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No thank you. Not an improvement over my kettle. Not everyone wants yet another appliance taking up space on the counter. That will no doubt need repair or replacement at some point and needs to be cleaned.
But the time I’ve ground my coffee and washed out the French press from yesterday’s coffee, the water is boiled. Real simple.
If we more consistently needed hot water, absolutely 100% Zojirushi. For us, an electric gooseneck is perfect.
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Zojirushi makes the BEST DARN stuff. Their Airpots are freak’n legend. They’ll keep coffee or tea piping hot for 12 -18 hours. We own a dozen of them!
What is tea coffee? 2020
I’m having flashbacks of conversations with my mom and grandma about why I needed little plastic things in the electrical outlets and toilet seat locks and car seats.
They’d just roll their eyes and say,”It’s a wonder any of you survived!”
I’m starting to feel that way about hot water.
Yes, I point out to my grown daughters when they insist on strapping their kids into the car seats to drive 2 blocks at 30mi/hr. that I drove to Guatemala with them in the back of my '67 Chevy van, with them walking around in the back, playing games, making sandwiches, etc. and they are all still very much alive.
Candle Tea is a Moravian Christmas celebration including wonderful beeswax & tallow candles, Christmas Hymns, a Putz (miniature village) & sharing of Moravian sugar cake & special coffee.
The coffee is brewed with milk—Not milk added. I’ve prepared a small batch by pouring hot milk over coffee grounds in a melita.
The sugar cake is potato & yeast based.
Long video but in the first 15 seconds you can see the coffee & candles.
The Moravian Church were some of the original Europeans in my area. For the times, they were progressive—girls & slaves were educated (reading & writing) when forbidden by other groups.
They also were early settlers in Pennsylvania.
Thanks for that. I knew what Moravian was, but not that tradition. And I’ve never been able to wrap my head around a meal being called “tea”.
Sorry, but the drink sounds horrible to me. The taste of hot milk, no matter what it has added to it, turns my stomach.
Yum! Coffee milk. Here, we call that a latte! (I know that’s not quite right, but it’s funny 
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Y’all two answered before I posted the final version! Speedy speedy.
If you watch any of the video, their southern accents are very similar to mine. Today while helping someone who has moved to coastal South Carolina from the north east, set up her Airbnb listing, every other sentence from her was “what? What are you saying?” Bless her heart…she’s got some adapting to do.
Btw Airbnb will give me a $385 bonus for helping her as part of the Airbnb Ambassador program. This is not the same as the new host referral bonus—it’s much more.
There are foods & drinks I don’t like either. We each have something…
You’re going to have to give me a specific section. I’ve listened to several different people talk and I won’t lie…I hardly hear any accent at all. 
I do have several southern accented friends and I’m in Texas so maybe I’m deaf to it?
There are differences in accent among Georgia, Louisiana, Texas & Carolina southern.
This could be.
I’ll get time stamps for “my people”
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8:40-9:11 2 ladies. With years of work travel my accent became more gentle like theirs so people could understand me!
I grew up in Kansas City. People from that part of the country have almost no discernible accent.
But every few years we went to visit all my dad’s family in New York, where my Brooklyn cousin told me she loved my “southern accent”. Which it most certainly wasn’t. 
Do you say “erl” instead of oil?
One bizarre one I’ve heard from people from parts of California is “warshing machine”.
And I can tell a SF accent. They do weird things with vowels. Instead of “man”, they say “meean”.
No, I think just “oil”. I’m not sure I have any kind of accent. Plus I have an “ethnic” factor as well, so some words or phrases may sound different because of that. Honestly, I subconsciously adjust my speech patterns and terminology based on who I’m speaking with. My OH makes fun of me for it, but it isn’t on purpose.
My ex was Canadian, but grew up in London, UK. His Canadian parents didn’t speak with a British accent, and he came back to Canada when he was about 17. So he doesn’t normally have a British accent, but as soon as he’s around someone who does, he instantly does, too.
Code switching is very common; some people do it subconsciously. I have a tendency to pick up accents and have that pointed out to me often.
My mother was Dutch, came to Australia when she was 11. She was taught English by an Englishman. My Father was English, also came to Australia as a young man.
My husband is of Greek parents, but born here.
When we traveled, particularly in the Middle East - my husband is instantly picked as Australian…. Me, I am asked what part of the UK I am from😜
And I have a Mexican neighbor who lived in Australia for 13 years, as an adult. Her accent is quite unique.
Texas has multiple very distinct accents. My natural accent (which only comes out if I’m angry, drunk or both) is a West Texas accent. I had to learn an East Texas accent for a role in a film and I might as well have been learning to have a Pakistani accent because it so different than my own. We were filming in Huntsville and it sounded like a whole different language sometimes. But only the East Texas accent resembles and is considered a “Southern” accent out of the Texas accents.
I like those Carolina accents, that’s not a bad one to pick up! And it seems to be becoming rarer but I had a patient in NY with a Maryland southern accent that was so awesome.
I can almost always tell when someone is from Kansas. It’s a distinct accent but it isn’t dramatic or funny like Boston or GA so it doesn’t get much attention but there’s definitely an accent. There’s something y’all do with your soft palates that stands out. Besides, I think that saying “pop” is really an accent of its own 
I have that too. I always thought it’s because I lip read but I’ve met others who say the same. It’s always interesting to me that some people keep their accents and others just pick up new ones. I have a friend from San Antonio with a thick accent who has only lived in NY and HI for the last 30 years. If I’m not talking to someone with a West TX accent, I find it hard to speak with one.
We’ve been living in New England for 4 years now and I just recently spontaneously said caw instead of car. I gotta get out of here, lol.