Hobbo's Poems
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Tea Tea, it's not contentious, Sup it strong, with feeling; Pretend to be pretentious, Take Earl Grey or Darjeeling. Coffee though, that's posher fare, For barristers and toffs, Needs sipping daintily with Claire At the bistro by the wharf. Latte, Mocha, Black, Flat White, Enough to drive you mad. I'll have the Yorkshire tea I like, Leave others to their fads.
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Talk about pretentious… I get some tea flown over from the US. That’s my biggest “guilt”, environmentally-speaking. So much so that I limit to 2 orders per year, and 1 cup per day.
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That’s a lot of air miles for a cuppa!
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yup. That’s why it’s mostly PG. At least they are biodegradable.
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What’s special about the American tea?
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dunno…
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It’s black tea infused with mint.
Plenty of mint herbal teas here but none with the added body of black.
https://www.walmart.com/ip/Bigelow-Black-Tea-Perfectly-Mint-Tea-Bags-20-Count/10293199
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ahhh nice! I know a guy who makes tea and then puts mint from his garden in. I wonder if that achieves similar results.
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no. Tried it. You get a definite kick from having the black tea in there.
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Mint tea is lovely. A few sprigs snipped from the plant, rinsed and put into a teapot. Add boiling water and Sue’s your aunty!
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Ahhh. Does sound lovely. Do you make mint sauce to go with roast lamb too?
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Oh, yes!
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👍 Black teas matter!
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I never thought about whether coffee had more snob value than tea but you might be right. I think tea bags have taken the beauty and ritual out of tea. I stopped buying tea bags a year or two ago. I found (in an op shop) a little one cup tea pot and ever since then I only buy loose-leaf tea and my favourite sort happens to be organic. It still has to get here from where it’s grown (India?) so it’s far from guilt free. But it to make a little pot and pour myself a cup… that feels posh in a way. But it also feels homely at the same time – it’s what my mother and my grandmother always did. Baristas and such like are relatively new to Australia. I think they feel posh because of the ritual around a cafe and meeting a friend. And now people fill half their home bench space with coffee makers. Again, I have a one-cup plunger that I bought at an op shop. It keeps the ritual.
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Believe me, it’s not posh in my home town – but nothing is 🤣
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lol
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Fisn ‘n’ chips is posh nosh where I’m from!
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What an intersesting response, Worms. be careful with the loose tea. I used to use it all the time and over a period of years the leaves built up and completely blocked our waste water system. They are too fine to flush away properly so should never be put down the sink. In the end, I used them for compost, which was a nice ecological solution. 😂
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LOL I toss my leaves out into the garden. It wasn’t the blocked drain Mr W objected to, but the staining of the sink! 🙂
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Ha ha ha. Pleased to hear it. Mr W. has a point.
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Loose leaf all the way for me! 🍃
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I agree; but please see my response to Worms! 👍
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I used to be a heavy tea drinker, my wife is a flavored coffee drinker..which I too became, but you will never see either of us actively ordering in a Starbucks.
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I’m not a fan of either BigBucks or Costa Packet, Matt.
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I drink coffee so I feel a minority here but when I go to London tea all the way and Yorkshire is great when ill 🤒
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Great when ill…intriguing.
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Yup my UK friend Rachel sent me Yorkshire tea and I swear that was the only liquid that helped my head and stomach a few weeks ago
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Ah!! My favourite.
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Tea? For me? None, you see. It brings no glee; just makes me pee.
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He he he. Same here, with beer!
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With milk or without?
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The coffee? Or the pee?
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The tea. 😂 Yorkshire tea is very strong in my opinion.
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👍 How I like my tea and my women, strong! 😂
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Builders’ tea!
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Oh, yes.
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Hahaha!! NEITHER of my guesses were right! 🤔🤯🤣
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😂
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I was WRONG BOTH WAYS! It was the TEA! 😭🤣😭🤣😭😅😆
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Tea, with. No sugar though.
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White no sugar, we say down here.
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👍 The same difference
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He-e-e-y ~ I’M a coffee toff, thank ye vurry much, an’ ye kin keep yer insipid medicinal sips! 😆🤣
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😂 Strong tea fer me.
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I’ll brew ye some STRONG TEA, mate… 😤 (Let’s see… Old sweatsocks… Last year’s marmalade… 👍😅👌)
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I couldn’t agree more!!
Only thing I’d change is Nambarrie for Yorkshire – but I’d never refuse either! 😉🖤
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😂 Thought you’d be a tea-by! 💖
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😁😁🖤
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