Nan, the flat local bread, and richly sugared tea are the ordinary Afghan's basic diet.

Ran Eld said, voice cloying as sugared tea.

To keep herself warm and awake whilst working she would get through 40 cups of heavily sugared tea each day.

Sitting cross-legged on United States Army surplus sleeping bags, warming their hands on glasses of sugared green tea, are Abdul Haq, the Afghan guerrilla commander, and 10 of his men.

Men spend the evening talking over glasses of hot sugared tea.

All come for the politics, the sugared black tea and the occasional bowl of spaghetti.

The villages have been converted into guerrilla truck stops where it is possible to get a hot meal and plenty of sugared tea.

His wife fed him on white bread and butter and sugared tea; she gave him coffee.

A cup of sugared tea was available at lunch and in the afternoon.

Before the latest spurt in inflation, breakfast consisted of bread and sugared tea.