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afternoon tea experiments

In the absence of anything constructive to do today Dr Fred and I had a tea tasting experiment...  We both are very fond of the British institution of a good cuppa and generally cant even get out of bed until this particular craving has been satisfied - well I can't - Its Dr Freds duty to make tea every morning and to be honest it nearly always a perfect cuppa... tea tasting However - we do have quite a lot (possibly too many) conversations about what makes the best tea.. ranging from good old pyramid bags to fair trade types and also leaf tea - even broaching decaffeinated brands.  I'm such a lush I don't really think there is much difference between the brands we tend to favour - Dr Fred holds firm he has his favourites so we decided to put it to the test... I wont bore you with the details but it was all very cafe scientific - blind tasting of several different teas including a decaff and true enough I couldn't tell the difference and picked the decaff as my fa...