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- From: mlloyd@ocf.berkeley.edu (M. Lloyd)
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- Subject: Re: Gay soda! I'm so excited!
- Date: 22 Jan 1993 00:56:50 GMT
- Organization: U. C. Berkeley Open Computing Facility
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- kc2@doc.ic.ac.uk (K Campbell) writes:
- >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".
-
- Agreed. Still, it's worth remarking on the fact that generic British
- tea is still drinkable, while American is not. I take the best of both
- worlds, and hate the deficiencies in the beverage department when in the
- "wrong" country. I adore strong coffee, and the stuff you get served in
- Britain is uniformly awful - I shudder to think about the number of
- times I've been given a "cappuchino", meaning a regular coffee with
- pseudo-cream squirted from a tube on top! Buying a cup of non-herbal
- (?!) tea in America can produce similarly appalling results.
-
- So I make my own tea in the US, and my own coffee in the UK. People
- tend to regard those of us with such habits rather "picky", at least
- until they actually *try* the experiment ...
-
- >(And does anyone apart from myself like lapsang souchong?)
- >(forgive my possibly erroneous spelling)
-
- The spelling is fine. The tea is glorious - I just finished a mug. It
- has the same obnoxious features I adore in my favourite whiskys .. :-)
-
- Mike, who prays he gets a job soon so he can afford a coffee machine in
- his new apartment
- --
- Mike Lloyd, B0/1 h- f- t w- g+ k+ s m- e? | "Bloody nose and burning eyes
- Retro-hippy, music nut, bi and | Raised in laughter to the skies"
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- --The end of confusion is the beginning of death--
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