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posted by [personal profile] leoniedelt at 07:01pm on 13/10/2007 under ,
I can drink real leaded tea again. YAY and horray! That unleaded shit i was drinking has gotten boring, yes.

I was at playgroup earlier in the week, desperate for a drink, when i tried a mug of lightly frightened regular tea - dipped in and removed quickly. And no palpitations. So i tried PGtips when i got home. No palpitations.

Now i have a box of Assam which i indulge in once or twice a day, and I can enjoy regular tea at the coffee shop instead of having to drink water !!

Tea - that British institution i've been missing for the last 2.5 years. How the hell did i survive? Zomg.
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posted by [identity profile] purple_bug.livejournal.com at 08:00pm on 13/10/2007
Yay! Proper tea is definitely something to be happy about :o) I gave it up for a while in first year when I had trouble sleeping, then I only drank it first thing in the morning, and now I try not to drink it after 4pm, but I have a whole bunch of non-caffeine (not decaffeinated) teas that satisfy the need for tea without feeling like a substitute.

And I'll have to remember "lightly frightened". That's exactly how my mum takes hers :oD
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posted by [identity profile] leoniedelt.livejournal.com at 08:08pm on 13/10/2007
2.5 years without ANY caffeine whatsoever except whatever's in the off bit of chocolate. I really whined a lot in the beginning because I used to ♥ vanilla coke, sigh. Now you can't find the stuff any more anyways, so its a moot point.

i just felt like odd man out all the time, having to ask for water while the real Brits were drinking their leaded fuel, kwim? My MIL goes on about her blood-tannin levels, lol! Its definitely a British institution, oh yes.

I have a cup in the morning, and a cup around 11ses, and then maybe a cup around teatime but honestly, i dont find its affecting me one jot, which surprises me. No lift, but no jitters either.

:D
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posted by [identity profile] purple_bug.livejournal.com at 08:17pm on 13/10/2007
Ah, vanilla coke. I loved that too - everyone thought I was weird, but it tastes just like an ice-cream float, doesn't it?

I gave up coffee first, cos the flu made me hate it. Then the tea went cos I still couldn't sleep properly. Now I have my rooibos and my vanilla rooibos, and all my fruit teas. And Nambarrie, for the morning and for post-lecture recovery :o)

And hey, you're a tad more British than I am if you have elevenses, let me tell you :oD
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posted by [identity profile] leoniedelt.livejournal.com at 08:19pm on 13/10/2007
Ha! Well i call it elevenses, its really that eleven o'clock blood sugar drop that leaves me trembling and in need of something to keep me going. I get one at 3pm too.

Yeah, like a ice cream float. God i miss those. There used to be a great 50s diner in downtown Louisville when i was in high school that did real live ice cream floats. Argh. homesick now! :P
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posted by [identity profile] purple_bug.livejournal.com at 08:27pm on 13/10/2007
Real live ice-cream floats? My mum used to make them with lemonade and soft-scoop vanilla... :o)
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posted by [identity profile] leoniedelt.livejournal.com at 08:43pm on 13/10/2007
That's a merkan turn of phrase :P 'real live' as opposed to 'fake' ...
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posted by [identity profile] purple_bug.livejournal.com at 08:51pm on 13/10/2007
I got that :o) I meant, how exactly can an ice-cream float be fake? It's fizzy juice and ice-cream.
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posted by [identity profile] leoniedelt.livejournal.com at 08:52pm on 13/10/2007
Yeah but um it'd be fake if it wasn't made with vanilla ice cream and either coke or barq's root beer.

I think.
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posted by [identity profile] purple_bug.livejournal.com at 08:58pm on 13/10/2007
I'm with you on the vanilla ice-cream, but I love it with lemonade. Good quality lemonade, mind. What exactly is root beer? I think Garak and Quark described it as bubbly, cloying, happy and insidious :o)
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posted by [identity profile] leoniedelt.livejournal.com at 06:24am on 14/10/2007
Lemonade?!?!?!?!? You're *kidding*.

It needs to be coke or root beer. Or creme soda.

Google sasparilla, you'll find out what root beer is.
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posted by [identity profile] purple_bug.livejournal.com at 06:30am on 14/10/2007
Lemonade's nice...

I like cream soda. Although I hated it for ages in primary school, because I pulled a muscle in my neck while eating a cream soda-flavoured chewy bar.

*Google-fu* Oh, I see. Doesn't sound all that nice, really.

Right, work-time. *dashes off at ludicrous speed*
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