Say, Riverwind

Is lapsang souchong still available in the US ? I haven't seen it in years. I figured that some laboratory rat died after drinking 50 gallons of it and it was therefore declared potentially toxic.

Bagoas (imported) wrote: Wed Aug 19, 2009 3:38 pm Say, Riverwind

Is lapsang souchong still available in the US ? I haven't seen it in years. I figured that some laboratory rat died after drinking 50 gallons of it and it was therefore declared potentially toxic.

Amazon has a variety of Lapsang Souchong

http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss_0_5?u ... efix=lapsa

Riverwind (imported) wrote: Wed Aug 19, 2009 3:18 pm Tea on the other hand is wonderful, Earl Grey, English Teatime, several of the herbal teas and my favorite Darjeeling, you most likely wont like it, coffee drinkers find it to strong.

River

Nah, not too strong. Too weak and diluted.

kristoff wrote: Wed Aug 19, 2009 8:13 pm Nah, not too strong. Too weak and diluted.

Sadly that is the way it is usually served in the US. Order tea in most restaurants and you get a metal pot of tepid water, sometimes drawn from the hot water tap, which has been sitting for five minutes before the waiter bothers to bring it to you, and a stale tea bag that has been collecting dust since the Nixon administration. There is no way to combine those two ingredients to make a drinkable cup of tea. I once knew a woman who served tea every afternoon. She would pour six cups of hot water (not boiling) into cups, and then took a single Lipton's tea bag and would dip it into each cup for about ten seconds, just long enough to color the water in all six cups, then set the one tea bag aside to dry so she could use it again the next day.

The English describe a proper cup of tea as one strong enough to trot a mouse on.

All this is especially disheartening since these days you can get world class coffee on just about any city street corner. Hell even the local 7-11 is selling free trade shade grown coffee and McDuck's is selling Espresso.

In terms of being an oppressed minority, being a transsexual is nothing on being a non-coffee drinking tea drinker in Seattle.

Transward

One coffee shop where I live has all types of teas mostly caffeinated and some pretend plus herbal drinks as well. In the wintertime it's kind of fun to drink Snow Monkey Plum tea (a real tea with plum flavor) and see the snow monkeys of Japan on my laptop. At least if I'm not at the hot springs I can feel as one with the hot springs dwellers of the earth. Buddhist tea drinking, I guess. I do really try to limit my coffee to one in the morning. I try. I try. Okay, already I really am trying. Just LEAVE me alone! Dammit!

Riverwind (imported) wrote: Tue Aug 18, 2009 9:13 pm Yoli, on leftovers, I just had a thought, yes it happens sometimes, if your male eunuch friend comes over is he considered Leftovers?

River

Ummmm...No. If you mean Barry T. Eunuch (he signs his cards and letters to me and few others that way.) or Treasure T. Snipped Ladyboy, I can assure you that they are considered "main course".

Yoli

Lover of good eats...renewable or otherwise.

Yoli, I am glad to hear that, GO YOLI,

River