Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/04/14
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I would have to go along with Franks comments about the difficulty getting a decent cup of tea. I put it down to our use of tea bags and the virtual disappearance of loose leaf tea from our shelves. I used to be a food inspector at one of our major container ports and we used to get many thousands of tonnes of tea described as 'sweepings' on the ships manifests, in other words very fine dust from around the machines etc., to be made into tea bagged tea! As for decent coffee, that is becoming as hard to find as tea and I am now paying $4 for a latte at our local shopping mall! If I want biscuits with it, they are around $5 for 6! Thank God there is a decent cafe down the street who use Freetrade organic products at half the price of the local mall. Gerry -- Gerry Walden LRPS www.gwpics.com +44 23 8046 3076 Frank Dernie wrote: > Jean, > it depends on whether you wish for a delicious meal or to sample a good > cup of tea! I agree that Cornwall and Devon cream teas are great but a > traditional tea in many parts of the country containing local > specialities to eat can be good. If one wants to have a good cup of tea > it is MUCH more difficult. Very expensive coffee has become more widely > available and finding a good cup of tea is increasingly difficult, > often the best are at transport caf?s. It really is worth trying a good > cup of tea (I am an addict) but it is very difficult to find in the UK > and pretty well impossible in the rest of the world. Australia used to > be good but has gone the same way as the UK, expensive mediocre coffee > and undrinkable tea. > end rant, > Frank >