# A U.S. scientist's tea recipe has Brits aghast

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**Created:** [January 25, 2024, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-u-s-scientists-tea-recipe-has-brits-aghast/996633 "2024-01-25T18:15:11Z")\
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**Author:** ![Horatius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/horatius/32/3572_2.png) [@Horatius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatius)\
**Post date:** [January 25, 2024, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-u-s-scientists-tea-recipe-has-brits-aghast/996633/15 "2024-01-25T19:37:25Z")

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> [@kayaker](#):
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> a tea cozy

Reminds me of an event back in University, we had some British fellows visiting Canada, and giving gifts to such visitors was an expected thing. One of them was heard to remark to the other that we’d given them “the worst tea cozies ever, there’s not even a hole for the spout!”

[They were toques](https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/tuque). Much cross-cultural hilarity was had.

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