Tea or Coffee?
"ITF we New Zealanders know good tea and brew a good cup of it-many | good cups of it-our coffee will hold its | own with the worst anywhere. A New Zealander offering cheese and coffee at the end of a meal has opened fire with both barrels on his overseas guest. Many New Zealanders commit the crowning crime against the coffee bean. They boil it. I know. If all the. boiled coffee I have drunk were poured into Lake Taupo-and I cannot think of anything better to do with it-there would be floods as far as Karapiro. Not, of course, that boiling is the only evil that can befall the coffee bean. An American friend of mine while in New Zealand once said: ‘I was told it was coffee, but I thought it was tea even though it tasted like soup.’ "-J. D. McDonald, in Table Talk, an NZBS series.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 30, Issue 769, 15 April 1954, Page 15
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152Tea or Coffee? New Zealand Listener, Volume 30, Issue 769, 15 April 1954, Page 15
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