Comments on: Would you like some tea with your climate change? https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/12/16/would-you-like-some-tea-with-y/ Thu, 07 Dec 2017 01:13:20 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.6 By: Greg Laden https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/12/16/would-you-like-some-tea-with-y/#comment-510481 Sat, 17 Dec 2011 20:39:49 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/12/16/would-you-like-some-tea-with-y/#comment-510481 Yes, and that happened again and again and again throughout graduate school with man different things. And now I can do all kinds of stuff!

]]> By: Nemo https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/12/16/would-you-like-some-tea-with-y/#comment-510480 Sat, 17 Dec 2011 20:26:14 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/12/16/would-you-like-some-tea-with-y/#comment-510480

“Greg! Make us tea, would you?” … “You know how to make tea?” Glynn noted, quizzically.

So basically, he asked you to do something he expected you to be unable to do?

]]> By: S. Williams https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/12/16/would-you-like-some-tea-with-y/#comment-510479 Fri, 16 Dec 2011 23:34:26 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/12/16/would-you-like-some-tea-with-y/#comment-510479 I perpetually have a cup of rooibos tea while working at my computer. Baie lekker, man!

]]> By: Nice Ogress https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/12/16/would-you-like-some-tea-with-y/#comment-510478 Fri, 16 Dec 2011 17:29:41 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/12/16/would-you-like-some-tea-with-y/#comment-510478 this seems topical, if no one’s posted it yet…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eELH0ivexKA

Good Ol’ Professor Elemental.

]]> By: daedalus2u https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/12/16/would-you-like-some-tea-with-y/#comment-510477 Fri, 16 Dec 2011 17:24:54 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/12/16/would-you-like-some-tea-with-y/#comment-510477 This reminds me of the anecdote surrounding Feynman learning how to drink tea. He was asked whether he wanted milk or lemon, and because he didn’t know, he said both.

]]> By: Greg Laden https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/12/16/would-you-like-some-tea-with-y/#comment-510476 Fri, 16 Dec 2011 17:02:38 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/12/16/would-you-like-some-tea-with-y/#comment-510476 I mainly drink Roibos these days.

And what’s this about milk and sugar? The POINT of tea is to be a place where you put your milk and sugar!

(As I say, I mainly learned to drink tea in Africa.)

]]> By: Eric Lund https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/12/16/would-you-like-some-tea-with-y/#comment-510475 Fri, 16 Dec 2011 16:59:42 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/12/16/would-you-like-some-tea-with-y/#comment-510475 I’ve just finished my morning cup (my preference is for Chinese or Japanese green teas, which one can drink without adding milk or sugar). I, too, acquired a taste for tea as an adult. When I was growing up, what passed for tea was Lipton, which Douglas Adams aptly described as “a substance almost but not quite entirely unlike tea.” The first time I visited Berkeley, one of the people in the group (an American of Chinese ancestry) invited me to try some of his tea, and the rest is history.

I’m still cautious about ordering hot tea in restaurants, because too many Americans still mistake Lipton for tea. And I consider iced tea to be an abomination. But offer me a good hot tea, and I will try it.

]]> By: Dunc https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/12/16/would-you-like-some-tea-with-y/#comment-510474 Fri, 16 Dec 2011 16:37:49 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/12/16/would-you-like-some-tea-with-y/#comment-510474 Don’t mind if I do! Assam or Darjeeling?

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