Re: How do you like your tea?

Bob Henson wrote:
> 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.  :-)
> 
> 
> 
Groan!

v
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