Japanese Greens at Sears Roebuck

crymad4017cc83 snipped-for-privacy@newsfeed.slurp.net1/29/04 10: snipped-for-privacy@xprt.net

I'm inspired.

I just did a little simple arithmetic and found that I use between 20 and 25 pounds of dry leaf per year. This includes tea I consume myself and tea drunk together with others. It does not include any tea I drink out in restaurants or friend's places.

Curious to know how that compares.

Michael

I figure me to be a little below 20lb a year. I'm certainly not going through 2lbs in a month.

--crymad

crymad4017d31b snipped-for-privacy@newsfeed.slurp.net1/29/04 10: snipped-for-privacy@xprt.net

I could actually come up with something a bit more definitive and empirical, given the fact that I have *never* thrown away an empty tea package. My numbers are based on my newly acquired habit of drinking lots of oolongs in a gung fu pot, into which goes lots of leaf. Skimping on the leaf ruins gungfu IMHO. More accurately, looking backward, 5 grams of green tea as opposed to 12ish grams of oolong yield the same amount of liquor, more or less. Likewise, reds. So, my loosey goosey numbers are based on two gungfu setups sometime during the day plus one green later. Whatever. It's not rocket science. If it were, I wouldn't be in it.

Michael