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Yes, but is that stewed tea you can taste, or the film?
Yes, but is that stewed tea you can taste, or the film?
Dunno and don’t care. The whole lot has to be chucked, cup washed and a fresh brew made.
Thats disgusting
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I used to smoke Gauloises having been introduced to them by a French guy at school, they were a bit rough...
Rothmans were good, but expensive. I ended up with Craven A...
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Well...
It is what you drink it out of which is important
But if you go with Tip #1 here most of it gets washed out.
My dad took to Gauloises in the early 70s on a trip to Southern France: dressed in double denim, mutton chops and a Che Guevara t-shirt he cut a typical figure of an Englishman abroad
. I sneaked one to see if i could be so cool and regretted it immediately: it felt like a hive of angry bees had invaded my lungs!You'd think it'd put me off smoking, but no! I persevered with Embassy #1 back home and soon got the hang of it.
Tried Gitanes on another trip to France and enjoyed them with a cup of strong coffee - avoiding the fashion tragedy of double denim, in the early 80s.
You're missing the point of a working man's tea mug: it must remain stained with the memory of a thousand brews. It is an unwritten rule, acknowledged by all.Well...
It is what you drink it out of which is important
But if you go with Tip #1 here most of it gets washed out.
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There was a British type of Gauloises, but I gave up when King size went to 50p a packet of 20. Cigaloos or some name like that.
The tea pot is only rinsed out, the brown coating helps make a good pot, but any item used where milk is added, needs cleaning, so if drinking without milk, yes just rinse the cup, but if adding milk, then needs a problem clean, I am told milk stops the goodness of the tea, so should never be drunk with milk, sugar is OK but not milk.
As soon as milk is added, then not proper tea, so question as to milk or tea bag first is pointless, as should not have any milk to start with. With other infusions I would never dream of adding milk, as to mixtures, like Earl Grey, is it really a tea, or is it just an infusion?
The tea pot is only rinsed out, the brown coating helps make a good pot, but any item used where milk is added, needs cleaning, so if drinking without milk, yes just rinse the cup, but if adding milk, then needs a problem clean, I am told milk stops the goodness of the tea, so should never be drunk with milk, sugar is OK but not milk.
As soon as milk is added, then not proper tea, so question as to milk or tea bag first is pointless, as should not have any milk to start with. With other infusions I would never dream of adding milk, as to mixtures, like Earl Grey, is it really a tea, or is it just an infusion?
How to make tea...in America.
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I remember an oval shaped, untipped cig made from (or at least with some) Turkish tobacco in it.
As ever, personal taste rules. Milk/no milk depends on the tea. A strong English Breakfast type tea, with a lot of Assam or Kenyan, yeah, I'll add milk.
A delicate Darjeeling? No.
Earl Grey - I'm not a huge fan of it, as pure E.G., too scented. But sometimes I will take an E.G. teabag and dunk it for about 30s in a normal brew to flavour it delicately.
I also like mint tea, made with Chinese green tea pearls and fresh mint leaves. No milk or sugar.
I use the same teabag for 2 weeks at a time....
