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Feb. 25th, 2011 01:42 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Went to the Grand Shop Of Tea Snobbery (not its real name) today to buy tea for my sister.
I usually love going there - a whole shop devoted to cool tea supplies! what's not to love? - but in this case, I was on a mission for... stuff I wouldn't usually buy. Stuff that would be better bought at a shop that wasn't so snobby about tea.
Because the simple fact of the matter is, when you go up to the counter carrying the stuff I was carrying, the shop assistants look at you with dubious disbelief and ask in an undertone "...you realise those are teabags, right?"
Woe unto me, for I have purchased teabags. I have fallen from the heights of the true looseleaf drinker, to a lowly purchaser of these plebby little containers. I must truly be ashamed.
Oddly, Firefox wants to correct my spelling of "realise", but is fine with "plebby"...
I usually love going there - a whole shop devoted to cool tea supplies! what's not to love? - but in this case, I was on a mission for... stuff I wouldn't usually buy. Stuff that would be better bought at a shop that wasn't so snobby about tea.
Because the simple fact of the matter is, when you go up to the counter carrying the stuff I was carrying, the shop assistants look at you with dubious disbelief and ask in an undertone "...you realise those are teabags, right?"
Woe unto me, for I have purchased teabags. I have fallen from the heights of the true looseleaf drinker, to a lowly purchaser of these plebby little containers. I must truly be ashamed.
Oddly, Firefox wants to correct my spelling of "realise", but is fine with "plebby"...
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Date: 2011-02-25 02:54 am (UTC)I am sure they use teabags, too. They only pretend to eschew them entirely.
Gabrielle
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Date: 2011-02-25 02:57 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2011-02-25 10:57 am (UTC)Teabags are good for when visitors come who drink different teas. When two people want black tea of some sort, one wants chamomile and another wants peppermint, I run out of tea making things. Tea bags mean that everyone gets their cuppa at the same time. So there snobby tea shop person. (And no I don't want more infuser things. No where to store them.)
Also, is cuppa an Aussie term?