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Dear Oddfellows...

Dan Savage
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1
I thought I was brilliant when I made lemon-blueberry muffins with just a touch of lavender one time. They tasted like soap.
Jeffrey in Chicago on April 20, 2010 at 11:08 AM Report this
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... tea room queens need to go to tea rooms .... better tasting
on April 20, 2010 at 11:09 AM Report this
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Dan didn't find his favorite flavor of tea. Fascinating stuff.

Can you also blog about the pastry you had with tea, Dan? It would be equally captivating. I need to know how you feel about your breakfast in its entirety.
kitschnsync on April 20, 2010 at 11:15 AM Report this
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Dear Dan,
No.
Love,
Oddfellows
on April 20, 2010 at 11:15 AM Report this
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And the AndyRoonification of Dan Savage continues . . .
Levislade on April 20, 2010 at 11:16 AM Report this
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You're a teabagger?
on April 20, 2010 at 11:16 AM Report this
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Way to use the bully pulpit.
on April 20, 2010 at 11:17 AM Report this
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@5: If he's like this now, can you imagine what he'll be like in another 30 years?
Fifty-Two-Eighty on April 20, 2010 at 11:20 AM Report this
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Oh, I've always been like this.
Dan Savage on April 20, 2010 at 11:24 AM Stranger Staff
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Lavender tea only tastes like lavender scented soap. Otherwise it is pretty good stuff.

Is there a corkage fee for bringing your own bag of tea in?
Packeteer on April 20, 2010 at 11:28 AM Report this
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It's true. Most people find the only way to keep Dan from glaring at them is to hide behind something.
gloomy gus on April 20, 2010 at 11:30 AM Report this
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Dan,
Quit trying to be British.
Drink Jaeger. Have fun.

Sincerely,
Seattle
jennam on April 20, 2010 at 11:41 AM Report this
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@10, that would be baggage. Baggage fee.
rob! on April 20, 2010 at 11:41 AM Report this
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Oooo! Such a princess!
Vince on April 20, 2010 at 11:48 AM Report this
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True Earl Grey tea is flavored with a specific kind of orange and is delicious.

Lavender is a complete interloper is should justly be shunned. Who thought that up and why call it "Earl Grey"? Soap is the best adjective

P-tooey....
hartiepie on April 20, 2010 at 11:58 AM Report this
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Isn't Linda Derschang your lapdog? Why didn't you just call her directly instead of a post on your blog.

on April 20, 2010 at 12:06 PM Report this
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1) Americans don't know the first thing about tea. The number of times I ask for tea and I'm presented with a cup of water that has not been boiled and a wedge of lemon or honey and then gotten a strange look when I've asked for hotter water and milk is beyond counting.

2) Tea made from not-boiling water is flavorless.

3) Earl Grey tea is wonderful, provided you're not drinking cheap stuff.

But I find that really, American attempts to make tea is like American cheese or American cars--a pale imitation of the real thing pedaled to Americans who don't know better as something worth enjoying.
DeanP on April 20, 2010 at 12:22 PM Report this
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you know what would really taste like soap? Cilantro tea.
lulubelle on April 20, 2010 at 12:41 PM Report this
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Maybe you should try going someplace that knows how to make tea, Dan, instead of going to a place that doesn't, over and over, and expecting it to magically start happening for you.

Try the Panama Hotel Tea House in the International District sometime. 607 S Main. They've got about fifty kinds of black, green, white, and silver tea, all prepared impeccably, and it's one of the most interesting rooms in the city besides.
Fnarf on April 20, 2010 at 12:45 PM Report this
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Green tea is healthier anyway.

Black tea made from not-boiling water is flavorless.


There, fixed that for you.
keshmeshi on April 20, 2010 at 12:47 PM Report this
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@17: I'm not surprised that you got a weird look when you asked for milk with your tea. Only gap-toothed Brits and their unholy spawn drink milk with tea.
hj on April 20, 2010 at 1:15 PM Report this
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@21, a billion Indians beg to differ.
Fnarf on April 20, 2010 at 1:18 PM Report this
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Douglas Adams wrote a good piece on how to make a proper cup of tea. I think it should be required reading
Bojac6 on April 20, 2010 at 1:20 PM Report this
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@22: I was generalizing. Apparently it's OK to do that around here.
hj on April 20, 2010 at 1:29 PM Report this
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Oddfellows continues to be mediocre.
Amy Kate Horn on April 20, 2010 at 1:40 PM Report this
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@18 for the win. That stuff is disgusting, and I don't care that it tastes like something else to most everybody else in the world.
Faer on April 20, 2010 at 1:48 PM Report this
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Um, did you try calling them or talking to the manager before posting your critique on your blog w/ national readership?
KingofQueenAnne on April 20, 2010 at 1:52 PM Report this
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@23, which he copped from George Orwell.
Fnarf on April 20, 2010 at 2:50 PM Report this
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Lavender is for sachets, soap, herbal eye masks, and bed pillows. Keep it out of my food and drink, please.
Bauhaus I on April 20, 2010 at 3:49 PM Report this
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They have lavender flavored ice cream over in San Fran... that shit tastes like soap too, now that I think of it.
Faer on April 20, 2010 at 4:55 PM Report this
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@17 Similarly, I have often been presented with INSTANT COFFEE (or Nescafe) in England when I've asked for a coffee, a far worse offense than not being given hot-enough water for your tea. You can at least have tepid water heated up more, but there's not much you can do to improve the inherent grossness of instant coffee.
Sylvester on April 20, 2010 at 7:26 PM Report this
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It's funny--really good Earl Grey tea can be SO delicious. But crappy Earl Grey always tastes like soap. I have always pondered the whys of this.
MichelleZB on April 20, 2010 at 8:04 PM Report this
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"If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee."
--Abraham Lincoln
Canuck on April 20, 2010 at 8:53 PM Report this
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I like Princess Grey from Market Spice, it has lavender AND roses. I'm a fancy lad.
on April 20, 2010 at 9:32 PM Report this
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Have you people never been to the lavender festival in Sequim, lavender capital of the world?

Lazy, lazy Washingtonians, get thee back to California!
on April 20, 2010 at 9:35 PM Report this
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Dan...

Are you a tea drinker???

I hereby take back and recant every bad thing I've ever said about you. You totally and utterly rule.

@17: It's a coffee drinkers world. We just get to live in it.
Drew in Palm Springs on April 20, 2010 at 10:49 PM Report this
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News to Brits: steeping black tea in boiling water brings out all of the bitter, nastiest tasting elements of the tea, and is considered inappropriate and gross everywhere else in the world. Also, adding milk completely negates the beneficial antioxidant properties of the tea, which is why you guys don't see the same health benefits as other societies which consume large quantities of black tea.
I'm not trying to say you're doing it wrong; it's just that you're doing it wrong.
heatherly on April 20, 2010 at 11:25 PM Report this
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Why does milk negate the antioxidants?
RoseX on April 21, 2010 at 6:48 AM Report this
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Crumpets and all that - eh wot?
cheerio on April 21, 2010 at 7:31 AM Report this

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