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Welease Woderwick
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Talking of weather, as is our wont, I woke during the night and thought i heard some gentle rain over the sound of the ceiling fan and woke this morning to find that I had - it was little more than a sprinkle but anything is welcome and twice in 24 hours doubly so.
Tired again this morning so possibly a little lie down before I tackle anything too drastic, like picking up a book!
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I will know I have recovered from the Virus from H**l when I am interested in proper coffee (or indeed, any coffee). In the meantime, there is tea in the pot...help yourselves.
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Boogie
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Originally posted by St Everild:
I will know I have recovered from the Virus from H**l when I am interested in proper coffee (or indeed, any coffee). In the meantime, there is tea in the pot...help yourselves.
Yes! I went off coffee and seem to have given up milk in my tea since I had the flu.
Odd.
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Boogie, I had that happen once too and the doctor said to give it a couple of weeks with no dairy and then add the milk back to my tea. It worked great. It just isn't tea without the milk!
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Boogie
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Interesting lily pad - I will do that!
Great news, Boogielet2 has found out where he will be based when he starts as a pilot in February - Bristol. He will look for a place to live for him and his GF in Bath. Brill, we are all really pleased - he was dreading having to be based at Gatwick (Where he is training to fly the A320 at the moment).
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Ariel
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Glad he's got what he wanted, but why didn't he want Gatwick? I'd have thought it would be an exciting place for a young pilot, with all those exotic flights to far flung places. Though I suppose it is a very busy airport and the long haul flights would be tiring.
Bath is a lovely place though, with lots going on, hope he manages to find somewhere good (and affordable!) to live.
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balaam
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Originally posted by lily pad:
It just isn't tea without the milk!
Unless it is Chinese tea, which is better without milk or sugar. A good strong brew, like Assam or English Breakfast need both.
Third day on the new job is now complete, still training. I am working next door to the Dalek.
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Sergius-Melli
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Originally posted by balaam:
A good strong brew, like Assam or English Breakfast need both.
Personal taste is a funny thing. I dislike having milk in my Assam, and in general dislike that much milk - the thicker the tea the better.
But at no point will I introduce sugar - sugar in tea is the invention of the Devil to cause the downfall of Christ's Church!
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Ariel
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Years ago I read that the Tibetans put yak butter in their tea, but I suppose milk is an equally odd thing to put in tea if you stop and think about it.
Foggy tonight. I went out in the mists to go to the supermarket, and came back in the fog - glad I wasn't having to drive far. It's coming in nicely now.
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Boogie - that's great news about Boogielet. Bristol and Bath are gorgeous, and let's face it, unless they're earning £squillions they won't be able to afford a house anywhere near Gatwick.
Sn*w isn't happening yet, but people are talking about it, and we're already getting red weather alerts - it seems to be expected to start tomorrow afternoon and carry on for rather longer than I'd like.
The trouble with a really big fall of sn*w is that it's likely to last until Easter.
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Welease Woderwick
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Bristol and Bath are not exactly cheap, either! - but then compared with Merseyside most places seem expensive although I believe the North East isn't too bad in terms of house prices.
Isn't paying bills over the interwebby thing wonderful? I just sat here this morning and paid a bill in just a few minutes, got my receipt by e-mail and now no worries until next month. Some months when I log on the system is down, which is a pain and sometimes it lasts a few days and I end up having to go into the city on the bus.
Himself and Herself are off to the city today as her mum has to go into hospital for a few days so they will escort her there and see her settled - I am going to have a lazy day at home reading before Sunday comes and we have to be kowtowing to a guest for 3 months.
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Heavenly Anarchist
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Originally posted by Ariel:
Years ago I read that the Tibetans put yak butter in their tea, but I suppose milk is an equally odd thing to put in tea if you stop and think about it.
I had it in Nepal too, it tastes foul. Greasy tea, yuck (or yak).
I did some early morning work so can now spend the day sewing, with a pop to the shops. But I appear to have developed a stray essay to mark in my inbox so I might have to look at that later.
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Great news about your son, Boogie, glad he's pleased.
One of my work colleagues comes from Jamaica where they seem to drink tea with evaporated milk and five sugars. ![[Projectile]](graemlins/puke2.gif)
Nen - starting to think about morning coffee but needing to do the weekly food shop first.
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Boogie
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Originally posted by Ariel:
Glad he's got what he wanted, but why didn't he want Gatwick?
Expensive housing, and he'll be flying for EasyJet - so European destinations only. Which is good as he'll be home to his GF every evening. They both love Bath and visit often for holidays, so they are thrilled.
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Housing is expensive in Bath but have they anywhere to park?
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balaam
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Condensed milk or yak butter, there's a choice.
I have drunk tea with ghee, in the home of Pakistani immigrants, but that wasn't bad compared to the way the tea was made, a large pan on the stove all day. I like my tea strong, but not stewed. Yeuk.
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When I was doing my PhD fieldwork in furrin parts, I woke up one day with a migraine (heat related), and the family I was staying with said they'd make me a special tea that was really good for headaches. Imagine my joy when not only was I presented with a cup of camomile tea (which makes me want to at the best of times) but then they proceeded to stir in a spoonful of raspberry jam.
As if that wasn't bad enough, it didn't do a damn thing for the headache!
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Heavenly Anarchist
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Originally posted by balaam:
Condensed milk or yak butter, there's a choice.
I have drunk tea with ghee, in the home of Pakistani immigrants, but that wasn't bad compared to the way the tea was made, a large pan on the stove all day. I like my tea strong, but not stewed. Yeuk.
Reminds me of trips out with the health visitor when I was a student nurse, I was told to be very choosy when accepting any offers of tea. Mind you, in India I liked the tea from the tea wallah on the railways, brewed in a large pot with the milk and sugar. But it seemed right there, especially in clay cups.
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Originally posted by balaam:
Condensed milk or yak butter, there's a choice.
Sure it shouldn't be spelled 'yuk butter'?
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Polly Plummer
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When I did community work in a largely Asian area I struggled at first with the boiled-all-day tea. I found the way to cope with it was to think of it as an interesting hot sweet drink rather than tea - then it was fine.
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Welease Woderwick
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...but beware as it is still packed to the gunwales with caffeine!
If any of you ever travel over here and want English style tea then ask for Set Tea or Separate Tea and you may, possibly, get something you recognise. If you want it with cold milk then make sure it is pasteurised or you could be spending a day or three commuting from bed to bathroom and back - the reason the milk is often served hot, even with Set Tea is for to kill the bugs.
Chai is all boiled up together, tea, milk, sugar and water - but then I remember in my childhood the road outside the house being rebuilt and the workmen had white enamel tea cans where they boiled it all up together, too. Do they still make those cans?
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Piglet
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Originally posted by Nenya:
... tea with evaporated milk and five sugars ...
If you're ordering tea or coffee in Newfoundland you have to specify "fresh milk", because until relatively recently the default was evaporated milk (ugh!), especially out "round the bay" where they couldn't always get fresh milk. Church events always have jugs of both: caveat imbibo.*
D. said when he ordered "tea with fresh milk" in Timmy's in Ottawa Airport he got a very offended look from the person behind the counter.
That sn*w that we've been waiting for has arrived with a vengeance: I'd say we've already got well over 6 inches, and it's forecast to go on all night and into tomorrow. ![[Frown]](frown.gif)
Sn*w-day seems likely tomorrow: schools, and the university where I work closed this afternoon (I only work until lunch-time, so it didn't affect me), and I'll be checking the web-site first thing in the morning to see what's what.
Then shovelling. Oh joy.
This cold-loving, hyperborealian piglet is contemplating offering to carry Uncle Pete's suitcase ... ![[Devil]](graemlins/devil.gif)
* let the drinker beware. ![[Eek!]](eek.gif)
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Piglet, send some snow down here, please. Sydney forecast for tomorrow is 39° C. A southerly in the early evening, hopefully.
It will be several degrees higher in western suburbs.
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The Intrepid Mrs S
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When we were in Sri Lanka we visited the Tea Factory Hotel in Nuwara Eliya* and had a tea tasting tour. They were so sniffy about tea bags (they contain sweepings from the factory floor, apparently) that I was expecting delicate infusions of their expensive whole leaf tea. None of it - brewed orange and served with milk and (lots of!) sugar. ![[Ultra confused]](graemlins/confused2.gif) Yuck indeed.
*Candidate for my favourite hotel EVER and I don't even LIKE tea
Mrs. S, dedicated coffee drinker
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Welease Woderwick
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As Pete will tell you with some delight, but he may not log on now until his arrival here, top quality whole leaf tea up in the mountains near here, where they grow the stuff, is under three quid a kilo!
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Sergius-Melli
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Originally posted by The Intrepid Mrs S:
When we were in Sri Lanka we visited the Tea Factory Hotel in Nuwara Eliya* and had a tea tasting tour. They were so sniffy about tea bags (they contain sweepings from the factory floor, apparently) that I was expecting delicate infusions of their expensive whole leaf tea. None of it - brewed orange and served with milk and (lots of!) sugar. Yuck indeed.
*Candidate for my favourite hotel EVER and I don't even LIKE tea
Mrs. S, dedicated coffee drinker
Sorry to disagree but this is the best holiday in my mind.
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Heavenly Anarchist
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I think a hotel combining tea and chocolate might be my idea of heaven, with perhaps an independent cheese shop next door to provide the main course.
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Sergius-Melli
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Originally posted by Heavenly Anarchist:
I think a hotel combining tea and chocolate might be my idea of heaven, with perhaps an independent cheese shop next door to provide the main course.
You can have their cocoa tea whilst you stay! My mother says it's wonderful, I'm yet to try it, part of me views it as some sort of heresy against both chocolate and tea...
As for cheese, well I'm not sure, take some Chocolate Philadelphia with you...
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The Intrepid Mrs S
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Originally posted by Sergius-Melli:
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Originally posted by The Intrepid Mrs S:
When we were in Sri Lanka we visited the Tea Factory Hotel in Nuwara Eliya* and had a tea tasting tour. They were so sniffy about tea bags (they contain sweepings from the factory floor, apparently) that I was expecting delicate infusions of their expensive whole leaf tea. None of it - brewed orange and served with milk and (lots of!) sugar. Yuck indeed.
*Candidate for my favourite hotel EVER and I don't even LIKE tea
Mrs. S, dedicated coffee drinker
Sorry to disagree but this is the best holiday in my mind.
Ah - I only said it was a candidate. May have been edged out by the Glenmorangie House - and again, I'm not by custom and tradition a whisky drinker. However, as a dedicated Hotel Chocolat fan I am rather torn...
Mrs. S, who doesn't really like hotels either!
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Heavenly Anarchist
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Originally posted by Sergius-Melli:
[QUOTE] As for cheese, well I'm not sure, take some Chocolate Philadelphia with you...
What a shocking thought! I'll bring my own Stilton
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You don't like hotels, Mrs S? ![[Confused]](confused.gif) Mr Bug doesn't beleive it's a proper holiday unless someone else is making his breakfast and washing up. This is one of the best hotels we've ever stayed at. The Hotel Chocolat looks gorgeous, though!
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Ariel
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I'm still getting over the discovery I made recently that the ancient Etruscans used to grate cheese into wine (and even buried a cheese grater with their dead so they could go on doing that in the afterlife). I'm all for wine and cheese but not in the same glass.
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Heavenly Anarchist
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Originally posted by Ariel:
I'm still getting over the discovery I made recently that the ancient Etruscans used to grate cheese into wine (and even buried a cheese grater with their dead so they could go on doing that in the afterlife). I'm all for wine and cheese but not in the same glass.
I read that earlier - not appetising.
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Originally posted by piglet:
......Sn*w .....
You are not alone. There's a sn*w alert for next week even in the soft and sunny (well, soft) South of England.
Time for winter sports maybe (well, anyway, children who can't get to school skidding downhill on improvised sleds). Apart from that, it seems, two inches of sn*w brings the place to a standstill.
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They were so sniffy about tea bags (they contain sweepings from the factory floor, apparently)
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Mrs. S, dedicated coffee drinker
I remember we were shown a film on the growing and processing of tea when I was at junior school. Afterwards, the headmaster told us (in all seriousness) that the workers in the tea processing places spat their chewed gum onto the floor, walked barefoot to and from the earth-floored loos, tracking back all manner of awfulness and, at the end of the day, the floor was swept, the sweepings packed up and sent to a certain popular fizzy drink manufacturer as their main ingredient! And him a good Christian man in charge of a church school!
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Did you know that according to marketing experts; the key discriminator between the French and the English Canadians is choice of tea; the English drink real English tea and the French the herbal stuff? Thought you won’t want to know that.
It used to be poutine, cheese curds smothered in gravy served on top of a bowl of chips. But now any Canadian who is drunk eats, whatever their language. It used as a sobriety test, if you eat that stuff you are much too drunk to dive.
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Ariel
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Originally posted by The Intrepid Mrs S:
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They were so sniffy about tea bags (they contain sweepings from the factory floor, apparently)
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My older relatives totally believed that and to this day will still not buy any teabags. It may have been true at some time somewhere, possibly, in less scrupulous days. I remember reading that the Adulteration of Food Act was introduced to stop a number of things, including the adding of ground chalk to loaves to make the bread look whiter and sawdust to bulk it out. This is quite an interesting article about the sorts of things that used to happen.
In other news, sleet's lashing against the windows this morning. Probably not the best day for going far.
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I'm still off milk in tea, but enjoying it without. Also, since I'm still on my weight loss diet, I am saving about 200 calories a day. So that's a silver lining.
The sun is trying hard to peep out here - hurrah!
My new year revolution is to keep my work to four days so that I can have three off. I used to spread the marking and preparation out - which was very nice compared to doing it all evening every day. But it meant I worked every day of seven. So now I teach Thurs, Fri. mark and prepare Sat, Sun and have Mon, Tues, Wed off for my painting and photographing and visiting family and friends. Seems like a plan.
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That is a great plan Boogie, hope you can stick to it, and eschew all attempts to undermine it!!
Freezing cold here, wicked wind, but the sun is out! Makes life look a lot better.
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Welease Woderwick
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Today has been unseasonably hot here - I was intending to go to larger local town but that is usually a degree or three hotter than here so I chickened out and just went to far closer small town instead and couldn't get what I wanted - next week will do!
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I don't use teabags because the teabag material contains a small amount of plastic. Apparently it's become the industry standard, which is why teabags don't decompose in compost heaps so well any more. So I use loose tea (which is getting a lot harder to find these days) and a little sieve over the cup.
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Welease Woderwick
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Ah, tea as God intended!
Herself gave my friend M a cup of coffee this morning so I had to explain to her that, like me, he is allergic to tea, coffee and chocolate - I think he was about to drink it out of politeness when I told him not to!
Like me he loves chocolate but it really isn't worth it.
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Originally posted by Boogie:
My new year revolution is to keep my work to four days so that I can have three off. I used to spread the marking and preparation out - which was very nice compared to doing it all evening every day. But it meant I worked every day of seven. So now I teach Thurs, Fri. mark and prepare Sat, Sun and have Mon, Tues, Wed off for my painting and photographing and visiting family and friends. Seems like a plan.
I find that now I'm not working, my days are too occupied!
Monday - preparing
Tuesday - in Clermont having French lesson and avoiding swimming. Teach on way home
Wednesday - teach all day
Thursday - do unemployed things (apply for jobs etc) in the morning, chiropractor & teach in the afternoon
Friday - clean house (urgh!)
Saturday - it's the weekend!
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My house cleaning is spread out as I can't bear to do it all at once. We had a cleaner until I semi retired, I miss her!
So I clean the downstairs bathroom Monday. Upstairs bathrooms Tuesday, lounge Wednesday and Kitchen Thursday. Mr Boog does all the floors.
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It's snowing ![[Roll Eyes]](rolleyes.gif)
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M.
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According to Eigon:
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So I use loose tea (which is getting a lot harder to find these days) and a little sieve over the cup
Not a tea strainer?
Sainsbury's do loose tea.
M.
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Sergius-Melli
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Originally posted by M.:
According to Eigon:
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So I use loose tea (which is getting a lot harder to find these days) and a little sieve over the cup
Not a tea strainer?
Sainsbury's do loose tea.
M.
As do reputable independent tea shops - such as Betty's in York - though I don't know if they'll deliver...
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Boogie
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There's plenty of loose tea to be had on amazon too
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Jengie jon
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Bettys will deliver but my favourite online seller is Nothing but Tea which reminds me that I must soon get around to ordering some more from them.
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ArachnidinElmet
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One branch of my favourite teashop, Botham's of Whitby is a tea specialist. It has several different kinds of hand-packed teaballs of the kind that turn into swans or chrysanthemums on contact with hot water. It makes me very sorry that I only like the kind of tea with no tea in it (chamomile, etc..).
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