...I do drink Hot Cocoa! 
Does that count?
If not, chase me out with pitchforks and torches that have teabags strung from them, let it be interesting!
Does that count?
If not, chase me out with pitchforks and torches that have teabags strung from them, let it be interesting!
Hi! Welcome im not really sure if that would count personally since tea leaves are made of tea leaves and hot cocoa is made of cocoa so technically it could also be seen as a type of coffee but also not since how its made is different.
Kaiortea wrote:
Hi! Welcome im not really sure if that would count personally since tea leaves are made of tea leaves and hot cocoa is made of cocoa so technically it could also be seen as a type of coffee but also not since how its made is different.
Hmmm that's an interesting notion. Would you consider coffee to just be bean tea (as I call it to annoy people)? And if that's just bean tea, is hot cocoa also just bean tea? *thinking*
Technically, "tea" refers to a beverage made from leaves from the tea plant. Derived from the word "tê", from the Xiamen dialect of Hokkien, referring to the same plant.
"Tisane", which is Latin, is defined as "an infusion of fragrant herbs, fruit, bark, flowers, or spices that is steeped or simmered in hot water". It would include both coffee, and hibiscus. Cocoa is technically an emulsion of water and cocoa bean solids, though a tisane is also made from steeping the husks.
In some parts of North America, "tea" has become synonymous with "tisane" (that's a long story partly to do with the fallout of the American Tea Act of 1773). To try and make things less confusing, the term "herbal tea" also gets used to differentiate tisanes from tea, since tea itself doesn't have any synonyms to describe well... tea.
"Tisane", which is Latin, is defined as "an infusion of fragrant herbs, fruit, bark, flowers, or spices that is steeped or simmered in hot water". It would include both coffee, and hibiscus. Cocoa is technically an emulsion of water and cocoa bean solids, though a tisane is also made from steeping the husks.
In some parts of North America, "tea" has become synonymous with "tisane" (that's a long story partly to do with the fallout of the American Tea Act of 1773). To try and make things less confusing, the term "herbal tea" also gets used to differentiate tisanes from tea, since tea itself doesn't have any synonyms to describe well... tea.
AJ_89 wrote:
Technically, "tea" refers to a beverage made from leaves from the tea plant. Derived from the word "tê", from the Xiamen dialect of Hokkien, referring to the same plant.
"Tisane", which is Latin, is defined as "an infusion of fragrant herbs, fruit, bark, flowers, or spices that is steeped or simmered in hot water". It would include both coffee, and hibiscus. Cocoa is technically an emulsion of water and cocoa bean solids, though a tisane is also made from steeping the husks.
In some parts of North America, "tea" has become synonymous with "tisane" (that's a long story partly to do with the fallout of the American Tea Act of 1773). To try and make things less confusing, the term "herbal tea" also gets used to differentiate tisanes from tea, since tea itself doesn't have any synonyms to describe well... tea.
"Tisane", which is Latin, is defined as "an infusion of fragrant herbs, fruit, bark, flowers, or spices that is steeped or simmered in hot water". It would include both coffee, and hibiscus. Cocoa is technically an emulsion of water and cocoa bean solids, though a tisane is also made from steeping the husks.
In some parts of North America, "tea" has become synonymous with "tisane" (that's a long story partly to do with the fallout of the American Tea Act of 1773). To try and make things less confusing, the term "herbal tea" also gets used to differentiate tisanes from tea, since tea itself doesn't have any synonyms to describe well... tea.
Oooh I'm learning!! :o That's really interesting about tisane vs. tea. I feel like the connection between our dismal tea knowledge and that particular historical incident should have been more obvious...
Hot chocolate is just becoming more mysterious by the second under these circumstances.
Sorry to ask more questions, but does adding milk to tea change anything about its classification? I have had a lot of questions and no hyper-specific avenue in which they moght be relevant until now.
I really like reading about the history of it, especially when you see the connection between everyone calling it some variation of 'te' or 'cha' :DDD Although I guess it definitely has its dark moments, as a history.....
I know there are chai categories that are steeped in milk, but I personally still consider them tea as opposed to another beverage. I don't know if any beverages using tea and spices in India, for instance, are known as anything besides tea... Or as a separate category, I mean, I'm sure they all have their own names and different styles too.
I know there are chai categories that are steeped in milk, but I personally still consider them tea as opposed to another beverage. I don't know if any beverages using tea and spices in India, for instance, are known as anything besides tea... Or as a separate category, I mean, I'm sure they all have their own names and different styles too.
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