So this morning, having finished my first cup of tea and still feeling somewhat hung over, I shuffled into the kitchen for a second. There’s a ritual to this, more mundane than the Japanese ceremony variety, but a ritual none the less. Put the kettle on to boil, fetch a teabag from the PG Tips box and drop it into the cup. Pour the boiling water into the cup and let it steep for a few minutes. Take the cup over to the counter, two teaspoons. Milk. Start to walk back to my desk, sip…..
Choke.
I really don’t think that hot salted tea is going to be a taste sensation that is sweeping the country anytime soon. Good grief, I was really out of it this morning.
browngirl
Add some yak’s butter?
Rob Wynne
Er……why?
hrrunka
It’ll curdle beautifully, and leave a rancid oily layer on top of the tea as well, thus demonstrating that there is something worse that can be done to tea than simply adding salt…
hrrunka
(Yak butter is, I think, the traditional Tibetan additive for tea.)
browngirl
Then you’d have butter tea!
(I was just being silly.)
keristor
I remember my Grandmother doing much the same. Except it was the whole sugar-bowl. Us kids got told off for complaining that our cereal tasted bad, until one of the grownups tasted what was in their drink…
Rob Wynne
Heh. I really don’t see where I could have gotten mixed up. The sugar is in a big quart-sized canister. The kosher salt is in a small glass bowl with a lid. They aren’t remotely similar.
kitanzi
Ohhhh sweetie. *grin* On the up side (?!?) I bet you were quite awake after that.
katyhh
I. Should. Not. Laugh. ….
(*gigglegiggle*)
Poor you. *BIGHUGS* (aren’t you glad I didn’t use a big font for that one? ;-)) (looking forward to seeing you guys at OVFF. It’s been too long.)
Rob Wynne
*giggle*
You’re right, it *has* been too long. Much much too long.
bercilakslady
I should tell you about the time I made cookies at Kate’s house… Salted chocolate chip cookies…
tibicina
One of my friends accidentally made salted pineapple upside-down cake, once.
tibicina
I’ve had salted lemonade (and salted limeade)… and salted plum soda, but never salted tea that I remember, no.
Though hot salted water is good for gargling with if you’ve got a sore throat. (well, theoretically, I always had trouble with it, so I’d make boullion instead and gargle with that.)
Okay, so I also wanted to comment because this icon will probably never be more appropriate.
the_gwenzilliad
I did this once, in a glass of iced tea. At the Davis Bros. cafeteria on I-20 on my way through Atlanta with a childhood friend and her family for a summer vacation trip. I have never done it again. Beyond vile.
elgecko
OUCH! Oh… I felt it.
Incidentally, my boss refers to my morning latte-making as, ‘That elaborate ritual of yours’
catalana
*giggle* That doesn’t sound fun. It reminds me of the time I was making brownies and started pouring them into the pan when I went “why are these so pale?” Yeah, I’d forgotten to add cocoa…
ailsaek
Maybe you could gargle it for a sore throat?
Hmm. I need some green tea.
grey_lady
Ewwwwwww.
Just …
ewwww.
*hugs*
annonynous
Oh, did that bring out a truly dusty memory, in the cafeteria from my college days! A friend (?) put salt in my cup of coffee while I went back on line to get something else. Pee-eeew!
Ann O.
danea
When I was too young to notice the consistency difference (that’s my story and I’m sticking to it) I poured vinegar on my pancakes….