On Apr 2, 2014, at 2:58 PM, Phillip Hallam-Baker <hallam(_at_)gmail(_dot_)com>
wrote:
On Tue, Apr 1, 2014 at 11:16 PM, Ole Jacobsen <olejacobsen(_at_)me(_dot_)com>
wrote:
As any Brit will tell you: ice has absolutely NOTHING to do with tea, so it
would be out of scope.
Sat-too-long-and-is-still-hot is, if I recall, known as "stewed" and anyone
responsible faces possible deportation from the UK. A very serious matter
indeed, almost as serious as refusing to obey the rules of a queue.
Oh we have discovered over the years that people have the oddest ideas on how
to make tea.
Here in Boston there was a group that made tea with salt water some years
back. Turned out the only solution was kicking them out of the empire.
The problem with that tea was not the salt. That turns out to be customary in
Mongolia. The real issue that the tea was “weak, bordering on homeopathic”:
http://what-if.xkcd.com/79/
We can’t have that.
Yoav