Christian seeks Atheists for Tea and (perhaps) Biscuits

[Theologika]

I like my tea iced and moderately sweet, and I like my biscuits fluffy and hot with gravy on them.

But yeah, welcome to you from Tennessee, where we're always up for a tall glass of tea.

I'm not bothered about the shape of the receptacle, but this "iced tea" concept leaves me cold.

Welcome

Greetings.

Smarmy bastards.

I drink coffee - strong - and depending on the time of day I want only a bit of milk or a bit of whiskey.

Tea is for the weak.

And biscuits are meant to be steaming, fluffy and slathered in butter and honey, or broken up into white gravy and sausage. With a side of sweet grits. And bacon. And eggs over-easy.

But welcome anyway, from North Carolina, which has adopted me but I cannot adopt their iced tea ways.

"The weakness of tea is stronger than coffee's strength." 1 Corinteans 1:25b

Coffee... that's something to do with beans, isn't it? Doesn't sound very appealing to me - I much prefer to soak dried leaves in boiling water, then strain the resulting liquor into an apposite drinking vessel and imbibe it with a crystallised disaccharide compound. Yum. Of course, one could also add bovine lactic fluid, but that's not my cup of tea.

Biscuits should indeed be steaming but only while they're being baked; and in my experience they only tend to get fluffy after being left in a pocket or down the side of an armchair for a few weeks. I don't usually fancy eating them like that, though, and I don't think any amount of honey would persuade me otherwise.

Biscuits in a pocket? What kind of ruffian are you? But at least you know what a biscuit is...

Nom!

*lifts cup towards Theologika*
Hi there! ^_^

Highly nommable indeed! Just needs a nibblable* biscuit to go with.

*Best ever word.

I live right down the street from the S&D coffee company. When they roast the "beans," which are actually the seeds, the smell is ambrosia on the wind.

Hush your mouth. I'm hungry and thinking of going downstairs to roll out a batch of buttermilk biscuits right now.

Those look like scones, m' dear. A bit of jam and clotted cream perhaps, but certainly not gravy.

The kind of biscuits to which summer and I are referring would crumble in a pocket, and become stale and hard as a stone if lost down the side of an armchair. What you're talking about is a cookie.

What you're talking about is a scone. And you wouldn't put one of those in your pocket either! (What kind of backwards society have I walked into that puts such delicacies in one's trousers? )

I'm only pulling your collective legs. I fully understand that there are cultural and linguistic differences between our two great nations and though there are always going to be new things for each to learn about the other - enter into evidence the Marmite thread - I'm cognisant of the biscuit thing. We should all take pride in what makes our native country great and also embrace the differences; so let's just agree that Americans are weird and go from there.

Quite. Let's put aside our differences and agree that, as usual, the English have got it right.