I feel like this is a parody of a popular song lyric, but I’m not finding it in my memory.
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No lyrics occur to me, but I thought the point was that everyone at the party has to do with coffee, not tea – apart from the cup and the lid. So if the Earl Grey teabag gets … friendly with the cup, which might involve leaving the label on a string “hooked” over the rim – well, the lid will be left with no one but coffee items to socialize with. I wonder if the cup and lid didn’t come to the party together. Never did like Early Grey …
Not that I make full recognition of all the objects. What, for instance is the first one inside the room, the one holding the door for the tea bag? Looks to me like a nipple from a nursing bottle! But that doesn’t make sense, for either tea or coffee. So maybe a coffee-based candy?
It’s almost a limerick, apart from the meter and a mispronunciation requirement.
Earl Grey went to the partay
But left earlay
After hooking up
With the takeaway cup
Much to the lid’s dismay.
First, the name “tenderlyrunawaybf6542998b” was a WordPress glitch. Hopefully I’ll be able to post this with the “display name of my choice”.
Second, Tom Waits reference? Not intentionally, but possibly unintentionally, or even freudianly (is that a word?).But what do you mean? “Never did like Early Grey …”? Sounds a little like “Never could stand that dog” (Frank’s Wild Years) I suppose.
But no, I just disapprove of perfuming tea. Or stealing an honest lid’s date.
The “can opener” is the thing espresso grounds are put in. It clamps to the espresso machine. The spouts on the back/bottom are where the espresso comes out.
Boise Ed(9), that is a Portafilter. The holder for the filter of an espresso maker. And the name happens to be Italian for ‘filter holder’.
The espresso tamper is used to press(tamp) the espresso coffee grounds into the filter, and the portafilter locks onto the espresso maker and the steam is then pumped through the grounds, condensing and dripping into the waiting demitasse cup.
So I guess the tamper and portafilter came together, too. Thanks for the info. (I’m not a coffee addict, differentiating me from my late father and my wife.)
Boise Ed – When I was a young teenager (starting at 12yo) I joined Weight Watchers. At the time they did not have separate meetings for children, men and women (I think they do now, but have not been involved with same for many decades) so I went a Saturday morning meeting with almost all adults. (Parent had to drive me there and back.)
A big thing was to drink coffee to keep one from eating. Adding milk to one’s coffee would require one to deduct the amount used for same from anything else which involved milk in one’s daily allowance. So I learned to drink black coffee and did not add artificial sweetener to it.
I was not drinking the coffee constantly during the day, just with breakfast and one to two more times during the day. Following my 3 years in college (finished quickly as came in with credits from high school courses) I got a job in accounting working in an office (with some days out at clients). In the office at 10am everyone stopped and had a coffee break (same made by secretary for everyone – I was NOT a secretary). I continued to do so for about 10 or more years – always drinking the coffee black – and also drank coffee at home.
One day, now well in my twenties, my stomach decided it did not like black coffee and that I should no longer drink it. I was not an addict as I had no trouble stopping it. I switched to tea and my stomach has been much happier in the ensuing 4-5 decades. (Plus, more recently for me, tea is suppose to help with one or the other of the various medical conditions I have, don’t remember which one nor does husband who has the same conditions and won’t drink tea unless he has very bad cold or it is iced tea which he drinks daily, so I drink tea daily after dinner both to help stop me from snacking and for help with whichever medical problem it is good for.)
A very good part of my posting this is that husband drank the last of his iced (actually only cold) tea with dinner and I have to brew up more for him. He can no longer find the (unsweetened) iced tea mix he used to use and he was going crazy as, per him, one cannot make iced tea from hot tea, only from a mix. So, I brewed up some tea, put it in the fridge after it cooled down a bit and when it was cold gave it to him. He was rather impressed that I was able to do so. So now about 3 to 4 days I brew him up a half gallon iced tea for him to use. Which I better do now or it will not cool down enough to go in the fridge before we go to sleep tonight.
Addendum – he can consider tonight’s brewing of tea as his 47th anniversary gift as we find there is nothing to give each other and do not buy gifts for each other – but he does love a gift.
There’s evidence that coffee drinking is associated with good health outcomes, but obviously that doesn’t apply it if is literally making you ill. Everyone’s body is different.
Meryl, I’ve generally heard “ice(d) tea” to refer to any temperature below tepid. And it doesn’t have to be boiled first. I put some tea in a gallon-sized pitcher, fill it with tap water, let it sit for a little while, then either put the pitcher in the fridge or just cool it with ice cubes in a glass. The slow steeping works just fine.
@BoiseEd, the problem with room-temperature tea is that neither tapwater nor tea leaves is sterile. If you don’t boil the tea, and you let it stand for longer than a few hours, you risk bacterial growth.
Boise Ed – It took a great deal of convincing (and the fact he had no alternative) to convince him that iced tea could be made from actual tea being chilled and not only from iced tea mix.
Oddly ice cubes is something we don’t have. I have a number of ice trays, but we never seem to bother to make any ice in them. (We even have a second small freezer in the basement which only has large amounts of frost in it as we stopped using it some years ago (why – I forget) but have left it plugged in. Aha! I remember – he quit his job and is with me all the time and we tend to buy a lot less food at a time than I did when I did the shopping alone as we eat dinner out several nights a week, so we don’t have enough food to really need the little freezer, but when I suggested shutting it down – he insisted we needed to keep it working – “just in case”.
I have had a nasty cold the past week plus, so he has learned how to make tea, let it cool down, and then put it in the fridge to get cold as he does not want me touching his food and maybe making him sick. The tea problem was just a minor addendum to add to the fun we have been having this year (my mom died, I ended dad’s/my accounting practice, his brother-in-law died – funeral tomorrow…).
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No lyrics occur to me, but I thought the point was that everyone at the party has to do with coffee, not tea – apart from the cup and the lid. So if the Earl Grey teabag gets … friendly with the cup, which might involve leaving the label on a string “hooked” over the rim – well, the lid will be left with no one but coffee items to socialize with. I wonder if the cup and lid didn’t come to the party together. Never did like Early Grey …
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I like your theory, Tenderly….
Not that I make full recognition of all the objects. What, for instance is the first one inside the room, the one holding the door for the tea bag? Looks to me like a nipple from a nursing bottle! But that doesn’t make sense, for either tea or coffee. So maybe a coffee-based candy?
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Also, do we need to account for the selective UPPER CASE EMPHASIS of some words, but not quite those referring to pictured objects?
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The object opening the door is an espresso tamper.
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Thank you, Lost.
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It’s almost a limerick, apart from the meter and a mispronunciation requirement.
Earl Grey went to the partay
But left earlay
After hooking up
With the takeaway cup
Much to the lid’s dismay.
And is that a Tom Waits reference Tenderly…
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First, the name “tenderlyrunawaybf6542998b” was a WordPress glitch. Hopefully I’ll be able to post this with the “display name of my choice”.
Second, Tom Waits reference? Not intentionally, but possibly unintentionally, or even freudianly (is that a word?).But what do you mean? “Never did like Early Grey …”? Sounds a little like “Never could stand that dog” (Frank’s Wild Years) I suppose.
But no, I just disapprove of perfuming tea. Or stealing an honest lid’s date.
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The bag of cofffee named “Hyper” looks like he’s trying hard to stay awake.
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Chak (8): Just to our right of “HYPER,” is that a can opener? It doesn’t seem at all related to beverages.
Lost (4): Why tamper with your espresso?
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The “can opener” is the thing espresso grounds are put in. It clamps to the espresso machine. The spouts on the back/bottom are where the espresso comes out.
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Boise Ed(9), that is a Portafilter. The holder for the filter of an espresso maker. And the name happens to be Italian for ‘filter holder’.
The espresso tamper is used to press(tamp) the espresso coffee grounds into the filter, and the portafilter locks onto the espresso maker and the steam is then pumped through the grounds, condensing and dripping into the waiting demitasse cup.
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The lid presumably came the party with the cup, and expected to go home with it. Hence the dismay when that didn’t happen.
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So I guess the tamper and portafilter came together, too. Thanks for the info. (I’m not a coffee addict, differentiating me from my late father and my wife.)
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Boise Ed – When I was a young teenager (starting at 12yo) I joined Weight Watchers. At the time they did not have separate meetings for children, men and women (I think they do now, but have not been involved with same for many decades) so I went a Saturday morning meeting with almost all adults. (Parent had to drive me there and back.)
A big thing was to drink coffee to keep one from eating. Adding milk to one’s coffee would require one to deduct the amount used for same from anything else which involved milk in one’s daily allowance. So I learned to drink black coffee and did not add artificial sweetener to it.
I was not drinking the coffee constantly during the day, just with breakfast and one to two more times during the day. Following my 3 years in college (finished quickly as came in with credits from high school courses) I got a job in accounting working in an office (with some days out at clients). In the office at 10am everyone stopped and had a coffee break (same made by secretary for everyone – I was NOT a secretary). I continued to do so for about 10 or more years – always drinking the coffee black – and also drank coffee at home.
One day, now well in my twenties, my stomach decided it did not like black coffee and that I should no longer drink it. I was not an addict as I had no trouble stopping it. I switched to tea and my stomach has been much happier in the ensuing 4-5 decades. (Plus, more recently for me, tea is suppose to help with one or the other of the various medical conditions I have, don’t remember which one nor does husband who has the same conditions and won’t drink tea unless he has very bad cold or it is iced tea which he drinks daily, so I drink tea daily after dinner both to help stop me from snacking and for help with whichever medical problem it is good for.)
A very good part of my posting this is that husband drank the last of his iced (actually only cold) tea with dinner and I have to brew up more for him. He can no longer find the (unsweetened) iced tea mix he used to use and he was going crazy as, per him, one cannot make iced tea from hot tea, only from a mix. So, I brewed up some tea, put it in the fridge after it cooled down a bit and when it was cold gave it to him. He was rather impressed that I was able to do so. So now about 3 to 4 days I brew him up a half gallon iced tea for him to use. Which I better do now or it will not cool down enough to go in the fridge before we go to sleep tonight.
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Addendum – he can consider tonight’s brewing of tea as his 47th anniversary gift as we find there is nothing to give each other and do not buy gifts for each other – but he does love a gift.
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There’s evidence that coffee drinking is associated with good health outcomes, but obviously that doesn’t apply it if is literally making you ill. Everyone’s body is different.
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Meryl, I’ve generally heard “ice(d) tea” to refer to any temperature below tepid. And it doesn’t have to be boiled first. I put some tea in a gallon-sized pitcher, fill it with tap water, let it sit for a little while, then either put the pitcher in the fridge or just cool it with ice cubes in a glass. The slow steeping works just fine.
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@BoiseEd, the problem with room-temperature tea is that neither tapwater nor tea leaves is sterile. If you don’t boil the tea, and you let it stand for longer than a few hours, you risk bacterial growth.
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Well, you don’t normally boil tea, but you do use water at 180F or higher to avoid risk of bacterial growth.
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These days, it’s recommended to make cold-brew tea in the refrigerator.
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Boise Ed – It took a great deal of convincing (and the fact he had no alternative) to convince him that iced tea could be made from actual tea being chilled and not only from iced tea mix.
Oddly ice cubes is something we don’t have. I have a number of ice trays, but we never seem to bother to make any ice in them. (We even have a second small freezer in the basement which only has large amounts of frost in it as we stopped using it some years ago (why – I forget) but have left it plugged in. Aha! I remember – he quit his job and is with me all the time and we tend to buy a lot less food at a time than I did when I did the shopping alone as we eat dinner out several nights a week, so we don’t have enough food to really need the little freezer, but when I suggested shutting it down – he insisted we needed to keep it working – “just in case”.
I have had a nasty cold the past week plus, so he has learned how to make tea, let it cool down, and then put it in the fridge to get cold as he does not want me touching his food and maybe making him sick. The tea problem was just a minor addendum to add to the fun we have been having this year (my mom died, I ended dad’s/my accounting practice, his brother-in-law died – funeral tomorrow…).
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