Tea Time With Teacups

Tea Time 4:00 pm

Boil pour steep enjoy

sit sip nibble Chocolate

snacks with evening chats.

SaucyMama's Mom, the SpiceQueen, informed her way back in 1990 that tea was the healthful beverage of choice for her and the PepperPrince. Yes, they would still do coffee in the morning, but the 4:00 o'clock hour would now be called Tea Time. This coincided with the SpiceQueen informing SaucyMama that at their age, the SpiceQueen and the PepperPrince would now be eating their main dinner at lunch time--another healthful choice. Amazingly, I don't know what she read, or how she came to this, but the SpiceQueen was prescient in the extreme about the healthfulness of tea. Let me say that the SpiceQueen was an early adopter of yogurt as a healthful breakfast alternative to cold cereal. SpiceQueen even made her own yogurt in those early days before Dannon and Yoplait. The healthfulness of tea is now being researched and documented.

The PepperPrince is partial to the Classic Lipton, while the SpiceQueen is a bit more adventuresome. While not an endorsement, this site has a fun little virtual tea leaf reader. I myself consider tea the daytime wine.