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What is a tea towel collection? What is a tea towel, actually?
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What you use to dry your dishes after doing the washing-up.What is a tea towel collection? What is a tea towel, actually?
Thanks. I never knew that. In the US that is called a dish towel. I vaguely thought that a tea towel had something to do with tea, but couldn't imagine what.What you use to dry your dishes after doing the washing-up.
Tea is what posh English people call the third meal of the day, breakfast, dinner and tea, as well as the national drink, some folks have a special tea service, posh plates, cups, saucers etc, which are traditionally made of fine bone china, so when drying them after washing them up, a soft cotton 'tea towel' was used, the name just stuck, we also have 'afternoon tea' which places like The Savoy and The Ritz still do, which is a selection of delicate sandwichs (cucumber with crusts removed, traditionally) and delicate pastries and cakes, served, of course, with a pot of tea.Thanks. I never knew that. In the US that is called a dish towel. I vaguely thought that a tea towel had something to do with tea, but couldn't imagine what.
You might. I keep them in a drawer to impress visiting members of the family and leave my dishes out on the drainer, like any sensible person.What you use to dry your dishes after doing the washing-up.
Looks like it could do with a good wash.This is the tea towel the British Museum shop WAS selling until about 10 mins before I got there.
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Tea is what posh English people call the third meal of the day, breakfast, dinner and tea...
Tea is what posh English people call the third meal of the day, breakfast, dinner and tea, as well as the national drink, some folks have a special tea service, posh plates, cups, saucers etc, which are traditionally made of fine bone china, so when drying them after washing them up, a soft cotton 'tea towel' was used, the name just stuck, we also have 'afternoon tea' which places like The Savoy and The Ritz still do, which is a selection of delicate sandwichs (cucumber with crusts removed, traditionally) and delicate pastries and cakes, served, of course, with a pot of tea.
I never thought I'd say this, but I agree with you...No: posh people (like wot l am) enjoy breakfast, lunch and dinner. The οι πολλοι - Northerners, Welsh and other rough types - trough “breakfast dinner and tea”, probably while talking about “Corrie” and “footie”. Whatever they are.
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I never thought I'd say this, but I agree with you...
The really posh invite their friends to a 'kitchen supper', or 'kitchen sups'. All very informal, doncha know, just the one butler on duty.Tea as a term for the evening meal is more working class than "posh" - breakfast, dinner tea. The more middle class in my experience is: breakfast, lunch, dinner. Tea might be used as in "afternoon tea".
Some upper class types, call the evening meal "supper", pronounced "sup-AH".
With age comes wisdom...
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For Australians it's Brekkie - Barbie - Bloody Booze-time, Mate.I never thought I'd say this, but I agree with you...
A tea towel collection might constitute a kitchen-based record of one's visits to National Trust properties and museums.
Souvenir tea towels are sold at most visitor attractions. They are very popular.
I once bought a whole roll of Jorvik Viking Centre teatowelling fabric dirt-cheap when the place had just opened. Maybe they'd over-ordered and sold off the excess.
You cut off one at a time and hem it to make a tea towel, and maybe attach a loop so it's easier to dangle it over the cooker and set fire to it.
Made dozens, gave many away, still have several.
One had a corner burned away a couple of decades ago but is still in use. I like to think that's the Viking way.
I find that souvenir teatowels are usually really bad for drying up with until you have washed them 50 times
Tbh i dont dry up at home, i leave it to nature, evaporation is great i only dry up when im on 'drying up duty' at my folks after sunday dinner or xmas lunch (this variation will have to be discussed on the 'Meals: Customs / Scheduling / Naming' thread lol). This is where the souvenir teatowels are too!Pfft, life's too short for perfect drying. YOLO an' all that.
Besides which, at least half the time I'm grabbing a teatowel it's to fold up and use as an oven glove or pan lid-remover, or to soak with water and throw over burning food. (That doesn't work, by the way. You just lose a corner here and there.)
Tbh i dont dry up at home, i leave it to nature, evaporation is great i only dry up when im on 'drying up duty' at my folks after sunday dinner or xmas lunch (this variation will have to be discussed on the 'Meals: Customs / Scheduling / Naming' thread lol). This is where the souvenir teatowels are too!
Thats a GREAT question.....
If only there was somewhere on the web where one could ask questions like that...
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The οι πολλοι - Northerners, Welsh and other rough types.
The Tea Towel is a very versatile piece of kitchen kit. Yes, it dries dishes but also acts as an insulating base when putting hot pans and dishes on a surface.
However, the main secondary function is revealed when your kid has been cast as a shepherd in the school nativity.
*Feels an itch he can't help scratching*
Do you know what οι means in Greek?
Do you say PIN-number?
:exercise:
Do you say “Ein Berliner”?
I’m retired, not redundant.
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