Space Cowboy wrote:
> Which raises a question I don't think discussed before. Does your
> spouse/so also drink tea? In my domicile I pick and prepare the tea
> with my wife drinking the whatever so long as it isn't some smokey
> Chinese. On the weekends she'll drink hot tea but the weekdays she
> likes it cold from the refrigerator after work. We have a ritual
where
> any tea I buy she gets to smell first too let me know if she can
drink
> it even is some innocuous Ceylon. It has to pass her smokey test.
The
> last TGY I bought just about passed that test. I was so close. She
> said she could probably drink it weak and chilled with lime. She
knows
> when I make the Chinese teas she doesn't like and she'll let me know
in
> a condescending way. Other than that we're on the same tea scale.
She
> knows what to buy in tea accoutrements. She bought some $10 closeout
> tetsubins for Christmas.
>
> Jim
>
> Derek wrote:
> > Neither my wife nor I like coffee. We drink tea because we're
> > craving a hot beverage with caffeine. We love the flavors and we
love
> > trying new types - scented, flavored, blended, or otherwise
> > unadulterated.

My exso spent several years in the East, mainly India, and came back
unaccounably with an antipathy to Eastern food and drink. He won't
touch curry, even to be polite. He will drink instant decaffinated
Lipton tea with lemon and artificial sweetener. Toci