Odd and Interesting foods (was Re: SC - food bashing)

[Philip & Susan Troy]

Lee-Gwen Booth wrote:
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From:  Lady Celia des L'archier
> 
> I tried it in tea (both of which I take like any good Angolphile,
> > with *cream* and sugar, when they're hot at least.)
> 
> I beg your pardon!  Cream?  In tea?  This is not the way it is done!  My
> understanding is that it is milk in tea and cream in coffee.  I wouldn't
> dream of having cream in my tea (unless it is the totally delectable flavour
> caramel tea - that needs cream!).
> 
> Obviously, no insult is intended in my expression of horror here - I just
> find it strange to have an "anglophile" taking cream in tea (which reminds
> me of a Next Generation scene where Data is trying Picard's favourite tea,
> Earl Grey, and orders it from the replicator specifying "cream" - Picard
> corrects him and tells him that one has milk in tea.  Now, while this is
> true, one should _never_ adulterate Earl Grey this way!  Lemon and a touch
> of sugar are the only acceptable additions to this divine tea.)
> 
> Gwynydd (who does not mean to open another "miracle whip" can of worms, but
> could not allow the statement to go unchallenged - perhaps I should saunter
> over to the Rock with teacup in hand?)

You mean there are people who put things in tea? How interesting!
(Envisions people dropping metric tons of Coffee-Mate into perfect
Japanese green tea, or Iron Goddess of Mercy, or gunpowder tea, or pu
erh, or lok uon or... .) But I agree, what I've been exposed to suggests
that putting cream in tea is fairly irregular in the whole five o'clock
tea ethos. I wonder if it has to do with the fact that American
commercially produced milks are sometimes rather lower in fat than their
European counterparts.

Jeez, am getting afternoon-tea-at-the-Plaza-Hotel flashbacks.

Adamantius (who thinks he has just enough Iron Goddess, allegedly picked
by trained monkeys not currently busy creating UseNet, left for a
potful) 
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Phil & Susan Troy

troy at asan.com