Well, Mr Tea, now that you mention food which goes well with tea: hot buttered toast, or there is a biscuit (cookie to you U.S. 'Catters) in Oz called Nice (pronounced "neece", made by Arnott's) which is a plain biscuit, no cream, with a sprinkle of sugar. They are wonderful dipped in tea. Another great tea-dipping biscuit is Arnott's Scotch Finger biscuit.

The Tim Tam discussion in another thread, whose name escapes me at present, has little relevance to tea drinking. Tim Tams work with coffee but not so well with tea. (Two biscuites sandwiched together with biscuit cream, bite each of the ends off and then suck coffee through the cream in the centre. Some people make a habit of it. I can't say I have tried it but the chocolate biscuit & cream probaby go better with coffee.)

Also, I asked Praise about the recipe for Iced Tea which she mentioned. she can't getinto this thread at the moment because it's stuck using Netscape but it works with IE. She replied:

"No, no recipe... the sweet tea of the south is a mystery to me and the home iced tea is just any old tea, iced.

"Thai coffee, now, I almost have figured out!"

Helen