Received: by alpheratz.cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk id XAA22467 (8.6.9/5.3[ref pg@gmsl.co.uk] for cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk from fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk); Tue, 21 May 2002 23:35:58 +0100 X-Originating-IP: [209.240.222.132] From: "Scott Chase" <ecphoric@hotmail.com> To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk Subject: RE: New Scientist this week Date: Tue, 21 May 2002 18:29:41 -0400 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Message-ID: <F255M7GPAbljUINQUZj00005783@hotmail.com> X-OriginalArrivalTime: 21 May 2002 22:29:42.0025 (UTC) FILETIME=[0045DF90:01C20117] Sender: fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
>From: "Lawrence DeBivort" <debivort@umd5.umd.edu>
>Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
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>Subject: RE: New Scientist this week
>Date: Tue, 21 May 2002 11:29:32 -0400
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>OK. I try to be a voice of sage wisdom on the 'Net. But there comes a time
>when enough is enough. THERE IS NO SUCH THING A A GOOD CUPPA TEA WITH MILK
>IN IT. This is a heathenish and insidious notion. NOR SHOULD SUGAR EVER BE
>PUT IN TEA. Tea should be drunk: by warming the tea brewing vessel with
>hot
>water which is then discarded, tea leaves plopped in (NO aluminum eggy
>thing) raw, and boiling water poured over the leaves if black tea, and
>cooler water if green tea. Yes, yes, I know, water temperature is a bit
>more
>complicated than this, but I confess to being a barbarian and not having an
>inclination to fiddle around with thermometers. Well, my UK friends are
>probably back down to one or two. But tea-purity has been upheld.
>
>
Hot tea? How barbaric. The most proper way to drink tea is iced in a tall
glass with a wedge of lemon (sweetening optional). Sweetened in a mason jar
is a decent variation. Iced tea is the only tea.
With Wade living in Boston he probably has no aversions to a good cold cup
of coffee. Iced coffee is big in New England IIRC. I usually drink coffee
cold without milk or sugar.
In my general disregard of social etiquette I really got some people roused
up in a Japanese restaurant once when after taking a couple sips of
unappealing sake I poured the rest into my soda. That tasted much better. I
wonder how sake tastes in fruit juice. Would mixing sake with soda or juice
be considered a faux pas in Japan?
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