In article <lYkoh.577247$1T2.79580@pd7urf2no>, - > wrote:
>What exactly is orange pekoe? It is what is used by Tim Hortons (
>http://www.timhortons.com/en/menu/tea.html ). The taste is great.

It's whatever you want it to be.

>When I went to a specialty tea shop and asked for it, they said it's not
>really a type of tea and that they don't carry it.

It's not really a type of tea. But you can get a box of Assam or Ceylon
black, Yunnan black, or Kenya black, and write ORANGE PEKOE on the box
and you'd be right on the money.

Orange Pekoe is a sort of grade of tea... it's one of the lowest sorts of
grade of tea. It's like saying "table wine." It doesn't tell you what it
is or where it comes from, but it establishes some minimum standard.
--scott
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"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."