Re: Babarians also drink tea

Well, this was a real shot out of the dark. Isn't this thread months old? At any rate, I'm always up for some bickering. And so to that end, I maintain that what one likes doesn't necessarily matter one speck. That is, if it's a liking that's hopelessly uninformed. In matters of taste, experience matters. The judgments of children -- or those with the palates of children -- should be rightly held in suspect. As should their happiness, their miserable happiness.

--crymad

The only thing that matters is this- who is drinking YOUR tea? If someone wants to put thing in their Darjeeling that I find silly or disgusting, I may be upset for a second- but I don't have to drink it. It won't ruin my life if someone puts honey in his Prince of Wales, or adds vanilla extract to her Earl Grey. If someone wants to ruin green tea by boiling it, fine. Unless that person can shove a cup of tea into my mouth through the internet, I don't care. The only thing I care about is if someone insists that doing one of these things is the only way to have good tea, and tries to erroneously convince others that unnecessary additives or procedures heighten the experiencewhen there are easier, simpler, tried and true methods and flavors that have been proven to work.

I mentioned a few weeks ago that I put rum in my pu-erh, and it was yummy. It certainly was- all dark rum and hot water drinks are yummy when you have the 'flu. Honey tastes good in Lipton's when I'm sick, too. To some people these two additives might taste good even without a virus in their system, which I don't get- but it won't be my stomach ingesting the stuff.

Only h*mo barbarians drink tea.

Joe

snipped-for-privacy@aol.com (Joseph Kubera) wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@mb-m16.aol.com:

Is that you again, or is that some other lackwit?

MasChai

A local tea vendor sells all the chocolate flavored tea he can get to coffee drinkers. Put in a lot of milk and voila expresso. It's just been a couple of years since I caved into chai thinking it was an abomination. A local dive serves tapioca tea and I've been back more than once. I think one of the great distinctions of tea over coffee is the enchancement of sweetness for the taste buds. So marshmallows and Butterfingers sounds fine with me. You couldn't do that with coffee. The same local tea vendor while I was perusing his 50% sale this weekend made a batch of biscoti and was the perfect compliment with a pot of Sikkim. I too am guilty of traditional thinking that tea stands alone as a cup but forget what it can add to other culinary delights. However I still don't see how a nation could drink tea with roasted brown rice.

Jim

Neither: he was joking.

/Lew

We'll know tea has arrived when Swiss Miss enters the market.

This stuff has always rubbed me the wrong way. Green tea enhanced with the mustiness of grain.

--crymad

You wouldn't say so if you'd ever seen a copy of H*mo Barbarians. Rough stuff, that.

--crymad

I guess I'm relieved to say I don't know what you're talking about, unless you're joking too.

/Lew

The sushi places in Vancouver would always give customers genmaicha. I drank it, but I didn't like it very much.

N.

Do they serve miso soup as a first course as well? This is a strange custom in N. American sushi bars.

My first year or so in Japan, I avoided green tea altogether because genmai-cha was all my wife seemed to drink. I thought that's what Japanese tea was. Even now, she doesn't share the passion I have for the better stuff, preferring instead Darjeeling or Oolong.

--crymad

Joseph, how about you send Lew a subscription card?

--crymad

As far as I recall, if you wanted miso soup you had to order it.

N.

The next poster completely misses this point, and your point, combined with my point about providing education, is more than good enough for me, and, I would expect, most other reasonable people.

We aren't talking about matters of life and death; and in the end, if someone wants to have tea in a way that we find suspect, we don't have to follow suit. For instance, I simply can't stand bagged tea. Does that mean that millions of drinkers of bagged tea are 'wrong'? Of course not. Lots of people put ketchup on eggs. While the very thought makes me shiver, they're eating it, not me. Are they 'wrong'?

In matters of taste, there is simply no objective standard of right and wrong.

Have you ever tried a high grade of Ti Quan Yin with Szechuan food? You will think you are in heaven. You are.

I invite you to take this discussion out of the abstract and into the here and now: You tell me what you like, and I'll tell you whether or not it's crap. If you really believe what you say, I shan't hurt your feelings.

--crymad

Believe me when I say that "consider the source" applies in this case.

Consider this: In a group devoted to discussion on tea, Chip is guarded in revealing what exactly he fancies. That's weaker than a cup at IHOP.

--crymad