I was talking about this just the other day
how are the high streets so full of coffee shops when the old British tea rooms died a death?
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Fri 11 Jan 2013, 7:41,
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retail invasion by other countries
personally I hate coffee, can't stand the stuff
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Fri 11 Jan 2013, 7:44,
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Stainless steel teapots that dribbled and were too hot to pick up,
and cartons of UHT milk didn't help.
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Fri 11 Jan 2013, 7:44,
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because bad tea is undrinkable
but no one notices when coffee is badly made, cos it already tastes rank, but people are too concerned with looking cool to say so
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Fri 11 Jan 2013, 7:55,
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that seems fair.
there have been a few places that have tried to be tea shops, but they've never been as fashionable as coffee shops to the general public.
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Fri 11 Jan 2013, 8:11,
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every time I say "that coffee smells like dirt"
someone always replies "well it was ground this morning"
/coat
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Fri 11 Jan 2013, 8:14,
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/coat
Not really
the coffee on the Dutch train stations is so much more rank, that people became aware of its various appearances of rankness. The coffee in the coffee shop chains is just slightly less rank and/or masked by copious amounts of sugar and fat.
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Fri 11 Jan 2013, 8:47,
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I don't think no one notices
they've just been brainwashed into believeing that coffee should taste shit, because most of them sell shit coffee.
If all you can buy is shit coffee, you'll believe that's how coffee tastes.
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Fri 11 Jan 2013, 8:55,
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If all you can buy is shit coffee, you'll believe that's how coffee tastes.
It seems everyone is prepared to allow someone else to make their coffee, but the world can get to fuck if it tries to make their tea.
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Fri 11 Jan 2013, 10:20,
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Tea rooms are generally full of ornery old women and chintz.
I don't know about you, but that just doesn't do it for me.
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Fri 11 Jan 2013, 7:56,
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I was in one the other day
Half- full of families, and the waitress was seriously fit. Whoop Woop!
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Fri 11 Jan 2013, 7:57,
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there's a great one in St Albans the used to have the best bacon sandwich on the planet
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Fri 11 Jan 2013, 8:21,
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Whereever Location, Location, Location go
they always seem to find a tea room. Mainly oop north.
My missus has been bemoaning this very fact also
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Fri 11 Jan 2013, 8:56,
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My missus has been bemoaning this very fact also
"FRIENDS" and their Central Jerk are to blame
While I was at Uni I saw the coffee shops pop up and groups of "FREINDS" trying to re-create the sitting around posing, pretending they lived in NY
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Fri 11 Jan 2013, 9:17,
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