The Sipping News

English Tea Room Introduces Strict Bans

You thought Seinfeld's Soup Nazi was a tough character, didja? Now a tea shop owner in the UK has said he will as customers to leave his Brighton shop if they dunk their biscuits. Other rules include not putting elbows on the table, not insulting the Queen, never handling sugar cubes and not sipping from teaspoons. Banging a teaspoon against a cup and using a mobile phone is banned outright, as is talking "louder than two shakes of a tea cup". Owner David Daly says, "People have to obey the rules and if not they are asked to leave. It is the art of tea drinking.’’

FOOTNOTE: Surely that's not the Daly Express.