Archive for the ‘Cuppa Gossip’ Category

Consumer champion organisation Which, has been out and about checking out the prices of our favourite drink in takeaways and other suspect establishments. (more…)

Extrodinary stuff in The Times. Journalist John-Paul Flintoff (presumably no relation of the cricketer?) claims that he nearly brought a premature end to his marriage by poisoning his wife with herbal tea!

The said lady, Harriet, nearly met her maker by drinking too much comfrey tea which contains traces of pyrrolizidine alkaloids.

We at officecuppa aren’t surprised – we’ve always been pretty suspicious of that new fangled ‘erbal stuff and should stick to a good brown cup o’ char.

How I poisoned my wife The Times (17th May 2010)

Just spotted.

Designer Dominic Skinner has come up with a rather ingeniuos mug that enables drinkers to store their digestive biscuit in a neat ledge below the brew.

The patented drinking vessel is ideal if you like a couple of biscuits with your tea or coffee. Apparently, the slot of the Dunk cup should always face away from you when drinking so that the biscuits in the slot move towards the back of the mug rather than onto your lap.

The Dunk Mug

Available from Mocha

The Guardian newspaper recently extolled the virtues of making tea for your work collegues. In the article “If you only do one thing this week … make tea for your colleagues” the writer pointed out what we at OfficeCuppa already know;

“Once you have made your colleagues tea they will of course owe you a cuppa. It’s an investment, and the returns can be brilliant. Next time you are stuck at your desk, bogged down in work and parched, one of your colleagues may just come over and return the favour.“

Tea is the backbone of the British workplace. The article also pointed out some of the health benefits of tea drinking.

However, the journo was concerned that, “Making a round of tea may also be the only way to make sure you get a perfect brew.” Obviously she had not heard of OfficeCuppa – the brewlist funtion solves that problem eh!

Apparently us office workers would like to see the a friendly lady coming round with a tea trolley. (Office staff would welcome the return of the tea trolley, a survey suggests). It’s an old story from August 2007 (must have been a slow news day!) – but we think it still rings true.

I am not old enough to remember the tea lady, but I have to say, in today’s computer dominated workplace I quite fancy seeing a rickety trolley with a steel urn trundling past at 11am and 4pm. Wouldn’t you?

That fine libreral tabloid The Daily Express reports (19/09/2009) that a study by reserchers at a Dutch univeristy shows that regular tea drinking may reduce the risk of Diabetes by a wopping 42%. So get brewing!

Auntie (the BBC) has helpfully compiled an introduction to tea in Britain. You probably know it all but there might be a nugget or two that interests you.
There are also some recipes using tea, such as the rather revolting sounding Tea-smoked quail with oriental coleslaw!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/mostof_tea.shtml

Purveyors of that sweet but yummy snack Twix have sponsored a young tea lady from Norwich to cycle from Lands End to John O’Groats. It’s all in a good cause for charity. You can follow her progress.