What's it got to do with tea?
Unofficial national dishes such as eba – cassava mashed to a dough-like consistency – were adapted from the Americas, much like the English did with tea grown in India.
For starters, he says he would never refer to any sort of measurement having to do with tea (he'd go with coffee).
"What's that got to do with tea?" I asked.
"It had less to do with tea than it had to do with excessive behavior," he says.
My husband finds the resulting slimy counter-slugs to be most repellent, and is constantly saying, in a pointed, exaggeratedly patient way, "Are you done with this tea bag?" Perhaps, as a kind of gift to him, I could give him a weeklong reprieve.
Also when you get done with your tea there will be a lot of leftover cinnamon, depending on how much you put in there.
I understand the reason for the distinction being made, but I think that we should accept that tea has now become a generic word, encompassing brews that are nothing to do with the tea plant.
On camera, Carson sips coffee and cream (no sugar), and McMahon makes do with iced tea.
