10. After I've finished drinking the steep, I chew on the tea leaves (or, if it's tisane, tea flowers) to get all the flavor out.
9. I had a glass of wine the other night. I blew on it to cool it down before realizing what I was doing.8. I make obscure tea jokes around my non-tea drinking friends and am still somewhat surprised when they don't get it (Guys, I just don't get this poo-ER!).
7. I think corn tea was a brilliant idea, and I often wonder how other non-tea food stuffs would taste when steeped (I don't think I would like burrito tea very much).
6. I have formulated a recipe for blood tea. Vampires need tea too.
5. I can rant for at least an hour on why lipton and teavana are tea blasphemy (Try me).
4. The phrase "I pre-game like you party" can be used to refer to my tea drinking habits.
3. When breaking apart a puerh beeng, I am no longer disturbed to discover a feather...or a hair. I hear people find stones sometimes. But you're just going to flash rinse it in boiling water anyway, right? Boiling water has magical sterilization powers.
2. I have significantly decreased heat sensitivity in my fingertips from gaiwaning. I could probably hold onto a stove for about a minute before feeling anything.
1. No blood runs through my veins. Only tea.
Damn you for making me go into the kitchen to make some for myself! I may not know as much about tea as you do, but I sure enjoy drinking it.
ReplyDeleteAnd you should totally rant about Lipton. This is your blog, after all.
Tea love is contagious, like zombism or hiccups.
ReplyDeleteAlso I envy you for being able to drink things upside down. I bet if you put tea in a thermos, you could achieve what I can only dream of.
Probably I should make a post at some point about all of the abhorrent crimes committed against tea leaves. Writing it down might take a while.
If everyone that drank Lipton`s, changed to puerh, the average person could not afford puerh.
ReplyDeletePuerh is not the only kind of tea in the world. There is a wide, wide variety of teas to discover once one puts down the lipton.
ReplyDeleteShift your brain out of binary mode, and you will remember that the world is not divided into the good side (puerh) and the dark side (lipton). I LOVE puerh, but there are people as obsessed with tea as I am (or more) who just have no taste for it.
Also, while it's true that the price of sheng would sky rocket, as it has already been doing over the past few decades, shu puerh is less expensive to produce. This is because it's cooked as opposed to aged.
What do you think about developing tea flavored licorice?
ReplyDeleteI have read that white tea is the healthiest to drink. What do you think?
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