Re: How do you like your tea?

On 17.6.24 10:59 am, vickiebee wrote:
> Ben Newsam wrote:
>> Kerr-Mudd, John wrote, though the Organization header says "Dis":
>> 
>>> On Fri, 14 Jun 2024 12:50:14 +0100 Ben Newsam 
>>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> vickiebee wrote, though the Organization header says "A noiseless
>>>> patient Spider":
>>>> 
>>>>> [...] I read somewhere that there are (is?) a plethora of 
>>>>> coffee drinking establishments popping up in the UK nowadays.
>>>> 
>>>> Indeed. "Plethora", good word, that. "Superfluity" is good too. 
>>>> The chain establishments serve awful coffee too, especially 
>>>> Starbucks, who offer a weak, bitter, over-roasted fluid that 
>>>> shouldn't be called coffee at all. Some of the smaller 
>>>> establishments are much better.
>>> 
>>> Greggs? (D&RFC)
>> 
>> Ha. I meant places like this near me, where the coffee is good 
>> quality without being snobbish or expensive: 
>> https://www.lisboapatisserie.co.uk/
>> 
> Oooh nice pastries, and reasonable prices. All I know is that I'll go
> out of this world without paying $5 for a cup of ritzy so-so coffee...
> must be the Scot in me. 

I was told by a geologist that the Grand Canyon was formed when an early 
Scots settler dropped a dime down a crack in the ground.  :-)



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