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Post by alexkerhead on Apr 29, 2008 23:19:16 GMT -5
Please critique, and get some for yourself!  |
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Post by mickeyobe on Apr 30, 2008 5:39:06 GMT -5
Alex,
My father was from London and had to have his cuppa every afternoon as did his little terrier who was at the table at four sharp every day.
Despite my heritage and despite the great range of teas available now I have never acquired a taste for the brew.
It could be because I have to rake so many dead leaves every autumn.
Turkish coffee or espresso or a good strong mug of black coffee is my favourite booster upper.
Oh. The picture. Please crop off the vertical grey rectangle on the right side. And get rid of the bubble wrap.
Mickey
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Post by Just Plain Curt on Apr 30, 2008 7:04:07 GMT -5
Hi Alex,
Having been down to Gulfport/Biloxi Miss., Mobile AL and Panama City FL a few times now, both my wife and I miss the simple things we noticed there. Chicken fried steak, bisquits and gravy, hot pecans, sweet tea and the incredibly nice people we met along the way. If it weren't for the last hurricane wiping out Bay St. Louis Miss. we were actually looking at buying property there. Sweet tea is impossible to get here, if you ask for iced tea you get cold tea, bleeaaahhh.
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Post by alexkerhead on Apr 30, 2008 11:30:21 GMT -5
Mickey, perhaps you need to try some sweet tea.  It's not bubble wrap, it is a bubble glass cutting board with a fruit basket picture made into it.  Curt, cool story! Indeed, it is nice down here, but you are right, the weather isn't anything to be messed with. Where I live, we get hurricanes, tornadoes, super-heavy rain, and thunderstorms. We also get light snow once in a while, which is bad, because our infrastructure and houses weren't really made to hold up snow. We have to be nice, otherwise, nobody would come here..haha Mickey, you won, I cropped it. But I ain't taken the bubble wrap out.  |
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Post by mickeyobe on Apr 30, 2008 15:30:08 GMT -5
Alex,
I have tried tea in all its formulations I think. It is still, to me, a rather inSIPid beverage. The only one that ever satisfied me was iced tea. Good and strong with ice. No lemon, no milk, no sugar but garnished with a mint leaf if one is available.
I thought the glass was sitting on bubble wrap. I like the background whatever it is.
Mickey
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Post by alexkerhead on Apr 30, 2008 23:19:57 GMT -5
Hehehe, I feel the same way about unsweet tea, Mickey. That is a napkin, I thought it might add a personalization to the image, but I think you're right, it is silly looking. Next time I will try a coaster. |
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Post by Andrew on May 1, 2008 4:50:58 GMT -5
TEA!! once upon a time i couldn't stand the stuff, many of my friends and family are english but it wasn't for me. sole parent here and a few years back i spent some time with a nice girl that liked tea...so i did too haha,,actually i didnt mind it after a bit and aquired a taste for it, English breakfast and earl grey (using real tealeafs tho...still prefer freshly ground coffee though). i have never seen Tea in a plastic bottle (or any bottle-never knew it exsited!) or heard of sweet tea apart from people taking sugur with it! i cant imagine! is it too difficult to just make sweet tea yourself. going by what looks like the use by date you better get into it Alex or it will be past due hehe.
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Post by alexkerhead on May 1, 2008 11:37:01 GMT -5
TEA!! once upon a time i couldn't stand the stuff, many of my friends and family are english but it wasn't for me. sole parent here and a few years back i spent some time with a nice girl that liked tea...so i did too haha,,actually i didnt mind it after a bit and aquired a taste for it, English breakfast and earl grey (using real tealeafs tho...still prefer freshly ground coffee though). i have never seen Tea in a plastic bottle (or any bottle-never knew it exsited!) or heard of sweet tea apart from people taking sugur with it! i cant imagine! is it too difficult to just make sweet tea yourself. going by what looks like the use by date you better get into it Alex or it will be past due hehe. Hehe, that jug of tea is gone. I called it "Alabama Tea Time" for the simple reason it was in a jug and store-made. I knew it may humor many people from other countries. I am not afraid to admit I drink it, but I don't mind letting people know I still retain some little smidgen of a red neck(ie. being a redneck). I can get the tea for the same as the amount of sugar in it(yeah. it's sweet). |
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