Warren C. hlink.net1/20/04


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> "seby1689" > wrote
>
>> I can't exactly bring my mesh ball with loose leaves and tell the
>> server to bour boiling water over it. I am pretty sure that they'd
>> give me a weird look and tell me they couldn't do that for me.
>
> Just another voice saying, "Yes you can."
>
> The worst that will happen is that you'll end up paying for the hot water
> and if you have to do that, remember that most of the cost of a cup of tea
> at an eatery of any kind is labor and overhead. The tea bag, even if it's a
> rather good tea bag, only amounts to a modest portion of the total cost.
>
> I've carried tea balls or loose bags on Amtrak trains, into various
> restaurants, and into my agency's commissary.
>
> Although I've never done it in a really classy restaurant, which I don't
> frequent in any case, I've never had a problem.
>
> And except for a nice little place in Amherst, MA I've almost never been to
> a restaurant (other than an actual tea house) which served tea as loose tea.
>
> Warren


Try this: Notice what tea they *don't* have. Ask for it. When they say
they're out of it or don't stock it, say: "Oh, my doctor says I need to
drink that one for medicinal purposes. Do you think I can just have some hot
water instead? This oughta work!

I would never do such a thing myself, but you might try.

Starbucks, be damned.

Michael