Quote Originally Posted by pomtzu View Post
Yup - British she was. Dad was the Italian. And after the battle with hot tea failed miserably time after time - she went with ginger ale and saltines. Much more acceptable to me, tho it was always golden ginger ale. To this day, I'm not overly fond of the golden, tho I really like the pale dry.
It is funny - it used to be a real issue when British troops would give an injured soldier hot tea on the battlefield, as they assumed it would help, but really just lead to peritonitis!