Green tea...

[nikimcbee]

Originally Posted by CCIP

I quit coffee after realizing your banner was accurate

Used to be a complete coffee addict for about 6 years, and then after I accidentally stopped drinking it for a few weeks I realized that I felt a hell of a lot better, calmer and more productive. Haven't gone back to it since, in fact haven't even had a cup of the stuff in 10 months now. The only downside is that I now sleep for like 10-12 hours a day, but then sleep is still better than doing stupid things while being all twitchy and agitated

Now if I remember you age and do the math, I don't think its because you quit coffee, it's because youre no longer a teenager.

[AVGWarhawk]

I limit myself to one cup a day concerning coffee. Just the morning wake up routine. I do not drink soda with caffeine. In fact, I do not drink soda at all. Water/milk/coffee (beer/scotch once twice a month).

[CCIP]

Originally Posted by nikimcbee

Now if I remember you age and do the math, I don't think its because you quit coffee, it's because youre no longer a teenager.

I dunno, does 27 (the age I quit coffee) count as the time people stop being teenagers these days? Or am I still not there?

I actually didn't really start drinking coffee until the senior year of university, when I couldn't survive without my morning 'fix' - but over the next few years it accellerated, particularly when my morning fix was something like 600ml of very strong black coffee, and I'd do that more than once a day. Oddly, I found quitting it really easy for some reason, just forgot to make my 'fix' one day and never touched it since - just went cold turkey without even meaning to. So I suppose to some extent, it was some kind of physiological change in me that helped that. People change.

[vienna]

I got your green tea, right here. Bon appetit, ya damn hipsters.

I'm hardly a hipster; started drinking green tea in the late 70s when my then girlfriend was studying Japanese language and culture at UCLA. I find it goes better with a lot of the Asian foods than beer or sake...

Besides, a few thousand years of Asian field testing can't be wrong...

[AVGWarhawk]

Besides, a few thousand years of Asian field testing can't be wrong...

I say the same thing about rice. Maybe they are on to something.

[vienna]

Asians drink alcohol like fish, smoke like chimneys yet have some of the lowest cancer rates in the world; maybe you're right: they might be on to something...

[TarJak]

Originally Posted by Ducimus

I got your green tea, right here. Bon appetit, ya damn hipsters.

Looks more like wheatgrass juice rather than green tea.

Green tea looks more like this:

[AVGWarhawk]

Yes, the green tea I'm drinking looks like the small cup above. Kind of like the start of algae growing.

[mookiemookie]

I drink 2 or 3 cups a day. And they're right...the sawdust looking crap is garbage. Get a good tea egg or spoon and fill it with the good stuff.

[Ducimus]

Originally Posted by CCIP

I quit coffee after realizing your banner was accurate

Used to be a complete coffee addict for about 6 years, and then after I accidentally stopped drinking it for a few weeks I realized that I felt a hell of a lot better, calmer and more productive. Haven't gone back to it since, in fact haven't even had a cup of the stuff in 10 months now. The only downside is that I now sleep for like 10-12 hours a day, but then sleep is still better than doing stupid things while being all twitchy and agitated

Ill have you know that Coffee (aside from Captain Morgan spiced rum), is one of the biggest reasons that supermod for SH4, that i *think* you might be playing on occasion, exists!

[Ducimus]

Originally Posted by TarJak

Looks more like wheatgrass juice rather than green tea.

Green tea looks more like this:
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Well, i was making a joke about green tea. Because to me, it tastes like lawn clippings in a cup of water. Hence my pics depicting lawn grass in a cup. That's about what i think it tastes like. BLECH!

[CCIP]

Ain't knocking coffee (nor Captain Morgan, mmm), it got me through two college diplomas And "on occasion" is a bit of an understatement for the last few weeks of my SH4 playing.

Still not going back to it though, it's just tea for me now.

There's also different kinds of green tea. I'm not a fan of some of the sharper, 'browner' Chinese/Vietnamese varieties. But I do like the 'greener' and milder stuff, like various Japanese Sencha types.

Harvesting Green Tea in Asia.

[Skybird]

Originally Posted by AVGWarhawk

It is green! I have some with berry flavor. It's not bad tasting. I would say the berry flavor does make it better. Question is, are the grass clippings a good antioxidant?

Note that antioxidants have chnaged their percpetion by the scientific community, too. They are no longer seen as the miracle catchers of free radicals, in fact it seems that they even can do damage.

What they now focus on to say is that you need a good balance between both antioxidants and free radicals, else, with not enough free radicals, the imune system looses in striking power.

Do not buy tead bags. That is guarantee for bad green tee. Do not - never any tea! - brew it with hot boiling water that still produces bubbles - let it cool down a bit, 1-2 minutes. That boiling water tip is BS advice from teabag producers not knowing their stuff. Use loose tea, and ask for as good one - the differences in different green teas are very very huge. Brew it very short only. 2 Minutes, not more. It shall not taste strong, and it shall not get bitter, which it easily does.

Have to say that I like Japanese Green Tea very much. There are a couple of Chinese teas as well that by taste are somewhat familiar, White Tea/Pai Mu Tan for example.

Never use these with sugar or added artifical aromes. Its just water and tea - no sugar, no milk, no nothing. If you like it sweet, get African Roibosch "tea" (its no real tea plant, so no coffeine), with sugar and milk. I kill for it, occasionally!

Coffee, okay everybody knows it, but I prefer a strong espresso any time, even when it is a lie: it taste so much better and much stronger but has at least 1/3 less of coffeine, due to the different brewing method. It's also milder and more friendly in effect.

[CCIP]

Originally Posted by Skybird

Do not - never any tea! - brew it with hot boiling water that still produces bubbles - let it cool down a bit, 1-2 minutes. That boiling water tip is BS advice from teabag producers not knowing their stuff. Use loose tea, and ask for as good one - the differences in different green teas are very very huge. Brew it very short only. 2 Minutes, not more. It shall not taste strong, and it shall not get bitter, which it easily does.

Very good advice also! This is another reason that green tea has a bad name - it's simply brewed the wrong way by a lot of people. You can't do it with water that's still boiling, and you can't brew en masse and hold it for a long time. Knowing those two things alone makes for better green tea. Naturally, at a lot of restaurants, they don't do that due to the demands of mass service, and you end up with mediocre tea. Or if it comes in bags - bad tea that's often full of filler (think wood chips or seed skins from rice).

My own conversion to tea happened 3-4 years ago when I was educated on how to buy, brew and serve it right. Green tea, red/brown tea, white tea, flower/fruit teas - they are all awesome in their own ways, but require the right approach. That doesn't mean you need to learn the tea ceremony to appreciate them, but brewing them right will make a lot of difference.