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- From: acb@cast0.ast.cam.ac.uk (Amanda Baker)
- Subject: Re: Gay soda! I'm so excited!
- Message-ID: <1993Jan27.103601.24376@infodev.cam.ac.uk>
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- Organization: Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge
- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 10:36:01 GMT
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- >In article <1jmvquINNp94@morrow.stanford.edu> alpha@w6yx.Stanford.EDU (Alpha Schram) writes:
- >>AND you MUST pour the milk BEFORE the tea, or you are REALLY a heathen!
- >>(and if you, like me, don't take milk with your tea, you must be some sort
- >>of savage)
-
- Its not a matter of being a heathen - its a matter of ruining the tea!
- If you put the milk in first, it acts as a buffer; but if you put it in
- afterwards, it causes the tea to 'precipitate'. In other words, milk in
- afterwards spoils the tea.
-
- Of course, the *really* thoughtful host asks her guests 'will you want
- white tea' and leaves the tea of the 'noes' black!
-
- ttfn
-
- Amanda Baker
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