Brits ahoy

[telophase]

I had a dream last night, part of which involved me filling in an application form for a British librarian society. Only it was sort of a joke society meant for non-Brits, and part of it involved filling out five reasons explaining why you are actually a British librarian, despite your nationality.

Seeing as it was a dream, the form also insisted you fill it out in pencil, and my pencil wasn't very good, plus I kept writing in unreadable handwriting, so had lots of scratch-outs and erasures where I tried to make words clearer.

The first two reasons I put down to show that I'm actually British were (1) I drank tea instead of coffee, and (2) I never washed my tea mug. In real life, I do wash out my tea mug, although I've been given to understand that not washing it is actually a Thing and the buildup on the inside lends flavor to the tea. I am willing to take this on faith, as I am not willing to not wash out my mug as I have seen the things that can grow inside my unwashed mugs.

The fifth reason I wrote down was that I ate fish and chips, that they tasted better eaten out of newspaper, and that it was a damn shame you couldn't do that any more.

I do not remember what reasons 3 and 4 were. Toby suggested that one of them was spelling with extra Us and spelling the colo(u)r as "grey."

Any suggestions?

Comments

[green_knight]

Eating marmite.
Listening to the Archers.

Maybe I should shut up.

As for the tea mug, if you drain it completely and your room is dry, it's not a problem. I used to do this - not 'never washing' but 'rinse always, wash occasionally' at a previous place of work. It meant that people left my mug alone. Otherwise, it would have been taken and put into the general pool which meant that people drank coffee out of it and while the effect if tea patina on taste is minimal, the effect on coffee is pretty bleurgh to me.

[movingfinger.livejournal.com]

No, the thing about the buildup inside isn't true. What is maybe true is that if you make tea in certain types of Chinese clay teapots, which are porous, the tea penetrates the pot and eventually you can get a tea-flavored solution by pouring hot water into it. I have only heard of this in connection with certain ascetic, possibly mythical, monks.

It does not work on a glazed pot or cup. What you end up with in that case is a deposit composed of minerals from your water, tannin, and, well, gunk. A test of this was carried out unintentionally by my spouse, who did not wash the teapot for many months, and who commented on how great the tea tasted, so much better than his tea, the day I washed the pot and filter and made tea.

[telophase.livejournal.com]

Hee! Good to know! :D I gathered that info from comments on a Reddit post (what? not true? You don't say!) last week, and it obviously stuck in my subconscious long enough to come out in a dream!

[solarbird]

One absolutely washes ones teacups or mugs.

However, one does not wash out one's tea pot, regardless of type.

Rinse it? Certainly. Wash? No.

[lady-noremon.livejournal.com]

Pffffft! XD