These are not the only controversial points to arise in
connexion with tea drinking, but they are sufficient to show how subtilized the
whole business has become. There is also the mysterious social etiquette
surrounding the teapot (why is it considered vulgar to drink out of your
saucer, for instance?) and much might be written about the subsidiary uses of
tea leaves, such as telling fortunes, predicting the arrival of visitors,
feeding rabbits, healing burns and sweeping the carpet. It is worth paying attention
to such details as warming the pot and using water that is really boiling, so
as to make quite sure of wringing out of one’s ration the twenty good, strong
cups of that two ounces, properly handled, ought to represent.
George Orwell
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