Tea on the cover

Great book. Not particularly about tea, but friendship among women.

Sampled this book, partly because of the cover and title. I wasn't impressed. Also about friendship among women.

I have several books with spilled tea on the cover...

>3 Crypto-Willobie: **elbow nudge**



I've got this one somewhere … I should dig it out and read it.

The stories did not live up to the cover, alas.

This one does live up to the cover and title though. A bit dated, but very funny.

>6 tealadytoo: shoot. That one is not showing for me.

>7 2wonderY: It's Douglas Adams' The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul.

There - does that work? (By the way - I have the original British version, which doesn't have an actual tea set on it, just a tray)

>9 dtw42: perfect!

Headache means I don't want to fight with images right now but...

The Tiger Who Came to Tea

The Tea Dragon Society

>15 2wonderY: So cute!

>16 tealadytoo: Gotta re-read those Pogos!

I'm going through my library for all the tea covers.

>14 2wonderY: I would bet money on that being coffee cups rather than tea cups. It's Denmark, after all.

>21 PawsforThought: Some of us Danes drink tea (but yes, most of us are hooked on coffee).

>21 PawsforThought:. But that’s a tea kettle in between. ???

>23 2wonderY: That looks very much like an old fashioned coffee pot to me.

I was just trying to be a bit funny, but it's difficult to convey in text sometimes.

>24 PawsforThought: I've yet to be served coffee in a round bottomed cup!

Even in Denmark (though I may not have actually ordered any coffee, just cake), and even though it was Denmark, 90% of the hostel furnishings still came from IKEA. ;)

>25 WeeTurtle: I think about 95% of all coffee cups I've seen in my life have had round bottoms. Mugs don't, but that's a different thing.

And I think hostels all over the world have IKEA furniture.

ETA: This is what I get when I google image search for "kaffepanna" (coffee pot): https://www.google.com/search?q=kaffepanna&rlz=1C1GCEU_svSE821SE821&sour...

Stove pot coffee pot, similar to a stove top tea pot.

>26 PawsforThought: Could be. I didn't see it in London or Ireland, but perhaps more of continental Europe has it. I've only taken a couple Europe trips in just those areas. I just found it amusing because I recognized the cups because we had the same ones at home. I checked the bottom to confirm. IKEA.

I think mugs just happen here by default now. I only see teacups when I go a store that declares itself tea oriented. And sometimes, not even then. Though, I imagine part of that comes from many restaurants not wanting two sets, and many teacups just not holding enough tea if one doesn't have a pot with creamer and sugar bowl near at hand...or lemon and honey if that's your thing.

>26 PawsforThought: Fairly certain it's a Nordic thing. Like the copius coffee drinking itself. Thought most people probably drink from mugs here too, whether they have tea or coffee, but coffee's still many times more popular than tea. And people do differentiate "coffee cups" from "coffee mugs".

While I haven't bothered to check the furnishings in the hostels and hotels I've stayed in over the years, the style and "quality" of it has been very IKEA-esque. In both the Nordic countries, continental Europe and the UK.

>28 PawsforThought: In the Hannah Swenson series of cozy mysteries, Hannah refers to coffee as "Swedish Plasma". :=)

>29 tealadytoo:

I've just returned from Spain and Portugal and if you order coffee there, you get an espresso in a tiny cup unless you specify something different (large or an Americano or whatever). Likewise in Ethiopia and much of the Arab world coffee is served in very small cups.

Tea-drinking in UK has probably changed since my day, but I would say small cups were posh (what your mum would put out if the vicar were visiting) and mugs were for what is often referred to as 'builders' tea', drunk copiously by working men. You'd often get mugs in a greasy spoon transport cafe. Tea would of course have been poured out of a teapot, a dainty China one for the posh occasions and a big two-handed stainless steel one in the transport caff.

I'm shocked - SHOCKED! that I have so few books that depict tea drinking on the cover. It was a fun look through my whole catalog though.



and this one is a slight stretch

>29 tealadytoo: That's a fairly accurate description. I'm not joking. Years ago, my mum had to stay off coffee for a couple of months because of an ulcer and it nearly killed her. It was like watching a heroin addict who hasn't had their fix.

>30 John5918: That's my experience of drinking tea in the UK, too.

I have no idea if tea is part of the story, but the cover belongs here.