The thing I don't get.

[leahbobet]

Okay, this will show something pointed about my priorities, but here is the thing I just cannot wrap my head around about the whole American "teabagging" thing--

(Pause while I snerk, die, and gasp, "Words mean things!" while giggling like I'm 12.)

--yeah. Okay. Serious. The thing.

How the hell can people countenance wasting all that food?

Not just "in these tough economic times" (drink). In general. How do you waste that much food without batting an eye?

Comments

[magpie49.livejournal.com]

When I travel with my husband, I often carry a packet of tea bags because he finds himself faced with a selection of so called tea bags that have chamomile, or mint, or lemongrass and hibiscus petals, but no tea, at a restaurant. He quite likes China Black, and Prince of Wales.

I have a friend who likes to tell about the time she ordered a tea gadget from a local department store. A clerk called to say, "Your TNT fuser has come in."

Really, how hard is it to say 'tea infuser'?

[leahbobet.livejournal.com]

I tend to carry teabags too (in a tin) or a little packet of loose tea when I'm travelling. Everything in hotels tends to be, yes, either mint or chamomile.

Apparently you can make great drip tea in hotel coffee makers.