Banjo Hangout Logo
Banjo Hangout Logo

Premier Sponsors

511
Banjo Lovers Online


Page: 1  2   3   Next Page   Last Page (3) 

Jan 26, 2025 - 2:31:48 AM

mander

USA

5204 posts since 10/7/2007

Years ago, an otherwise very pleasant Englishman said to me, "You'll never make a proper wife because you don't know how to make a proper cup of tea." I thought, what an odd thing to say to someone you've just met.
Now that I DO know how to make a proper cup of tea, I get it. There may be dishes in my sink, and the laundry is reaching the ceiling but there is a proper cup of tea in my hands. I am going to make someone a proper wife someday!

So, what small, insignificant achievement are you proud of?

Jan 26, 2025 - 3:39:45 AM
like this

4861 posts since 4/22/2018

Tea leaves or tea bags?
Milk first or after the tea?
Cup and saucer or mug?
Bone china tea pot or stoneware?

These are all very important questions in the assessment of ‘a proper cup of tea’

Jan 26, 2025 - 4:58:19 AM
Players Union Member

rinemb

USA

16865 posts since 5/24/2005

In the winter we have an evening cup of “civilized” hot tea nearly nightly. Usually an early grey style, but we very. For me I will vary to a lapsang souchong. Though Marilyn does not like the odor-I do. She may vary to a Parisian blend. Brad

Jan 26, 2025 - 5:18:32 AM
like this

42648 posts since 3/5/2008
Online Now

Boiling water...
The brand of tea ..you ..like..
What'evah additives..you..like..

There...
A ..propper cup of..tea..

Oh...
Extend yer pinky finger..
If you think yer impressin annahbody.. ;0)

Jan 26, 2025 - 5:38:28 AM
Players Union Member

rinemb

USA

16865 posts since 5/24/2005

It’s the “proper” tea times that I could never abide. It just doesn’t fit well with the America way of other activities. Brad

Jan 26, 2025 - 5:44:20 AM
Players Union Member

rinemb

USA

16865 posts since 5/24/2005

In the evening we are mostly mug slugs. Often tea bags, sometimes use a strainer for loose leaf we have. If having tea with afternoon company Marilyn will use a tea set of cup and saucer, a teapot, and sugar cube bowl with tongs, and a little milk pitcher. Brad

Jan 26, 2025 - 6:29:48 AM

Owen

Canada

16497 posts since 6/5/2011

Well, I'm still hopeful that they'll put "He kept his lawn neatly trimmed." on my headstone.  wink

[Truth be told, I don't expect that there'll be any headstone, and I occasionally chide (?) my neighbours on shaming me into mowing my lawn. Otoh I do point out to my wife the times when I get my driveway cleared before my across-the-street neighbour does hers.]

Insignificant??  O-nay eh-way!!   Proud of??  Probably not.

I think most others would consider my achievements [cough, hack, cough] with the banjo pretty insignificant, but to me they're no mean feat.

Edited by - Owen on 01/26/2025 06:34:33

Jan 26, 2025 - 8:22:42 AM
likes this
Players Union Member

Texasbanjo (Moderator)

USA

31218 posts since 8/3/2003
Online Now

I haven't drank hot tea in years. Used to all the time. Got away from it for some reason.

Give me a good, hot cup of coffee anytime, no cream, no weird stuff, just coffee with a bit of sugar to take away the bitter taste.

Jan 26, 2025 - 8:58:36 AM
likes this

4867 posts since 4/29/2012

And don't forget "Pot to kettle, not kettle to pot".

Jan 26, 2025 - 9:18:29 AM

Owen

Canada

16497 posts since 6/5/2011

... Here's an old bluegrass classic that gives some guidance on what makes a "proper" (?) wife ... cooking is mentioned, but not tea specifically:

 

 

Edited by - Owen on 01/26/2025 09:19:32

Jan 26, 2025 - 9:23:56 AM
Players Union Member

rinemb

USA

16865 posts since 5/24/2005

I had a tea coach or tea teacher. We had an office assistant who had recently moved from Ireland to Kansas for great job her husband got in Wichita. She preferred not to drink her tea alone, but punctually she did everyday at 11:00 am. She always asked if I would join her. By eleven I mostly likely had already knocked off a pot of coffee, and would head for lunch at 11:30. She taught all the proper manner of making and drinking “civilized” tea. Her words not mine. She would buy Twinings bags, for the office, but at home they used loose leaf in the teapot. Brad

Jan 26, 2025 - 9:25:56 AM

4861 posts since 4/22/2018

quote:
Originally posted by AndrewD

And don't forget "Pot to kettle, not kettle to pot".


Heaven forfend!

Jan 26, 2025 - 9:28:02 AM
likes this

chuckv97

Canada

73575 posts since 10/5/2013

Gynostemma , loose leaf,, grows in western China where most folks live to be 100+ years old. I’ve got at least 26 more to go.

Jan 26, 2025 - 9:28:38 AM

661 posts since 4/27/2020

Well, given that I'm the product of two US Floridians, I was raised on sweet tea, and still brew it myself, especially in the summer. Not iced tea or hot tea. So to me it's a bit of a foreign world. I can't remember the last time I had a cup of hot tea, but I wouldn't be averse to it in the proper setting.

Jan 26, 2025 - 10:04:09 AM

15465 posts since 1/15/2005

It ain't proper unless it has been saucered and blowed. If you don't know what I am referring to then you just ain't educated on tea ....... especially in New England where most cup plates were made in glass factories there. Anybody here know what a cup plate is and what they were for?

Jan 26, 2025 - 10:19:21 AM
likes this

chuckv97

Canada

73575 posts since 10/5/2013

Oh yeah, tea cup & saucer were the rule for my Ma &Pa. An uncle used to pour some in his saucer, blow on it, and drink it with loud slurps,,, ugh

Jan 26, 2025 - 11:36:36 AM
Players Union Member

rinemb

USA

16865 posts since 5/24/2005

I will have to check our old WV Rosepoint Cambridge? glassware. To see if the sauce are cupped much. It was my mom’s wedding gift from dad’s WV peeps. Brad

Jan 26, 2025 - 11:49:34 AM
like this
Players Union Member

Eric A

USA

1951 posts since 10/15/2019

I know how to do 401(k) rollovers like nobody's business. Everybody needs a guy like me in the family. Plus, I do taxes.

Jan 26, 2025 - 11:53:26 AM
likes this

4867 posts since 4/29/2012

quote:
Originally posted by chuckv97

Oh yeah, tea cup & saucer were the rule for my Ma &Pa. An uncle used to pour some in his saucer, blow on it, and drink it with loud slurps,,, ugh


That was the refined way of doing it when tea was an expensive luxury in the 18th C. Which is why early saucers were deep, more like bowls.  Of course when tea became cheap it was derided by the upper classes as being common.

Jan 26, 2025 - 1:17:11 PM

29 posts since 10/2/2019

Barry's Loose brewed in an aluminum pot:
A spoon for each cup and one for the pot.
Warm the pot with boiling water swirled around.
Dump water, add leaves and new boiling water.
Steep for 5 minutes, pour, add milk
Drink immediately
(Honey or sugar optional)

Edited by - Bklyngeezer on 01/26/2025 13:17:40

Jan 26, 2025 - 1:57:37 PM

banjonz

New Zealand

12238 posts since 6/29/2003

Oh, what I want is a proper cup of coffee, made from a proper copper coffee pot.

I might be off my jot, But I wanna proper cup of coffee from a copper coffee pot.

Iron coffee pots, tin coffee pots, they're no good to me!

If I can't have a proper cup of coffee from a proper copper coffee pot,

I'll have a cuppa tea.

Jan 26, 2025 - 2:22:27 PM
Players Union Member

rinemb

USA

16865 posts since 5/24/2005

quote:
Originally posted by rinemb

I had a tea coach or tea teacher. We had an office assistant who had recently moved from Ireland to Kansas for great job her husband got in Wichita. She preferred not to drink her tea alone, but punctually she did everyday at 11:00 am. She always asked if I would join her. By eleven I mostly likely had already knocked off a pot of coffee, and would head for lunch at 11:30. She taught all the proper manner of making and drinking “civilized” tea. Her words not mine. She would buy Twinings but mostly Barry's bags, for the office, but at home they used loose leaf in the teapot. Brad


Jan 26, 2025 - 7:18:12 PM
like this

250 posts since 1/17/2019

Kettle on the stove….don’t even think about microwaving. That is all.

Jan 27, 2025 - 5:23:01 AM
likes this

62879 posts since 12/14/2005

quote:
Originally posted by mander

Years ago, an otherwise very pleasant Englishman said to me, "You'll never make a proper wife because you don't know how to make a proper cup of tea." I thought, what an odd thing to say to someone you've just met.
Now that I DO know how to make a proper cup of tea, I get it. There may be dishes in my sink, and the laundry is reaching the ceiling but there is a proper cup of tea in my hands. I am going to make someone a proper wife someday!


So, what small, insignificant achievement are you proud of?


I can FIX stuff, most stuff, some of the time.

And sometimes, it's a small thing, but it beats tossing stuff into landfills.

There's a place west of here, where the municipality piled their city's waste into a gigantic hill, sodded it over, built a ski slope. The locals call it Mount Trashmore, but the adverts call it something like Olympia.

Jan 27, 2025 - 5:39:43 AM
like this

4861 posts since 4/22/2018

quote:
Originally posted by BanjoLink

It ain't proper unless it has been saucered and blowed. If you don't know what I am referring to then you just ain't educated on tea ....... especially in New England where most cup plates were made in glass factories there. Anybody here know what a cup plate is and what they were for?


I thought that in New England they preferred their tea bobbing around in the Atlantic??

Jan 27, 2025 - 5:45:39 AM

4861 posts since 4/22/2018

quote:
Originally posted by Texasbanjo

I haven't drank hot tea in years. Used to all the time. Got away from it for some reason.

Give me a good, hot cup of coffee anytime, no cream, no weird stuff, just coffee with a bit of sugar to take away the bitter taste.


You and I have similar tastes, thats exactly how I take my coffee.

I haven't had a cup of tea in years, I got so sick of 'Nato tea' (white with sugar) served en masse at every opportunity in the Army, that i never had another 'cuppa' since I left

Page: 1  2   3   Next Page   Last Page (3) 

Terms of Use | Privacy Policy | Privacy Consent
Copyright 2025 Banjo Hangout. All Rights Reserved.





Hangout Network Help

View All Topics  |  View Categories

0.25