January 22, 2013
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sinner!
near as I can tell, this is the reason we continue to snub tea versus coffee. this grabs fewer than
yes, coffee so strong you can paint with it
picture – http://www.odditycentral.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/Karen-Eland-coffee-painting17.jpg
2 grams tea per 8 oz
8.9 grams coffee per 8 oz
courtesy of Twining’s box and cockeyed.com coffee
now @ ~$3 a Twining’s box and ~$9 a 32oz tin/jug of grounds or 4.50 a pound is 8.8 ake it 9 cents a cup or 15 cents tea. it doesn’t take rocket science to see why tea is good but coffee even beginning today would forever beat it again as cheap is cheap pep is pep. so
tea isn’t strong by color cost 66% more
has half the pep of coffee typically
it would appear that my love of tea is a love of something with no redeeming qualities.
bah.
http://www.describetheruckus.com/img/teapainting.gif
paint with tea
fastlane by celestial seasoning has 110mg’s caffeine or about the same as coffee if not more
tea comes with the option of being easily disposable more often than coffee
tea hutch?
coffee hutch
empty coffee refers to color more often than a special display of a collection
thats this round of tea mmmmmmmmmmm
Comments (51)
I like coffe alot well you know that…but I do like tea also I love Earl Gray, and also Irish Breakfast tea so I have also quite a few types of tea in my cupboard I figure my coffee and tea habit is much cheaper that shoes would be
I am a social teatotaler and a coffee addict. I suspect it has more to do with caffine levels than anything. Some days I just have to have a cup (or three) of sweet spicey chai – like right now, for instance – and yesterday and the day before…I am making two cup teapots tomorrow morning. (A one cup teapot is really just a mug with a lid, and, well, theoretically, you should never drink alone. Heh. Just saying.) We’ll see how it goes . . .xxoo
@SisterMae - Joy each day – aint it? I will say that one can get a better bargain in coffee than in tea for daily use tastes wise- but that is seriously subjective matjh.
@SandraErickson - :D yay! I suppose it comes down to philosophies. the chinese one of enduring individual responsibility wherein one has one’s day covered. this is also grand practice considering germs and sharing. then there is the social aspect of if it isn’t shared it is pretty much meaningless…be that breaking bread with folk a cup of beverages… which also emphawizes the proof of joy witch is that another will confirm it. this of course lends a mess to philosophy as which is more important responsibility individual? or shared community? well lets just skip philosophy past the smile of a cup
I’m rather sure the muse is the most fun silently wondering versus having an actual answer- which is subjective anyways.
@SandraErickson - sweet spicy chai – I like the celestial seasoning sweet coconut thai chai which is yours?
About coffee I am very low brow and as long as it’s got caffeine and doesn’t taste like it’s already passed through a mammal, I’m good with it. But when it comes to tea I’m nine kinds of uppity and won’t drink the stuff that’s sold in supermarkets. So I do without most often.
The rule is simple: I don’t have to make sense.
that’s some remarkable coffee and tea painting…I like raspberry tea but I can’t live without my coffee fix … well I could probably live but I wouldn’t be easy to live with
@HappierHeathen - www.marktwendell.com – Boston tea merchant. I was pleased they still still existed 18 years after publication of a book I read – atea lovers treausury – james pratt. mmmmmmmm you dont have to make sennse – but they tendto with lapseng souchong fancy formosa oolong,cran/apple
@mlbncsga - grumpy sans caffeine???? lol
I usually get a 1/4 pound of chai and mix it with 1/4 pound of Irish Breakfast Tea. Place it wtih vanilla beans, cinnamon stick and cardamon seeds in my grandmother’s glass jar and make chai with a tea ball in my lidded mug ((laughing))…when all else fails (at work, or when I’ve used up the last of the tea leaves and haven’t managed to get into Burlington to buy more. Oh. Like today, for instance) I use Stash tea bags with lots of honey and cream. I mean: YUMMY. What I wouldn’t give for a Lorne Doone just now….
@SandraErickson - yummy
I always thought the reason a lot of Americans snub tea is because we dumped the tea in the Boston Tea Party and then we went on to beat the British but what do I know, I drink iced tea when it’s 5 degrees outside.
I’m southern, we drink iced tea year ’round. I like hot tea, and I love cappuccino. Not fond of plain coffee, it’s got to have some sugar and milk or something in it.
Oh, and don’t forget teabag folding… http://www.squidoo.com/teabagfolding
@godfatherofgreenbay - ah- the boston tea party. thats more of a tax thing than a hate tea thing-but later blockades change supply cost.-that itwhy I list a caffeine to cost thing there is no doubt that tea can be procured cheaper than coffee -case in point-goto seven eleven- you can get far more tea than coffee for your cash. butculturally a tea for sale commands more cash per pound than coffee.more often by bulk sales . ask yourself if you would wait 20 years to drink tea again if someone offered you coffeee cheaper. tastes are want to change.
@moniet - then your may be awareof sweet tea
I’m glad people tend to drink them rather paint with them. Beautiful paintings, nonetheless.
@godfatherofgreenbay - Now that’s an amusing thought.
no coffee for me – stunts my growth… physically and mentally… hot chocolate is the place to be, so they loaded up the truck and moved near a dairy – whip cream and a little cinnammon on top…
@starmanjones - Of co-arrse sweet tea, there’s no otharah kind! (Ha! Said in mah best Southeren accceeeant)
@nov_way - I couldn’t find a snap of a bit of woodwork painted in literal espresso shellac’d so paintings it was
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@xplorrn - you tempt me lol http://www.lyricsondemand.com/tvthemes/beverlyhillbillieslyrics.html
@moniet - first iced teas I had good were unsweetened- and the coffees black. awwwwwww (I’m one of those
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@starmanjones -
you got it!
I like the Art Nouveau picture (with the shorter hair on the girl it’s maybe Art Deco?). Maybe right on the cusp. I’m probably a sinner too and have brewed tea in my coffee maker.
@xplorrn - :) yes
@sleekpunk - http://blog.portlandstudios.com/let-them-drink-art/ uncredited- but art n not d
@starmanjones - I get it now. Thank you. Cool tea idea!
@sleekpunk - I was only bein hooty- I didn’t know but I did in a weird way – deco would to me mean the object versus the philosophy… fine hair to split considering the picture was flapperish.and thus well within deco’s time frame not noveau’s but here the split hair- thispiece isn’t screaming deco tools just a old timey gal. this would kickit from deco to a retro styling thus noveau which was a fresh philosophy of art notice that new from the old sepia type toned thing but not framed as the deco style just of the time…this is why I’d give it the art noveau gal.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/99/Th%C3%A9ophile-Alexandre_Steinlen_-_Tourn%C3%A9e_du_Chat_Noir_de_Rodolphe_Salis_%28Tour_of_Rodolphe_Salis%27_Chat_Noir%29_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg/200px-Th%C3%A9ophile-Alexandre_Steinlen_-_Tourn%C3%A9e_du_Chat_Noir_de_Rodolphe_Salis_%28Tour_of_Rodolphe_Salis%27_Chat_Noir%29_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg
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@starmanjones - I love that. I almost thought I owned it, but I’ve seen it before at Michael’s or Target. Meow-yum, on your find.
I grew up with tea; iced in summer, hot tea year round. I love hot chai lattes, and mint tea, and English or Irish bkft tea etc. I never drink coffee. It’s too bitter, even the ones they add all that stuff like caramel, sugar and creme into b/c there is still the aftertaste. I’ll stick to tea (and like someone else mentioned, hot chocolate is nice too)
@sleekpunk - i’m sure you have! I remember it from an art deco book I got surely it is public donain now ;(
@Crystalinne - good I like tea …okay coffee too…the hc mmmm beverages
And after the drinking, you should look down into the cup and predict the future from it. It works … I think …
@SherryAngeLMysteriez - I predict naturally lots of shapes and patterns. tea leaves reading however is part that associative imagination….. but it is mostly reading people a skill I suck at. in fact people personing is mostly magic. – go to a dinner pay money you expect an experience and yet the food was never in doubt or your patronage evaporates. whats the magic is yes we say good food but its really giving people pretty, drinks when they want, attention to things lesser places must charge less as they cant deliver …service…. take gypsy fortune telling. its mannerisms that show me smart sensitive like an old world monk. I’d fit in church. you dont need tea leaves to make a prediction my paths may lead to community giving
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You know, I am a tea enthusiast, *Smiles* I have my own special shelf entirely devoted to tea, from Earl Grey to Organic Chai Black, and all of the herbals and greens. Coffee just can’t quite compete with the taste and complexities, oftentimes being too bitter tasting and strong. When I need caffeine? I turn to Coffee and drink it like water, a little bit (or a lot of bit) of creamer to make it palatable enough to stand. When I want a beverage I can savor though, that thing you just let roll around your tongue and take such great satisfaction in. I turn to tea. *Grins*
@silveranstavern - you must hukwa
Looks interesting, never tried it. Your right I may have to. *Grins*
Initially, I was drawn by your 66%, and then I came to my senses! I will not be drwn to the dark side! I’m with Patrick Henry. “Give me coffee or give me death!”
Interestingly, I feel the same with wine and beer. The silly winos are forever whining that I aught drink their wine. I shall not. I must listen to a famous founding father and anti-federalist, Sam Adams. He did a cute youtube video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0TYe8h0Fj58
Can you feel the love, baby?
@Kellsbella - I feel the raspberry tongue
I don’t drink either. But I really really do not like tea. The smell of tea on anyone’s breath gives me an instant headache. Having said that, I make the BEST Indian tea. Every body loves my tea. I cannot stand it.
Oh and I love the smell of brewing coffee.
Thanks for that link to Masaala. Too bad it is in Colorado. Wish it were near here.
@ZSA_MD - Lol If I get to Amana colonies – you can consider colorado
@starmanjones - You’re gonna feel the Indian burn. (I happen to be very adept at dishin them out………along with a tall glass o tea.)
@Kellsbella - well, I happen to be good at the following: due to a lack of sight and slower uncultivated reactions time, I’m oddly good at slap the hand/card games, dish and or tea towel snapping all the way up to artillery grade five foot bath towels, making a catalpa tree seed pod …thumb thick 18-30 inches long sometimes…into a fine midevil striping torture weapon, and a few noogies and or indian burns myself
within limits of being able to heal from twice received as given and not requiring medical attention rules, i’ll get ya. oh yes I will. 
@starmanjones - Why am I suddenly breaking out into a cold sweat with an highly increased heart rate? You must desist from speaking to me in this nature!
Oh, and just so you know; I’m the Queen of the Dishtowel Slap. Two words: Bring it!
@Kellsbella - lack address
@starmanjones - I’m in the Panhandle of FL……..there’s a reason they named it that, if you know what I mean and I think that you do.
@Kellsbella - hmn,…your saying I should be wary of telling you to get a grip?
@starmanjones - Especially whilst chopping……unless it’s onions, which cause me to cry more than a spanish soap-opera actress.
@Kellsbella - you can cut the ends under water, ya know. I’ll admit you end up with acres of soup stock trimmings this way as you lose 1/4-1/3 the onion… but it is speedier…and dryer on the eyes
@starmanjones - It is very odd that I am so sensitive to onions. I am curious; do you believe people with blue eyes have less tolerance to the bloomin onion?
@Kellsbella - kells, I cry cutting onions. I do not have the same tollerance as your hyperbolic I hope statement but I probavbly am just as bada- I doubt any one is entirely at ease with supheric acid near their eyes.