Seems to me that back in grad school when I had to finish a paper I
would brew a mug of tea using 2 or 3 teabags and then add a couple of
spoonfuls of instant coffee.

No-Doz would have made more sense.

Will

Carmen wrote:
> Scott Dorsey wrote:
> > Carmen > wrote:
> > >>
> > >> Every time I order tea in a hotel or at Starbucks I get this.
> > >
> > >At Starbucks you get a previously unused cup of hot water and a Tazo
> > >teabag. I'm curious, how do you manage to mess that up and get coffee
> > >in it? :-P~
> >
> > I seem to always get water with coffee contamination. The problem is that
> > coffee oils get onto anything that is used to store coffee, and once it
> > has been used for coffee you shouldn't ever use it for hot water.
>
> That's odd. The source of the hot water at the *$ here is the
> dedicated hot water spigot on the plumbed-in commercial Bunn. It's
> separate from sources of coffee contamination. That's pretty standard.
>
> Next time ask the barista to draw your water from the tap and heat it
> with the steam wand. Explain about the coffee contamination if they
> ask.
>
> Carmen