[Sca-cooks] Tea

[Shannon L. Cox]

sorry actually i messed up and you are right... it is not guinness it is
Tettlies(i think i spelled it right... chris drinks it I cook with it)
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From: "Philip & Susan Troy" <troy at asan.com>
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Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2002 10:13 PM
Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] Tea


> Also sprach Shannon L. Cox:
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> >Oh i don't know i think one of the best adventages one could have is
> >having your father in law be full blooded englishman who came over
> >met his wife and stayed.... my husband and kids all have dual
> >citizenship... the family spends alot of time traipsing from here to
> >there to visit the relatives.... so every time one of goes over we
> >bring back boxes and boxes of fine yorkshire black tea, scones
> >shortbread and guiness... gotta love them english
> >sionnan
>
> At the risk of seeming (and inaccurately so) like a poopy spoil-sport
> non-Anglophile, what does Guinness have to do with England? Unless
> Dublin has moved a bit to the North... (Mackeson's, on the other
> hand...) Actually, now that I think of it, none of the items you
> mention, except perhaps the tea, which may be blended and packaged in
> England, actually _come_, originally or exclusively, from there.
> Maybe the shortbread... but yes, all these items are wonderful and
> are available in England, but then they're also available down the
> street from my apartment building in Woodside, Queens.
>
> Let's see now. What are some "English" goodies that actually _are_
> English? Kean's Cheddar comes to mind. York ham. Various chocolate
> products. Devonshire cream. Various tea blends, which is how we got
> into this discussion, are created in England, even though the actual
> tea is presumably from places like India and China. Old Peculier Ale,
> not to mention Samuel Smith's Tadcaster Porter. Good marmalades,
> although Scots ones are just as good...
>
> But then, steak-and-kidney pie in a can is also available as an
> import from England, so it all balances out ;-)
>
> Adamantius
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