Hacker tea (was Re: Late Nights and Caffeine)

Max Eskin <max82(a)surfree.com> writes: For hot tea, sure. For iced tea, nothing beats Lipton. It's amazing. When I left home and went to college I tried absolutely everything, and simply couldn't find anything that made decent iced tea. Finally I called my grandmother, to ask what the secret was. I was totally astounded. In July, researchers announced the results of a study showing that black tea reduces the risk of stroke and heart disease by a huge percentage, apparently because it is high in flavonoids. (Red wine does this also.) Green tea reportedly doesn't have much of them, and herbal teas have none. A quick search doesn't reveal an online reference to the study (which I read about in the San Jose Mercury News on July 9), but here are a few articles on flavonoids: http://www.amni.com/reprints/flavonoids.html http://www.cstone.net/meditel/flavionoids.htm LordTyran <a2k(a)one.net> wrote: I bought some sort of iced tea maker some years back, and was dissatisfied with it. My sister tells me that the secret is to ignore the instructions which claim that you should fill the pitcher with ice before making the tea. I'll have to see if I still have the thing in storage, and try it again. I haven't yet figured out how to work a PIC into my tea habit, though. Eric "will program for iced tea" Smith