Horlicks and Milo.

All over the world people drink tea and Jamaica is no different. We love our tea. There is a huge difference with what Jamaicans refer to as tea versus the rest of the world, however. In Jamaica, if it is a hot liquid (excluding porridge and soup) and you drink it in the morning or at breakfast, then it is tea.

So the rest of the world have tea, hot chocolate, hot cocoa, hot coffee and the list goes on. Not Jamaica, we have chocolate tea, milo tea, cocoa tea, horlicks tea, bush tea; you see where am going. Bush tea could refer to any herb that is picked in the bushes or on a farm like fever grass, cerasse, busy and some I can’t even spell; like “mawju bitter”

Now here is the kicker, if you make soup with fish, Jamaicans call it fish tea. Yes, my non-Jamaicans might be used to their chicken soup. But if you substitute the chicken with fish, you no longer have soup, you have fish tea. There is nothing as delicious on a Sunday morning than a nice bowl of fish tea with some soft boiled green bananas.

I LOVE JAMAICAN CULTURE.