Feeling a wild hair at Wal-Mart, I checked all the boxes of bagged black tea and found:
"Ingredients: Orange Pekoe and Pekoe Cut Black Tea" on the boxes of Lipton, Luzianne, and Great Value.
"Ingredients: Orange Pekoe and Pekoe Tea" on the boxes of Cain's.
Apparently they are not required to list the origin of their ingredients as they are here in Japan. If so they would all say mostly the same thing, though. Foreign producers are forced to list them here, which is slightly interesting when you realize that one uses Sri Lankan and Chinese black and another uses Sri Lankan and Kenyan black, etc. and yet most all of them taste horribly the same.
It is unfortunate when storebought stuff tends not to satisfy anymore, because then everything becomes expensive (though obviously worth it). Luckily I haven't developed such an interest in beer yet. Kirin suits the pallete nicely and doesn't empty the wallet. But who has time for beer these days with bags of tea filling every shelf.
Any hints as to elegant ways to store tea without exposing it to the elements? Much of it goes in the freezer now. Any nice tea chests like in the olden days? Might be good to get one of those Chinese style wooden medicine cabinets. Anyone use one of those, with all the drawers?
Rufus T. Firefly
By the way, I meant to mention to you all how much you mean to my tiny life and wish you all an extremely happy and healthy, albeit belated, holiday season. May all your dreams come true in 2005.
I'll look into it if I get a round tuit. What annoys me is that they're listing OP as though it's a tea rather than a size. If they wanted to be vague, they could have simply confined themselves to "tea" or "black/green/white tea" as did Bigelow, Celestial Seasonings, and the others. I'm wondering if the Powers That Be are under the mistaken impression that OP and Pekoe are types of tea as are many who solely buy their tea from supermarkets.
I've always heard to not store tea in the refrigerator or freezer because of the moisture/condensation issue.
I use zip lock bags, tins, or ceramic cannisters with a clamp-down lid and a nice seal.
Yeah, those look nice. I haven't seen one for quite awhile. How airtight are they?
Thanks and the same backatcha!
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