Speaking of tea...
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Cannabis in the tea and on the scones. What's next? Cocaine instead of sugar? :-D -- My name in Katakana is ヨルゲン. My name in German is Jörgen. My name in Mandarin/Kanji is 乔尔根 西格瓦德森. My name in Korean is 요르겐. I blog too now[^]
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Of course not. That'd be counter-productive. Opium instead of honey...
Shog9
I'm not the Jack of Diamonds... I'm not the six of spades. I don't know what you thought; I'm not your astronaut...
I want to come to your next party.
Ðavid Wulff The Royal Woofle Museum
Audioscrobbler :: flikrDie Freiheit spielt auf allen Geigen
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I want to come to your next party.
Ðavid Wulff The Royal Woofle Museum
Audioscrobbler :: flikrDie Freiheit spielt auf allen Geigen
They tend to be rather subdued... ;) a belated note for the benefit of anyone reading this who shouldn't be: i tend to have children around a fair bit of the time these days, and consequently am more than cautious about what i keep in the house. Certainly, any greenish butter in my fridge is more likely to be rancid than anything else...
Shog9
I'm not the Jack of Diamonds... I'm not the six of spades. I don't know what you thought; I'm not your astronaut...
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You find red tea mild? :~ I get bad chest and throat burns from rooibos tea. :sigh: -- My name in Katakana is ヨルゲン. My name in German is Jörgen. My name in Mandarin/Kanji is 乔尔根 西格瓦德森. My name in Korean is 요르겐. I blog too now[^]
Jörgen Sigvardsson wrote: bad chest and throat burns from rooibos tea. Yikes! I did not enjoy my first run in with Plain Red Tea, but the Honeybush infusion is quite pleasant. BW
I want pancakes! God, do you people understand every language except English?
Yo quiero pancakes. Donnez moi pancakes. Click click, bloody click pancakes!
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They tend to be rather subdued... ;) a belated note for the benefit of anyone reading this who shouldn't be: i tend to have children around a fair bit of the time these days, and consequently am more than cautious about what i keep in the house. Certainly, any greenish butter in my fridge is more likely to be rancid than anything else...
Shog9
I'm not the Jack of Diamonds... I'm not the six of spades. I don't know what you thought; I'm not your astronaut...
:-D
Ðavid Wulff The Royal Woofle Museum
Audioscrobbler :: flikrDie Freiheit spielt auf allen Geigen
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And there you go breaking my mental picture of you. :) -- My name in Katakana is ヨルゲン. My name in German is Jörgen. My name in Mandarin/Kanji is 乔尔根 西格瓦德森. My name in Korean is 요르겐. I blog too now[^]
Jörgen Sigvardsson wrote: And there you go breaking my mental picture of you. Well I am just a 58 year old ex-hippie - UCLA - Vietnam - 82'd Airborne - Jazz guitarist - father - grandfather - Mensa - read 4-6 books a week - like deep sea fishing - been writing code before there were PC's - married to the same woman since 1968 - and can proudly wear the "Been There Done That" T- Shirt. I have long hair - a full beard - a moustache - no tattos - have a motorcycle ( busted ) - raise roses in the back yard - born into military family - been a Republican forever - and don't generally fit into any particular mold. I am a touch over 6' tall weigh about 210 wear blue jeans and shorts year round. Have one suit for funerals and weddings and fancy resturants. Like beer and sausages better than wine and steak. Adore Thai food and am taking a course in Thai cooking starting in June. And thats me in a nutshell. I am anything but uptight and rigid Richard "Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer --Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
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I just clicked the link to Marc's tea, and noticed again how many different flavors exist. Then, I began pondering the reason(s) for so many different flavors. So, I put the question to you. Why do you think there are so many different flavors of tea? Here are some of my wild guesses: * As someone who doesn't like tea, or hasn't found the tea he likes -- tea has always tasted bad, so people keep trying to make it taste good. :-D * So many people like the flavor, health benefits, or something else about tea that different people would try new tea flavors just to see what they would be like, too. Other ideas? Comments? Got any suggestions on a good tea for someone who doesn't like coffee, colas, black licorice, strong chocolate, or tart/sour things? (My favorite drinks are juice, milk, and Mt. Dew.) John
"You said a whole sentence with no words in it, and I understood you!" -- my wife as she cries about slowly becoming a geek.People will try eating or drinking anything, including boiled leaves of strange plants. Some people die of it, others live and acquire a taste for the new discovery. Someone discovered that boiling the leaves of hemlock makes a solution that will cause unpopular philosophers to die and become less of a nuisance, so the recipe was preserved. Someone discovered that boiling the leaves of certain low growing bushes in Ceylon makes a solution that some marks will actually pay to drink, so again the recipe was preserved. Later entrepreneurs found other bushes whose leaves people would pay to have boiled for them, so these, too, became popular enough to preserve. They all taste different, but the one thing they have in common is that some fraction of the population will pay to drink them. Hence we have many flavors of tea. I've wondered about some of the things we take for granted today as comestibles and drugs. Someone discovered that artichokes are delicious - what were the circumstances? If you've ever tried to cut, gnaw, chop or otherwise deal with an artichoke you know that the poor sod that discovered them as a foodstuff had to be awfully hungry to attempt it for the first time. Similarly, someone found that licking the belly of a certain toad causes pleasant hallucinations. What the hell led to that discovery? A frat party gone wrong? A drinking binge on a fishing trip? Who first said, "Let's catch that toad and lick it?" And why wasn't I invited to that party? I always miss the good stuff...:sigh: "If it's Snowbird season, why can't we shoot them?" - Overheard in a bar in Bullhead City
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Ray Cassick wrote: I make my tea very strong (two bags in a normal mug) and cook the tea in the MW with the bags in the water. Should not do that. The MW radiation also heats the residual moisture in the tea leaves and changes the taste of the tea. Or so my tea freak friends say. I personally drink good Peruvian Organic Coffee myself. I do believe that part of the decline of the British Empire can be attributed to tea drinking :) Richard "Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer --Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
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Erm... Googling for cannabis makes me wonder exactly what this "tea" does to somebody... :~ John
"You said a whole sentence with no words in it, and I understood you!" -- my wife as she cries about slowly becoming a geek. -
They tend to be rather subdued... ;) a belated note for the benefit of anyone reading this who shouldn't be: i tend to have children around a fair bit of the time these days, and consequently am more than cautious about what i keep in the house. Certainly, any greenish butter in my fridge is more likely to be rancid than anything else...
Shog9
I'm not the Jack of Diamonds... I'm not the six of spades. I don't know what you thought; I'm not your astronaut...
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People will try eating or drinking anything, including boiled leaves of strange plants. Some people die of it, others live and acquire a taste for the new discovery. Someone discovered that boiling the leaves of hemlock makes a solution that will cause unpopular philosophers to die and become less of a nuisance, so the recipe was preserved. Someone discovered that boiling the leaves of certain low growing bushes in Ceylon makes a solution that some marks will actually pay to drink, so again the recipe was preserved. Later entrepreneurs found other bushes whose leaves people would pay to have boiled for them, so these, too, became popular enough to preserve. They all taste different, but the one thing they have in common is that some fraction of the population will pay to drink them. Hence we have many flavors of tea. I've wondered about some of the things we take for granted today as comestibles and drugs. Someone discovered that artichokes are delicious - what were the circumstances? If you've ever tried to cut, gnaw, chop or otherwise deal with an artichoke you know that the poor sod that discovered them as a foodstuff had to be awfully hungry to attempt it for the first time. Similarly, someone found that licking the belly of a certain toad causes pleasant hallucinations. What the hell led to that discovery? A frat party gone wrong? A drinking binge on a fishing trip? Who first said, "Let's catch that toad and lick it?" And why wasn't I invited to that party? I always miss the good stuff...:sigh: "If it's Snowbird season, why can't we shoot them?" - Overheard in a bar in Bullhead City
I've wondered things like that many times, and this is just the sort of post I was hoping for! ;) John
"You said a whole sentence with no words in it, and I understood you!" -- my wife as she cries about slowly becoming a geek.