Tea time

[Michael 345]

It's even easier if you camp next to a McDonalds!

(Although their tea was pretty awful back in the day... not sure what it's like now that it's all gone coffee-shop style... but nor do I care to find out!)

Cost of McD coffee to expensive

But same all currently selling coffee

$12 a large which is ⅔ the amount of my home cup

For $18 can buy quality granular coffee in glass jar a few hundred serving

 

[Michael 345]

Not if you are walking in the Lake District. You need a solid breakfast for that - and you will have the appetite for it.

Age about 9 school camping highlands Scotland

Fill mattress cover with straw from the barn

Climb as far as you can up the hill and build a shelter

Walk across the railway track bridge crossing the valley
That was our groups idea as a short cut back to camp. It wasn't

All on bowl of Cornflakes

 

[Sarkus]

$12 a large which is ⅔ the amount of my home cup

Which country are you in that charges so much???? 12 dollars? Is that HKD? USD? AUD? CAD? 'Cos it sounds quite a bit.
UK it's about GBP1.00 for a black coffee.

For $18 can buy quality granular coffee in glass jar a few hundred serving

The bolded part is an oxymoron. Like US Intelligence. Or small crowd.
"Granular" precludes it from being remotely "quality".

 

[Michael 345]

Which country are you in that charges so much???? 12 dollars? Is that HKD? USD? AUD? CAD? 'Cos it sounds quite a bit.
UK it's about GBP1.00 for a black coffee.
The bolded part is an oxymoron. Like US Intelligence. Or small crowd.
"Granular" precludes it from being remotely "quality".

Country - Australia so ($) Australia
Today exchange rate ($) 1 Australia equals


Will try to get photos next shopping day

quality granular coffee in glass jar as opposed to coffee powder in cardboard drum



EDIT - How about that? putting dollar sign in brackets ($) stops parts of post following unbracketed dollar sign from being scramble just like SciForum said

 

[Sarkus]

So you're paying over £6 for a coffee at McDonald's???
Okay, the UK sizes are probably somewhat smaller for £1, but still, that's effing expensive!!

As for the granules, most granules sold in supermarkets here are in glass jars. Even the supermarket cheap own-label stuff. It's really only the economy / catering packs that are sold in the cardboard drums.

You can even get tea in granules!!

 

[Michael 345]

So you're paying over £6 for a coffee at McDonald's???
Okay, the UK sizes are probably somewhat smaller for £1, but still, that's effing expensive!!

As for the granules, most granules sold in supermarkets here are in glass jars. Even the supermarket cheap own-label stuff. It's really only the economy / catering packs that are sold in the cardboard drums.

You can even get tea in granules!!

McD coffee is a bit cheaper

The little bit up market Soul Food is the £6 range

cardboard drums have Nescafe and Bushels Coffee

Coffee I buy

The Nescafe version


So

On special ($)18 or ($)4:50 / 100 gram
against
On special ($)3:20 / 100 gram

 

[LaurieAG]

So you're paying over £6 for a coffee at McDonald's???

It's actually 5 Australian dollars for a large flat white at McDonalds.

I learnt how to make billy tea when I started working in a Telecom conduit gang in the 1980's.

First off you add clean water to the billy, put it on the fire/gas bottle, bring it to the boil and then remove it from the fire/turn off the gas. Add 2 to 3 heaped table spoons of leaf tea to the water and allow it to stand for 3 minutes. Pick up the billy by the handle and gently rotate it 3 times (just twist your wrist). Finally lift the billy up 1 inch/25mm from the table top and then just drop it down, to settle the tea leaves at the bottom, and you will have your tea ready for pouring.

 

[Michael 345]

It's actually 5 Australian dollars for a large flat white at McDonalds.

One way bypassed buying coffee at the shopping centre was to buy a Adult Zippy Cup for ($)2

Has insulation and a sealable drinking spout. So take your home brewed coffee, take a biscuit from the packet and few moments relaxing before returning home

 

[Michael 345]

Which country are you in that charges so much???? 12 dollars? Is that HKD? USD? AUD? CAD? 'Cos it sounds quite a bit.
UK it's about GBP1.00 for a black coffee.

This is Soul Food where as you can see coffee at ($)7 but I didn't get size of cup

 

[sideshowbob]

At Tim Hortons I can get a large double-double for $2 Canadian (no extra charge for cream and sugar).

 

[LaurieAG]

One way bypassed buying coffee at the shopping centre was to buy a Adult Zippy Cup for ($)2

The best way here is to get a government issued Seniors Card and get it for free (in some places like Hungry Jacks/Burger King).

 

[Michael 345]

The best way here is to get a government issued Seniors Card and get it for free (in some places like Hungry Jacks/Burger King).

True

I did it my way (Go Frankie) today

Glanced at the prices in a Tea and other jucies shop - $10 for a large tea

Cheapest drink - $1 for a Frothy Milk

 

[Kristoffer]

Oh, come now!

You're telling me this is not how to make tea?

https://twitter.com/whatforholl/status/1269711618163838985



*Disclaimer: I could not resist!

Haven't had tea in quite a few years...

Even after all that time I am not even laughing a bit about the disrespect...

OK, I might have chuckled a bit about them calling it tea.

 

[Michael 345]

OK, I might have chuckled a bit about them calling it tea

The amount of sugar poured in it could be called Sugar soup

How does that song go? Diabetes Here I Come

 

[sculptor]

...

How does that song go? Diabetes Here I Come

I dunno
can you hum a few bars?

Meanwhile
ditch the sugar and switch to honey
or
on a hot day
find a nice shady spot with a bit of a breeze
leave the coffee black and add a shot of ouzo or whiskey
then
relax

............................
50 cents worth of coffee beans
3 cups of hot water
grind beans
place in jar
add @180 degree F water
let settle
add in a dry egg shell
let settle
sip

 

[Michael 345]

I dunno
can you hum a few bars?

Diabetes Here I Come
Test blood drop from my thumb
Sugers up, what a bum
Need insulin, please find me some
Inject in tummy not my bum

To the tune of California here I come

leave the coffee black

Never - need my susu

 

[Sarkus]

Talking of which...
GUESS WHAT DAY IT IS TODAY!!!
\o/ \o/ \o/ \o/ \o/

 

[sideshowbob]

Talking of which...
GUESS WHAT DAY IT IS TODAY!!!
\o/ \o/ \o/ \o/ \o/

Noel Fielding's birthday.

 

[foghorn]

Talking of which...
GUESS WHAT DAY IT IS TODAY!!!
\o/ \o/ \o/ \o/ \o/

\0/ International Tea Day\0/

International Tea Day is observed annually on May 21, according to the United Nations. The concerning resolution was adopted on December 21, 2019 and calls on the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) to lead the observance of the Day. …

…. The main architects were Centre for Education and Communication (CEC), India (Shatadru Chattopadhayay); Hind Mazdoor Sabha, India (Samir Roy); Indian National Trade Union Congress, India (Paramasivam); Institute of Social Development, Sri Lanka (P. Muthulingam); New Trade Union Initiative, India (M. Subbu); Red Flag Union, Sri Lanka (O. A. Ramaiha) and United Trade Union Congress, India (Ashok Ghosh) at the World Social Forum in January 2005. The first International Tea Day was celebrated in New Delhi in 2005,[7] with later celebrations organized in Sri Lanka in 2006 and 2008.[5] International Tea Day celebrations and the related Global Tea Conferences have been jointly organized by trade union movements.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Tea_Day

Why not an international 'Travel Kettle Day' ?

 

[foghorn]

Noel Fielding's birthday.

No doubt he will be having a cup of tea and a slice of birthday cake.