We just put it down to some kind of insecurity about the size of their weapons...

I think they may have specified a Sherman, which lead to much sniggering...



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I don't drink tea generally, but I occassionally go to a Russian Tea Shop for an open mic evening, where I have to drink tea. Obviously. They've got about 80 varieties, I think, and my favourites are the ones that don't really taste like tea.

Lemon is nice. Honey Spice is loooovely, as is Strawberry and Kiwi. Yogi Yogi Tchai has a cool name. Chocolate tea isn't as nice as it should be, and neither is cinnamon. Apple strudel tea is nice, especially when taken with apple tobacco from a shisha. Mmmm.

www.tchaiovna.com

Hmm, well personally, I'll drink any tea, in bags or not, with milk, warmed or not, with any amount of sugar between none and four spoons. Can't abide coffee tho...



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Anecdote:
Stevo was visiting Mort when she offered to make tea, and asked how he wanted it.
"Blue", said Stevo, wittily.
Mort had plenty of food colourings; he got his blue tea....

Anybody else remember green cola and blue raspberryade? We must have been high as kites as kids, with all those food colourings...



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When I was a lot smaller my mother used to de 'magic milk' by secreting a bit of food couring into the bottom of the glass first. As she poured the milk, it changed colour....



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Cool, and a sneaky way to get children to drink more milk. I went off plain milk after being forced to drink it daily at school. I love milkshakes though, especially mint

Mmmm... Sirop de menthe...



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What about Tab Clear coke?

It scared the life out of me! It tasted quite like coke, but was completely clear, leading me to wonder what the £$%^&* went into ordinary cola!

The world we live in is strange.



My reality check has just bounced again.......

Saw vanilla coke at the weekend. Sounds dreadful. I like proper coca cola.

Our cafe at work has stopped doing coke ("it's not very popular...") and now just does pepsi. I can tell the difference.

Mistakenly picked up a Pepsi Max on friday instead of regular pepsi. It was foul...

any cola is vile!

I saw one of those advurts for Vanilla Coke at the weekend and was just wondering who would be stupid enough to fall for it, when along comes my little brother clutching a bottle. So in the interests of science I stole it off him and tried some.
The verdict, not bad, it tasted quite like cream soda, very smooth.



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I've tried the Vanilla Coke too. It's OK,

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I LOVE VANILLA COKE! It's like coke with a cream soda finish...it's a bit thicker. We've had it here in the States in our area since last Spring. I'm addicted. The diet version is quite good as well, but it has to be ice cold.

However, Diet Coke with lemon is VILE! It's rather like how you would imagine drinking lemon furniture polish would be. It smells just like Lemon Pledge!



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I think I'll stick to Dandelion and Burdock. I grew up down south, where it isn't so common, but encountered it while visiting relatives oop north. So when I was on school holiday in the lake district, I bought some and offered it around, Funnily enough, my generosity was generally rejected. So that was all I bought.

Is elderflower the flowers of elderberry trees? I've always wondered but always forgot to ask. Nice flavour anyway...

And why do Elderberry trees always have that weird smelling green stuff growing on them? I'm never sure if it's algae or lichen, but it's really dusty. I always used to climb in a huge Elderberry tree when I was a kid, and the smell has always stuck in my mind the same way the juice of its berries used to stick in white t-shirts...



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Yes. You can pick the elderflowers around now (May time) and get elderflower
wine/juice. The berries ripen in Sept/Oct to give elderberry stuff. Elderberry wine is much easier to get right than elderflower (too delicate a taste for this clumsy oaf to master).

I think the smell is the sap of the elderberry bush. When I'm trying to cut the saplings out of my hedge it smells awful. Cutting other shrubs and the hedge is fine; it's just the elderberry (except the eucalyptus - that smells great).

I don't like the (Diet Coke + Lemon) drink either, but _ although always a southerner _ do like 'Dandelion & Burdock'. I was introduced to the latter drink during my childhood: My mother saw it in a Co-Op store, remembered that she had liked it herself as a child (She was also a southerner, but had been evacuated from London to somewhere near Halifax for about a year during the war and discovered it there...) and brought a bottle home for us to try. I can usually find it in my local supermarket. And there's a bottle of Elderflower Cordial in my section of the kitchen right now...

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Got a demi-john each of blackberry and elderberry wine - vintage 2001 - maturing quietly in my bathroom. Lovely colour they are too. Should get round to bottling them soon. My first try at winemaking, so we'll have to see. Might have a bash at making elderflower wine, as there are a lot of elder trees around here. And brambles. In 2001 I harvested about 5 lbs elderberries and 10lbs blackberries, all within a couple of minutes of my front door. I love Sheffield.