On Wed, 2014-04-02 at 15:06 +0300, Yoav Nir wrote:
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.
.. and of course the rancid yak butter...
/Elwyn
The real issue that the tea was “weak, bordering on homeopathic”:
http://what-if.xkcd.com/79/
We can’t have that.
Yoav