>>>>>>Why doesn't he have a cup of tea then?
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>>>>>We drink tea in thin waisted glasses:
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>>>>Same way that they have it in Egypt - presumably very sweet. It makes me squirm to think of it here, as in England we have it with milk, and I don't take sugar. But, as they say "When in Rome do as the Romans do", in Egypt I do enjoy it the native way - but not so sweet. Last year I watched a boy bring a tray of tea and sugar to his master, outside the shop; the shop-owner simply up-ended the sugar bowl and emptied its entire contents into the tea. Urrgh!
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>>>I was astonished how much milk most English tea drinkers put in. Personally zero milk (or sugar) is the right amount on the rare occasions when I drink tea.
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>>I can't stand too much. It's how you're brought up - we drink tea with milk and you guys put up with American beer.
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>You definitely have us beat in the beer department.

That's refreshing to hear an American say, rather than the cliche about our beer being warm. Incidentally, out the other night and was drinking "warm" bitter in preference to the large selection of cold lagers.

I've always said about US beer - you mi's well cut out the middle-man and throw it straight down the urinal :-)