anyone still post here?

Can?t speak for him, but I?m still here. Your reappearance, actually, is a good occasion for bringing up this scary Greenpeace report on the levels of toxic agrochemicals they found in commercial teas they bought at various locations in China:

I would love to see someone try to show roughly how harmful the pesticide levels Greenpeace found actually are. It would be nice, of course, to see zeroes, but that may not be practical: even an organic farm can?t prevent stuff drifting in from its neighbors.

/Lew

it's been about five years since I posted to this board. I'm dissapointed to see it so bare. I'd love to know where everybody's gone.

Google kicked me off and I didn't bother to struggle back on. Now I'm refusing to willingly submit to their new and much worse groups so apparently they've put me back on where I was a year ago. Some things you just don't question. My teas now-iced teas for the summer- from Upton-Java and sweet orange black. I haven't found what I consider a good green iced tea yet. Toci

You could just use a real newsreader and news server. Life is much better that way.

I still read here but haven't posted in a good while.

I'm drinking a nuywara eliya bop from San Francisco Herb and Tea company. Like a lot of the lower altitude Ceylons, it has a lot of clove sorts of brown spice notes.

--scott

One of the problems with mass spectro technology today is that it can detect a few molecules of something... and if you take a sample of anything anywhere in the world, there's a good chance of there being a few molecules of anything you can name in it.

A lot of the nastier pesticides are oil-soluble (partly good to help make them stick to plants and not was off) and won't dissolve in a cup, which is good, but there's some pretty ugly stuff out there and I don't think anyone really has a good grip on how tiny trace amounts of some of the nastier organometallics really affect anyone over the long term.

--scott

The ceylons are my favorite, though if I want to really wake up, I have an african- Malwi, I believe. Toci

I've found a peppermint flavoed green tea that tastes good. What do you call a tisane with tea in it? Toci

A teasane?

/Lew

Most of the ceylons are too heavy for drinking without milk, but the higher altitude Nuwara Eliya is very good and often has some interesting spice notes that blend nicely with the tannic flavour.

I did like the Malawi BOP that Upton's used to have for a while, but the current Malawi tea that they are stocking is not as interesting.

--scott

I'm still here, haven't posted in a very long time. But now I'm able to post again, haha.

Warren Peltier snipped-for-privacy@gmail.com wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@googlegroups.com:

I bought myself a subscription to usenet. I can also post again. !!

Google works for me. I post about once per month. Toci

toci from snipped-for-privacy@yahoo.com posted Mon, 26 Nov 2012 02:33:47 -0800 (PST)

Unfortunately, posting to Usenet by Google is big pain. Wnenever posssible, I use Usenet client.

AFAUK, some servers like news.eternal-september.org offers free account. At least mine is free.