What do you mean tongue-in-cheek? I LIVE tongue-in-cheek ;^) I enjoy the

What do you mean tongue-in-cheek? I LIVE tongue-in-cheek ;^)
I enjoy the exchange, that’s all. In my own mini-community I’d be the Manuel Camblor in my fussiness over absolute essentials such as fine tea/coffee, pure-origin chocolate, correct procedures to brew the former, right pairings for the latter, and other stuff most people can do without.
It’s simply that I spent 32 years complaining about the provincialism of Tenerife...and then I landed here in Royal City where Liptons seems to be a luxury and wine outside La Mancha utter snobbery. I’ve just realized--in rather a violent fashion--how many people have never heard the words Cluizel, Lapsang, Maragogype, Palo Cortado, Riesling...and live blissfully unconscious of what they’re missing. Of course it’s a tad late for me by now, but it’s also somewhat sobering, what the hell, to see people whose priorities have to do with children, mortgages, handball...