This week Kris and I were sitting with some others at a nice Italian restaurant in Wheaton when the server showed Mike Bird an assortment of teas. I could see them better than Mike so I mentioned a couple and finished with this: "Mike, how about some Earl Grey?"
Mike: "Are you kidding? Earl Grey tastes like an old dead lady ground up and turned into tea!"
(By the way, only an Aussie would drink "tea" at an Italian restaurant when you could have LaVazza!)
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Drinking Earl Grey of any brand is like drinking perfume. Still, I swam the ditch and lived in Oz for a couple of years and the only fair dinkum locals I knew drank coffee. I love Australia for the coffee. Real fresh roasted coffee. Brunswick Street and the rest of Australia is basking in glorious cafes. Perhaps America doesn't make decent coffee ;-) but I never knew and still don't know any Australian tea drinkers.
except herbal tea - proper herbal tea - we all drank it to detox...
you should ask mike about the good Scottish oat cakes!
You just can't guess at what's going to come out of that guy's mouth. Mike Bird is the funniest scholar I've ever met, by far. Gucci!
Hey Scot,
As someone who lives near Wheaton and loves LaVazza coffee, can you give me the name of the Italian restaurant? Thanks!
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