Interesting Links for 08-03-2020

[andrewducker]

How Americans make tea

(tags:tea usa video )

Coronavirus: Supermarkets say Matt Hancock's promise on food supplies is 'totally made up'

(tags:food supermarkets UK conservatives lies )

2020 will be the most geriatric U.S. presidential election ever

(tags:politics age usa )

Billie Eilish and producer/brother Finneas talk about how they made Bad Guy

(tags:music video )

"Bad Guy (but in a major key)" is relentlessly cheerful

(tags:music video viaNancyLebov )

"Quarantine" has a pretty interesting etymology

(tags:language disease history )

The Nature of Women's Rape Fantasies: An Analysis

(tags:rape fantasy sex women )

Why does soap work so well on the coronavirus?

(tags:virus soap chemistry )

Dog Balloons That Floated To The Ceiling And Got Stuck

(tags:dogs funny viaFergus )

Comments

[cmcmck]

How not to make tea............

[andrewducker]

I am amused at how many people haven't encountered Southern Sweet Iced Tea before.

[melchar]

I've never made tea like that before. Is it because I'm in California? I use an electric kettle, then pour the boiling water into either a teapot to steep the tea, or if using different types of tea - each mug gets their tea & then water to steep.

[calimac]

That is NOT "how we make tea in America." That is how they make sweetened iced tea (as it's called even if there's no ice in it) in the SOUTH. Other Americans make iced tea but not with anywhere near that much sugar! I have a friend whose main reason for being thankful for having left the South is no longer having to deal with so much sugar in her iced tea.

Also: I've been an American all my life but I've never heard anyone pronounce "boil" like that before.

[myka]

ahaha haters gonna hate iced tea

[conuly]

They'd make better iced tea if they used that same amount of sugar to make simple syrup instead of putting it in dry like that.

Also, looking at those comments I have to say: Brits don't own tea. They don't even get the tiniest claim of owning tea because they don't grow tea. Tea is grown in several American states, but it's not grown in Great Britain at all. If the Chinese can't complain that Brits put milk in tea, and Indians can't complain that the Chinese don't put milk in, then Brits can't complain that some Americans make ice tea with tons of sugar.

Edit: Google finally came through. Tea is now grown in Cornwall. Regardless, America grows more tea and has done so much longer.

[andrewducker]

I did find the reaction hilarious.