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Originally Posted by Stitchawl
I find that longer steeping usually results in a more bitter tasting tea, by releasing MORE tannins. At least to my taste buds. I can actually 'see' the results if I don't wash the tea cup between brews. I wonder if insoluble tannins taste more bitter than soluble ones?
Stitchawl
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and it makes kittens throw up. something about black teas, especially cheap ones, (Lipton's anyone?). more expensive ones, like the lapsang souchang, seem to be fine though.
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Originally Posted by Stitchawl
There is a large Kaitenzushi (the sushi places with the conveyor belts) around the corner from my house, and I go there often because it's so convenient. Usually these places have spouts at each seat to self-dispense tea to the customers, but this place dispense only hot water. The tea is in tea bowls and is a powdered tea. Normally, I don't care for these, but this particular tea is really quite good. At least, it's good while eating sushi. I don't think I would want to drink it as a pick-me-up in the middle of the afternoon, or even as a breakfast wake-up tea. But along side a stack of empty sushi plates, it really hits the spot!
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ah-ha! a name! I never knew what they were called! a lot of fun though!
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Originally Posted by Iridal
Oooh, I would love some chocolate muffins. I made a big mistake while I was sick. I ate a piece of chocolate, because that's my comfort food. And now my sweet tooth, which I painstakingly deactivated 4 weeks ago (stupid diet), has come back with a vengance  It's hard to resist ...
I actually had to think about that for a couple of minutes. What's the Dutch/Flemish word for sleeping in again ? Oh, now I remember! Time to spend less time on international forums and reading more Dutch books 
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we knew our son had become truly fluent in German when he came running in from the garden trying to tell us very excitedly about a bunch of ants he had found and could not find the English word for ants