Gabby
It was management policy on how to serve tea; I would much have preferred to do it your way :)
Oh ewww! But this particular restaurant did teach me how to serve milk (as in "I would like a glbutt of milk". These days if you order milk, you might get it in a glbutt. Often you get a tiny carton plopped down on your table. Yes, we had the milk in tiny cartons. But I was taught to serve milk thusly: Fill a glbutt full of ice. Put another glbutt on the tray. Carry the tray to the table. Transfer the ice from the chilled glbutt to the empty glbutt. Pour the milk from the tiny carton into the chilled glbutt and present it to the customer. :) Frankly, I'm suspect of any place that serves glbuttes of milk that doesn't come in those little pre-sealed cartons.
Speaking of which: I thought most cats were allegedly lactose intolerant. This must be a "conspiracy" formed by those folks who expect us to buy and cook with soy milk and all natural plain yoghurt all the time. Every time Persia sees me get out the 'yellow jug' of milk she goes into a meowing fit - the teen equivalent of "I want, mom, can I have it? Why can't I have it?!" In general it's a hissy fit! She's saying, "milk! milk! milk!" Nothing will do until I give a little dribble of it and she laps it up. No ill effects. She's definitely not (cows milk) lactose intolerant :) Screw buying special soy milk or cats milk (who's milking cats?) It's artificial and hate to tell you this but soy beans don't produce milk. Hmmm, wonder whose supporting the soy bean lobby these days?). Persia does just fine with regular milk but it's not like I'm giving it to her a cup at a time. YMMV.
Jill (and for anyone who doesn't recognize I was being facetious in my comments, think again... I cook with plain yoghurt often as a subsitute for sour cream and as a thickener, although I still don't understand soy milk)
