Re: CHAT: Smokes was Re: CHAT: postcodes

 --- Roger Mills wrote:

> Hi ho! Cough cough! A fellow addict. (Also as regards coffee and milk-- and
> I do like a cocktail or two before dinner, and wine with.)  And as Mark
> Twain said, "Stopping smoking is easy-- I've done it hundreds of times."
Well, glad that I'm not the only one. You at least survived it!

> >It could be a nice subject for a poll. After all, if beardedness can be an
> >item, why not smoking?
>
> I suspect a poll ought be differentiate between Americans and Europeans;
> it's my impression that you-all haven't become quite as publicly paranoid
> about the matter as we have.
Perhaps not to the same degree as in The States, but it is far from getting
better. But our government is also actively following a policy of convincing
the non-smokers that they ought to dislike smokers for numerous reasons.

 --- Padraic Brown wrote:

> Deary me! What's "French tobacco"? I must say though,
> the only larygectomy with reconstruction I'd ever been
> in on was a nonsmoker/nonchawer/nondrinker.
Gauloises (tobacco, no cigarettes), about 20 a day. It’s the only think I
really can smoke. Sometimes that’s a problem, since it is rarely sold at gas
stations or cafés... When I can’t buy anything else, I’d rather buy cigarettes
(Gauloises without filter, or Gitanes) than Dutch tobacco, which is
over-perfumed and over-sauced.

 --- J Y S Czhang wrote:

>     smoke: yepyep, usually Marlboro 100's or whatever is affordable...
>             [when I have money to burn ;) Djaram kretek (clove cigarettes)]
About ten years ago I smoked kreteks sometimes, but never could get really used
to them. And they smell like marihuana... Taste nice, though...

 --- Eli Naeher wrote:

> I don't drink milk, ever.  I do drink copious quantities of (black) coffee,
So do I. But never mixed with anything. Coffee must be strong and "black as a
moonless night" as Dale Cooper expressed it so eloquently in Twin Peaks.

 --- michael poxon wrote:
> I am a coffee junkie, however, especially with the occasional
> croissant. And of course tea, Lapsang Souchong being the best.
Agreed completely and fullheartedly! I like tea, but only when it’s the very
best. My favourite is a mixture of Lapsang Souchong with Ceylon (that’s what I
used to drink at my grandmother’s place, served in Wedgwood).

 --- Barry Garcia wrote:

> And i loathe the way southerners ruin good tea by adding sugar. And the
> way the British ruin tea by adding milk :)
Yeah, I've the same feeling about any other drink, too. My motto: never mix
anything. No coffee or tea with milk or sugar, bloody Mary, or rhum-coke for
me!

 --- andrew wrote:

> Occasionally I treat myself to a hot chocolate, several teaspoons of
> drinking chocolate, a little instant coffee, maybe half a teaspoon or
> less, a little milk to make it into a paste, then topped up with hot
> water.  Delicious!
Yummy!!! I always make it in hot milk, with perhaps 3 teaspoons of cocoa and 2
of sugar. I never tried it with coffee, but it’s definitely worth to try!

Jan

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