The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #55170   Message #858648
Posted By: McGrath of Harlow
04-Jan-03 - 03:22 PM
Thread Name: BS: A proper cup of tea: nothing like it!
Subject: RE: BS: A proper cup of tea: nothing like it!
If you actually read the Coffeepot song, Q, you'll see that the song actually indicates a preferance for any old tea in preferance to coffee, unless the coffee is proper coffee, which it normally isn't. In other words, it's a tea song as much as a coffee song.

What's with this undercurrant of hostility between the two drinks? I get the impression sometimes that Americans seem to have a feeling that drinking tea is a bit unpatriotic, possibly hearkening back to schoolday lessons about the Boston Tea Party. (Coffee used to be widely regarded back here as a poncy foreign concoction, but that's died off these days.)