Tea or Coffee?
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[In an article "We Learn About New Zealand," in the British-American Co-operator, a United States Marine Corps sergeant says: "(We may as well face it-there will be an _ infinitely greater amount of tea consumed in the United States after the war. . .. The Marines stationed here have become genuine tea-addicts. This habit may have been accelerated by the lack of similarity between the coffee served in tea-shops here and the coffee served in restaurants there.’ Newspaper item.] EW ZEALANDERS know how to make Themselves a Cup of TeaPerhaps it is because they take A Cup so frequently. It is their Custom to prepare Their Tea with conscientious Care. 9 Mss * always pour the Water on The Moment it is boiling: All is methodically done To keep the Tea from spoiling; Their Pot is warmed, and they do not Carry the Kettle to the Pot. Bu of the Coffee that they serve One cannot say the Same I wonder that they have the Nerve To call it by the Name: With Milk, like Scullery Slops-when B Jaak, Like Squeezings from an old Coal Sack. ARINES, forgive, if not forget, Our frankly barbarous Misuse of Coffee Beans, and wet A Dish of Tea with usLearning that Tea, correctly brewed, Is better far than Coffee stewed! P+ --
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 10, Issue 235, 24 December 1943, Page 2
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218Tea or Coffee? New Zealand Listener, Volume 10, Issue 235, 24 December 1943, Page 2
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