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marc
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Well here High Tea is offered in old Victorian style homes converted for the occasion.... It is a sunday on-going affair....
Several times a year it is encouraged to arrive in formal Victorian dress to add to the atmosphere....
It's what the nice old ladies that operate the establishment call it....
Life is great for me... Most of the time... But then I meet people online... Very few are real friends... Many say they are but know nothing of what it means... Some say they are, but are so shallow...
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To all you Americans who one day may come to the UK: don't bother with Stonehenge! It's just a collection of stones, with no proper museum, situated in the middle of a windswept plain. And next to one of the busiest roads in the UK. It's always raining (regardless of what the weather is like in the next town) and it's always surrounded by hundreds of tourists. You can't even touch the stones any more, in case someone tries to climb them.
I drive past it several times a year, as it's en route to the West Country. If you ever come to England, just sail past the milling hordes with a smug smile and go on to Somerset or Devon instead. You'll never see the "real" England at a tourist hot-spot.
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Sweet tea? Very yummy in the Summer?
You're not talking about ... (aghast whisper) iced tea, are you?
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>It's almost impossible to get everyone at home at the same time.
Generally, over here, if you're around, then you'll have a cup of tea and maybe a biscuit, and if you're not, you won't. It's pretty casual. But tea-drinking, especially afternoon tea-drinking, is still quite popular.
A lot of British people have moved over to coffee, though. I can't imagine why -- it's always struck me that there's something fundamentally "wrong" about drinking coffee in the afternoon. By all means, drink it at breakfast and in the morning and at the end of meals. But tea is so much better suited to the afternoon. It just tastes right at that time. Or maybe there's something more social about making a pot, for two or three people, than coffee, which (with instant granules, at least) is usually done individually.
>I drink tea. I never liked coffee and I love hot tea in the winter, but the US is the land of Starbucks....anything that you can carry in a thermal mug.
I'm a bit disturbed by the "hot tea" reference.  Tea is hot. Hot is tea. Tea should be made with fresh tea leaves and fresh boiling water and left to brew for five minutes before drinking. If it gets cold, you should flush it down the sink immediately!
>What do you guys put in your tea?? Do you use tea bags or the real stuff?
The real stuff, when I can find the tea strainer. Otherwise tea bags. Loose tea tastes better, but it's sometimes inconvenient as you need to rinse out the pot afterwards.
David
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I think the real burning question here is if it goes really well with Dr. Pepper?;-D
I believe in Karma....what you give is what you get returned........
Affirmation........Savage Garden
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Yes, I did mean milk.
I believe in Karma....what you give is what you get returned........
Affirmation........Savage Garden
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Well figures, you know how Canadians are. I mean when is the last time you were with friends and heard someone say, "lets all go to supper and we will do Canadian" ;-D
I believe in Karma....what you give is what you get returned........
Affirmation........Savage Garden
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At one time I thougth that stonehenge had something to do with Druids and magic and all that. then I found out that it actually didnt have anything to do with the druids and very much predated them. I was also crushed to learn that the druids didnt do magic tricks. Oh well there went my phantasy world. Would be interesting to know exactly what it was used for.
;-D
I believe in Karma....what you give is what you get returned........
Affirmation........Savage Garden
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marc
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I guess gross begets gross...
Life is great for me... Most of the time... But then I meet people online... Very few are real friends... Many say they are but know nothing of what it means... Some say they are, but are so shallow...
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marc
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Nope..... just nice old ladies.....
Trying to make a little extra money and having a little fun.....
Life is great for me... Most of the time... But then I meet people online... Very few are real friends... Many say they are but know nothing of what it means... Some say they are, but are so shallow...
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marc
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I have been ssternly informed that sweet tea is in no way to be considered akin to iced tea......
Kevy informed me... Iced tea is a vile yankee concocktion while sweet tea is a drink of southern ladies and gentlemen.
Personaly, I don't see much difference as both are made the same way but Kevy ordered me to relate that there is definatly a difference.
Life is great for me... Most of the time... But then I meet people online... Very few are real friends... Many say they are but know nothing of what it means... Some say they are, but are so shallow...
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anywhere in the south,they ask what kind of tea you want and most everybody says "sweet tea". It's so sweet you get cavities  I swear you get such a sugar high, you can do whatever chore needs to get done reeeally fast.
Sweet Tea:
Make hot tea with 6 to 8 teabags in a mayonaise jar. Pour it into an empty gallon milk jug. Put in 3 to 4 cups of sugar and shake it til it dissolves. Then, add more water to fill the jug. Pour it over ice and you've got sweeeet tea. You can get a glass of iced tea and put your own sugar but it never tastes the same cause the sugar never dissolves right. You can even buy gallon jugs of sweet tea in the grocery stores. Red Rose makes the best iced tea.
Jamie
"You have your way. I have my way. As far as the right way, the correct way, and the only way - it doesn't exist."
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Actually, the main reason it's so famous is that we know so little about the people who built it. No-one knows precisely why or how or for what purpose it was built. But whoever they were, they certainly put an awful lot of effort into it.
The thing itself, however, is not very much to look at. One year a local farmer built an "alternative Stonehenge" out of hay bales on an ajoining field. I personally felt it was rather more impressive than the original. It was complete, at least.
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Sweet tea, iced tea...
I haven't tasted either, but both sound horrifyingly different from what I'm used to.
In fact, I'm sort of astonished that you refer to them as tea at all. As any fule kno*, tea is freshly brewed with good quality tea leaves using boiling water, and preferably with a little milk and no sugar, and drunk straight away.
I guess it's one of those cultural things. You would not believe how traumatised I am at the thought of drinking tea cold.
*I'm guessing you don't have Molesworth, either?
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You have certainly opened my eyes. Thank you for that recipe, Jamie. Does it work with any type of tea? (Like ordinary Indian tea, the bog-standard stuff we get over here?)
P.S. Do you use "bog-standard" in America too? Or do you assume I'm talking about lavatories?
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marc
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I melt the suger with a little hot water and then add it to the tea.....
It disolves faster..... I don't add water to mine as it kind of tastes well.... watered down......
When Kevy and I drove to Florida this past fall we stopped at a shoney's for lunch and I think I drank about 9 gallons of their sweet tea.....
I had a suger overload......
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Life is great for me... Most of the time... But then I meet people online... Very few are real friends... Many say they are but know nothing of what it means... Some say they are, but are so shallow...
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marc
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Hahahahaha.......
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cossie
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Location: Exiled in North East Engl...
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First of all, let me make it absolutely clear that Haggis is NOT a Scottish foodstuff but a Scottish weapon. We include lots more oatmeal than Deeeej's recipe suggests, and we feed it to visiting Englishmen. We then retire to a safe distance, and gleefully watch the Englishmen explode.
It's true that on Burns' Night (25 January) we do feel penitential, so we eat haggis ourselves - but we also drink a couple of bottles of whisky each, as this neutralises the explosive properties of the haggis.
As for Stonehenge, it has nothing to do with Druids. It was constructed by a party of visiting Scots (or, to be pedantic in deference to JFR, Picts) around 3000 B.C. as a suitably remote venue in which to hold ceilidhs and other traditional Scottish gatherings. The circular dimensions were governed not by astronomy but by the convenient dimensions for accommodating a Barn Dance.
And Fig Newtons? Good Heavens, you can't trust the rebellious colonials to get anything right! But then, what can you expect from a nation which calls a back garden a back yard, a pavement a sidewalk, a tap a faucet and a kerb a curb? I rest my case!
For a' that an' a' that,
It's comin' yet for a' that,
That man tae man, the worrld o'er
Shall brithers be, for a' that.
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marc
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Well it may have taken a while..... but sooner or later we knew we'd get it right..... ;-D
Hagus as a weapon..... You know, I think you hit on something there... It surely must be included in the list of weapons of mass destruction....
Life is great for me... Most of the time... But then I meet people online... Very few are real friends... Many say they are but know nothing of what it means... Some say they are, but are so shallow...
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Hahahahaaa ! I assume NOTHING when it comes to how confusing British English and US English can be. It's the universal language but no one knows what anyone is talking about  )
I thought bogs were where you got peat somewhere in Ireland. They grow tea in bogs? I have no idea if I use "bog-standard" or not. Do you call a restroom a bog? To me, a lavatory is the sink part of the restroom.
Jamie
"You have your way. I have my way. As far as the right way, the correct way, and the only way - it doesn't exist."
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Do they ever mix haggis and the ferrets?
Now you know another reason why we rebelled
hte English call a car trunk a boot. Thought a boot was something you wear on your feet. The engine compartment a bonnet, thought that was something women wore on their heads during Easter.
So actually Stonehenge is just a big barn?
I believe in Karma....what you give is what you get returned........
Affirmation........Savage Garden
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Jamie,
Bogs are wet, muddy places and often are where you will find peat. Not just in Ireland, though. There are boggy parts of England, too.
"Bog" is also a slightly derogatory word for a (usually public) lavatory.
"Bog-standard" means standard-issue, perfectly ordinary. (Maybe "plain vanilla" is the American equivalent.) It doesn't have anything to do with either bogs (peaty things) or bogs (lavatories). Bog-standard tea is tea that is nothing special.
A lavatory, in the UK, refers to both the thing you sit on and the room. As do the alternative terms "loo" and "toilet". The washbasins are known as sinks, never lavatories. (Though you might still go to the loo to wash your hands, because lavatories usually have washing facilities in them.)
I particularly dislike the term "restroom" as it's a particularly nasty euphemism. The loo is the last place anyone would want to rest. "Bathroom" is okay, provided you're planning on taking a bath. If not, it's simply another euphemism and should be avoided at all costs.
Deeej
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>hte English call a car trunk a boot. Thought a boot was something you wear on your feet.
And I thought a trunk was something you kept your possessions in when you went travelling! Two can play at that game, old chap.
>The engine compartment a bonnet, thought that was something women wore on their heads during Easter.
As opposed to a hood, which is never something worn on your head?
>So actually Stonehenge is just a big barn?
Shhhhh...
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Isnt English just plain funny
I believe in Karma....what you give is what you get returned........
Affirmation........Savage Garden
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cossie
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Location: Exiled in North East Engl...
Registered: July 2003
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... yeah, you're right, but the roof blew off a while ago - but Deeej has a point; you gotta keep it quiet 'cos we need all those lovely dollars from gullible American tourists!
For a' that an' a' that,
It's comin' yet for a' that,
That man tae man, the worrld o'er
Shall brithers be, for a' that.
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