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Crucifer
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I think the Russian Tea Room is located inside the ritz :scratch:
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Ritz ritz ritz!!!

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I've never been inside a Ritz before :blackeye:
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Ritz Crackers? Yummy!

Don't think they'd be especially good with tea, though. :scratch:


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Tea at the ritz...

ETA: I looked at the Ritz-Carlton website.

There isn't one in Chicago...

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Maybe the teahouse website got Chicago confused with NYC, cause I know there is a ritz and a russian tea room there.

will have to look up a different website I think :P
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There are both in NY... Ach weel...

*googles Chicago tea-rooms*

Ritz-Carlton Chicago keeps cropping up... Hmmm... Looks like it's the hotel that have their website screwed up...

But there's a tea and chocolate room...

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Crucifer wrote:
Tea at the ritz...

ETA: I looked at the Ritz-Carlton website.

There isn't one in Chicago...
Yes, there is. :(

http://www.fourseasons.com/chicagorc/

I have no idea what the connections are to the original Ritz, but Ritz-Carlton is a snazzy upscale chain that has operated here in the US for decades now, it is currently owned by Four Seasons/ Marriott.

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But... but... when I checked the Ritz-Carlton website it wasn't there!!!

See?

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Someone say Ritz?

Super Duper! :heya:
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Someone say Ritz?

Super Duper! :heya:
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Oh, I have missed that!! :D

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But there's a tea and chocolate room...
Am I the only one who noticed the chocolate room? :scratch: I mean, tea is wonderful and I agree on how important it is to find a good tea room, crackers and all (:P), but I can't believe I'm the only one who bounced in my chair at the thought of a whole room dedicated to chocolate!
........chocolate, mmmmmmm :love:

*hums along with Puttin' On the Ritz*
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When it says tea and chocolate room, I imagine it is a tea room that does hot chocolate aswell...

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Oh ok, that makes sense... :)
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vison wrote:
Once you add flavouring to tea, you don't have "tea" any more. IMHO. :D
Actually, in a way, this isn't just your opinion. Anything without straight tea in it is supposed to be called something else. I can't remember all the details, but I know that something like mint or lavender tea should actually be labeled a "teasan".

:)

I love tea too, and could talk for hours about it, but I have a nap to take. I personally love fresh lavender herbal teasan & mint teasan too.

I have some lovely blends that Silwen so graciously sent me from Germany, and I actually have a box of teas to send back to her, with some Lush ;), that I continually can't afford to ship just yet. (Of course the longer I wait the larger the package gets & the more the cost of shipping is! I should just send it, dammit!)

We ought to start a tea/teasan exchange program. ;) I'd be happy to ship out some of my favorites in exchange for trying someone else's favs. :D

ETA: I felt compelled to add that having caffeine in tea won't do for me so I always drink the decaf. (Caffeine is a migraine trigger for me. Ick.)

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Ah I thought you might have forgotten! :LMAO: Don't ship it by air; it costs half as much by economy. I think I sent yours that way too. The teas I sent you are still there? :Q I thought they might have been gone by now. I am glad you like them! I am having one of them right now myself, the banana tea from Messmer.

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I haven't forgotten... but every time I think about shipping it I have no money!!

I might have it ready to go this week though. *crosses fingers*

I thought that the tea was well worth savoring, having been sent across the ocean, so I'm drinking it slowly! :)

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So I'm guessing that original video got pulled because of the blackface dancers?

I do like that song, though.

A tea exchange would be fun! :)


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From "The Truth" by Terry Pratchett:
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He sat back and drank the really horrible tea the dwarfs made. Just for a moment there was an unusual feeling of bliss. Strange word, he thought. It's one of those words that described something that does not make a noise but if it did make a noise would sound just like that. Bliss. It's like the sound of a soft meringue melting gently on a warm plate.
*sigh*

How can such brilliant prose exist in the same universe that produced The Eye of Argon? :scratch:

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