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Tea - now with added sarcasm

Hugh
2009-01-31 18:45:00 UTC

We often get praise for our sarcastic, British attitude to food. Well, sometimes, anyway. OK, that one time.

But we’re not the only sarcastic British people who eat. Indeed, we’re not even the most sarcastic British non-Breatharian people on the Great Intertubes.

I commend to your attention, for example, “Very Good Taste”‘s post on teamaking . The writer, Andrew, has recently moved to Canada, and whilst I understand he’s actually rather enjoying it, like any decent Brit he’s not letting that stand in the way of a good rant. And this is a very good rant.

If you want to hear about some sublimely silly tea-making gadgetry (yes, OK, I did kinda want one), read and enjoy.

Comments

pajh | 2009-02-01 11:50:22 UTC

Wow. And I thought Orwell got pretentious about his tea.

Matthieu Weber | 2009-02-02 07:11:09 UTC

This is the proper way of preparing tea: http://teamasters.blogspot.com/2005/01/learn-gong-fu-cha-with-tea-masters.html

It includes all of the design, philosophical, aesthetical and whatnot aspects marekteers are trying to sell us on every new piece of overpriced plastic crap that companies are vomiting on a daily basis, without actually being a cheap piece of plastic. It’s actually not cheap, but it has a soul.

The rule of thumb is this: if your drink is made in a shop using fancy names for their products, it’s probably not worth drinking. If the tea comes from a little bag, it’s, with a very high probability, not worth drinking either. Unless what you want is foul tasting, brown water.

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