niisonge wrote:
> Why would you want to drink that kind of tea anyway? It's terrible.

I think if you live your life on the tundra or a highland, you develop
a taste for sugary and fatty foods. Or rather, they start to taste
like food instead of candy. Sugary bread, meat with huge swathes of
lard running through them, butter/cream in your tea/coffee, etc.

And if you live in a desert or a tropic, you start to love the chile.

(N.B. It's when you mix the two cuisines that you lose your friends
and your self-respect...)

--Blair