This is a story about a cup of tea but it could equally have applied to coffee.

In the very early 1960s I worked with on old chap who had been in the Australian Army in Palestine during the First World War.

At one point a steam train pulled in where the soldiers were stationed and the Aussie diggers were dying for a cup of tea.

So they used the boiling water fron the steam train and proceeded to drink their tea.

My old mate said that he had had some bad cups of tea in his time but this was a bad as it could get !


Allen in Oz