“The water did have a funny taste”

Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.

“‘We never thought anything of it,’ the British woman said. ‘We thought it was just the way it was here.’”

American tea always tastes like a decomposing corpse, what? Rather too much of the “soul of an aunt” motif. It’s why I stick to having Jeeves mix me stiffish whiskey and s.’s, light on the s., when I waft up on American shores. Nasty stuff, water.