NetNews Usenet Archive 1993 #3/NN_1993_3.iso/spool/soc/motss/57805

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From: [e-mail] (K Campbell)
Newsgroups: soc.motss,soc.bi
Subject: Re: Gay soda! I'm so excited!
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Date: 21 Jan 1993 18:42:35 -0000
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In article <[e-mail]>,
[e-mail] (Robert Coren) writes:
|>
|> 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.
|>
Not _all_ Brits are inclined to so destroy their tea.  I, for one,
enjoy both tea and coffee, although which I drink is largely dependent
on the mood I'm in an the time of day it is.
I take my tea quite weak, without milk.  Also, I prefer to drink a
specific tea, e.g. Darjeeling, rather than the usual stuff that goes
into the so-called "Great British cuppa".
(And does anyone apart from myself like lapsang souchong?)
(forgive my possibly erroneous spelling)

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