Anybody Fancy A Nice Cuppa?

[stuey]

http://i58.tinypic.com/24vmlo4.jpg

[Stephen_G]

Thanks for the offer, stuey, but I'm nursing one right now, with a couple of Digestive buscuits and A Few Good Men on the TV.

[cupid04]

I'm dunking a gingernut in mine as we speak...

[janbee]

Love one thanks Stuey. Make mine an Earl Grey please. T a xx

[Stephen_G]

I'm dunking a gingernut in mine as we speak...

Must have big cups, cupes! How does he/she/they feel about that?

[BlackadderV]

This was my dad's favourite:

http://www.bizdb.co.uk/company/mazawattee-tea-company-limitedthe-01421404/

[stuey]

That full-page ad is from an American magazine (I have the name written somewhere) published in 1916. In the small print it indicates that despite the war, prices of tea would not go up. The ad is unusual for its time for being in colour.

[ummmm]

*snigger*

[murraymints]

I will have one Stuey...milk (skimmed) no sugar ...got the shortbread here !

[stuey]

That refined lady in the ad would, with raised eyebrows, glare with great askance at you lowly English people dunking cookies into her tea proffered to you in her best bone china cups and saucers:)

[murraymints]

aye'll have yoo know..aye am Scottish !

[DTCwordfan]

and shortbread is nae cookie either......

[stuey]

I think, murraymints, that at that time most foreigners, including the Americans, classed anyone from that island next to France as English.

[stuey]

I realized that, DTC, when I used the word. "Biscuit" is so much more refined. In fact, I think that the elegant matron in the ad would have used the term "biscuit":)