Wine
Raza, a Malbec Shiraz.
That sounds good. Argentinian? You know there is a Wine thread, do you? ;) :clink:
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Cold water.
Yes, it is Argentinian!
It's not spectacular but not bad either.
A decent dinner wine and Ecological to boot which is worth some points too.
chamomile tea without (purposely added) chlorine.
That was a bit of a problem in Seville. They put more chlorine in the water than I remember from public swimming pools in the olden days (before it was partially substituted with ozone).
Water with cranberry. Hoping to stave off the cold that everyone else seems to have.
Italian pear soda
Carbonated mineral water
Green tea. :mrgreen:
The first sip from my second mug of chamomile tea
Cheap bordeaux
:partyglass:
Water.
Last night I had decent Irish whiskey, though. :)
Chocolate milk.
A coke while waiting for the chamomile tea to cool down
Watered down peach iced tea.
Red wine again, I blame it on the autumn. ;)
This stuff for a change
(http://imagesb.ciao.com/ide/images/products/normal/263/product-2026263.jpg)
http://imagesb.ciao.com/ide/images/products/normal/263/product-2026263.jpg
Coffee. Lots and lots of lovely strong coffee. With honey in it.
Peppermint tea - got up at 4:30 AM to make a cup because my sinuses are feeling nasty & are full of yellow gunk. Need to get back home and eat some garlic and spicy food - I've been seriously deficient in the past week due to being on the road and having limited dining options (and ring of fire while working outdoors isn't a good thing).
Down to carbonated mineral water. No opportunity to make tea here.
Sparkling mineral water, with blackcurrant cordial
Tea's getting cold
Sparkling mineral water, with orange cordial
Strawberry-kiwi snapple watered down.
As it's ten past two in the morning, and I'm still in the office,
Coffee. Lots and lots of lovely strong coffee. With honey in it.
Rather too late for coffee, isn't it? Usually when I'm in the office past 2 AM, I stick to ginseng and green tea to keep the buzz functional.
OTOH, the last time I was in the field past 2 AM, I do recall keeping up on the caffeine to make it back to the hotel after my partner pulled the old "too sleepy - you drive home" excuse. But I'm not green enough to pull those kind of field shifts anymore.
Maybe I'll brew a pot of tulsi tea, my current favorite beverage:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulsi
Vodka Cranberry
It's quite cold. Good to have some hot (chamomile) tea to keep one warm.
My second cup of Yorkshire tea (aka the morning fix.) ;)
Quote from: Swatopluk on October 14, 2009, 08:26:08 AM
It's quite cold. Good to have some hot (chamomile) tea to keep one warm.
You having snow and sub-zero temps too? Ah, the beauty of mid-autumn. ;)
Gotta get the snow tires back on - they stayed off for a whole three months this year. :P
Drinking the morning glass of water to flush the system.
No snow but rain and wind and temperatures close to zero (which I find usually worse than far below or far above zero).
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Carbonated mineral water (at room temperature*)
*no idea how much that is at the moment since I have no thermometer at hand.
Watered down ice tea.
Quote from: Swatopluk on October 14, 2009, 02:34:39 PM
No snow but rain and wind and temperatures close to zero (which I find usually worse than far below or far above zero).
I tend to agree - precipitation near freezing is worse than very cold snow.
Plain old tap water.
tea to go
Pomegranate juice and more holy basil tea.
The tea I made 123 km from here and brought with me to work :mrgreen:
Good old Rooibos tea, again!
Green Earl Grey tea and some shoddy coffee.
Watered down raspberry tea
C'mon people... we're monks! Doesn't anyone have some Chimay?
belated first offcie tea.
Quote from: Opsanus tau on October 20, 2009, 10:24:46 PM
C'mon people... we're monks! Doesn't anyone have some Chimay?
The proper monastery drink is of course this
(http://www.erdgastrasse-ev.de/gesch/trink2.jpg)
http://www.erdgastrasse-ev.de/gesch/trink2.jpg
(formerly known as Klostergezwitscher = Monastery Tweet)
I am not drinking anything yet, but I should be drinking tea.
I'm sick again/still, with some weird virus that gives me the opposite of a fever and makes me sweat horribly, at the same time. I also have a blocked tear duct, which is not making me feel pretty.
Drag, girlfriend! I hope you get better soon.
Speaking of what we're drinking, I had some cheap dollar-store Airborne with lunch, as my husband called up and announced that someone at work had called in with the Swine Flu.
Ooops!
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I'm in sin drinking Pepsi (otherwise some watered down snapple).
Quote from: Jayna on October 22, 2009, 05:08:24 PMI'm sick again/still, with some weird virus that gives me the opposite of a fever and makes me sweat horribly, at the same time. I also have a blocked tear duct, which is not making me feel pretty.
Is it that weird one that feels like the flu (aches, fatigue, chills, sweats, perhaps nausea or relatively minor vomiting), but doesn't have the major respiratory or erm, eliminatory symptoms? That one seems to be popping up all over the place - it may be spreading through the Monastery because it somehow got from Alberta to Florida in rather short order. :P
I think I'm finally getting over the respiratory infection that's dragged itself out over the last couple of weeks - I thought that one might have been H1N1 on the way in because it hit hard and phlegmy and crawled down to my lungs for a long time, but no flu symptoms. Maybe I got the H1 first and the N1 a month later? ;)
Drinking bottled water - not something I make a habit of at home, but I don't generally trust / like the taste of the water in random Prairie towns. Easier to throw a flat of water in the truck than pack 2 or 3 refillable bottles per day, and without the risk of cross-contaminating a reusable container.
I just got diarrhea. I hope it's a one-day affair.
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Chamomile tea (first mug in the office)
Hope you feel better, Perfessor!
Rooibos tea.
(Gonna go start an H1N1 topic, if it's not yet been done.)
Quote from: Swatopluk on October 23, 2009, 09:24:01 AM
I just got diarrhea. I hope it's a one-day affair.
You'll be lucky for an affair to last a day if you've got a bad case of the trots during... !
:ROFL:
Reminds me of a bawdy Aussie song (Kevin Bloody Wilson if you know of him):
I called Mum back home, she said mix up a cup
of corn flour and Gravox to thicken it up
They she pissed herself laughing and hung up the phone
I'll never sh*t solid again.....Still water, although I overdid the caffeinated bevvies today (14 hour days will do that).
Saturday
Morning tea
O yeah, o yeah!
Green tea.
Peppermint tea. The digestive functions need some encouragement - gas is welcome to go up or down, but it HURTS when it gets stuck in the middle bits. :P
Waiting for the tea to cool down below tongue-hurting temperatures
Green tea with a hint of lemon. Rather nice.
Watered down raspberry tea
Tea. Earl Grey. Hot.
:cup:
Just poured the tea
more raspberry tea
Just emptied the last mug of tea
Just finished Rooibos tea, and want more!
:cup:
Mandarin flavored Jarritos (a Mexican soda).
I've had the Tamarind version of that.
'Russian Caravan' tea.
:cup:
Mill St. Tankhouse Ale (Mill St. does these wonderful little 6-packs with 6 different beers, this is the last one).
First sip from the first mug o'tea in the office today
Haven't got around to that yet.... but you must be really late at it.
Black tea finished, chamomile to go
Previously red wine, now green tea.
sumfink call't thé noir chai épicé
Last gulp from the mug
Pepsi again
the 7 up
Okanagan Springs Black Lager - you can't get it, but if you ever find it, it's awesome. Best new beer out in years from my hometown brewhouse.
hot chocolate :cup:
halfway through the mug o'tea
The last cup of mandarin jarritos
I am between the black and the chamomile tea (the former already drunk despite a no-alcohol policy)
I haz some of this:
(http://www.deadbeatguitarist.com/blosxom/OKSpringBlackLager.jpg)
and some of this:
(http://beeradvocate.com/im/beers/38904.jpg)
so I'm gonna be drinking Black & Pumpkins for Halloween~!
:toast:
Lady Grey tea.
When I sit at the PC, almost always there is tea
F and M Ceylon green tea.
(Don't think anyone has broken the name change to them yet).
Just poured the tea into the mug.
Will take awhile before it is down to drinking temperature.
Green tea
Risking the first sip of the first mug of tea in office
More effervescent immunity-boosting stuff.
Garlic beer? ;D
Earl Grey tea with hot tamales (http://candyaddict.com/blog/candy_images/hot_tamales.jpg) added.
~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~
No, there really is no excuse for attempting this.
Chamomile, give me a smile!
Red orange soda
Cranberry juice., Lots and lots of cranberry juice.
Quote from: Pachyderm on November 05, 2009, 02:24:40 PM
Cranberry juice., Lots and lots of cranberry juice.
:pat:
Tea. Earl Grey. Hot.
Exclusive of Ornamentation.
The first drop of office tea has still to touch my sore tongue
What did you do to your tongue? Actually, I may not want the answer to that....
Coffee.
Quote from: Pachyderm on November 06, 2009, 12:13:46 PM
What did you do to your tongue? Actually, I may not want the answer to that....
Don't know either. It feels sore but it looks totally normal
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Just emptied the third office tea mug (i.e. the fourth (and likely last) today)
About to start on 3rd litre of cranberry juice. I am detecting a red tinge...
Bitter Lemon (right from the bottle :o)
You reckless Continental, you. ;D
Orange juice
chamomile tea
Lady Grey tea
just finished tea. Should I pour a coke before lunch or should I wait till after?
I can't have a say as the Pepsi sinner I'm right now.
Do you think I touch either the original or Pepsi? :o
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One hour late with my tea
But sugar (well high fructose corn syrup isn't really that great) is better than aspartame provided that you don't use it as much.
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Nothing to drink yet, perhaps I'll grab an iced tea at the airport.
Chamomile tea.
Now I'm drinking pepsi (and I shouldn't...).
Still the same mug
Same here :P
In another totally predictable move: chamomile tea
Coffee, grown in Guatemalan Cloud Forests, with honey.
I tells ya, if we ever does meet, it should start wif a tea party. (The rum comes later.)
Twining's White Tea.
Spiced coffee, something I'm playing with. Basically black coffee jazzed up with a spice blend; this one's my Dark n' Dirty blend of cinnamon, nutmeg, green cardamom, black cardamom, cloves, star anise and charcoal with a bit of maple sugar as a carrier and to sweeten slightly (might be some allspice in there, can't recall).
Next time I think I'll leave the charcoal out of the blend and boil the spices in syrup (i.e. sugar solution, not maple as it's too expensive for bulk batches; might try using jaggery or palm sugar, though), then evaporate to get the mix. Some of the spices are a bit chunky for some tastes (I don't mind it) and charcoal is better added to coffee as a red-hot lump, IMHO.
*rumble* on the tea party, I'll bring tulsi.
YUM! I love anything spicy. Tea, cider, rum... I'm so happy gingerbread season is coming in!
Think I'll go make some Chai.
I drink the cheapest tea in town (or at least bagged tea, loose tea may be cheaper in some places).
I find it to be superior (to my taste) than 'special' (and expensive) sorts.
The black tea is also so mild that it can brew for more than a quarter of an hour and still be drinkable while other sorts become undrinkable after as just 3 minutes.
The university canteen had a very good green tea but I have been unable to obtain it elsewhere (even where they claim they got it from).
Coffee.
Red wine
Ibidem, cheap Bordeaux.
T
Sideritis syriaca (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sideritis) tea.
Quote from: Agujjim on November 17, 2009, 05:52:57 AM
Sideritis syriaca (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sideritis) tea.
Sounds like an iron metabolism related disease ;)
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tea still too hot
Another tea here, specifically PG tips in a pyramidal bag.
Time to pull the bags from the mugs (1 chamomile, 1 black)
Watered down iced tead with lemon
A bit of carbonated mineral water I used to 'rinse' the coke glass with.
Mecca-Cola (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mecca-Cola) - "The Taste of Freedom!" :mrgreen:
(http://www.binaziz.com/products/meccacola.jpg)
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EDIT: And now some hot fermented purple carrot juice:
(http://farm1.static.flickr.com/53/190931111_92ffae7679.jpg)
This stuff would make wicked cesars (replacing some of the Clamato) and would probably taste good in beer (instead of Clamato).
How does that taste?
I don't know if I could drink it though, what if they find me drinking that and listening raï (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ra%C3%AF)* (as I occasionally do)? Who knows where could I be 'exported (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extraordinary_rendition_by_the_United_States)'... :P
*you know, Khaled, Mami, Orquestre National de Barbès...
Ach, lost my post. ::)
Recap:
Mecca-Cola is quite good, uses real sugar instead of HFCS, more vanilla than regular Coca-cola, which I like.
Hot fermented purple carrot juice reminds me of pickled beans - vinegary, salty and spicy. Probably very refreshing on a hot day.
HFCS seems to be specific to US. Over here it's normal sugar too.
A Turkish shop nearby has Turkish Cola (have to check the name) in (for Germany) oversized bottles.
But since I prefer the cheapest discounter brand available (29c for 1.5l), I have not and likely will not make the test.
Btw, if you think standard coke is oversweet: try the stuff they drink in Denmark. I guess they have found a way to significantly increase the solubility of sugar in water for it. The late GDR had two sorts of coke, one clearly a copy of the Danish stuff, the other tasted like gall (or some other unappetizingly bitter).
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Time to pull the bag from the mug
Canada gets it too, but calls it glucose-fructose (which I consider sneakier, as it suggest sucrose to the casually educated).
29c / 1.5L is ridiculously cheap, by the bottle, although I've discovered my price-threshold for consuming unhealthy foods is set very low - if I have to pay anything for it I won't consume it, if it's free I can't resist.
:EasterBunnyEat:
Drinking Mountain Tea again, this time with the proper preparation method.
:cup:
Ribena
Mr. Ops and I located a whiskey distillery (http://www.virginiamoonshine.com/) about an hour from here. They cheerfully make whiskey and moonshine there. We purchased a bottle of each. I am not currently drinking any though, as if I did, I may not be able to locate my keypad.
As long is reputable enough not to use methanol...
Ach, laddie, 'tis the methanol gives it the peaty flavour!
and the blind eyes!
Scary stuff.
For a change: black tea instead of chamomile. Normally I drink that after lunch, not in the morning
Tonic water
Chicken broth
A dainty snort of cone-yak.
waiting for the tea to cool
Hot apple cider!
Could use a drop of ginger brandy, but alas, it be Monday morning.
Peppermint tea
An array of teas selected to convince myself to *not* develop a cold...
Just brought the tea mug from the kitchen to the computer
Mandarin Jarritos.
Quote from: pieces o nine on December 01, 2009, 06:03:03 AM
An array of teas selected to convince myself to *not* develop a cold...
Garlic and capsicum? ;D
Peppermint here (also good, but moreso for symptoms).
Nothing at the moment. Still deliberating about choice
Choice was easy for me today - this is the third day of zero-caffeination following nearly a week of green tea only (due to expire tonight, most likely, as I'm back on the road again ::)).
All I have at the office is peppermint tea or water, by default.
Since I will be away the next two days, I don't want to open a bottle of carbonated stuff that i could not finish today.
Good ol' Rooibos!
(That's what I say now, ever since Blue wrote it in this thread.)
Finished the morning tea some time ago
Joining the Rooibos Brigade
Good man! Think I'll have some, too.
Beaujolais Villages (this bottle ended up a bit stronger than usual but still OK)
I just remember that I should take the bag from the mug. Fortunately it is chamomile
Tea. Earl Grey. Hot.
Tea. Westminster*. Lukewarm.
*very mild
Watered down gatorade
Chamomile tea again
Lemon Fanta
Finished the afternoon tea some time ago
Whip cream congealing at the bottom of my otherwise empty cup of hot chocolate. I have mixed feelings.
Tea. Darjeeling. Lukewarmish.
Just got the mug from the kitchen but the tea is still too hot for me.
Coffee
The tea is drunk but I am not
Iced tea
Tea. English Breakfast. With honey. :cup:
The chamomile tea is nearly at the stage where I can drink it without it damaging my tongue through heat emission
water
Pepsi
mug is next to the mouse but currently still in use as a hand warmer, too hot for the tongue
In a shocking change, coffee.
Fresh squeezed tangerine juice.
tea still brewing
cough supressant
tea in front of me* still steaming hot
*to be extremly nitpicking: slightly to the right in order not to block the view on the monitor
First steaming cafetiere of Sumatran Stay-Awake Juice is sitting on my desk...
Tea's finished
Rioja, reserva 2004 (Faustino V). Excellent.
What else but tea at this time of the day?
Tea, iced, with Real LemonTM*
*as in I took a lemon and squeezed it over the tea
Peppermint tea.
Lousy guts are acting up again - was sick as a dog Wed-Fri (worked 19 hours Wed), and it's coming back to bite me in the @$$.
orange juice
some black tea some time ago
Ginger ale
Iced tea with lemon
Time to get the tea from the kitchen
Green tea.
Jasmine green tea
Lemonade
Tea is still brewing
Sailor Jerry's rum on the rocks (very nice) in one hand, and a Rusty Nail in the other... 'tis Christmas and Dad's plying me with drinks.
I need it to cope with the annual "the computer's bloody slow, can you fix it?" session. ;)
While sitting here I finished my tea
Theakston's Old Peculier.
Sarky comments are not required.
A reduced version of Opas coquito boricua (I had no pistachos to make it).
The tea is still in the kitchen
Tea here too.
Tea drunk (without rum)
Looking intently on the left-over champagne from yesterday's celebrations...
The tea before it's getting cold
A splash of Noilly Prat vermouth.
Mmm, tjernobyl... ;)
Thinking about another mug of tea
Acting on another mug of tea!
:Tcup:
a smallish splash of Kahlua Vanilla
Just took the first sip of the morning tea
Hot chocolate
That would be tea
Excess broth from th'Opsalette's ramen.
Finished the tea some time ago
Salada Green Spiced Chai
Just testing whether first office tea is already drinkable
Hallelujah! I has the Coffee.
Post lunch tea has been prepared
Was going to resist The Coffee, but I brought in some fresh-ground and brewed a half-pot of good stuff in the afternoon, so had a cup (have a surfeit of beans at home, and don't drink more than 1 or 2 cups on the weekend). May try to resist again tomorrow, I'm starting to dislike regular caffeine use. Should pick up some decaf beans and go 50:50.
Regular iced tea, in fact I have to make more.
This moment taking the first sip of the first offcie tea of today (chamomile)
Not even attempting to dodge The Coffee. ;D
carbonated mineral water
Actually, this pot is so good, it is now christened THE Coffee.
Lemongrass infusion.
Quote from: Swatopluk on January 27, 2010, 08:42:44 AM
This moment taking the first sip of the first offcie tea of today (chamomile)
same as yesterday
ginger beer
Ready to bring the tea from the kitchen over here
Hot, sweet tea.
Time for some coffeinated sugar solution
I'm trying out a new tea today, Tulsi Lemon Ginger tea. It's kind of like drinking hot cough drops, and I like it!
:Tcup:
Ooooh, tulsi (holy basil).... my favorite! Try it straight-up some time.
Just some kopi, with a log of cinnamon floating in it.
Carbonated mineral water (the only stuff at hand)
Lovely stuff, that. I am generally too cheap for the real thing and have a bit of a thing for club soda (potassium variants - klub kali?).
It's exactly like mass-market American beer, only with slightly more flavour.
joking, but a can of soda water does work for me as a beer substitute when I want something bubbly. I don't particularly like sweetened sodas - too sweet!
Gonna drink some jasmine green tea - have been on peppermint tea or coffee today.
Chamomile tea
Tulsi tea (inspired!)
Make a guess! :mrgreen:
Similar but hot as opposed to what I'm drinking?
Currently nothing. I should change that.
Tulsi and turmeric tea.
First tea in the office. The one I brought from home.
Jasmine green tea.
Hmmm..... gotta remember to bring the Earl Grey green tea in for some variety.
The traditional second post-lunch mug (chamomile, the first is black).
Some God-awful Red Bull copy. Kx Stimulation Drink. RB £1.14 a can, this crap, 35 pence.
SUGAR RUSH!!!!
TAURINE RUSH!!!!
CAFFEINE RUSH!!!
WOO-HOO!
in about half an hour, I will be crashing down....
I'm particularly partial to the Canadian energy drink "Beaver Buzz" (srsly, made by the DD Beverage Co. no less), although it's comparable in price to Red Bull:
(http://cg8wood.com/personal/images/beaver_buzz.jpg)
You know it's Canadian when it comes in flavours like 'Saskatoon Berry'. :mrgreen:
Drinking the morning water now.
Carbonated mineral water 19 €cent per 1.5 litre
Cheaper than my klub kali, that.
Lemon green tea.
Soft Oirish watter. Free. Free Oi tells ya! Ya turns the doobiefirkin whut hangs over the sink, an' it comes out! There's two flavours an' all.....
I'm doin' the Chai-chai-chai!
(Gotta try the Tulsi holy basil... I grew some holy basil, once. Nice plant!)
Hmm, does it like to live indoors? My regular and Thai basils usually get a bad case of bugs (whiteflies) whenever I root and plant leftovers.
Taking another ride on the same tea bag, with a little ginseng extract to bolster it.
Quote from: Opsanus tau on February 09, 2010, 05:08:47 PM
I'm doin' the Chai-chai-chai!
(Gotta try the Tulsi holy basil... I grew some holy basil, once. Nice plant!)
Quote from: Agujjim on February 09, 2010, 05:19:57 PM
Taking another ride on the same tea bag, with a little ginseng extract to bolster it.
Decadents all! :mrgreen:
Simple chamomile tea
A mug of Gunfire.
(Tea, made African style, boiled in the milk, lots of sugar, with ginger in it. It's fabulous)
Black tea
Quote from: Swatopluk on February 10, 2010, 08:17:02 AM
Quote from: Agujjim on February 09, 2010, 05:19:57 PM
Taking another ride on the same tea bag, with a little ginseng extract to bolster it.
Decadents all! :mrgreen:
Ayuh, you don't want to know what a jar of this stuff is worth. It's weight in silver, I think - more if bought here in small quantities, although I the batch I'm on was a heck of a deal in Korea. That's why I have to use the reuse the same tea bag. ;)
Water, to wash down some vitalamines. Eyeing up the little container of fresh-ground spiced coffee for later (black & green cardamom, cinnamon, star anise, d'oh! forgot the cloves).
Carbonated mineral water
Lovely strong Columbian coffee, with lovely Turkish honey in it. As you may guess, I think it's lovely...
coke
I thought that was snort... Oh! That coke. You just can't mention coke right after Colombians. :P
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Iced tea as usual.
Well, there is coke tea. But it's illegal around here because, if you'd buy about all the teabags of that sort in the whole country, you could produce enough cocaine for a high at about several orders of magnitude the price of a line on the black market.
Back to carbonated mineral water
Ha! That's the stuff I drink back home to avoid height sickness (I got used to the O2 concentration at 0 mts). I frankly don't know if it's illegal here, something to keep in mind if I go hiking above 2000 mts...
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still iced tea
Just finished the tea. From a plastic beaker. I prefer my steel mug.
Coke. ;D
About to apply self to making the best coffee I can. Bulletins as events warrant.
Opening the bottle of carbonated mineral water right now
Tea, black and strong enough to trot a mouse on.
The usual chamomile tea
I am dryinking ye ALE, whych I fynde not Strong, but it doth not inclyne ye Bowells to such TURMOYL, as it did in my Tyme.
And I would proffer here but a small Worde, of Councill. Buy never Ale nor Wine from that fowl Blackguard Elias Scrote, in Hereford, for I drank but a Gallonn (or mayhap a little more) of ye cheape SACK, whych hee sente mee, and I Slepte, nigh on CCCC yeeres.
I remayne,
Yr True Frende, Humphrey Gryblynge.
Very truely, ich haue not thee konnyng to devyse what "Sack'd Out" meant until yower moste timely poste. Thank ye.
Also, hotte chocklitte. :cup:
Tea still a bit hot
Coffee. As per usual...
Orangina
second mug of afternoon tea
Watered down raspberry tea snapple.
I totally forgot my tea
I totally didn't forget my Coffee.... ;D
Just pouring the second afternoon tea
Peach pear italian soda :mrgreen:
coke
cheap Bordeaux
Quote from: Sibling Zonocheap Bordeaux
Have a care, Brother!
Yr True Frende, Humphrey Gryblynge.
Care not to sip the whole bottle in one go?
:partyglass:
Just finished the first mug of chamomile tea in the office
Tulsi Lemon Ginger Tea again!
Had some good Beaujolais-Villages last night, though...
Tulsi & damiana tea for me this morning (bulk herbs), then a glass of water before the sauna.
Fanta
Waiting for the tea to cool
Last night Mrs H and I polished off 2 litres of real Herefordshire farm perry (= cider made from pears). Looks like brass polish, tastes like ... errm ... well, perry, I spose. Hits you over the head like a baseball bat. ;D ;D
Als würde einem mit einem riesigen Goldbarren, der in Zitronenscheiben gehüllt ist, das Gehirn aus dem Schädel gedroschen?
Pretty much, but with horse-chestnut shells instead of the lemon slices.
As they say up north, 'Ohe oha!'
:explode:
Iced tea. This time for acid content I added an energy drink (about 400ml for a gallon of tea), giving it a hint of guaraná to the mix.
Tea in a few minutes
So far, beer, cider, Tia Maria, Baileys and copious amounts of rum.
The dregs of 'Pama' pomegranate liquor, a bit off at this point, but somewhat salvaged with a heavy lacing of high-quality chocolate.
The mug stands empty
All the tea has been drunk now
But the thirst remains
Beer (divers brands), then rum. Now water.
Rooibos Chai
just downed the tea
More iced tea with squeezed lemon juice.
White wine. :)
Not to be outdone: Spanish Garnacha.
:clink:
About to open 2 litres of Newton Farm dry cider. 'Tis a far, better thing I do ...
Tea is still too hot | time not yet right
Tongue burns I better avoid | brew must cool down
blood orange italian soda
T
HOMEOPATHIC COCOA
(running low on cocoa mix; attempted to stretch by adding disproportionate amounts of water and violently shaking travel mug) :P
(am in need of a volunteer peer review for my paper) ;)
And again it's tea time
Ribena.
And Pieces, I will happily review your paper. No claims about peerage, though...
Both mugs of tea finished and still 3.5 hours to go
Las Rocas 2007 Garnacha (about half a bottle now) to go with my cheese.
:winebottle: :partyglass:
Chamomile tea.
I hope this will do something for my sore throat until I can replenish my stock of sage pastills
Hot peppermint tea. I have a sore throat, too. Musta got it from you! ;D
Sage pastils sound good. I like Ginger Chews (http://www.gingerpeople.com/).
Still could not spare the time to obtain the sage.
Emptied two further mugs of tea instead.
Coffee. The last of my Hawiian-blend... *alas*
To celebrate I added a dash of real vanilla extract and some coco. Mmmmmm....
There were also a glass of coke, orange juice and mineral water each.
Coffee with cocoa (but no vanilla extract).
Coke to go
And a bit of mineral water to rinse the glass with
Lemsip
Time to brew the afternoon tea
Having forsworn my ill-fated "Homeopathic Cocoa" attempt, I am enjoying real, actual hot chocolate.
:cup:
What's homeopathic cocoa? Water that remembers being chocolate? ;)
Oh, it's tea again
We're getting a few gallons of cider in before the price goes up. So it'll be cider for us for quite a while.
Dry or sweet cider?
Carbonated mineral water with a hint of the orange juice that was in the glass before
Quote from: Aggie on March 26, 2010, 03:03:14 AM
What's homeopathic cocoa? Water that remembers being chocolate? ;)
Axe an ye shal reseeve! ;)
Quote from: pieces o nine
HOMEOPATHIC COCOA
(running low on cocoa mix; attempted to stretch by adding disproportionate amounts of water and violently shaking travel mug) :P
(am in need of a volunteer peer review for my paper) ;)
Iced Tea
Stella Artois
Tea currently brewing
Yesterday, we tried a bottle of Inca-Kola from Peru, bought in a local Latin American grocery store.
The colour was an interesting day-glo yellow, sort of what you might imagine a urine sample from a Chernobyl mutant would look like.
The nose of the beverage was powerful, almost overwhelming, with a fragrance of bubble gum, and a vague citrus aroma reminiscent of a citric acid-based detergent that i use to clear of algae and mold from the hull of our boat.
Taste-wise, the drink was very sweet, leaving a slightly sticky residue in your mouth. The taste was similar to the nose, with a clear and strong citrus and bubble gum prescense. The taste was very powerful, but also very short, with little or no aftertaste whatsoever, apart from the lingering sweetness. This also made the drink taste strangely watered-down, despite the very strong initial impact. In a way; i suppose one could liken it to an overy sweetened and watered-down Irn Bru.
Suggested pairings: Perhaps a bag of crisps with a really weird flavour? I don't think it will work well with oysters or shellfish, and winegums might lead to synthetic sugar overdosing.
Sounds like one of those "100% chemistry" drinks that were so in fashion in my youth ;)
Amazingly enough I've had access to Inca Cola for a good while but I've never tried it. Outside of Colombian sodas, I've tried Mexican (Jarritos (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jarritos) is a favorite) and Cuban ones, Materva (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Materva) might appeal to tea drinkers, and for fruit flavors Jupiña (http://www.cawy.net/jupina.htm) may be enjoyable for pineapple fans. Also you can find Peruvian or Brazilian guaraná drinks that taste a bit less synthetic than the average hypercaffeinated power drink.
Or perhaps you wanna try Colombiana (http://www.sodapopstop.com/products/detail.cfm?link=332) "champagne" soda (supposedly simmilar to Irn Bru)?
The usual boring tea :mrgreen:
Newton Farm medium cider. When this lot is gone, the new anti-Conservative penal prices will apply.
Quote from: Lindorm on March 27, 2010, 11:15:16 AM
Suggested pairings: Perhaps a bag of crisps with a really weird flavour? I don't think it will work well with oysters or shellfish, and winegums might lead to synthetic sugar overdosing.
Possibly it improves with altitude? Otherwise it might be an interesting substitute for the Blue Nun in our 70s set menu we devised earlier. Or an emergency emetic, for use after said menu.
The usual chamomile tea plus (being thirsty) the last coke from the last bottle at hand.
Quote from: DavidH on March 28, 2010, 05:49:57 PM
Newton Farm medium cider. When this lot is gone, the new anti-Conservative penal prices will apply.
Can't you make your own?
http://www.motherearthnews.com/Real-Food/2007-10-01/How-to-Make-Hard-Cider.aspx
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Beaujolais Villages a while ago, now iced tea.
I owe the IRS how much? :mrgreen: I would be drinking a bottle of scotch right now if I could afford it and/or hadn't stopped drinking! I need a straight jacket and a rubber room! :mrgreen: Ahhhh!!!! :mrgreen:
Quote from: Sibling Zono (anon1mat0)
Can't you make your own?
I'm sure we could. There's thousands of acres of cider apples round here and we could easily scrump a few pounds come October. Whether it would be drinkable is another question! :mrgreen:
For now, however, it's even more coffee.
What else but tea despite an hour late
Unsweetened cocoa (cocoa powder in hot water - the theobroma equivalent of black coffee).
Old Jamaica Ginger Beer
Coffee. Can you tell! :mrgreen:
Quote from: MentalBlock996 on April 08, 2010, 04:44:57 PM
Coffee. Can you tell! :mrgreen:
Working on cthulhufied coffee (the cantata by Bach about a highly addicted young woman :mrgreen:)
Just finished the first tea in office
cthulhufied coffee? The best I can offer is a close Klatchian coffee analogue.
Going to have a cocoa instead.
Co-Coa could be at leats part of a Mythos being's name :mrgreen:
Carbonated mineral water
Why not use a bar of 90% dark chocolate for the cocoa? Who needs caffeine when you can have theobromine? :mrgreen:
Chamomile tea
You remember that Inca-Cola I wrote about a while ago?
Flat, it tastes even worse. The bubbles actually did not diminish that much, but lots fo the taste disappeared, so all that was left was this day.glo yellow, plastic smelling, overly sweet liquid that tasted mostly of citric acid. It was so vile it has to be healthy! :wine:
(http://picnica.ciao.com/de/8343796.jpg)
http://picnica.ciao.com/de/8343796.jpg
Diet Coke wif ice from the freezer.
Nasty green tea...
Home made berry smoothie
Being addicted to routine (for my stomach's sake) and it being between 9 and 10 am: Chamomile tea
Quote from: Sibling Zono (anon1mat0) on April 09, 2010, 04:40:16 PM
Why not use a bar of 90% dark chocolate for the cocoa? Who needs caffeine when you can have theobromine? :mrgreen:
Too much fat, then it'd be hot chocolate. This is 100% dark chocolate. ;) Just had one, and will use a little coffee to clean the remaining sludge.
Quote from: Lindorm on April 10, 2010, 10:49:08 AM
You remember that Inca-Cola I wrote about a while ago?
Flat, it tastes even worse. The bubbles actually did not diminish that much, but lots fo the taste disappeared, so all that was left was this day.glo yellow, plastic smelling, overly sweet liquid that tasted mostly of citric acid. It was so vile it has to be healthy! :wine:
I'll stick to Mecca-Cola, thanks. ;)
coke and tea (in separate mugs)
I just had a flashback to my school years when we mixed cocacola with black coffee to remain awake while making calculus problems for the next morning. Needless to say it's a disgusting concoction and after one or two tries I drank them alternated.
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Iced tea
carbonated mineral water in order to clean the glas of sticky coke remains
Ginger Ale
Liquid Nitrogen! Ahhh! Now that's refreshing!
Cranberry juice
Pure grain alcohol and rainwater.
Vodka, gyn, everclear?
:scared:
Ah, Everclear - reminds me of final exams. During. :mrgreen:
Surprised that nobody caught on - I never drank orange juice in class except on my birthday and the last exam of the semester. 8 AM is too early for rum and coke. ;)
Ye olde chamomile tea
Quote from: Sibling Zono (anon1mat0) on April 17, 2010, 04:07:20 AM
Vodka, gyn, everclear?
:scared:
I've been watching Dr. Strangelove. That's all General Ripper would drink, pure grain alcohol and rain water.
"Gentlemen, you can't fight in here, this is the war room!"
I'm drinking water...
Tea, black tea (still abit too hot)
Red grape juice
Waiting for the morning chamomile tea to cool down sufficiently as not to burn my sensitive mouth and throat
The tea
I wonder, whether I should make some more tea
Bovril
Earl Grey tea.
First office chamomile tea (second mug of the day)
Industrial-strength ginseng extract tea.
post-lunch Westminster black tea finished, chamomile to come
I completed a "feature display sample" for graduation framing at the last possible second tonight (and it's not bad, if I say so myself) pulled out of my arse the air through clever use of cannibalized personal art, the photocopier, art paper, muted swearing, and panic. Of course, I could have done a really great one a couple months ago, when I first suggested it and had a lot of extra time, but we had to wait for the neckties to comprehend that graduation season 'its upon us, and -- hey -- wouldn't it be nice to capitalize on that, despite being up to our eyeballs in actual projects.
(http://www.myemoticons.com/images/work-school/office/insane.gif)
To unwind/slash/celebrate I poured .. some ... kahlua over ... some ... icecream. Perhaps too much kahlua, as I feel a little odd and the world appears to be at a 14° ankle....
:toasted:
Waiting for the chamomile rea to cool down enough to leave me without severe tongue burns
Ooh, nasty!
Had lunch in Cricklade with no2 daughter and her b/f today (first time in ages) and had 2 pints of a local bitter called Knobber - honestly!
Lovely stuff. A good English bitter should be almost chewable.
Anyhow, they sell it to take home in waxed-paper cartons, fresh from the barrel, so Mrs H and I are just about to start in on some more.
What could it be but tea?
Hot Chocolate :cup:
In a totally predicatbel move at this time of the (work)day: chamomile tea.
Ginger beer
The afternoon chamomile (black tea finished about half an hour ago)
Ginger Ale!
Orange juice (and the belated chamomile tea)
Mixed?
Lemon squash.
Nope, separate
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a glass of coke (neither the black refined fossil fuel nor the white refined alkaloid*)
*not that alkaloid anyway :mrgreen:
a strawberry daquiri wine coolery thing which miraculously appeared in the frig
Just finished the first office chamomile tea (the one I bring from home in a thermos flask)
Watered down peach tea
Evil Death Strength Coffee
Pish-weak brewed-with-not-boiling-water coffee.
All the caffeine, mind, just not tarry enough for my taste.
You poor soul. Weak coffee is an Abomination (unto Nuggan...)
More Evil Death Strength Coffee. (Bat survey to do tonight. Looking at getting home at about 1 am ish. Need chemical enhancement...)
My own fault, due to laziness - used water out of the heatercooler, which works for tea, but not for coffee (at least it's a good fresh-ground dark, I try to avoid the office pre-ground canister coffee). Normally I bring it up to a full boil first. I should probably just boil the coffee in during the reheat and then filter; a fine grind takes too long to brew and a coarse grind doesn't get black enough.
Sounds like you need some Klatchian coffee for night shift assistance. The sphere-world analogue is reputedly available at Tesco, if you have those in your neck of the woods (?).
Cuppa jasmine green going at the moment.
Chamomile tea. I really need it. Yesterday in the afternoon the symptoms of the common cold developed during the train ride home and at the same time I got nasty acid reflux from the stomach. Not being alone the most successful countermeasure (blowing out loudly and repeatedly without a handkerchief) was not an option. And I had no chamomile at hand to sooth the burn. The night was horrible and sleep came only in bits of a few minutes (as the clock told me). I should have put a thermos with chamomile tea next to the bed. How happy I was to drink chamomile tea at breakfast (and now the first mug in the office). I have to remeber to prepare more chamomile tea for the trip home.
Tesco, you say? Handily, there is a big one just round the corner from the office. An expedition shall be mounted this lunchtime. Thanks.
As it is summer, and in summer no commercial ecologist is allowed to sleep (at least at night) I have resorted to an early morning Evil Death Strength Coffee.
This is earlier in the season that I have done before, but I'm not getting any younger....
Just had the after lunch black tea to be followed by the chamomile soon
(http://www.ahnis-smiley.net/picard.gif) Tea. Earl Grey. Hot.
Chamomile brewed in the thermos yesterday. Soothes the stomach acid burns but seems nothing to do about the coughing.
Quote from: Aggie on May 19, 2010, 07:08:30 PM
Sounds like you need some Klatchian coffee for night shift assistance. The sphere-world analogue is reputedly available at Tesco, if you have those in your neck of the woods (?).
And under what brand name does Tesco market this preparation, pray tell?
Carbonated mineral water
Coffee. (see above posts for details....)
The morning chamomile tea got finished some time ago. Not sure what will be consumed next (just that it will be soon)
Lapsang Souchong tea. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lapsang_souchong)
Tastes like camping... :mrgreen:
A splendid strawberry wine from Lindisfarne (14.5%), after sherry and a nice bottle of rosé. It's fathers' day, you see.
I don't generally post under the affluence of incohol; this is an exsc... escx... esxx... this is different.
Just taking the first sip from the first mug of chamomile tea in the office
Black cocoa.
(i.e. cocoa powder in hot water, unsweetened and unmilked)
Quote from: Lindorm on May 23, 2010, 08:28:23 AM
Quote from: Aggie on May 19, 2010, 07:08:30 PM
Sounds like you need some Klatchian coffee for night shift assistance. The sphere-world analogue is reputedly available at Tesco, if you have those in your neck of the woods (?).
And under what brand name does Tesco market this preparation, pray tell?
Sorry, I neglected to respond. I'm not sure what the brand will be, but you are looking for (preferably powdered) betel nuts, which will likely be labelled as 'supari' (reputedly legal in Britain; Canada restricts imports but not sale or use). Tastes like if you put all the tannins in an oaky red wine into the cork, and then chewed the cork. My usual method of preparation is dehydrating an aqueous extract for buccal or sublingual consumption, but I suspect it'd work fine mixed with coffee as well. Arecoline is good stuff, although excessive consumption does tend to have a bit of a Klatchian coffee effect (a shot of liquor works equally well to take the edge off). IMHO it's safe for operation of moving vehicles as it sharpens one's focus a great deal. Less jittery than caffeine or spinny than nicotine, but otherwise similar to both.
Warning to any ecologists stuck beyond dunny range - larger amounts can be quite stimulating to the digestive system. This stuff was formerly used by veterinarians for expulsion of worms by brute force. :o
Green tea with fresh lemongrass.
I started doing a type a of lemongrass tea some time ago, water, lemongrass infusion with some sugar. But I'm not much for sweet tea so I soon left out the sugar and upped the lemongrass content which made me run to the bathroom repeatedly the rest of the evening and half the night... You see, lemongrass is diuretic... ::)
I love the taste but it gets a bit watery on it's own unless one uses a lot of lemongrass so I tried to let bits of freshly cut lennongrass stems infuse together with a good green tea, it's good.
Much better than the lemongrass flavoured tea one can find in tea shops which tend to smell like perfume and taste either too sweetened or too bitter.
The usual chamomile tea.
And now a bit of carbonated mineral water before lunch
Aranciata (sparkling orangeade)
ye olde chamomile
water for a change
coke and the second mug of chamomile tea
Stella Artois
Quote from: Swatopluk on June 30, 2010, 03:28:45 PM
coke and the second mug of chamomile tea
actually not beyond the first mug yet
Cherry Vimto
Chamomile tea just entered drinkability temperature range
Cranberry juice
Just emptied the bottle of carbonated mineral water in order for it not to be come uncarbonated over the weekend
That's wasteful - you should have drunk it. ;D
More G&T. I'm getting to like it.
Just some plain iced tea, which is quite refreshing in the Oklahoma heat.
a damn fine margarita garnished, inexplicably, with pieces of lime popsickle
Quote from: Sibling DavidH on July 03, 2010, 10:30:01 PM
That's wasteful - you should have drunk it. ;D
Don't be confused. It was emptied by way of my body :mrgreen:
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Tea still too hot
Cranberry juice with loads of ice.
Water.
coke followed by carbonated mineral water
Blood orange Italian soda
The first office chamomile tea
The Coffee
I think I should drink some carbonated mineral water before lunch
Watered down iced tea
water
An energy drink to avoid falling flat on my back...
Can't you guess it without me spelling it out? ;)
You spelled it out 6 times, if one sounds out the words letter by letter... ;)
I'll spell what I'm drinking out: H 2 O
coke (not the white stuff)
Assam tea, as black and strong as a good coffee. :bouncing:
This reminds me that it is time for tea
Dihydrogen oxide, with some calcium bicarbonate, magnesium carbonate, and assorted other goodies in it.
Two tea for me
Is coke (the white stuff) soluble in water? How incredibly stupid (and painful) would be to ingest it that way?
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Iced tea with a bit of berry juice.
Pain-free, assuredly - it's a topical anesthetic, as evidenced by the many related but non-abusable related compounds (benzocaine, novocaine, etc.). Whether it'd do much is a different story - despite Dave Chapelle's reference to a 'crack sandwich' in one skit.
More dihydrogen oxide, this time with dihydrogen carbonate, plus probably a trace of bisphenol A from the can liner .
Dihydrogen oxide with carbon dioxide and also a touch of (R)-(6-methoxyquinolin-4-yl)((2S,4S,8R)- 8-vinylquinuclidin-2-yl)methanol. Or so they say. :mrgreen:
Never got the hang of organic chemistry. Gimme simple sulphuric acid :mrgreen:
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The usual chamomile tea
A 2008 Chateau Haut Magne, a white Graves wine.
Darlica thinks it's a bit like a Pieper-Heidsieck, but without the bubbles. I think it is a bit like a pergola full of white flowers, with a bit of minerals and sour apples thrown in. The nose is quite big and flowery, the aftertaste a bit more tart and closed.
We are drinking it plain as it is, but I think it could go very well with fish or shellfish, either a bit spicy or with some rich sauce -poached fish with a beurre blanc, or some spicy stir-fried shellfish for example. It's probably to acidic to be a good pairing with cheese.
All in all, quite refreshing in the summer heat.
Home made berry smoothie.
I've yet to brew the morning tea.
Juste nough carbonated mineral water to swallow the omeprazol capsule
Water, a lot of it.
:stupid:
coke (black tea a few hours ago too)
Fresh spearmint tisane; dried tulasi next.
orange (fruit) ice as stand-in for juice
Wine from a local Alberta winery.
What type of wine is made in Alberta, you ask?
Rhubarb, this one. ;D
I'm itching to try their other selections, including wild cherries, raspberries, saskatoons, high-bush cranberries and.... ALFALFA!?
The latter reportedly has some grassy notes to it. ;)
Nothing organic that someone will not turn into an alcoholic beverage :mrgreen:
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The usual tea despite the even at this early time noticable heat.
Considering the heat we have been having here today, I have been drinking anything that's at least somewhat fluid and vaguely potable. If it has no RID labels, it's good to drink! ;)
water to go
Lemon Ginger Tulsi Tea
a last glass of carbonated mineral water before taking the train home
Water but there is an open bottle of Rioja calling me... ;)
The tea should be ready now
Rooibos Chai, but there's a bottle of Barefoot Pinot Noir waiting for later!
Simple chamomile tea
Coffee!
Just finished the first mug of chamomile tea in office
Fell to sin, pepsi one
second office mug of chamomile tea (following the black tea after lunch)
Peppermint tea. I had some HFCS with dinner, it was being given out for free. I only have the sense to eat healthy when I have to pay for it. I succumb to crap when it's free.
In a totally predictable move it's chamomile tea (it's that time of the day)
Iced tea
When the server went down the tea was still brewing. Now that it is up again the teas is drunk.
A cup of tea, kindly provided by the lovely Catherine, botanist of this practice...
Black tea during the workgroup meeting, now chamomile
Tea. Common old teabag stuff - I love it!
Should I open the large bottle of carbonated mineral water now or later?
Iced tea
chamomile tea in about 20 minutes
Watered down peach tea
carbonated mineral water
cherry coke
blood orange soda
(http://www.ao-getraenke.de/images/Rixdorfer_Fassbrause_12x1,0_L.jpg)
This stuff, a Berlin specialty
Paraguayan mate tea
The usual chamomile after arriving at the office
A "Tannenbomb" - Pine Bud Drink with gin. :mrgreen:
(http://lh6.ggpht.com/_YAVTDXOx8ls/SVODsQtJKKI/AAAAAAAABlE/bCN2mAdLBKE/s512/IMG_1452.JPG)
Good Christmas drink, this one..
Someone in Berlin also produces a beverage made from pine needles. I hear it is an acquired taste but nonetheless quite successful.
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What else but tea?
Coffee, lovely lovely coffee....
Just finished the final office tea
Quote from: Swatopluk on November 23, 2010, 07:20:22 AM
Someone in Berlin also produces a beverage made from pine needles. I hear it is an acquired taste but nonetheless quite successful.
Ah, that would be the authentic beverage to use for a Tannenbomb, then.
I looooves pine drink, but then again I really can't be stopped from browsing when I am in a forest - pine needles and Labrador Tea (and lately alder buds) being favorites for chewing on.
second half of the first mug of tea
Tea, black and strong. PG Tips, specifically.
I might need a few more cups before I dare venture outside today -the weather is nasty!
Coke. I wanted iced tea but it was sold out on the vending machine.
Tea has to be hot (or at least warm). Cold tea is an abomination! :o
Not if you live where Zono lives.
I'm having Rooibos tea... hot!
Tea still brewing. Ask me again in half an hour.
Trying to wake up, so lots of strong black tea.
Perhaps I should try taking the tea intravenously?
Are there caffeine patches available?
Quote from: Swatopluk on November 27, 2010, 11:46:26 AM
Are there caffeine patches available?
At least there ought to be.
Maybe just chop up a line of instant coffee and start snorting like a pre-crash yuppie?
Cold Tea! Cold Tea! Cold Tea! Cold Tea! Cold Tea! Cold Tea!
Call me the abominable Cold Tea! drinker if you must.
:mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen:
(in reality is called Iced Tea but I don't put lots of ice cubes in my already cold tea)
There are pure caffeine pills but they are probably not meant for human consumption (for chemical uses only).
I am surpised that no smokable variety is on the market ;)
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Just got the tea form the kitchen
Quote from: Swatopluk on November 28, 2010, 09:02:17 AM
There are pure caffeine pills but they are probably not meant for human consumption (for chemical uses only).
I am surpised that no smokable variety is on the market ;)
Oh, you can buy caffeine pills in any Swedish pharmacy -prescription-free, too. But they taste awful!
Oh, and more black tea again.
I doubt that they are the pure stuff I had in mind (those would likely be lethal).
Alkaloids are rarely sweet :mrgreen:
What abbout suppositories :help:
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So many options. But I will leave* the black tea for the afternoon
*no pun intended
Poisoning is all about concentration, how many milligrams of caffeine are lethal?
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Pear soda.
I overestimated the toxicity. Lethal dose about 10g, acute intoxication from about 1g upwards (depending of course on body weight and habituation.
That would be a hectolitre of coke or about 100 cups of cofee in a limited timeframe.
If you want to do it, better take the pills :mrgreen:
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Time to consume the chamomile tea
Regular pills are 200mg so we're talking 50 pills in one go. Somehow I can't see it as a nice way to go.
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The Abominable Cold Tea Drinker keeps drinking Cold Tea. 8)
Time to drink mine before it becomes abominable.
There have been people that have gone by way of those pills.
And then there is the case of Balzac, the patron saint of coffee addicts.
I'll keep my intake low and constant, in fact I'm drinking some caffeinated cola now (pepsi one).
Chamomile tea standing right in front of me (slightly to the right) but still too hot.
Rum, shortly. The good news is, today I braved the snowy lane to pick up 8 litres of cider from Newton Farm. Happy Christmas!
Not drinking high-test beer, apparently - AB is banning anything over 11.9% ???
Looks like a good opportunity to bootleg from BC. ;)
Tea only halfway through the brewing
Green tea
Tea has just the right temperature to drink
Too much.
Tea is still in the kitchen, i.e. as far from me as is possible in this flat.
Don't tell me Swato, let me guess. Tea gone cold?
I had some wonderful vodka yesterday at our cast party. Some friends of ours own an orchard and they usually make cherry vodka by walking out into the orchard with bottles, picking fresh cherries and plunking them into the bottles, topping them off with vodka and then letting them sit until Yuletime. This year though- OMG, they did it with black raspberries. Fantastic! the vodka was dyed dark pruple, and the raspberry flavor totally infused into the vodka. It was like black raspberry syrup with a kick!
They also had some "apple liquor" a friend had made. It was like liquid apple pie- buttery and apple-y. Heaven.
Just got the tea from the kitchen. It has stopped steaming but I will not risk my tongue yet
Hot cocoa! :D
Glenfiddich 18 yr old. (See Things to be happy about thread for the reason...)
Taking the first sip of the tea
The Coffee has percolated.... 8)
Pepsi one
Tea just finished
The real issue is: not what I'm drinking now, but what I was drinking last night. :(
Lapsang Souchong tea
Black tea. Fortunately the sort I prefer is very mild, so it stayed drinkable even after about half an hour brewing
The Coffee
Green tea with lemmongrass. :)
the usual tea stand in front of me but it will have to wait for a few more minutes
Time to go boil the water. I need something gingery today. My throat is ookie.
Tea got finished some time ago.
Had a wee dram o' Maker's Mark last night. Lurvely. Today it's back to tea. Got some ginger peach stuff to try.
Tea has to be drunk before becoming an abomination temperaturewise
Rum. Yo, ho, ho!
Just got the tea from the kitchen but have not yet sipped it
Hot Instant Honeyed Ginger Drink (http://noodle.en.made-in-china.com/product/NIExfltKImsG/China-Instant-Honeyed-Ginger-Drink.html)!
Nothing but ginger, honey and sugar, but wow, it feels great on the throat.
sage tea, also for the throat.
Got the pot on for more Honey Drink today.
The third mug of sage tea
Mint Medley (Bigelow) tea, which I steeped way too long, but it's not bad and I'm too stubborn to throw it out.
Iced tea
sage tea. I just resupplied this morning
Real pepsi (with sugar!) :P
sage has more or less supplanted chamomile for the moment
Peppermint for me.
Any guesses?
OK, sage again
To accompany the cheesecake, The Coffee.
Just going to prepare the next mug of sage tea
Mmm, thinking of another cuppa mint.
Taking the bag from the sage tea in 15 seconds
watered down iced peach tea
coffee
Sage tea to go
Zippy Juice :)
(real coca cola)
chamomile tea for a change
Cream Soda
two mugs currently brewing: black and chamomile
Cream Soda and The Coffee (not in the same receptacle)
Sage tea brewing
I need to ask - is this good ol' Salvia officinalis or some other species?
I am about to make some basil tea - Ocimum tenuiflorum, the holy stuff.
Minty hot chocolate. :cup:
It's not the psychoactive sage (at least I did not notice) :mrgreen:
According to the package the tea bags also include orange leaves, eucalyptus and liquorice roots.
There's lots of Salvias, so I thought I'd ask. I'm not surprised (by the specific name) that good ol' turkey sage is medicinal, but I thought there might be a related species that's extra-good for illness.
As for the other varieties, I stick to S. sclaria - no divining for me. I don't really want the experience of watching the universe deconstruct itself before my eyes.
I simply looked up Salbei in dict.leo.org
Was unaware that there are so many different varieties
#1 daughter's "Hedgerow Gin". I don't know how she got a hedgerow into that bottle, but it was worth the effort. Superb.
Sage tea at breakfast, chamomile now
Peppermint tea for Mr. Tum.
Pepsi one
Still have to decide between tea (which sort?) and bitter lemon
Emergen-C vitamin drink. There's something going around.
What else but tea?
Coffee?
Stash Black Chai
Tea, black and strong.
Quote from: Lindorm on April 02, 2011, 07:18:00 AM
Tea, black and strong.
Same, although I use a mild (and very cheap) sort
Chai, again.
A tea supposed to calm down upset digestion.
Don't know whether it actually works but since it tastes good I can't see any reason why I should not drink it anyway.
Cashew feni (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fenny) (last night).
hot chocolate, to commemorate the return of winter
Cognac
Grönsteds *** (three stars) VS to be precise.
A spite/orange juice combo with ice.
ready to pour the first office tea of the day
Quote from: Scriblerus the Philosophe on April 04, 2011, 02:01:02 AM
A spite/orange juice combo with ice.
Where do you get bottled spite? And does it taste nice?
Rooibos tea
Quote from: Pachyderm on April 04, 2011, 11:58:38 AM
Quote from: Scriblerus the Philosophe on April 04, 2011, 02:01:02 AM
A spite/orange juice combo with ice.
Where do you get bottled spite? And does it taste nice?
I was wondering the same thing. ;)
Tea. Earl Grey. Hot.
chamomile tea
Soda with sugar (instead of HFCS)
the second mug of chamomile tea
Hot Chai. Goes well with rain.
H2O
I see black tea in the near future
The Coffee 8)
Just finished the black tea from the mug. Now it's time to pour the chamomile tea from the thermos into the now empty mug that formerly contaid the black tea.
Ginger ale.
Justed started on the first office chamomile tea (brought from home) of the day.
A nice and cheap Rioja, Campo Viejo, 2007. :partyglass:
First office mug of usual content just finished
Coffee, good and strong, but half-caf. Trying to cut intake without losing the pleasure of drinking it.
Too much black tea
Pepsi one...
Decafeinated coffee.
time for tea (not black)
The honey place near here had a grand opening for their meadery today, so I've been sampling mead. I got a little buzz... ;) ;) ;)
Good for you! :toasty:
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Iced tea
stomach tea
How long do you steep the stomach for? ;)
depends on the acidity, hardness, gas content and color. One has to be careful with pouring the boiling water or the foam formation may become too strong. :D
mild black tea
I'm more familiar with tripe soup. :)
Yerba mate, my new morning drink. Today's pot is of untoasted mate; I've been playing around with various levels of toasted-ness lately. The mid-level roast I started with seems best.
mates are so difficult to replace today, so I prefer not to toast them ;)
At a certain level of domestic instability, you may find that they keep a more pleasant demeanour when toasted. ;)
A roast and a toast to our host!
Bitter Lemon
Pepsi one
Tea still a bit too hot to drink
Homebrew rice wine.
Tea is currently brewing
Australian Cabernet - Shiraz. Fruity.
Again, tea still in the brewing phase
This weekend we were introduced to Vola Sangiovese. Sharon, our friendly wine advisor at Trader Joe's showed it to us as we were shopping. She said it was fruity, and best slightly chilled, but very good, and at under $3 a bottle how could we refuse?
We sat it in the fridge for about 20 minutes, then opened it and enjoyed it while watching a storm on our front porch. It made for a lovely late Sunday afternoon!
Italian Sangiovese? I'd never seen it below $15 a bottle!
Tea just started to brew and this sort has to do for at least 10 minutes
Blood orange Italian soda
I still have to brew the tea, so drinking will have to wait for another half hour
With a nod to Jimmy Buffet, my blender has rendered that frozen concoction that helps me hang on.
O god, o god, now I have SEVERE margarita headache, over, under, and around *both* eyes... :toadfishwink:
...wait...
...wait...
...it's dissipating...
...hallelujahs! I'm cured!
Now another delovely schlurp! :toasted:
The tea to drink has still to be brewed
Watered down pink lemonade
I think I can take the first sip (safely) in about 10 minutes
Tea.
Earl Grey.
Hot.
With sugar.
And an oreo cookie.
Tea is brewing (what else did you expect?)
pepsi one
Waiting for the water to boil
watered down pink lemonade
I had some tea this morning (shocking, I know).
And a small glass of coke (not made by the Coca Cola company, I prefer the ALDI brand)
I have made my morning cuppa coffee.
I have this little 4 cup machine, and I make about 2 1/2 cups, or roughly 16-18 ounces... perfect for mornings.
As I poured the little stainless steel pot into my coffee cup (large insulated mug, actually), I remembered I had.... Ice Cream. Butter-pecan, to be specific.
So.
I put a couple of scoops into the hot coffee, instead of ice (as is my usual summer habit).....
... mmmmmmm......
... did you know that pecans float? I kinda expected to have to fish them out at the end, but they floated to the top, and added a nice element to my usual coffee experience.
I can recommend this to anyone who loves coffee and also loves nuts....
:D
I'm WAAAAAAAAAY overdue for trying a beer float. I want to use Dieu de Ciel's Aphrodisiaque for the beer, however, and it's tough to get.
(http://micro.dieuduciel.com/upload/Aphrodisiaque.jpg)
Trying to decide between black coffee and black tea.... probably tea.
We went to to lunch to a tex-mex restaurant and my wife ordered a margarita, after being inquired between "small" or "large" she said "large" and al 16 Oz behemoth came to the table. She had to drive to her flamenco lesson so I ended up drinking most of it...
:drunk: :downit: :partyglass: :toasted:
LOL, I've been enamoured with large beers of late, particularly the 1500 ml bottles of Grolsch the liquor store is carrying. The trick is to finish 'em before they get warm. :downit:
I'm keeping the bottles themselves, as the 1.5 ml recloseable beugel bottles would be ace for homebrewing.
The ususal stomach tea in the morning
Some kind of coffee with stuff in it and whipped cream at the coffee shop.
I think in about 10 minutes I'll brew some tea
how was the tea, then? (don't keep us in suspense, here...) :)
Not much different form that of the day before or today.
Apart from the different temperature I mean
water
I had my afternoon mild black tea
an energy drink, I'm too sleepy and still have a couple hours to go in the office.
belatedly finishing the morning tea
Last swig of coffee from this morning... just a bit, so it won't affect me sleep.. .(I hope... but I hates to waste good coffee...)
Tea has still to be brewed
Late-morning coffee.
This is a new mix, something called "velvet chocolate". It's good-- the chocolate is not overwhelming to the coffee bean's natural flavors.
I was in a lazy mood when I purchased it, it's pre-ground. But the freezer outta keep in the majority of the subtleties.
I've heard mixed things about storing coffee in the freezer. From my experience, the most important factor in maintaining flavour is to keep out oxygen (and light). Perhaps an oxygen-scavenging packet in the sealed coffee container?
Just open a bottle of this (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fassbrause) stuff which is a local specialty.
I've tried various "air-tight" methods-- but the freezer works the best, for two reasons:
1) it lowers the rate at which oxygen reacts to the exposed (by grinding) ingredients
2) it reduces the evaporation of the subtle oils, which would otherwise vanish within a day or so.
I suppose I could obtain a quality vacuum pump, and a sturdy container, and pump out all the air each time... but I suspect that would only hasten the loss of essential oils...
Quote from: Swatopluk on August 28, 2011, 10:17:51 PM
Just open a bottle of this (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fassbrause) stuff which is a local specialty.
Apparently, I can get something akin to this under the name of "apple beer". I shall have to give that a try, if I can find some brewed naturally.
Off to the specialty shops!
Time to transport the tea from the kitchen to the PC (which is also about the longest distance in this flat).
GATORADE -been working outside in 104 F; 40 C- to replenish electrolytes and re-hydrate...
Arizona is hot hot hot in the summer time!
More of the good ol' 'barrel lemonade' (see previous posts)
Quote from: Bob in a quantum-state-of-faith on August 29, 2011, 12:39:02 AM
I've tried various "air-tight" methods-- but the freezer works the best, for two reasons:
1) it lowers the rate at which oxygen reacts to the exposed (by grinding) ingredients
2) it reduces the evaporation of the subtle oils, which would otherwise vanish within a day or so.
I suppose I could obtain a quality vacuum pump, and a sturdy container, and pump out all the air each time... but I suspect that would only hasten the loss of essential oils...
I've always been suspicious of whether any sublimation is occurring with the volatiles in herbs and the like stored in the freezer. The water sublimates from frozen foods even in a closed container; now, I know that this happens due to specific properties of water and might not happen with oils, but I've seen reference to the oils breaking down. I've seen information indicating that if you keep coffee frozen until use it will be okay, but repeated freeze-thaw cycles will deteriorate it. As you know, the best bet overall is to buy small amounts, keep whole beans around and fresh-grind it. I generally end up buying one-pound bags when I'm on a coffee kick but don't always finish them in a reasonable amount of time due to reduced coffee consumption (I'm especially bad with decaf; when I'm on a decaf kick I tend to cut back to less than a cup a day after a week or so, and when I get back to coffee-ing I'll go to full strength or half-caf).
High-test (swiss) peppermint tea... still has kick on the second pot.
You don't really want to know what is in coffee aroma. Several hundred components most of which would be labelled with a skull, if stored seperately. :mrgreen:
Paracelsus was right.
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There is some tea in the future
Caffeinated, diet cola (no advertising this time ;)).
Spiced coffee.
Quote from: Swatopluk on September 01, 2011, 09:02:12 AM
You don't really want to know what is in coffee aroma. Several hundred components most of which would be labelled with a skull, if stored seperately. :mrgreen:
Paracelsus was right.
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There is some tea in the future
Add a few more to mine then. There are a lot of separately-deadly (in large quantities) compounds in vegetables and fruit that are healthful in composite and at naturally-occuring levels. Coffee oils are a little irritating to the guts, but attempts to prove coffee seriously harmful at reasonable levels of consumption have been mostly fruitless. Dose makes the poison, indeed.
Whot's yer poison?
:yar:
Just bought a case of that cheap-arse Sangiovese for this upcoming party weekend!
On that I can only post this old classic
[youtube=425,350]p8W2fkhfFPc[/youtube]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8W2fkhfFPc
coffee, Rio Azul.
Time to brew some tea
watered down pink lemonade
What a fun little video, Swato. I love Christopher Lee.
C'mon Zone, it's Froiday!!!!
Time for the black afternoon tea
Earl Grey.
A Jyint Mugge ov hit.
Black tea with breakfast, black coffee to get moving next.
Carbonated mineral water
It's been so cool and rainy here we've been drinking Chai Rooibos at lunch. But today the sun is out and it's back to ginger ale.
It's Friday night tonight, though... time to open a bottla sumpin for later...
So many choices. I think, I'll go for coke next.
I went from White Zinfendel to Cake Vodka to Hypnotic... and it's only 8.30 PM!
Man thank go I have to see my shrink tomorrow...!
Stomach tea
How long do you need to steep the stomach to get the proper flavour? ;)
Water and coffee.
I'm thinking of making a nice cuppa rooibos tea. It's been a busy day and I need to relax.
ten minutes to tea
A bit of coffee in my reduce, reuse, recycle muggie. No sugar, due to diabetes, and I do not really like the fake stuff or even some of the stevia's-- I do love agave nectar but gee so expensive--- anyway I am getting used to it with a bit of creamer it is good.
Tea has still to be brewed
It's a gray, muggy, rainy day. Perfect for tea! Yeay!
A bit too late (or to early) for tea i fear (nearly 2am around here)
Chinese instant ginger honey crystal tea! Ahhhhhhh....
brand cola sweetened with chlorinated sugar
water (carbonated)
me also
tea
We bottled our Rasperry Rum and now we've finished it. It's very nice, I recommend it. Now we've got some more going, also some with blackberries.
^ don't just talk about it, pass it around... ;)
lemonade, here.
lemonade too
Tea has to be brewed still
Yesterday I had some green tea Chai, which didn't seem to do any favors to either the green tea or the chai spices. So today I'm going with peppermint tea, I think.
I just poured the boiling water on the teabag
more caffeinated soda
Nothing, but we've just bought another (even cheaper) bottle of white rum to stew more fruit in. :partyglass:
Just finished the tea. Stomach is upset and it is supposed to work against that. I have my doubts but like the flavor.
more caffeinated soda
Had a coffee, and am contemplating whether I'd like a cup of decaf or some non-caffeinated tea.
more soda
Settled for green tea, I can milk a few cups out of the same bag.
tea.
earl grey.
hot.
Again the tea has first to be brewed before it can be drunk
watered down pink lemonade
Fresh apple cider from a farm near here.
Where's my tea?
behind my gigantic cup of lemonade
and now I'm drinking a forbidden spirit: Havana Club Añejo (haven't found a better rum).
For a change I get to this thread after strating to actually drink my morning tea.
Just had my rooibos tea.
Now it's time to brew the tea
Boil the aromatic leaves
I will drink it with great glee
Once it has cooled down a wee (bit)
Lemo-lemo nade-nade
Rooi rooi bos bos
It's the flavor I like mos'.
Earl Grey Tea, hot. :kettle:
With a petite splash of eggnog, just to see how that compares to milk.
Yeah, kinda ... different ... :)
The inevitable tea
Earl Grey Tea, hot. :kettle:
Sans eggnog.
this nice tea of mine
is going to burn my tongue
still being too hot
That evil caffeinated and carbonated beverage.
We're about to have a crack at the blackberry rum we've just filtered. Send an ambulance if you don't hear from us in three days. ;D
Just poured the boiling water on the defenseless teabag
Yarrrgh, in inner ov thee repeale ov prohiishun, an in wreckonoizement ov thee third daye ov bein down-roight sick, oi be drinkin coff medicine -- strayte shottes from thee bottle.
:toast: :toasty: :toasted:
The only rum I have currently is inside chocolate.
I drink the tea and eat the chocolate separately since it is not a good sign should the latter dissolve in the former.
Quote from: Sibling DavidH on November 09, 2011, 07:13:48 PM
We're about to have a crack at the blackberry rum we've just filtered. Send an ambulance if you don't hear from us in three days. ;D
Ambulance? I'm showing up at the
party if I don't hear from you by then.
My grandfather always said that rum is to be used only as medicine. I've been practising preventative medicine lately. I'm tempted to do a batch of my own spiced rum at some point in the near future, although not sure I've got time to do it by Christmas.
some evil diet soda
coff medicine wiv a tomato juice chaser
Tea has still to be brewed
coff medicine and hot tea with honey
Cheap jasmine tea.
Time to get the tea from the kitchen to the PC's side
Safari Spice Rooibos tea ... kettle's on!
a different brand of coff medicine and hot chai :cup:
Just poured the boiling water on the defenseless teabag.
But since teabggers do not consider the water cure torture...
Just finished my rooibos. Now what?
Take over the world?
No wait, you said rooibos not robots. ;)
Club soda
Once again the tea still has to be brewed to get drunk
Other people get drunk before screwed
Quote from: Aggie on December 10, 2011, 01:37:04 AM
Take over the world?
No wait, you said rooibos not robots. ;)
Quote from: Swatopluk on December 10, 2011, 08:41:19 AM
Once again the tea still has to be brewed to get drunk
Other people get drunk before screwed
That reminds me, I ought to tighten the screws on my robot army. They can barely even brew up a pot of tea any more, let alone take over the world.
Some teas can be quite corrosive
spoon in shaking hand
the elixir pours golden
more coff medicine
:sneeze:
Tea has just reached drinking temperature
Hot tomato soup!
:Tcup:
My throat could use another chamomile tea treatment.
Especially after neverending attempts to master the tongue-tip RRRRRR with motionless uvula.
Honey Ginger Crystals tea. I have a sore throat, too.
Just came from the dentist. On the one hand should apply cooling, on the other chamomile tea would be good for the gingiva.
(and cold chamomile tea is not to my taste)
Some lovely mead.
I see some tea in about half an hour
Ooh, Meade. Haven't had that in a while. Th' Pyrate Rum sounds good, too. But for now I'm just having some rooibos.
In eternal repetotion and return of the same, it's tea
Ginger ginger tea tea.
(Is there an echo in here?)
Peppermint tea.
Oh, and Pilsner Urquell. :mrgreen:
Just poured the boiling water on the teabag.
Not to be construed as masochism.
Quote from: Aggie on December 18, 2011, 12:26:06 AM
Oh, and Pilsner Urquell. :mrgreen:
Good, ain't it?
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Pink lemonade.
A bit belatedly brewing the tea.
(dentist appointment in 3/4 of an hour)
Vegetable bouillon
Oh, it's that tea again
diabolical diet soda
About to get out the rum to celebrate debannination. ;D
Let me pour that run for you from my new bottle:
(http://inthemix.on-premise.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/pyrat_xo_reserve_rum.jpg)
Everything. (see the Pub for details). :mrgreen:
^^ Yarrr, Pieces, I could fancy a bottle o' that. ;D :downit:
About a third through that mug-o-tea (not maggoty!)
Hot ginger tea.
I think I should start to brew some tea
Unsweetened cranberry juice.
Quote from: Aggie on December 22, 2011, 05:12:51 PM
Unsweetened cranberry juice.
What is that? your period??? (LOL - from The Departed)
Egg Nog with Brandy and a dash of Cinnamon
Chimay blue cap
I again got here before the tea
Black tea and roasted yerba mate, together.
carbonated mineral water. Still not sure whether I will follow-up with tea.
Roasted mate.
Decaff.
Thinking about tea
diet soda
I had tea some time ago
Black tea, which I have started to prefer over green tea.
No black tea before noon.
Carbonated mineral water. I may brew some non-black tea before lunch
Black coffee
Water.
Is it Froiday yet?
Quote from: Opsa on April 05, 2012, 11:25:53 PM
Is it Froiday yet?
It is, also the one I wear black on.
The tea currently brewing is not black though.
I'm wearing all blue, but I'll have some rooibos tea, which is reddish.
I currently have coffee sitting in my 10 year old Buffy mug.
carbonated mineral water to down the pill I have to take half an hour before breakfast (the one that keeps the acid production down).
As a b-day present I got an espresso machine (which just arrived from Amazon's warehouses) and I made a wonderful cup on my first try.
:Tcup: :cup:
Having Colombian Supremo at hand certainly helped.
(http://www.sherv.net/cm/emoticons/flags/flag-of-colombia.gif)
Tea and carbonated mineral water as usual.
The next iteration of the beer substitute I'm working on, based on boricha (roasted barley tea). This batch has roasted barley, roasted maize, mugwort, solomon's seal root and roasted burdock root. I just added more mugwort and burdock to the batch because it tasted too mild.
Once I get a recipe nailed down, I want to look at adding a very little bit of malted barley, and bottling it. Just enough to carbonate the bottles; 1% alcohol or less would be fine. I may work it up to ~3% at some point, once I get a feel for it. Something to quaff all night and perhaps get a little tipply, but not be raging drunk or have a blinding hangover in the morning. Toadfish seem to like to drink like fish, so to be able to have a couple of bottles of reputedly medicinal herbal beer as a 'health tonic' with dinner would be an asset.
:toasty:
Carbonated mineral water to get the omeprazol capsule down. Not yet decided about tea.
Sounds like a funky drink there, Aggie.
I have coffee, with a bottle of Oasis patiently awaiting my finishing the coffee.
It's Friday, so I be thinking about opening a bottle of wine in a little bit, so it can breathe. (The only problem with that is that sometimes I can hear it breathing! Then it starts talking to me. 'Drink me', it says. 'Shutchyer cork hole", I reply, "It's not dinnertime yet'. ) It's hot, so I have a Pinot Grigio chillin' in the fridge.
Quote from: Opsa on June 22, 2012, 09:01:13 PM
It's Friday, so I be thinking about opening a bottle of wine in a little bit, so it can breathe. (The only problem with that is that sometimes I can hear it breathing! Then it starts talking to me. 'Drink me', it says. 'Shutchyer cork hole", I reply, "It's not dinnertime yet'. ) It's hot, so I have a Pinot Grigio chillin' in the fridge.
I get this sometimes. It sits there seductively, winking at me with a knowing smile. Red wine is such a slapper! ;D
I think it's back to carbonated mineral water
A petite and feminine snort of Prairie Berry Raspberry Honeywine.
Not too sweet, as some melomels seem to me; very nice offering from a more-or-less local winery.
(http://media-cache7.pinterest.com/upload/255790453805583109_7kzCRhWV_b.jpg)
More-or-less local Kolsch
Tea is currently brewing
Black tea, with fresh peppermint, sage, oregano, yarrow, bergamot and lemon balm for flavour.
Bitter Lemon
Cheap white Bordeaux
Tea
heavily diluted lemonade
Tea (stomach calmer)
espresso with a square of milka
I think there is still some tea left in the thermos
Squeezed Valencia oranges which, perversely enough, came from Florida.
Carbonated mineral water
I'm getting ready to make some fresh peach smoothies for Th'Olette and myself.
coke
Tea, lovely restorative tea...
Tea for me too
Dr Pepper, because i've not had it in quite a while. Besides, what's the worst that could happen? :mrgreen:
carbonated mineral water but also thinking about tea
Quote from: Roland Deschain on July 02, 2012, 10:50:03 PM
Dr Pepper, because i've not had it in quite a while. Besides, what's the worst that could happen? :mrgreen:
Weeeeeeeeeell, an Alaskan politician who shall not be named but whose married surname starts with "pa" and ends in "lin" is apparently quite fond of it, so monitor your opinions closely over the next few days... ;)
Earl Grey tea.
Quote from: Swatopluk on July 02, 2012, 10:51:29 PM
carbonated mineral water but also thinking about tea
I am that what is called a Gewohnheitstier
Ginger ginger ginger ale!
I am on my way to the kitchen to brew some black tea.
diet soda
back to the carbonated mineral water
Generic diet cream soda, Zone! Is there any other kind of diet cream soda?
Black tea
Quote from: Opsa on July 04, 2012, 05:34:45 PM
Generic diet cream soda, Zone! Is there any other kind of diet cream soda?
Diet
cream? Is that like Bailey's without the carbs? ;)
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water
Black tea with sage.
Quote from: Sibling Zono (anon1mat0) on July 05, 2012, 04:48:49 PM
Quote from: Opsa on July 04, 2012, 05:34:45 PM
Generic diet cream soda, Zone! Is there any other kind of diet cream soda?
Diet cream? Is that like Bailey's without the carbs? ;)
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water
No, and I... think I'm good with that.
I have a friend who likes to find the "gayest" wine he possibly can to bring over to our house. Yesterday he brought over something called "Sparkletini"- the name alone wins hands down, but the raspberry flavored one was pink to boot. It says it's Spumanti, but calls itself a malt beverage. Does that count as a wine? Anyway, it wasn't half bad, surprisingly.
I'll have a cold heterosexual ginger ale right now, though.
dry cider (French)
Dammit! Now I want cider. As I'm at work, will have to settle for tea....
Tea for my upset stomach
A fresh strawberry banana smoothie.
Boricha; black tea with sage is next.
cherry almond black tea
half a glas of red grape juice and now some bitter lemon
Tea. Just for a change...
starting with coke passing through carbonated mineral water and now approaching tea
Yup. Still tea.
No tea yet today, only the mineral water.
See my previous post.... ::)
I had black tea na hour ago, now it'll be carbonated mineral water again
Black tea with sage
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fassbrause
Quote from: Swatopluk on July 23, 2012, 06:22:38 PM
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fassbrause
Sounds nice. Like apple juice almost.
PG Tips tea
Freshly brewed herbal tea for my unruly stomach
Black and peppermint tea.
Quote from: Swatopluk on November 11, 2012, 04:16:48 PM
Freshly brewed herbal tea for my unruly stomach
That has become my primary fluid intake in the last two weeks
Coffee with cardamom.
The herbal tea again
Cider
Quote from: Pachyderm on November 24, 2012, 12:40:37 PM
Cider
I'd love to drink that but for the time being my stomach won't take it.
Back to the herbal tea
Quote from: Pachyderm on November 24, 2012, 12:40:37 PM
Cider
Can I have some?
I would love some proper cider instead of the nasty sugary stuff that is sold here...
I'm drinking carbonated water.
I too only drink the dry variety (which has unfortunately twice the alcohol content).
carbonated mineral water and bitter lmon
Clausthaler Non-Alcoholic
Mocha Java!
But later we'll have some pumpkin liqueur. And maybe some Crown Royal Black. And maybe some dry marsala. And maybe some maple wine. And then maybe we'll pass out. Maybe.
herbal tea
Finished first batch of home-made cider. Decided it was a complete success. Next, we try to make mead....
As I'm on holiday, I'm drinking whatever comes in arm's reach....
carbonated mineral water
Twelve Beers of Christmas:
1st Beer of Christmas: Elysian Avatar Jasmine IPA (6.3%)
(http://www.washingtonbeerblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/avatar_jasmine_ipa.jpg)
2nd Beer of Christmas: Skull Splitter (8.5%)
(http://boozeblogger.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/P1000489-e1286781398117-768x1024.jpg)
Back to the herbal tea
Vanilla Chai today. Later, who knows?
Wanna see more beers of Christmas.
Tea is currently brewing
Green tea
carbonated mineral water while the tea is brewing
Quote from: Opsa on December 26, 2012, 05:52:34 PM
Vanilla Chai today. Later, who knows?
Wanna see more beers of Christmas.
#3:
(http://www.beermebc.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/2012_11_BMBC-66.jpg)
http://barleymowat.com/2012/11/09/parallel-49-salty-scot/
#4:
(http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-bdt-mIBE73I/T80drqJim4I/AAAAAAAABCs/A2u1AKytyzs/s640/estrella-damm-inedit.jpg)
http://www.estrelladamminedit.com/
We had this one with dinner both nights. Pairs well with seafood cannelloni and turkey.
#5:
(http://www.matthewclark.co.uk/productimages/products/00022378.jpg)
Crabbie's Alcoholic Ginger Beer. It's only 4%, so I added some rum. ;)
#6:
(http://beersandears.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/IMG_0946-570x379.jpg)
Unibroue Ephemere Pomme, one of my all-time favourites for easy sipping. Usually a summer beer for me, but always tasty.
#7:
(http://www.verminbrewing.com/verminbrewing/images_labels/froach.jpg)
Fraoch Heather Ale
#8:
(http://cdn.beerstore.com.au/sites/beerstore.com.au/files/imagecache/product/prod-img/belhaven-best-beer-online-1349651502.png)
Belhaven Best. Lots of Scottish beers in my rotation, lately.
#9:
(http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_s2DFXHc-URc/TNruNyHXukI/AAAAAAAAAB4/FWLC-Sq5ADE/s1600/HPIM1829.JPG)
Hermannator Ice Bock, from Vancouver Island Brewery. 9.5% and rather.... robust.
#10:
(http://www.brejas.com.br/cervejas/images/stories/jreviews/_duchy-originals-old-ruby-ale-1905-inglaterra-1341334036.JPG)
Duchy Originals Organic Old Ruby Ale 1905
#11:
(http://www.vancouversun.com/news/metro/7650043.bin?size=620x400s)
Dough Head Gingerbread Ale - reminded me of mulled apple cider.
#12 (and 1/2):
(http://www.thebeerreporter.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/2012-11-14-Winter-Beeracle-1-1024x608.jpg)
(http://gib.ca/wp-content/themes/gib/images/beer/hero-winter.png)
The former is probably a stronger imitation of the latter. Both are good and from this province.
Oh, and by then I lost count and presumed that I had saved this for the Twelfth Beer of Christmas, as it was 12%:
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e7/Aventinus_Weizen-Eisbock.jpg)
The Beers of Christmas happened from the 24 - 26th of December and were (mostly) shared with other tasters. Other alcohol was involved. ;)
Wow! Sounds like fun. Where did you find all those fascinating beverages?
Yesterday I had some Negro Modela with dinner at a pub in D.C.
They're all from local beer stores. BC's pretty enthusiastic about microbrews, although a little biased towards their own stuff. Alberta is better for imports. I prefer not to drink the same beer twice in a row if I can help it. ;)
I'm on a beer break now though! I'll tipple a little at New Year's (Unibroue Blackcurrant Ephemere with a champagne cork, probably), but other than that, I'm going to dry out until Feb 2 (Irish Pub Night for our local Winter Carnival, already have tix).
Dark rum and ginger beer.
Apparently, called a Dark & Stormy.
Personally, I call it decidedly moreish....
Tea, just tea, in the last few days
Good idea, Swato, I think I'll put on some tea.
I'll have to dry out a bit in the new year, too. But not quite yet!
More tea. Fortunately to-morrow the shops are open or I would run out of the stomach-friendly stuff.
Black tea.
Quote from: Pachyderm on December 29, 2012, 11:08:41 PM
Dark rum and ginger beer.
Apparently, called a Dark & Stormy.
Personally, I call it decidedly moreish....
That sounds delicious...
Dark rum I can find around here but not many stores carry ginger beer... :( I have to do some searching.
Do you have a recipe (like 1 part rum and 3 parts ginger beer)?
Drinking chicken broth to soothe a cold.
Hope it works, Aggie!
Vanilla Chai.
Strong black tea.
The unavoidable tea.
I slowly begin to dislike the stuff
Vanilla chai again. I really need to find another tea. I really like spicy rooibos but haven't been able to find it recently.
I inserted some mineral water and bitter lemon (small amounts) between tea sessions
Quote from: Aggie on December 30, 2012, 07:21:39 PM
Drinking chicken broth to soothe a cold.
Either that or I worked it out, because it's nearly gone.
Back to the tea
Ops, I like it about half and half, in ginger beer to rum ratio, but really, it's up to you, and how deep your propensity for drinking dark rum is. Most people seem to like about 3:1.
Currently, tea.
Last tea of the day
Rooibos tea, but not the spicy kind I like a little better. Still, not bad.
Carbonated mineral water
I have been running a low fever all year. Guess I'd better go have some water.
chamomile tea
Strong black tea
carbonated mineral water
Tonic water... I feel a leg cramp lurking.
^Still the best cure for sudden cramps, which I think I heard from Bluenose. I use it for PF attacks.
Green tea.
Tonic water contains Quinine which is a quite powerful muscle relaxant even in small doses. A painkiller and a glass of tonic water resolves a lot of female trouble...
Good to know when strong prescription meds are out of the question for one reason or the other.
(I thought it was common knowledge, I think my mother taught me this)
Bitter lemon (also a quinine source)
Keemun Congo tea. :cup:
For the first time in months a small glass of cider
Safari Spice Rooibos tea is back in my cup.
Tea
Me, tea too.
cheap black bagged tea (270 ml) with sugar (1 teaspoon)
Solomon's seal root tea
tea from the thermos
The last of this morning's coffee.. mine.
mmmm...
.... one sip is worth 2 or 3 cups of "regular" coffee.
Yes.
It's that strong.
:D
Bitter Lemon
I'm getting ready to heat up some water for Swisse Mocha.
Again tea from the thermos
Dunggulle cha again.
caffeinated soda
Earl Grey. Double Bergamot. Hot.
Bitter Lemon
I'm getting ready to heat up some water for Swisse Mocha.
Omigawd, deja vu...
Bitter Lemon with tea to follow (and maybe a bit dry cider later when it has become cold enough)
I'm getting ready to heat up some water for Swisse Mocha.
Omigawd, deja deja vu...
Black tea finished, not yet time for cider.
Solomon's seal tea, followed by black tea.
the stomach tea (for not of)
Some lovely green tea with herbs innit.
... mmmmm.... smooth.
Quote from: Swatopluk on February 15, 2013, 06:29:55 PM
the stomach tea (for not of)
Again. I am so predictable.
Chai Rooibos. You an' me too, bro.
Solomon's seal tea, then jasmine green, then peppermint.
I'm predictable, but diversely so. ;)
Bitter Lemon
Cider. Lovely, lovely cider....
Quote from: Pachyderm on February 22, 2013, 12:28:48 AM
Cider. Lovely, lovely cider....
I better stay away from that for a while. I like the stuff but my stomach doesn't
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Tea
Constant Comment. A flavor of tea... mmmmmm.
^ The same!
Tea at breakfast, carbonated mineral water at lunch.
(I do not say 'for' because that would potentially imply that was the whole meal)
Looking forward to something hot to drink with lunch on this lovely ice pellety day. Herb tea or decaf mocha.
The first afternoon tea
Black tea. Indulging in a little caffeine this morning.
Second afternoon tea
Ginger Peach GREEN TEA.
Bitter Lemon. The Swato does not live of tea alone.
The last of the red-hot mocha.
Bitter Lemon, just the CO2 seems to have left before I could consume it ;)
Sometimes I like it that way!
Chai today.
I usually prefer high carbon content
I need more tea, decaf. My nerves feel shot. Maybe it's just the late winter blues. What's a good soothing tea?
Not yet time for the next tea
If you like herbals, there are many soothing blends from Celestial Seasonings, and I think their market is national.
In close succession tea, Bitter Lemon and now carbonated mineral water
Black tea with fresh sage blossoms.
This moment pouring in the last tea from the thermos
An evil concoction canned and distributed by an evil corporation to an evil retail corporation, sweetened by an artificial chemical produced by another evil corporation.
Carbonated mineral water
Arizona Green Tea with Ginseng! Cold! :) Diet. :-\
Mezzo Mix (coke* mixed with orange lemonade)
*the brown liquid, not the white or black solid
Slipstream Cream Ale
As was to be expected at this time of the day: tea
Tea also, the fresh sage blossom with a bit of black tea again.
It's teatime again
A nice ten year old Tempranillo (http://www.ancianowine.com/).
Hm, should it be more tea, Bitter Lemon, mineral water (carbonated) or Mezzo Mix. I think I'll wait a bit with the blood orange juice still
A goog glug of whisky, in the hope that it will cure my sore throat and summer sniffles. Meh. I much prefer whisky when I can actually taste it.
Finally the blood orange juice
Lemon water
Mezzo Mix
Ah, 'tis Saturday night, and time to imbibe! :D
Usually a red wine drinker, it's so hot and humid out I think I'll go for a gin and tonic followed by some Pinot Grigio.
coke
Tea in the near future
earl grey tea
PG Tips Strong
the usual herbal tea
Thwaites Wainwright
Exquisitely Lovely Golden Ale
Carbonated mineral water
Roasted corn and chaga tea
Tea, Bitter Lemon, blood orange juice
First margarita in months and months and months...
:toast:
Last tea in the evening
I had some nice super-tuscan for my B-Day, now I'm having some diet soda.
First tea in the morning
Argentinian Malbec
Quote from: goat starer on June 20, 2013, 11:33:28 PM
Argentinian Malbec
I like those, for a while the best thing you could hope to drink in South America was a Chilean Santa Rita, now the Argentinians are doing a great job.
Just emptied a glass of Mezzo Mix. On my way to the kitchen for a second
australian shiraz
The usual morning tea from the thermos
Now it's me drinking the Malbec.
A bit belatedly the second afternoon tea
I had a "kinkyrita" earlier, and boy was it great!
summa this: (http://www.nicksliquors.com/liquor/images/111kinky-708.jpg)
an summa this: (http://akimages.shoplocal.com/dyn_li/150.150.85.0/Retailers/Albertsons/120902_JL_T-04_A_BASE_img_1794621493.jpg)
an one-a these: (http://bestblenderratings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/best-blendtec-blender.png) (http://a248.e.akamai.net/origin-cdn.volusion.com/vots9.bcga3/v/vspfiles/photos/IBSIC1221-1.jpg)
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Just the usual tea
I like Po9's method, so I'm having some of this:
One of these, crushed in the bottom of the glass: (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/40/Limewedge.jpg/240px-Limewedge.jpg)
A shot of this: (http://thatsalotofgiraffes.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/booze/Sailor%20Jerry%20Rum.png)
Lots of these: (http://thumbs.ifood.tv/files/images/How_to_make_ice_with_filtered_or_boiling_water.jpg)
Top up with this: (http://www.bundaberg.com/info_assets/gb%20wet%20375ml%20with%20btbb%20aug10.jpg)
Afternoon tea. First green tea, second herbal (against upset stomach but I like the stuff so it has in essence replaced chamomile)
Pieces and Blue really know how to do Thursdays! (Although, I spoze it's Froiday in Blueland.) Wish I was there!
Diet cream soda.
pear cider
What remained of the afternoon tea
Diet ginger ale, but I am looking forward to more substantial libations later. I've been good all week and am looking forward to some wine. I wonder if I have a Malbec around, so I can be like Goat and Zono?
Foo, I don't. I do have a Petit Syrah. Will that do?
Quote from: Opsa on June 28, 2013, 06:41:40 PM
Diet ginger ale, but I am looking forward to more substantial libations later. I've been good all week and am looking forward to some wine. I wonder if I have a Malbec around, so I can be like Goat and Zono?
Foo, I don't. I do have a Petit Syrah. Will that do?
Throwe wotever ye've got in thee blender wiv some hice and hexclayme,
¡Frappé!
Ewige Wiederkehr des Gleichen - tea
Quote from: Opsa on June 28, 2013, 06:41:40 PM
I wonder if I have a Malbec around, so I can be like Goat and Zono?
It doesn't have to be Malbec (although it is generally cheap), and Syrah is good too, or Beaujoais, Montelpulziano, Rioja, Pinot Noir, Cotes du Rhone, Bordeaux...
:winebottle:
dry French cider
That sounds good, Swato.
I'm with you, Zone- give me the rich, heavy red wines!
This morning I had coffee, as usual.
Brewing the afternoon tea
lemonade, undiluted wiv booze, frapped
a glass of Mezzo Mix
South African wine, and lots of it. :partyglass:
We spent yesterday afternoon at a winery near Stellenbosch. Prices for bottles at the restaurant started around $6.50 (65 rand) for very drinkable wine. More tastings to follow, and the wedding on the 28th is at a wine farm. Some of the wineries here date back to the late 1600's, and still have the original buildings present. We stopped for a tasting at one that probably still has some of the original cobwebs (seriously, they make a point of leaving them be). :mrgreen:
My standard morning tea brewed last evening and kept hot in the thermos.
Wow! Sounds wahsome, Aggie!
Just water right now.
Quote from: Swatopluk on December 17, 2013, 12:20:02 PM
My standard morning tea brewed last evening and kept hot in the thermos.
Boringly predicatble: The same
Ginger ale
Diet soda, and wishing to drink what Aggie is having.
The (by now cold) remains of my morning tea
Good old Rooibos tea!
Not so much drinking as sipping... ;D
QRM
That is a dark, 23 year old, rum from the Dominican Republic.
It's a full desert + avec, no need for pudding. :D
Ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooh!
finished the tea; coke ahead? (again the coffeinated drink, not white powder from South America or roasted coal)
Goodness, I should hope not!
Gingerbread flavored coffee. (Caffeine here, as well. Winter makes me sleepy! I must be some sort of hibernating creature.)
I think my additional remarks were clear on that
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What else but tea? (at least at this time of the day)
Yesterday: A Moravian white wine, "Tramin Cerveny" (with a few diacritics here and there) from the Jedlicka & Novak winery, 2011 vintage. The wine was a souvenir from our trip to Prague last year that had somehow esccaped being drunken before. A very nice traminer, lots of fruit and minerals, a nice sweetness very well balanced by a bit of acidity. Very pronounced grape character, with a sprinkling of allspice and ginger aromas. Lovely! :)
Today, it's black tea time.
tea too (not black though)
Arizona Diet Green Tea with Ginseng. Room temp.
I just finished a mug of green tea and am just in the process of pouring bitter fennel tea into the now empty vessel.
How tragic that sounds.
Getting ready to make a little mocha on a snowy day.
Doing the old tea routine again.
And that bitter fennel tea is quite good.
Officially it is against stomach upset and contains a few other ingredients (e.g. chamomile) but the fennel seems to be the bulk stuff.
Beaujolais Villages, in one of those personal doses bottles (it's just to accompany my lunch).
final tea of the day
Spicy rooibos tea.
Espresso made with Colombian mountain coffee.
Time to brew the final tea of the day
Airbourne. I think I have the flu. Foo.
Gin martini, with a hint of limoncello.
I am done with work for the week, and can therefore dispense with the curse of the drinking classes.
MezzoMix (mix of coke with orange lemonade)
Just finished the last of my pot (glass carafe? well it started out in a pot) of Lipton's special white mango & peach tea. Very subtle. Very delicious.
Sencha green tea to be follwed by some bitter fennel/chamomile tea.
A Colombian soda:
(http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_BvMn9Snxkus/SwFs2htHNSI/AAAAAAAAABA/exSaXDANqDM/S220/colombiana.jpg)
(http://www.spreequell.de/fileadmin//user_upload/SQ_Bitter_Bitter-lemon_schraeg.png)
http://www.spreequell.de/fileadmin//user_upload/SQ_Bitter_Bitter-lemon_schraeg.png
Diet ginger ale.
(http://www.noshwell.com/wp-content/uploads/bomber-brewing-esb.jpg)
barfer? :D
Bomber, but it's a pretty foamy brew, so if you tried to shotgun one, it probably would be. ;)
Black tea, for breakfast.
Some white wine or other, with sulphides, to numb the emotional pain by inducing physical pain (migraine).
I freed the tea from its thermos bottle prison where it had been kept for many hours.
And then I downed it. Let's see what it thinks of the Skyr I am just now putting on top of it at the bottom of my esophagus.