Wednesday, December 30, 2009

Earl Grey? More like HURL Grey!

In my laziness to get my English Breakfast stash of tea that I have upstairs, I decided to drink a glass of Earl Grey. I think of Earl Grey as English Breakfast's bigger, older, stodgier brother. English Breakfast, I could share my life with. Earl Grey - intolerable. I think there's something about the bergamot orange flavor that I find unbearable... After a quick look at Wiki, I found out that Earl Grey was actually named after an earl, Charles Grey, to be exact. This is him as painted by Thomas Laurence:



Yep. I definitely couldn't spend my life with a man with such a long giraffe neck.

Now, this:



This was tea at Mount Nelson in Capetown. The tea that I'm drinking, that's English Breakfast. Yummy. I definitely recommend getting tea at Mount Nelson. Egg sandwich? Fresh raspberries? Yes and Yes!

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