Tall latte

[paul johnson]

Have to ask, what happened when you asked for "a cup of tea"?
On 9/12/2013 12:55 PM, Dan Goodman wrote:
> On 09/11/2013 03:30 PM, Benjamin Barrett wrote:
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> When I moved to Minneapolis, I found that asking for "regular tea" got
> me only blank looks.  Finally, I learned that to get standard orange
> pekoe without milk or cream, I needed to ask for "black tea."
>
> I had previously lived in Ulster County NY, NYC, San Francisco, and Los
> Angeles.
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