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Post by charliebrown on Jun 14, 2013 10:15:58 GMT
Barbarians! ;D
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Post by JoeP on Jun 14, 2013 10:33:51 GMT
I haven't used a tea strainer for yonks. I haven't used a tea strainer for coffee.
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Post by Mari on Jun 14, 2013 14:19:18 GMT
I have no idea what a tea strainer is, though I can guess its function
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Post by whollygoats on Jun 14, 2013 15:11:48 GMT
Heh...Thanks. I wondered how long it would take for somebody to bring that up. I normally use the term "USer", which has far more 'correct' associated allusions. Is that as in US and THEM? Yes. But I tend to think more of 'user', those who use others. In this case, particularly others' resources...profligately. No. Diet=Perfectly good food I should eat more regularly. Normal food=Food I like which I should NOT eat. This now includes dairy products, saturated and hydrogonated fats, sugar and sodium. My domestic partner is off gluten products. I occasionally eat foods I should not eat. I would not consider biscuits and sausage gravy to be even 'normal food'. It is laden with dairy fats, saturated fats, gluten and sodium galore. It should not be a regular part of any diet. It is not healthy, I know this; it still tastes incredibly good.
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Post by Moose on Jun 14, 2013 16:28:48 GMT
I don't drink tea. But a choccie biccie dunked in cocoa is nice.
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Post by JoeP on Jun 14, 2013 16:29:57 GMT
No tea at all? Not even green tea or Earl Grey or herbal tea or rooibos?
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Post by Miisa on Jun 14, 2013 16:47:45 GMT
I have my tea imported especially for me. *pretentious*
(PG tips and Tetly, etc. )
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Post by Alvamiga on Jun 14, 2013 18:46:42 GMT
I can't stand tea... tastes like someone chopped a bush up and put it in boiling water!
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Post by whollygoats on Jun 14, 2013 18:56:54 GMT
I can't stand tea... tastes like someone chopped a bush up and put it in boiling water! Well...yeah. I just figured that the Brits defoliated the Isles and had taken to defoliating south Asia...chopping up bushes to immerse in hot water.
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Post by JoeP on Jun 14, 2013 20:23:34 GMT
As the goat points out, that's pretty much what it's supposed to be.
Actually with black tea, they 'ferment' it first. At least they don't burn it, like coffee - how gross is that?
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Post by charliebrown on Jun 14, 2013 20:49:52 GMT
Actually the gross part is adding milk to it!
No I was joking. I enjoy milk tea, though it's not the Chinese way of proper tea drinking.
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Post by Miisa on Jun 15, 2013 6:46:22 GMT
I am not a fan of green tea (I know, healthy etc) or weak black tea. Right now I am enjoying one of my last industrial strength big English Spar store brand tea bags. Must ask for other strong ones when people travel to Ireland this summer, I hear Typhoo is also good.
Most little string bags just make coloured water, though Twinings is passable and (surprisingly) another store brand I can actually get locally, Euroshopper.
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Post by JoeP on Jun 15, 2013 9:46:47 GMT
Do you need emergency rations of strong tea airlifted to you?
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Post by Miisa on Jun 15, 2013 9:59:40 GMT
I have a few years' worth of PG Tips in my stockpiles at the moment, thank you good ser, so I will not go dry. Not as strong as the best stuff, but it will suffice.
Also, my firstborn will be travelling to your isles a fortnight hence, and will undoubtedly bring back many spoils of tourism for his mother.
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Post by JoeP on Jun 15, 2013 11:05:20 GMT
How old is he?
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Post by Miisa on Jun 15, 2013 12:16:32 GMT
14, going with his grandmother to see his aunt.
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Post by JoeP on Jun 15, 2013 12:18:36 GMT
and do shopping for his mum
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Post by Miisa on Jun 15, 2013 12:48:32 GMT
Of course!
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Post by Alvamiga on Jun 15, 2013 15:28:16 GMT
Will the return journey be one with full suitcases of tea, like many do inward with cigarettes? It'd certainly confuse the customs officers!
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Post by Miisa on Jun 15, 2013 15:45:42 GMT
I am the head of a tea-smuggling empire.
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Post by whollygoats on Jun 15, 2013 17:22:52 GMT
The East Finland Company? The Miisa Hansa?
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Post by whollygoats on Jun 15, 2013 17:26:15 GMT
As the goat points out, that's pretty much what it's supposed to be. Actually with black tea, they 'ferment' it first. At least they don't burn it, like coffee - how gross is that? You're saying that black teas are merely composted? A bit? The black stuff is really the rotten stuff they're trying to pawn off on an suspecting public?
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Post by Miisa on Jun 15, 2013 19:09:30 GMT
As the goat points out, that's pretty much what it's supposed to be. Actually with black tea, they 'ferment' it first. At least they don't burn it, like coffee - how gross is that? You're saying that black teas are merely composted? A bit? The black stuff is really the rotten stuff they're trying to pawn off on an suspecting public? And alcohol is juice that has gone off, but has the best marketing team imaginable.
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Post by whollygoats on Jun 15, 2013 19:10:17 GMT
LOL. Indeed.
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Post by JoeP on Jun 15, 2013 19:40:21 GMT
And don't get me started on cheese.
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Post by whollygoats on Jun 15, 2013 19:46:34 GMT
I believe in cheeses.
"Fine purveyors of rotten stuff."
Get 'em before they're soil amendments!
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Post by Alvamiga on Jun 15, 2013 20:09:06 GMT
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Post by Alvamiga on Jun 15, 2013 20:09:49 GMT
Hang on... that's Sweden! Never mind; same place! *runs away*
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Post by JoeP on Jun 15, 2013 20:43:19 GMT
Uh oh
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Post by Miisa on Jun 15, 2013 21:03:04 GMT
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