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Originally Posted by Stitchawl
 One dyin' and a burying.
One dyin' and a'buryin'.
One dyin', six carrying me...
One dyin' and a'buryin'.
Yes, it's true... I died last night from KTS (Kleenex Tissue Suffocation.) I sneezed and blew my nose so many times that the used tissues built up to critical mass and suffocated me! Somehow, my caring wife slept through it all, no matter how loud I moaned trying to wake her up to console me.
Damn... Well at least I'm not coughing any more, but my nose is falling off.
Only Yorkshire tea and rice this morning. I'm far too weak to make anything better.
How can I get well if I died last night! Sheesh! 
NEVER GIVE UP! NEVER! If you never give up you WILL succeed eventually. I don't understand why you haven't already, but here's one more trick.. "Lipton's Instant Iced Tea." You can get it with lemon and sugar, sugar only, and straight. I buy the straight stuff when I'm abroad (can't get it here in Japan) and oddly enough, it's tastes pretty good to me! It shouldn't. It's Lipton, so it should really suck big time, but I like it. Go figure. I came back from Florida this winter with five bottles of the stuff.
Just to check... did you also boil the tea bags? Or did you boil the water first, THEN add the teabags when it was off the flame? You should NOT boil the teabags.
More tea... more tea... more tea...
Stitchawl |
Ok, Bleccchhh. to Lipton's instant. No, no, no! Even MY plebian taste buds won't tolerate that.
No, I didn't boil the teabags (and it was loose tea, anyway). I did the "usual" method for hot tea, poured the water from the kettle over the tea (which was in my Pyrex bowl). I let it steep til it *should* have been concentrated, strained it, sweetened, and diluted, but it's still nondrinkable. Something about my proportions is off, I think.
I can make regular Southern style iced tea, using Lipton's, Tetley's, Luzianne's, or generic tea bags all day long, and I could probably do it in my sleep, too. But when I try to do it with premium loose tea, it's AWFUL.