Re: RFC 7168 on The Hyper Text Coffee Pot Control Protocol for Tea Efflux Appliances (HTCPCP-TEA)

[Randall Gellens <[e-mail]>]

At 8:16 PM -0700 4/1/14, Ole Jacobsen wrote:

>  Sat-too-long-and-is-still-hot is, if I recall, known as "stewed" 
> and anyone responsible faces possible deportation from the UK. A 
> very serious matter indeed, almost as serious as refusing to obey 
> the rules of a queue.

Sitting and steeping are orthogonal, provided the tea preparation 
apparatus has a method to arrest steepage (e.g., a Chatsford tea pot 
with large-basket mesh infuser that one simply lifts out after the 
appropriate interval).  However, my understanding was that the 
customary way to prepare British-style tea is to leave the leaves in 
all day, providing a strongly tannic tea which is better suited to 
copious milk and sugar.

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Randall Gellens
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