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Hee hee. "High Tea" is one of my favourite things to do. We found a bakery out of towm where one of my sister's lives that does it (you need to call ahead of time to arrange for the number of people since they need to make all the tiny sandwhices and desserts. :)). The Fairmont Hotel in the city here puts it on too, and I went with a friend and some people for her birthday. Pricey, but good. The usual faire: a few kinds of sandwiches, some fruit pieces, tiny desserts, and little scones with 'preserves' and Devon cream (yum1!).

My new birthday tradition is to hold a tea party. Third year this year. :). I hardly ever drink and being at boozeheavy parties gets to me a little, so tea it is. ;). This means cucumber sandwiches. I'm not much for making the things but every tea party must have cucumber sandwiches!

Twinnings has a tea sampler box that you can get at Wal-Mart up here. It's blue, and has Earl Grey, Lady Grey, English Breakfast, and Irish Breakfast. Lady Grey and Irish Breakfast are my favourite of the box, but it's a good pack. My mom and I used everything in it. I'm not the biggest

I'm not the biggest fan of English Breakfast, but it's okay when I want more plain black tea.

I'm too much of a coffee fan to drink tea anymore...unless... *starts making tea*

I loooove cucumber sandwhichs xD
Ill have to get one of those boxes xD

Cucmber sammiches?
I'd rather have tomato and goat cheese sammiches

Goat cheese, yum, though I'm not a fan of tomato.

It depends, for me. Cooke tomato is ok. Not all raw tomato is though.

Sure, if the tomato is seasoned and cooked into another dish, particularly if it's not large homogeneous chunks of tomato, it can be good. But just ordinary uncooked tomato, like you might find sliced on a sandwich... blah, don't like it.

I like them in a grilled cheese. =D

Cucumber, watercres, tuna salad, salmon salad, are among the standards apparently.

Not a fan of tomato either, barring roma and if it's in bruschetta. :).

My mom is making the cucumber sandwiches for my tea party this year. I'm going with little endive boats with goat cheese and maybe some balsamic. Candied nuts and dried cranberries are standard too.

Reminds me of a blooming tea flower that I put out as a decoratoin last year that ended up looking suspiciously colourd and smelling somewhat like tomato. That was rather odd since it was supposed to be jasmine.

... Depends who makes it.
I like coffee if it's iced and creamy.
I like tea when it's green and lightly steaming.
...
I'm picky.

Rinni is a caffiene person in general, which includes tea. My favorite tea is mint, which I grow myself in my backyard. >u< Said mint plants have been growing since before I was born, so they've got experience in tasting good. :3

Heh. I've been trying darn hard to find some 'mint' tea. All I seem to be able to get my hands on is peppermint when I'm pretty sure it's spearmint that I'm looking for. I finally did some across some but I didn't check the label enough and it has green tea in it. >.<

Not that I object to green tea, but I wanted some herbal stuff. I've already got black tea with mint. It's almost as bad as trying to find lemon black tea wihout other stuff like myrtle, ginger or ginseng.

I started drinking green tea since December. Somewhat for the taste and joy of it, but also because I read an article about skin cancer and sunburn, and remembered a doctor telling me I'd have skin cancer by the time I'm thirty because of this gnarly burn I got once while skiiing ;___;

So I sort of freaked out and started drinking tea like I was dying of thirst, and now that I've calmed down I still drink a cup or two every day just because I like it :3

I don't drink green tea much, unless my stomach is bugging me.

I understand the skin cancer thing. The pills I take make me sensitive to sunlight and especially likely to get it so I need to wear suncreen all the time. It's fortunate that I don't like it much to begin with, so it's all long sleeves for me. I live in a cloudy area though. That helps.

My sister has pre-cancerous skin but so far she hasnt' had any nasty problems. Usual stuff, covering skin and sunscreen. I haven't heard the tea thing though.

I'm suppose to drink tea because I'm cold and I'm feeling a little under the weather but I decided not to have tea, I should brought my vocaloid travel coffee cup to work so I can make tea but I forget sadly

I just left a travel mug at work rather than bother to bring one every day. But we have a pile at home. I only brought it home once and a while to wash it properly. My work (at the time) had a good tea stock, though it was all Numi stuff. More than one person wrote a note just asking for some plain eary grey. Not that fond of Numi myself. I find that there is always crud floating on top of my tea when I make it. I guess it comes off the bag or something.

I seemed to have cut myself down to two cups of tea a day. My doctor will like that. I think maybe my stomach is tired of being overloaded with the stuff. Drinking less black tea now, especially with milk and sugar in it, and leaning more towards green and white.