Shocking Pink ([info]fionnghuala) wrote,
@ 2008-06-03 23:05:00
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Current mood: indulgent

Snack based observations...
I now understand how a cup of tea can be refreshing in the heat. After hours of trawling through Hay-on-Wye offerings I was both hot and real thirsty, and I knocked back a restorative cup of tea super fast, with the gentle scorching sensation in my throat making me feel cool and soothed. This has never happened to me before, and I don't think I really believed it ever could, despite [info]mrmisanthropy's wild claims.

Today I was nosing about the biscuit section, when I noticed you can now get Oreos in quite respectable sized packets... I have long refused to buy them in those tiny, over-priced snack packs. I snapped them up, thinking they would be a talking point with my American tea-guests. This is a thinly veiled rationalisation, I rarely have American tea-guests, and all grown-ups reject Oreos anyway. Turns out there are things your core sense of self just never stop missing...


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[info]mrmisanthropy
2008-06-04 09:46 am UTC (link)
I'm glad you finally realise the amazing power of tea. Weird, isn't it?
Funnily enough I've just come back from Baltimore where I had a cup of soothing tea (although I had to bring the tea myself and make it in a coffee maker in my hotel room - I nearly had to boil the water in the iron, so the coffee machine was a lucky find) and some Oreos. How topical.

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[info]fionnghuala
2008-06-04 04:57 pm UTC (link)
You will be pleased to know that as the years pass I grow more and more in thrall to your leafy, crumbly master.

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[info]fionnghuala
2008-06-04 04:58 pm UTC (link)
hmm... can you use the word 'thrall' like that?

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[info]mrmisanthropy
2008-06-05 07:51 am UTC (link)
Despite the implication of some terrible addiction, that does please me.
I think you can use 'thrall' like that. All hail the Warchief!

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[info]minnesattva
2008-06-11 04:25 pm UTC (link)
I will happily be an American tea-guest! I love Oreos, and I really love tea.

I'm not a grown-up either. :)

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[info]fionnghuala
2008-06-11 04:36 pm UTC (link)
Strangely, I got my first American tea-guest even before I'd paid for the Oreos, as I unexpectedly ran into someone at the checkout!

I think it must be true, the Oreos attract them ;)

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