Apparently, the Beatles didn't just drink tea, either. Paul McCartney said that when he and John Lennon were young, they smoked it in a pipe! We'll stick with milk and two sugar in our tea, though.
McCartney answered the question posted via his official website's (PaulMcCartney.com) “You Gave Me The Answer” fan corner, which asked the former-Beatle how he took his tea. He replied, “How do I take my tea? I take my tea with some soya milk and one sugar.
And then there's all the tea! Without a doubt, English breakfast tea, a Lennon favorite, should be on your menu. Paul takes his tea with “soya milk and one sugar.” If you're looking for some of the food that the Beatles ate circa Get Back, here are more ideas for a kitschy viewing party.
In his (ghostwritten) memoir “A Cellarful of Noise,” manager Brian Epstein recalled that when the group got an audition with Decca, “we all celebrated with rum and Scotch and Coke, which was becoming a Beatle drink even then.” And Paul McCartney,describing in Michael Braun's book “Love Me Do!” how Bob Dylan turned the ...
Paul smokes cigars, and they have drinks: white wine for George, a beer for John and Paul.
He was particularly fussy about his tea - and the way it was made! He always ensured his favourite tea - English Breakfast in tea bag, was put in first and then hot water was poured. Apparently, when his wife sometimes put water first and then dipped in the tea bag, John would find this out in the first sip!
As early as 1961, the Beatles' drug odyssey was underway with habitual use of Preludin, a stimulant, during performances at clubs in Hamburg, Germany. There they used marijuana, too, but it was only after trying it with Bob Dylan in New York City in 1964 that they got particularly high.
The Beatles in general loved their tea. A study of the band's lyrics determined that based on the volume of references to tea — 12 — it was the band's favorite beverage.
Kellogg's Corn Flakes and Bird's Custard – John had simple breakfast tastes. He loved toast and tea. He loved Corn Flakes. And for dessert, the unbelievably delicious Bird's Custard was always a hit.
How the Queen Takes Her Cup. Her Majesty starts each morning in a quintessentially British way with a cup of tea and biscuits, according to former Royal Chef Darren McGrady. She may have a fancy chef but her choice in tea isn't lavish at all. The Queen drinks Twinings Earl Grey tea with a splash of milk and no sugar.
Yoko Ono is now speaking out against recent claims that her late husband, former Beatle John Lennon, suffered from bulimia. A new book is alleging the late rocker obsessed over “forbidden foods,” and countered the guilt he felt for eating them by purging.
In a bid to lose ten pounds for an upcoming movie, Dark Shadows, directed by Tim Burton, Johnny Depp has put himself on a green tea diet. This essentially means that the star is drinking gallons of green tea and supplementing his diet with low fructose fruits like pineapples and strawberries. Sounds interesting?
The Bed-ins for Peace were two week-long nonviolent protests against wars, intended as experimental tests of new ways to promote peace. As the Vietnam War raged in 1969, John Lennon and his wife Yoko Ono held one protest at the Hilton Hotel in Amsterdam and one at the Queen Elizabeth Hotel in Montreal.
In case you hadn't heard, The Beatles star, Paul McCartney, recently revealed that his favourite sandwich is a bagel sliced into three sections and filled with lettuce, hummus, cheese, tomato, pickles and, of course, MARMITE.
Fish and Chips
As regular working class Liverpool boys, the Beatles band members had a taste for regular everyday foods, like the beloved British classic, fish and chips. We're not talking potato chips; the fellas enjoyed thick potato fries served with battered cod.
According to Neatorama, three of Paul's favorite dishes are Chip Butties (steak fries with ketchup or mayonnaise sandwiched between two generously-buttered pieces of toast, I chose to use mayo since I was out of ketchup), fried eggs, and mashed potatoes with diced onions.
54. Though experimenting with vegetarianism in the sixties, John was the only Beatle who didn't become a full-time vegetarian and always ended up eating meat.
They were introduced to the drug by the beat poet Royston Ellis, whom The Beatles backed in Liverpool's Jacaranda coffee bar one night for a poetry reading.
In 1965, at a London dinner party attended by George Harrison and John Lennon, the pair were given a dose of LSD by George's dentist John Riley. LSD, also known as acid, is a class A drug which acts as a hallucinogen.
Yes, all four Beatles smoked. John Lennon smoked until the day he was murdered in 1980 at age 40. George Harrison died as a result lung cancer caused by smoking at age 58 in 2001.
And so, at a hotel in Amsterdam, they sat in bed for a week, from March 25 to March 31, and invited the press to ask them questions between 9:00 a.m. and 9:00 p.m. each day. “We sent out a card: 'Come to John and Yoko's honeymoon: a bed-in, Amsterdam Hotel,'” Lennon was quoted recalling in The Beatles Anthology.
On This Day In Chicago, 1966: John Lennon Apologized For 'Jesus' Comment. CHICAGO (CBS) -- When John Lennon first said that the Beatles were more popular than Jesus, nobody took any notice. Lennon made those remarks to a British journalist in March, 1966.
PAUL McCartney has shared an intimate sexual story of an experience he had with former Beatle John Lennon, which he calls “good harmless fun”.
Paul McCartney noted in an interview with David Frost, “When Yoko came along, part of her attraction was her avant-garde side, her view of things,” McCartney revealed in 2012. “So, she showed him another way to be, which was very attractive to him.”
“He showed me a photograph on his telephone of … it was a photograph of our bed, and on my side of the bed, was human fecal matter,” Depp said, noting that the discovery came after and Heard had an argument during her 30th birthday party and she then left for Coachella.