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- From: coren@speed.osf.org (Robert Coren)
- Subject: Re: Gay soda! I'm so excited!
- Message-ID: <1993Jan21.160816.26950@osf.org>
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- Organization: Open Software Foundation
- References: <1993Jan20.124508.15752@infodev.cam.ac.uk> <1993Jan21.040523.14392@macc.wisc.edu> <1jljjdINN8td@morrow.stanford.edu> <1993Jan21.113921.17179@infodev.cam.ac.uk>
- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 16:08:16 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan21.113921.17179@infodev.cam.ac.uk>, sa121@cl.cam.ac.uk (S. Arrowsmith) writes:
- > In article <1jljjdINN8td@morrow.stanford.edu> alpha@w6yx.Stanford.EDU (Alpha Schram) writes:
- > > BTW, not surprised to see that those UK'ers find it odd to drink cold
- > > coffee--they find it odd to drink ANY coffee. I wouldn't call the
- > > muddy instant stuff they serve over there coffee. Nearly KILLED me,
- > > ya tea swillin' Brits! ;-P
- > >
- > Ah, the true separation between our countries lies not in language, but
- > in what we drink -- typical American attitude to tea that.
-
- Well, as long as we're making pompous _ex cathedra_ statements about
- matters of taste:-): I'm fond of both coffee and tea, at different
- times for different purposes. However, the British treatment of tea is
- very strange:
-
- (1) take really good tea and brew it so strong that it
- will put a permanent pucker in your tongue;
-
- (2) since it is now undrinkable for bitterness, add a small quantity
- of cold milk;
-
- (3) since it is now undrinkable for appalling taste, pour it into the
- nearest rhododendron.
-
- (Well, the Brits don't do that last part, but it seems like the only
- reasonable course. Readers of Dorothy Sayers may substitute
- "aspidistra" for "rhododendron" at will.)
-
- ObMotss: See first clause.
-