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<font size=3>At 9/12/2013 04:48 PM, Dan Goodman wrote:<br>
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On 09/12/2013 01:01 PM, paul johnson wrote:<br>
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Have to ask, what happened when you asked for "a cup of
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I got asked what kind of tea I wanted. And then the problem
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A problem easily avoided if one drinks at the upscale establishments that
send you to the stand to choose your own paper packet.<br><br>
Joel<br><br>
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<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite=""><font size=3>On 9/12/2013 12:55
PM, Dan Goodman wrote:<br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">On 09/11/2013 03:30 PM, Benjamin
Barrett wrote:<br>
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</blockquote>When I moved to Minneapolis, I found that asking for
"regular tea" got<br>
me only blank looks. Finally, I learned that to get standard
orange<br>
pekoe without milk or cream, I needed to ask for "black
tea."<br><br>
I had previously lived in Ulster County NY, NYC, San Francisco, and
Los<br>
Angeles.</blockquote></blockquote><br><br>
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