erin, i don't understand why cleaning the tea pot was a problem?? deri, care to en-lighten me? lol
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----- Original Message ----
From: Erin Hall <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Friday, March 14, 2008 10:01:24 AM
Subject: Re: English Breakfast tea in the Global War on Terrorism
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]>
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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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