Way back in the late 18th Century, demonstrators boarded British ships in Boston harbour and threw the cargo of 342 chests of tea into the sea. The British government responded by not allowing America to be part of our empire anymore and the Americans have been bitter about it ever since which has manifested itself in an aversion to drinking tea.Therefore they deliberately drink tea cold and defile it with mint and lemon but even i was shocked when i found out today that electric kettles are rarer than a brain cell on the Fox News Channel over there.
In what must pass for a reasonable excuse to impose UN sanctions on them, Americans heat their tea when they do bother to heat it at all by putting the mug in the microwave.
Searching Google i found Americans not only asking 'what's a kettle' but even those who did have an inkling were referring to it as an 'electric tea pot!'
It appears that Americans who are not radiating their beverage with microwaves are using the olde world style kettles on the hob. My kettle has a blue strobe light that flashes red when the water is hot enough, how can a kettle that whistles even begin to compare with that in the kitchen coolness stakes?
Electric kettles are yet another thing that Americans have missed out on when it split from Britain along with a Royal family, proper football, the letter 'u' in words and humorously named desserts. Shame.
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Our teapot whistles
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Your Kettle whistles? The Teapot is what you pour the hot water from the kettle into.
Oh, i usually poor the hot water into a cup or mug so I thought teapot and kettle were the same thing. The cup and kettle are the same thing...
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'Yes' she sighed heavily, her hand hovering over the keys, 'Yes, the cup and kettle are the same thing' she typed.
Switching off the monitor she walked wearily into the kitchen and watched the blue strobe light of the kettle turn red and poured the hot water into the teapot.
She paused to watch the rain beating against the window and sighed again as she threw a teabag into the pot and reached up to the cupboard for her Che Guevara mug.
Adding a splash of milk and a spoonful of sugar, she returned to the computer to finish the blog post she had titled 'Electric Teapot?'
what do you expect, I'm not only American, I'm Texan.
q
At Asian restaurants they do it the way you like. Pour hot water in a tea pot. Put the tea bags in the pot or put tea leaves in a thingy then put the thingy in the tea pot. If that makes you feel any better. By the way. Brits did not originate or invent or master the consumption of tea...
Q
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