{"id":300,"date":"2008-05-29T02:03:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-29T02:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/bologs\/vng\/dd-wrtea\/"},"modified":"2008-05-29T02:03:00","modified_gmt":"2008-05-29T02:03:00","slug":"dd-wrtea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/dd-wrtea\/","title":{"rendered":"DD-WRTea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As with the other more <a href=\"http:\/\/www.urbandictionary.com\/define.php?term=poncey\">poncey<\/a> areas of America, Philadelphia is getting into tea. But there are several institutional barriers that they are going to have to contend with:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>No-one here owns an electric kettle. I know! So they either boil their water on the hob or they use a &#8220;water heater&#8221;. The latter does indeed do what it says on the can, but as any tea aficionado knows, the water needs to actually be boling when it hits the tea.<\/li>\n<li>The teabags here are mostly shite. Surprisingly the &#8220;Liptons&#8221; brand is still alive and well here, but the tea they produce is startlingly weak.<\/li>\n<li>You can get ordinary British tea here like PG and Tetley, but who wants that ? Even if you did want it, you wouldn&#8217;t find a place that serves it with proper boiling water.<\/li>\n<li>Getting any sort of proper Assam, Darjeeling or even Ceylon Tea is really, really hard. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twiningsusa.com\">Twinings<\/a> have a presence over here, but they call themselves &#8220;Twinings of London&#8221; and have &#8220;London&#8221; in a wanky copper plate type font. They also don&#8217;t sell proper tea here &#8211; it&#8217;s all flavoured crap with poncy names!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The happy news is that good tea <i>is<\/i> available but for a premium. But it really is good! A colleague in my last job gave me some tea as a leaving present that was not only genuinely from Darjeeling, but it was your pukka, first-flush, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Orange_Pekoe\">S.F.T.G.F.O.P.<\/a> tea, that I never thought I would ever encounter. Lovely.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>On a totally different topic, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dd-wrt.com\/\">DD-WRT<\/a> really does appear to be the dogs bollocks! Even on a crappy VxWorks Linksys V8 WRT54G router it does the business. We have our VoIP utterly QoS&#8217;d and I&#8217;m feeling quite happy about that. If that sounds like Latin to you then be grateful you have a life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As with the other more poncey areas of America, Philadelphia is getting into tea. But there are several institutional barriers that they are going to have to contend with: No-one here owns an electric kettle. I know! So they either boil their water on the hob or they use a &#8220;water heater&#8221;. The latter does [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}