The Last Thing You Put In Your Mouth....

tea

I hope it's not decaf

@ehBeth,

That's a good reason to brew your own and only from verifiable vendors.

@Sturgis,

it would be best if I didn't get a wild hair to move the tea leaves / tea bags to cute containers. should just leave it in original containers but that's so ... safe Laughing

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@ehBeth,

A warning about HArney Teas. They use thos "silken bags" that are really poly, and they break down in hot water. Ive taken to cutting the bags and making a potta from just the leaves and sticks therein.

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@farmerman,

I've been avoiding all of those pyramidal tea bags. There was something on Quirks and Quarks about them a couple of years ago. My favourite bakeapple tea from Nfld comes in them - I've been giving the bags the chop
to access the innards.

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@ehBeth,

whatd they say on Quirks n Quarks about the "polysilk" t bags.

(I miss that show-we could get it in Maine but I never found its web site).

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@farmerman,

Several carrots (babiefied not baby carrots)

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@farmerman,

Quote:

Quirks and Quarks...

(miss that show..
...never found its website).

Here ya go...

www.cbc.ca/radio/quirks

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@farmerman,

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/quirks/sep-28-2019-plastic-tea-bag-particles-venus-was-habitable-driver-memory-fail-and-more-1.5298362/new-plastic-tea-bags-shed-billions-of-tiny-particles-into-the-cup-1.5298384

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Not long ago Nathalie Tufenkji, a professor of Chemical Engineering at McGill University in Montreal, was surprised to discover that the tea she'd been served in a local shop came in a plastic tea bag.

The bag was made of a fine synthetic fabric, soft and silky in texture. Tufenkji, whose done research previously on microplastics, was curious about whether the combination of this plastic bag and hot water would cause the plastic to shed microplastic particles into the cup.

She had her student Laura Hernandez shop to find an assortment of these bags, which seem to be relatively new to the market, and then tested them in her lab.

They were alarmed to discover that the bags did indeed shed large amounts of microplastic and nanoplastic particles — billions of them, in fact.

sheesh that was only last year
covid has totally messed my sense of time up

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/quirks

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@Region Philbis,

last year i wrote:

these are outstanding...

so are these...

#GoodEats

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part of a simit with cheddar/swiss/feta bites, couple of olives on the side

https://cdn.tasteatlas.com/Images/Dishes/fa21c70d6b9d48db9053df2389413a7f.jpg?mw=1300

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It is believed that simit has been baked in Istanbul since the 1500s, while the name hails from the Arabic word samīd, meaning white bread or fine flour. The dough itself is very similar to that of a bagel, except instead of boiling, the proofed dough is shaped and dipped into fruit molasses with water before being baked with a coating of toasted sesame seeds on top.

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@ehBeth,

look like softpetzels with poppy seeds. We have an "everything soff pretzel sorta looks like that .
What does your simits taste like. Toronto is a bit larger and more culturally diverse than Lancaster. I think we got 1 Portuguese/American guy and hes in jail .

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@farmerman,

they are like bagels before they got commercialized. more of a new york or toronto bagel than a montreal bagel. I usually bake them for a few minutes to get a bit of extra crust on them

so good

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the serbian bakery also makes soft pretzels that are half-done. you bring them home and finish baking them off. warm fresh soft pretzels. yum. if you don't know to bake them they are very salty - from the baking soda based 'glaze' on top. no salty taste once they're baked. the miracle of science eh

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Set just brought home something he calls short bastards from the Serbian bakery. Toasted one up and had it with leftover Greek Village Salad, leftover potato salad (new orleans style wtf is that) and a bitta tuna and some cherry tomatoes.

the short bastards look a lot like mini bâtards (which makes sense I guess)

https://s3.amazonaws.com/finecooking.s3.tauntonclud.com/app/uploads/2017/04/18195944/051breadbatard-thumb1x1.jpg

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@ehBeth,

Handful of Trader Joe's peanut butter pretzel nuggets

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@ehBeth,

saw your answer. A NY bagel tastes a lot like a soft pretzel without the salt. Old fashioned soft prestzels were not these stringy shitty things they cover with butter and sell you at the Airport by Auntie Annes . Auntie Annes would sell their soft pretzels to tourists driving through the Lancaster tourist area. (Theyd get butter all over everything and think it was a treat. Even she said ya oughta pull over, eat em , wash your hands, THEN start driving again.

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@farmerman,

yeah New York and Toronto bagels are a bit on the soft side. Montreal bagels are much chewier. Definitely my preference.

The soft pretzels at the bakery are sort of in between - esp if you bake them til they're a wee bit crusty.

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just had sauteed brussel sprouts cooked with onion,garlic and spinach. a little maple syrup drizzled on top

sourdough with pear/apple slices under melted cheese

this was a goooood meal

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@Sturgis,

JUST CAUGHT UP WITH YOUR QUIRKS n Quarks (sorry for yelling)website. I can often get it on asmi month;ly basis on Sirius but otherwise , we're mostly Quark -free down here. Can you get CBC in NY or are you following on the web. If youre following on the web, I know I can transfer it to my Sirius as an App.

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warmed crusty Serbian bun with neptune salad and thinly sliced cucumber

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