That is the Steampunk way, so says the arbiter of such matters. Yesterday, the annual tea duelling contest was held as part of the Steampunk NZ Festival 2021, in Oamaru. Sir Hawthorne and his wife, Mrs Hudson "the younger" (known as Jane Craven on her birth certificate), ventured down from Wellington each year to host the duelling. Black tea was the way to go, though green tea was "almost acceptable", and herbal tea frowned upon, he said. "If you are taking it too seriously, you are not doing it right," Sir Hawthorne chuckled.

Source: Otago Daily Times June 06, 2021 16:41 UTC