Té

Here, they drink tea (té) constantly. In fact, instead of having dinner, we have ''once'' which is a tea time where we eat finger food snacks and leftovers from lunch, which is the big meal of the day. You'd think that in a country where they drink so much tea, they would have a huge variety and well-developed taste for different flavors and styles. In fact, no. They drink only Earl Grey (except it has a different name, I can't remember what right now) or Black Ceylon, nothing else. Before coming here I had been told by several people that they drink a lot of tea, so I thought it would be nice to bring some of my favorite types to share. I brought some Good Earth original and some Stash Black Peach, and they think it's freakin' awesome. It's funny, because the other day when someone was asking around the table if anyone wanted tea, they asked ''Would you like regular tea, or tea with flavor?´´ referring to the tea I had brought. I thought ''Wow, they're right. The other tea really has no good flavor. Why on earth would you drink that all of the time if you knew that an option of ''with flavor'' existed?´´ A few days later I found this cartoon by Natalie Dee (for those of you who don't know, she's an internet cartoonist) and it seemed perfectly appropriate for the tea we drink here.