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Brian Barratt	Helloagain Nicey,   Good tea, methinks, is like fine wine (not that I can drink that nowadays): it should be served as is, so that one can savour its subtleties. OK, if it's a plain brown wrapper sort of tea, a wee dram of milk might even improve it. In the olden days, I used to add a drop of evaporated milk for a nice flavour. But milk with pure Ceylon, or Assam, Darjeeling, Russian Caravan, Scottish Breakfast, Irish Breakfast, ye gods, that's not NICE! I was once given a cup of Earl Grey with milk in it. It tasted a bit like shaving cream. And I do know what shaving cream tastes like. I once brushed my teeth with it. Not a practice I would reccomend.   Brian
	Nicey replies: Hi Brian, We drink our tea with a dash of milk, too much and our very hard water creates a mad sort brown film which slides around the sides of the mug in a fairly off putting way.
Rhandolph Stearman	Hello, We are three Temps having our last day together at a car rental admin office and are all fans of your site. We are having a special tea and biscuits sit down this afternoon. I said we should all vote for what biscuits we should have (2 packets). Only choc chip cookies came up as a common vote, all the rest were different so I shall abuse my power as the one going to the shop to choose the second packet. Anyway one thing we have not come across on your site is the hot topic of tea making. Mike says put the milk in last I say put it in before the hot water. Scientifically I know the tea will brew more if hotter (i.e. water before milk) but tea making is an art as well as a science and I prefer the texture of tea made milk first. Any official Nicecupofteaandasitdown view on the subject?
	Nicey replies: We make our tea milk last, however that is our preference. Tea is such a personal matter that we wouldn't be as bold as to say which is the correct way of making it and drinking it. However, George Orwell had no such compunctions a wrote a definitive essay on how to make and drink tea. This was in the days prior to mugs and tea-bags, both of which I think he would have disapproved of.
A J Evans	Thought you might like this for your birthday   More tea Vicar   Are you particular in the way you take your tea, In bone china with cream or mug and sugar free, Make it with a tea bag or properly in a pot, Pour it in a saucer if it's made to hot, Instant maybe, iced with lemon, Earl grey too, There must be one that really suits you, Have some iced fancy's or dunk in a biscuit, Down in the potting shed or at Lord's with cricket, Do you like it in the morning or afternoon at three, Are you particular in the way you take your tea.
	Nicey replies: Thanks for the poetry, all about cups of tea, It was really lovely.
Tom	I just thought I'd let you know that in a recent trip to Brussels, I had a very nice cup of tea and a sit down at the Metropole Hotel over breakfast. The toast was nice too.
	Nicey replies: Tom, Fantastic news on the breakfast time sit down. Was there any Marmite to be seen? I have a theory on geo location using Marmite enjoyment to estimate latitude and biscuit quality for longitude. My theory predicts the Belgians would like Marmite a bit possibly with some cheese.
Richard Smith	Can you settle an ongoing debate within our department, jaffa cakes - is the orangey filling jelly or jam? We contacted McVities who confessed it was an industrial type jam. However, we are not convinced what is an industrial jam, we maintain it's more jelly than jam. Great web site but strangely a lack of tea related stuff, perhaps you could redeem yourselves by joining us in campaigning for the reinstatement of the PGTips monkeys! More Tea! PG Tips Pyramids of course!
	Nicey replies: Richard, I've always thought of it as Jelly but if McVities say its jam then jam it is. I suppose it comes down to what sort of complex macro-molecules give it its jelly like texture. For Jam its pectin a polysaccharide component of plant cell walls, and for jelly its gelatin a protein found in skin, bone and cartilage. I just checked on a packet of Tesco's Jaffa cakes and the gelling agent is Pectin. So Jam it is. Still industrial jam sounds pretty cool, a step up from recreational jam. I suppose military or weapons grade jam is the next level up. As for tea the wife and I regularly enjoy PG. The chimps lost their way since about 1976, but as yet the motives of the plasticene birds are unclear. I think tea is a very personal thing so I don't tend to get drawn into debates on its components or construction.
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