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Michael Plant

5/21/06

[On Tibet butter tea]
> Why would you want to drink that kind of tea anyway? It's terrible. I
> could only drink 1 cup of it, and that's it; never mind a whole pot.
> It tastes nothing like tea. And there's mostly just a salty, butter
> taste. It's very oily and brothy like soup. I guess it's an acquired
> taste. Not to my liking anyway.

Imagine yourself out there on the steppes, thirty degrees below
zero (F [or even C]), hungry, tired, shivering in your heavy leathers
and wools, and somebody hands you a salty butter tea. Go for it, I
say. What you like in the comfort of your livingroom might differ
from what you'll like in cold frost of the high passes.

Disclaimer: Never been there, but I have come off the very cold
desert and off mountain passes in Iran to *very* sweet glasses of
tea and it hit the spot, trust me on this.

Michael