Thread: Coffee ?

Originally Posted by pseudolus

Originally Posted by thaimeme

Originally Posted by baconandeggs

The English are famous for ruining tea with milk.

...the highest of civility in their minds.

So here's two people who know nothing about tea as well as coffee.

If you go back to the 1600's in China, it was the "highest of civility" to have milk in certain types of tea and travelling dignitaries were often treated to this.

Right so you know from living then

Well, the tradition continues...

Originally Posted by BaitongBoy

Well, the tradition continues...

Traditional bullshittery or fuckwittery?

There's that, too...

Adding milk means you can brew the tea stronger, it's takes the edge off the taste.
An Indian concoction I think, a habit picked up in the Raj.

Milk goes with strong tea as cheese goes with dry wine. It all depends on the amount of tannin.

What thread was this again?...Dawg will be lonely on the tea thread...

Originally Posted by BaitongBoy

What thread was this again?...Dawg will be lonely on the tea thread...

Indeed...
These fucking POMS get on their "we know tea like no one else" shit.

Originally Posted by thaimeme

Originally Posted by OhOh

Originally Posted by pseudolus

So here's two people who know nothing about tea as well as coffee. If you go back to the 1600's in China, it was the "highest of civility" to have milk in certain types of tea and travelling dignitaries were often treated to this.

Forget the facts. Where is your "Coffee Shop Girls at Work" site? No pictures of Vietnamese ladies in the farm, either. Having said that I might be interested in the farm girls.

Asian farm girls...

Nothing better!

Been filling the brothels and bars of Asia for 50 years, and making up the vast majority of "wife of fresh off the boat farang"

Originally Posted by thaimeme

Originally Posted by BaitongBoy

What thread was this again?...Dawg will be lonely on the tea thread...

Indeed...
These fucking POMS get on their "we know tea like no one else" shit.

Poms have nothing to brag about so reading up on tea on Wiki provides them with something to talk about.

I like the sentiments behind this - more and more as I've aged (and matured?) - the less impressed I am with the materialistic culture that seems to be shoved down our throats in ever increasing ways. Sure. I appreciate and enjoy nice things (clothes, design, art, etc)- but there is usually a finite price you pay for anything - and what is paid above that can be termed the "bullshit factor".

Originally Posted by Chittychangchang

I like the sentiments behind this - more and more as I've aged (and matured?) - the less impressed I am with the materialistic culture that seems to be shoved down our throats in ever increasing ways. Sure. I appreciate and enjoy nice things (clothes, design, art, etc)- but there is usually a finite price you pay for anything - and what is paid above that can be termed the "bullshit factor".

Is that a fake Rolex, Chitty?...

Originally Posted by BaitongBoy

Is that a fake Rolex, Chitty?...

Genuine Khosan Road special offer

^ It's got class...