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Teapots, mugs, and other things of that nature that are amazing.
Inlander:
English Breakfast is a bland and mediocre style of tea. You're better off without it.
Eris:
How is it different to 'British Breakfast"? Or is her coffee shop trying to be fancy?
I normally drink Irish Breakfast, which is stronger than English Breakfast, I believe. I also have some spiffy Blood Orange tea from The Tea Cantre, but it gets bitter very quickly, so I don't like it as much as I thought I would.
Boro_Bandito:
Paul, I gotta say that even though nobody else said anything about it, that description is completely hilarious.
and why is it that I want to try black pudding so much? Maybe its just some kind of morbid fascination of it, but when I was watching No Reservations with Anthony Bourdain and saw him eat it with that egg on top it looked pretty good. At least he made it seem good. Heck, the deep fried Hagus looked good in that episode too, so who knows.
KharBevNor:
--- Quote from: Lunchbox on 26 May 2008, 20:31 ---Yeah, all of the 'old people' I know (parents and grandparents) always drink tea when it's hot, saying it 'cools them down,' which I never understood
--- End quote ---
The human body senses changes in temperature, not absolute temperatures. By raising your core body temperature slightly on a hot day you can make your skin feel cooler.
@Pwhodges: Black pudding is a staple of fried breakfasts on the Isle of Wight, and seemingly fairly common in Dorset, Devon and Cornwall. Perhaps you mean a more northerly sort of south? I can't remember ever having a fried breakfast (outside London) north of Salisbury and south of York.
I recently discovered that the reason every time I order an iced coffee I am given some pathetic gruel-like concoction is because the forces of ghastly snobbish yuppie wankishness have decided to call a combination of vanilla ice cream, coffee and milk, which I regard as an iced coffee a Monto-Verdi-Pele-Mocha-Frocha-Frappa-Bappa-Parappa-The-Rappa-Cino, or something along those lines. I remember where it is on the menu of Costa Coffee. Only those fucking bastards make it with Espresso. NO! ESPRESSO TASTES LIKE SHIT! STOP USING IT IN EVERYTHING! AND STOP ONLY OFFERING AMERICANOS AS IF IF THEY'RE BLACK COFFEES! THERE IS A DISTINCT DIFFERENCE BETWEEN AN AMERICANO AND A PROPERLY BREWED BLACK FILTER COFFEE AND I WANT THE LATTER AND I WOULD ALSO PREFER IF YOU CALLED IT A REAL SIZE LIKE SMALL MEDIUM OR LARGE GODS I HATE YOU ALLLLLLLLLLLLLL!
Inlander:
On the subject of tea receptacles, I have these which I inherited from my grandparents:
From my English grandmother, I have six cups and saucers like so:
And from my Australian grandmother, I have these two:
I use them on special occasions, and on Sunday (which is also known as "Attenborough, stroopwafel and tea day").
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