Here an interesting paragraph I read about Frisians:
In an otherwise coffee drinking country, East Frisia is noted for its consumption of tea and its tea culture. Strong black tea is served whenever there are visitors to an East Frisian home or other gathering, as well as with breakfast, mid-afternoon, and mid-evening. Tea is sweetened with kluntjes, a rock candy sugar that melts slowly, allowing multiple cups to be sweetened. Heavy cream is also used to flavor the tea. The tea is generally served in traditional small cups, with little cookies during the week and cake during special occasions or on weekends as a special treat. Brown rum, mixed with kluntjes and left for several months, is also added to black tea in the winter. The tea is rumored to cure headaches, stomach problems, and stress, among many other ailments.
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Very interesting. My parents drank coffee so I naturally took to drinking it too. Tradition or genes?
I knew tea was for me! I want to try some of this type of tea fixin’. I wonder if kluntjes is available in the USA. Hmmm…
I DO like tea better than coffee (usually). I think too often coffee was my company on late nights writing papers.