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Green tea does make your teeth yellow.

...I learned that the hard way.

Tooth enamel is porous so anything that stains will stain them. Some people just also happen to be born with enamel that naturally leans yellow.

actually, enamel is naturally light yellow. The bright, pure white color people get by bleaching their teeth is not only unnatural, but often damaging to the enamel.

I expect it varies from person to person. Some baby teeth come in shiny white, then life happens. It was brought up in one of my texts that the human body could probably live for 120 years before it falls apart, but that is shortened by general life activities.

I have Irish Breakfast tea today. :)

i have not had tea in a couple weeks @____@

Then come back when you have had tea! :P

Or have further opinions on tea. ;)

Pumpkin spice dirty chai latte. :9

I feel like such a hipster stringing those words together. :P It's just steamed milk, chai, a shot of espresso, and a couple pumps of flavored syrup, really not anything fancy.

I feel like even more of a hipster when I have to explain to a new barista (or the curious guy behind me in line) what my favorite order is. XD

Actual exchange from a few days ago: "What's a 'dark star'?" It's our local barista's name for a flat white with mocha. "What's a flat white?" It's a double ristretto with steamed milk. "Do I need to ask?" *laughing* A ristretto is the first half of a shot of espresso, it's sweeter than a straight shot. "Sounds good. Dark star, please?"

There is some unsweetened tea in the frige. I haven't had the courage to try it yet.

Ah well. One jug at a time. I'm working on drinking my open jug of apple juice first.

Don't think I've tried a pumpkin spice latte, just the bag tea I have back at home down south, so it's been a bit. I tend to usually go for actual pumpkin pie or baked goods with pumpkin rather than flavoured stuff. Although, there was a really good pumpkin pie vodka (I think it was) that I tried at an inlaw's house.

I love tea, I could quite happily drink it all the time. I'm not really into flavoured teas or herbal teas or iced teas or anything. I'm just your plain bog-standard tea. I take milk and sugar in mine. I can't really be doing with coffee though.

Oh my gosh, there is no way I'm reading 39 pages of how people take or ruin their tea! I'm so sorry!

I like to try new teas. Black tea is okay if there is no other option but earl gray. I will take almost anything over earl gray. It's just awful. And I can't stomach the thought of ruining any kind of tea with sugar or sweeteners, but if the tea is naturally sweet, then we're okay.

I've found I have a big fondness for fruity, floral and citrus teas, but I'm not a very big fan of cinnamon in tea. Loamier flavors can be nice on occasion, but I have to be in a very particular mood. And, the last time I had a properly made white tea, it was wonderful.

My favorite, though, is a matcha green tea. I'm very picky about how it's made. It has to be fresh-- I'm talking nitrogen sealed or nothing. The water temperature has to be perfect, and it definitely cannot be steeped any longer than 40 seconds. But after that, omigosh I love green tea.

And about matcha? Best idea ever! :D There are just so many things that are better when green tea flavored. Ice cream, kit kats, noodles, white fish... every day I find a new way to use matcha to make food is a happy day.

green tea ice cream is lovely. :3

I normally drink unsweetened oolong or green tea, but I think I steep them too long sometimes. Oh well, I can take the bitterness! I drink black coffee every day! Even espresso is fine with me! Oh yeah! Caffeine!!!

I only seem to drink fruity teas with honey because it tastes weird if they don't have some sort of sweetness to them.

And I think I only really add sugar and milk to earl grey, Assam, or chai tea.

Random trivia, cold black tea can be pretty soothing for accidental burns. At least that's what I've found out in my experience.

I forgot. Chai is the other tea I like with milk in it. :3

well, proper Indian masala chai is served with milk, so that makes sense. :3

I've seen some chai actually make in the milk. I went to an Indian restaurant with a friend one lunch and they had what I assumed (correctly) was chai in a coffee pot next to another with what I figured was coffee. I was a milky light brown.

I don't like matcha much, at least what I've encountered. If I didn't make me nauseous, it tasted chalky or rough like the powder wasn't totally dissolved.