tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12159522.post116041834932676680..comments2024-01-03T15:30:05.586-05:00Comments on Home in the railroad earth: Boiled Leaves, or Confessions of an American Misfitsteve on the slow trainhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18257811143869341854noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12159522.post-1162059182105087432006-10-28T14:13:00.000-04:002006-10-28T14:13:00.000-04:00Late to your tea-drinkers party, but just had to c...Late to your tea-drinkers party, but just had to chime in. We gave up coffee fifteen years ago, and have never looked back. We make a pot of very strong English Breakfast tea every morning. I take mine with a tiny bit of sugar and milk. When we have had a taste of coffee over the years (sometimes it's the only hot beverage to drink in some places), it's incredibly bitter tasting and does produce jitteriness in a way that tea never does. <BR/><BR/>We are so out of the mainstream in so many ways!robin andreahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06386655587963143782noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12159522.post-1160679840066737622006-10-12T15:04:00.000-04:002006-10-12T15:04:00.000-04:00k-oh: Thank you. You're right about the cowboy ima...k-oh: Thank you. You're right about the cowboy image of coffee, (though there's the competing image from "Blazing Saddles"). "Seismic Sludge" is a wonderful description. Railroading is a pretty male-dominated business. But the women I work with are all committed coffee drinkers. Maybe they had to be.<BR/><BR/>And I'm impressed with your blog as well.<BR/><BR/>Peter: At least Victoria doesn't seem to be pressuring you. Kathleen is less of a coffee drinker than I am, so I have no problem from the home front. Thanks for the support.<BR/><BR/>Karen: Welcome. I found your blog through Patry, and was impressed.<BR/><BR/>Patry: Thank you for the invitation. Your post certainly inspired a lot of tea drinkers to respond. And provoked a lot of thought. Thanks.steve on the slow trainhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18257811143869341854noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12159522.post-1160623706240171012006-10-11T23:28:00.001-04:002006-10-11T23:28:00.001-04:00Oh, and p.s. Thanks for the lovely mention.Oh, and p.s. Thanks for the lovely mention.Patry Francishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10961915797919017179noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12159522.post-1160623682638881802006-10-11T23:28:00.000-04:002006-10-11T23:28:00.000-04:00Having a highly suggestible personality, I immedia...Having a highly suggestible personality, I immediately had to go and make myself a cup of chocolate after reading your description of the Italian variety. (Mine's not as authentic as that, but I use real cocoa, sugar, vanilla, and milk).<BR/><BR/>Probably the suggestible personality is also to blame for the fact that I drink coffee, chocolate, AND tea at various times of the day. <BR/><BR/>Though tea might be the bane of waitresses everywhere, I'd be happy to serve a pot of boiled leaves to you and Peter and your wives if you ever come to Cape Cod--as long as I get to join you.Patry Francishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10961915797919017179noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12159522.post-1160621770315533402006-10-11T22:56:00.000-04:002006-10-11T22:56:00.000-04:00Great post, Steve. I was one at Simply Wait who ch...Great post, Steve. I was one at Simply Wait who chimed in as a tea drinker...thanks for stopping by my blog, btw. I just don't get the long lines at Starbucks...though I do love making coffee for houseguests just to fill the kitchen with that aroma. I'll be back to check out some of your archives as well as new posts. Nice writing!Sustenance Scouthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12980573661955592633noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12159522.post-1160530798790795452006-10-10T21:39:00.000-04:002006-10-10T21:39:00.000-04:00Here we go again, Steve!I've had coffee once. My ...Here we go again, Steve!<BR/><BR/>I've had coffee once. My wife made me when I was about 38 years old.<BR/><BR/>Victoria had gotten sick of my answer to, "Do you like coffee?" It was always, "I don't know. I've never tried it." She decided I was answering that way for shock effect, which was true, and so she took me to a Starbucks and ordered me one. Now I have to answer, "Not really."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12159522.post-1160477919232229272006-10-10T06:58:00.000-04:002006-10-10T06:58:00.000-04:00I imagine your coffee-drinking colleagues find you...I imagine your coffee-drinking colleagues find your abstinence especially peculiar because you're a man. There are all those stereotypes of cowboys hunkered over a fire, boiling up their coffee into a kind of seismic sludge.<BR/><BR/>You're a tea iconoclast.<BR/><BR/>I like your blog!Kristin Ohlsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08961884344605729368noreply@blogger.com