tea tragedy
desperate public outcry in the empire
Started by splinky, Sep 04 2011 12:52 AM
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splinky
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Posted 04 September 2011 - 12:52 AM
“One thing kids like is to be tricked. For instance, I was going to take my little nephew to Disneyland, but instead I drove him to an old burned-out warehouse. 'Oh, no!', I said, 'Disneyland burned down.' He cried and cried, but I think that deep down he thought it was a pretty good joke. I started to drive over to the real Disneyland, but it was getting pretty late.”
~Jack Handey
*proud descendant of cheese eating surrender monkeys*
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Posted 04 September 2011 - 01:13 AM
A comment from an unhappy customer:
'I cannot describe how awful this new tea tastes. The old award-winning tea was in a completely different league to this foul-tasting dishwater
but the company says the tea is new and refreshed...
Twinings’ new The Earl Grey contains extra bergamot and citrus.
According to the company’s website the product has been ‘refreshed’ with an ‘additional hint of bergamot’.
Alex Probyn, a master tea blender who runs the firm Blends for Friends, said: ‘You are talking about changing a product that people have been drinking for decades. A reaction is inevitable.’
A spokesman for Twinings insisted it had carried out extensive market research before implementing the changes.
He said: ‘As with all changes to blends, our new Earl Grey has undergone rigorous consumer tasting, receiving strong preference feedback over the previous blend.’
Read more: http://www.dailymail...l#ixzz1WwSUIBmJ
Contrast this to Rutt's Hut, an old school Jersey hot dog legend. You can't even get across the parking lot without encountering pigeons who are so bold that they try to take bites of hot dogs from people who are walking to their cars. These pigeons are so brazen that they routinely shake down rats for lunch money.
hotdoglover, describing the well known Clifton NJ dog house
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Posted 04 September 2011 - 01:18 AM
everyone knows earl grey is demonjuice. what flavour of demonjuice is irrelevant.
purdah nahin jab koi khuda se, bandon se purdah karna kya?
~shaqeel badayuni
if it takes us seven years to prepare for a madness, how long shall it take us to run naked into the marketplace?
~yoruba proverb
facts are meaningless. you could use facts to prove anything that's even remotely true!
~homer simpson
maybe it wasn't the best wording.
~nathan
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Posted 04 September 2011 - 01:40 AM
New Coke
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Posted 04 September 2011 - 01:49 AM
I don't really like Earl Grey now, but Twinings Earl Grey was the tea of my childhood, and the tea I drank whenever I felt lonely while living abroad. I'm afraid to try the New Earl Grey for fear it will taint my memories.
