judy does not understand me not wanting the coffee pot
cleaned.
--- Erin Hall <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Hmmm, speakeing of strong tea....
>
> I went to live in the UK (Barrow-in-Furness), when I
> was 14. Anyway, when I
> was 16, I volunteered in a local hospital. My job
> was to help out in the
> kitchen where the day patients came in for OT.
>
> One day, I decided to wash out the tea pot the
> ambulance crews used.
> BIG BIG mistake.
>
> Ok, I had already lived there 2 years and knew how
> to make a cup of tea
> well, sort of. :) So here was this really and I
> mean *really* stained
> white tea pot and I thought it needed a *really*
> good cleaning. The tea
> these guys drank was the spoon standing up on it's
> own kind.
>
> I was so proud of my effort. That tea pot was
> spotless. The person I
> worked under looked at this nice clean pot and took
> off before any of the
> guys came in that morning.
>
> End result, I prayed I didn't need an ambulance for
> quite a while but, they
> took it in good humour. My being canadian helped :)
>
> Erin
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Deri James" <[log in to unmask]>
> Newsgroups: bit.listserv.c-palsy
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2008 8:50 PM
> Subject: Re: English Breakfast tea in the Global War
> on Terrorism
>
>
> > On Friday 14 March 2008 00:02:30 Tamar Raine
> wrote:
> >> Deri, does earl grey tea have the same effect?
> Isn't EG the same as EBT
> >> only with the bergnof oil?
> >>
> >
> > Hi Mags,
> >
> > There are hundreds of Earl Grey teas (all with
> bergomot oil). The one I am
> > most familiar with is Jacksons of Piccadilly.
> >
> > One similarity is that they are both "black" teas,
> but EG is usually a
> > China
> > Tea and EBT is usually Indian (+Kenyan).
> >
> > The active agent mentioned in the article is
> "polyphenols" (which is
> > probably
> > tannin in the case of tea), and given that EBT has
> a lot more astringent
> > taste than EG it may well contain more polphenols.
> >
> > My cuppa in the morning is so strong that if I tip
> it on my white shirt it
> > takes a couple of washes to get it out. Just think
> what its doing to my
> > insides - still, probably the same colour as my
> lungs, since my breakfast
> > accompaniment to a cuppa is a small cigar!!!
> >
> > Cheers
> >
> > Deri
> >
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