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 > > ----------------------- > > To change your mail settings or leave the C-PALSY list, go here: > > http://listserv.icors.org/SCRIPTS/WA-ICORS.EXE?SUBED1=c-palsy > ----------------------- To change your mail settings or leave the C-PALSY list, go here: http://listserv.icors.org/SCRIPTS/WA-ICORS.EXE?SUBED1=c-palsy