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I had a friend, both leftist and gauche, who asked for sugar for her tea in
a back alley Chinese restaurant. The waiter stomped off, and returned with
a big container of sugar, slammed it down, and said, "For you, lady! No one
else!"
L
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> From: fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk [mailto:fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk]On Behalf
> Of Scott Chase
> Sent: Tuesday, May 21, 2002 6:30 PM
> To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
> Subject: RE: New Scientist this week
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> >From: "Lawrence DeBivort" <debivort@umd5.umd.edu>
> >Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
> >To: <memetics@mmu.ac.uk>
> >Subject: RE: New Scientist this week
> >Date: Tue, 21 May 2002 11:29:32 -0400
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> (snip)
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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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