Friday, October 19, 2012

Tea Teasing

So we discovered that one of the first cup (of the requisite three cups) of tea in any negotiation is Apple tea. It turns out that the Turks call it "tourist tee" because it is assorted chemicals in a packet made instantly and on demand. Not authentic, not Turkish and not good for you.
BUT if you want "real" tea it is Black Tea from (you guessed it) the Black Sea. From there, they also bring in bass spelled "See Bass."
I don't suppose their iPads, nestled comfortably in their Turkish carpet scrap carrying cases, have any trouble with predictive spelling. But how does one add all those dots above and squiggles below nearly every letter?
Pronunciation note: c = ch, k = k, an i without a dot = uh.
And everything has generally three names (i.e. Byzantium, Constantinople Istanbul are all the same city) and thirty layers of history.

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Steps and stairs

Stracciatella (chocolate chip gelato) is easily burned off one step at a time.