|
|
Post by Humph on Jul 1, 2022 20:51:02 GMT
I’m really good at PG tips and Nescafé.
|
|
bpg
Full Member
Posts: 2,809
|
Post by bpg on Jul 1, 2022 21:20:21 GMT
I pretty much lost my sense of taste and smell at fourteen when I had glandular fever. A broken nose at seventeen pretty much finished off what sense of smell I had.
I can taste sweet, sour, bitter, smokey, salty that's about it. Always had a preference for savoury over sweet. Funnily enough my son and I can sense when someone has tonsillitis, they smell creamy and milky. Sounds odd but as we both suffer chronic tonsillitis we have each others back when it comes to detecting carriers. Flip side is I probably couldn't tell the difference between a baked bean and mild coffee bean in hot water if the sweet sauce was removed.
|
|
EspadaIII
Full Member
Posts: 3,593 
Member is Online
|
Post by EspadaIII on Jul 3, 2022 14:44:30 GMT
Tea is best in the north with nice soft water. Anywhere with hard water makes it taste weird unless you use Yorkshire Tea blended for hard water.
And tea or coffee on a plane are just awful. Warsteiner is a far superior alternative on Lufthansa and best of all it's free.
|
|
WDB
Full Member
Posts: 7,425
|
Post by WDB on Jul 3, 2022 16:31:43 GMT
Agreed on both counts, Esp. A Brita filter is pretty much essential here to deal with the hardness and the chlorine - and that's after the softening machine we have to keep the water from wrecking the appliances.
|
|
EspadaIII
Full Member
Posts: 3,593
Member is Online
|
Post by EspadaIII on Jul 3, 2022 20:33:06 GMT
My father had a built in water softener in Israel which together with Yorkshire tea made the drink paletable. We use a Brita when we are there but we have a Nespresso machine there as well which is in frequent use, as long as the right coffee pods are selected... but there hangs another discussion.
|
|
Rob
Full Member
Posts: 2,778
|
Post by Rob on Jul 3, 2022 23:42:08 GMT
A property I looked at in Greece last year had a filter on the main water intake and then something else else to zap/clean it at the kitchen tap. But I read that removing all minerals was also bad. I'd just drink bottled water there I think including what went into the kettle. Getting Yorkshire tea leaves is another problem.
|
|
|
|
Post by dixinormus on Jul 4, 2022 7:43:37 GMT
I like Earl Grey with lots of milk… that tends to disturb drinkers of Yorkshire tea 😂
|
|
|
|
Post by Humph on Jul 4, 2022 8:02:23 GMT
You need help Dixi. That’s just wrong on so many levels, you do know that don’t you? 😬
|
|
Deleted
Deleted Member
Posts: 0
|
Post by Deleted on Jul 4, 2022 8:20:12 GMT
He's not taking it in to a lift, Humph.
|
|
EspadaIII
Full Member
Posts: 3,593
Member is Online
|
Post by EspadaIII on Jul 5, 2022 11:28:12 GMT
I like Earl Grey with lots of milk… that tends to disturb drinkers of Yorkshire tea 😂 The best brew I ever had was with loose leaf tea, 50/50 Earl Grey/Yorkshire. Was strong but fragranced. Lovely... |
|
bpg
Full Member
Posts: 2,809
|
Post by bpg on Jul 5, 2022 11:48:33 GMT
Just waiting for someone to suggest peppermint tea with hot chocolate.
Only drink it in the evenings, after 8. 🤣
|
|
WDB
Full Member
Posts: 7,425
|
Post by WDB on Jul 5, 2022 11:50:04 GMT
I wanted some the other night but there was nothing in the box but empty envelopes.
|
|
bpg
Full Member
Posts: 2,809
|
Post by bpg on Jul 5, 2022 12:17:26 GMT
Manilla flavour ? 🤮
|
|
Deleted
Deleted Member
Posts: 0
|
Post by Deleted on Aug 19, 2022 8:42:07 GMT
I remember saying, years ago and before the referendum, probably in another place, that all the "not racist" Brexiteers who simply wanted to stop foreigners taking British jobs and depressing wages were going to be furious when we left the EU, and Romanian and Polish nurses and carers left the country and ended up being replaced with nurses and carers from the Phillipines and Uganda. Well I'm going to have to admit I was wrong. It's nurses from the Phillipines and India which we'll be getting. www.walesonline.co.uk/news/uk-news/urgent-plan-hire-thousands-nurses-24796986 |
|
|
|
Post by dixinormus on Aug 20, 2022 2:22:40 GMT
Better than no nurses at all…
Truth is we’ll take any desperate souls who will accept minimum wages and shitty hours :-(
And to think that 10-15 years ago we sneered at places like Dubai with their exploited Pakistani construction workers and Filipina restaurant staff and hotel cleaners…
|
|
