"Serendip" > wrote in message
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> Vietnam War, but I don't think that's what you meant. My grandmother was
> only "thrifty" when it came to teabags - she just didn't think that a
> teabag was "done" as long as there was any coloring power left in it.

Do you happen to know why/how she developed such a belief? I'm so
flavor-oriented, and so is everyone else I've run across, that I can't
comprehend the concept. Even in England, way back when, poor people would
use a lot of milk to save on the expense of tea but I never got the
impression that they reused tea over and over again. In China, though,
sometimes it got to the point where a poor family could only offer hot water
as "tea" to a guest.

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