"Robert Klute" > wrote in message
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> On Mon, 02 Feb 2004 19:23:57 GMT, "Tea" > wrote:
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> >"Robert Klute" > wrote in message
> >news
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> >> >> Lipton and Red Rose are inexpensive teas. They are not high
quality, or
> >> >> even medium-quality. I use Lipton for iced tea, though, and if I'm
sick,
> >> >> I'll sometimes make a cup for nostalgia's sake.
> >>
> >> One caveat. Yes, Lipton tea bags are a high volume bulk tea, designed
> >> for fast color release during brewing, of middling quality. However,
> >> Lipton does have some premium labels. Their Yellow Label and Green
> >> Label (100% Darjeeling) are very good - in the upper half in terms of
> >> quality.
> >
> >Unfortunately in the US, Lipton usually has only one kind of tea on the
> >shelves. I use the loose tea for iced tea. I sometimes forget that this
is
> >an international list.
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> I am in the US, on the left coast. I buy most of my loose tea at the
> local Indian grocery store - there are lots here in Silicon Valley. The
> rest I buy on trips to India.

I'm on the East Coast. I see the teas you mention in Indo/Pak groceries and
sometimes British groceries, but that's pretty much it- and I've never been
to India. I suspect most of the US does not have access to these teas unless
there is an Indo/Pak community nearby.
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> >>
> >> Side notes:
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> >But I tend to stay away from bagged tea, or I make up my own bags. I
also
> >like Typhoo.
>
> At home I use loose tea. I use a bodum tea strainer to make life easy.
> For the office, I use the bags. Again, to make life easy.

Understandable. I bought some bags at my local Japanese grocery and now I
can take tea to work with me. It's nice to have a hot cuppa after being on
a sales floor for hours.
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