Burrapeg
Been here a while
- Location
- Puget Sound
Hmmm? A tea enema!!!!! Camomille might be just the one. Anyway, as to coffee, my British cousin once pointed out to me when I teased him about all the Starbucks peppering London now, that the first coffee houses in the English-speaking World were in London in the Seventeenth Century. This was before they had gotten tea from India later in the Eighteenth Century. Nowadays, it is hard to find a decent 'cuppa' anywhere in the city. They seem to have reverted completely back to coffee, at least in urban areas, and small tea shops have gone the way of bowler hats and other vanished bits of Olde England. Out in the country, of course, it is another matter. There are probably still plenty of rural farms and homes that don't have an indoor loo or electric water heaters. I once stayed in a farm house in Scotland built in 1316 that had its original stone latrine outside on the back of the house. A little stream ran past underneath, against the foundations and this made the situation self-flushing. Much of the house structure was actually Roman because they had robbed all the stone for it from Hadrian's Wall and this latrine was originally from one of the Roman military barracks along the wall. Incidentally, the Romans were apparently extremely fond of enemas and there is a Roman enema syringe in the British Museum. My apologies for the derail of the derail of the derail.
