Is Puerh tea?

This is hardly my own, personal, made-up redefinition. Any primer on tea will say something along those lines.

Cultural relativism plays no part in this discussion. I'm speaking as a tea drinker, not a member of a particular hemisphere.

Your use of the word "product" above gives hope that we can come to some mutual agreement. How about we call Puerh "fermented tea product"? All the Puerh lovers can be happy with the inclusion of the word "tea", and those detractors with upturned noses like myself can feel smug that the classification of this substance shares the format of other questionable foodstuffs such as Velveeta, a "processed cheese food product".

--crymad

Cool thread (even though I'll need to Google the beginning).

I specifically subscribed here because of this empty Pu-Erh Tea packet from TenRen I have sitting on the desk.

Well, back to catching up.

TBerk

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You can call me Mike, or you can call me John, but never call me late for tea.

I went to an Asian festival over the summer and more or less authentic except for the only lone booth selling tea from a boutique shop located in the fashionable part of town. I walked away with a miserable tisane of something Peach but it had ice. While I was there somebody introduced themselves as being from the city health department but I didn't stick around to see what that was about. This thread needed instant messaging.

Jim