Gypsy Tea

Fair trade and organic. I have bought, but have not yet sampled, some of their teabags. I believe all of their teas are flavors and mixtures. Toci

I have no evidence either way, but its easy to claim "fair trade" and put a icon on the web site. Women's tea rituals? Tea with magic? I'll pass.

Sasha.

ooOOOoo! I'll have to check it out....

Okay, out of sequence I tried the Gypsy King Chai. Alex, this would put hair on your chest, not like those effete puerh's you favor. The spices are strong and fresh, with a predominence of clove. It hardly matters what tea they're mixed with. The palmistry message might tell you something you do not know about yourself. Toci

And I tried Gypsy Love for lunch (drunk after a peanut butter and marmalade sandwich on rye.) This is much more real tea- it was slightly bitter, so I'll time it next time I brew it. It was very generic tea; one had to concentrate to either smell or taste the rose petals. This is all the Gypsy tea I have, but I intend to get their breakfast blend. Toci

On *rye*?

/Lew

Maybe...it was light rye...really light...

Melinda

You don't expect me to get drunk on whole wheat, do you? Toci

Dear toci -

I have enough chesthair of my own, but people who need more, should definitely take note in your experience. I enjoy spices and even have a favorite spice drink (3-4 good dashes of fresh cayenne , half a lemon squeezed and thrown into the cup, 1-2 teaspoons of honey + boiling water. Good drink right before you practice your tameshigiri. Cloves? Sure. Some may even like a dash of artillery powder, just to grow some additional hair some place (or places).

My point - it has NOTHING to do with tea.

Now about palmistry. If I would ever break the law forbidding the sons of Covenant to try to know the future and/or use Amorean or Chaldean magic, I would not waste my time with "palmistry-on-the tea-box". Being born and raised in a country with the largest Rom population in the world and having lots of experience with them including life with Romale in tabors on Moldavia/Bessarabian border I grew to admire many thing about them, mainly their unparalleled personal bravery, unbelievable tolerance to pain, their godly talent for everything musical. But buying something from a Rom? That is if she is Rom, which I doubt very much because she has that feminist flavor galore on her web site and even putting these two words in one sentence in beyond funny for anyone who knows anything about Rom life. So, its a tea so spiced that there is no tea taste left (your own admission) with a teabox palm-reading from a feminist Rom, who is most probably just a homegrown West Coat new wave Rom wannabe. Yes, that's a Gypsy Tea alright!

Now for anyone who wants to taste real taste of Rom, two recopies -

1. A night in Nevada desert (any starry flat landscape will do) with a large campfire one-on-one with a new woman in your life and
2. "A Tu Vera", "El Camino" and "Viento del Arena" by Gipsy Kings (not Gypsy Kings, mind you!). In that exact sequence. But hold on to your coconuts! This music is known to make lip-tight WASPS to quit your jobs and run away to the lush meadows of Bessarabia. And no, it won't grow more hair on your chest.

Sasha. Once known around the campfires of Bessarabian steppes as "Sashka-geolog"and "Turok" (Turk).

Well, now I know what to drink before the next time I practice tameshigiri. How big is your sword? I haven't tried gunpowder yet, being sort of stuck on sencha. I'm sure the ancients foresaw to their horror palmistry on a tea cannister, and did their best to have us do something else while waiting for water to boil, or simmer as the case may be. I think Zonia, or whatever her name is, is East Coast. Onward through the storm. Toci

Nope. No East Coast - she is at the Ojai Valley, CA. The spa capital of Southern CA. Or so I was told.

Cheers -

Sasha.

Lewis Perinpc78y17xnvk.fsf_- snipped-for-privacy@panix1.panix.com6/18/05 19: snipped-for-privacy@panix.com

Lew,

I think he meant, on "wry."

Michael