I'm unarguably a tea snob. I have two cupboards at home filled with 30+
different types of teas at any given moment, and I pick and drink a
different tea depending on my mood or what I'm eating.

When I was a wee lad, my mum would give me a common tea along with
aspirin, ostensibly to assist in the efficaciousness of the analgesic,
and I still have, perhaps oddly, good memories of those times.

Now, I find that I *occasionally* enjoy a cup of crappy Lipton tea,
milky and sweet (memories and association?). Does this make me a bad
person?


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On Nov 26, 11:02*am, Warren > wrote:
> I'm unarguably a tea snob. I have two cupboards at home filled with 30+
> different types of teas at any given moment, and I pick and drink a
> different tea depending on my mood or what I'm eating.
>
> When I was a wee lad, my mum would give me a common tea along with
> aspirin, ostensibly to assist in the efficaciousness of the analgesic,
> and I still have, perhaps oddly, good memories of those times.
>
> Now, I find that I *occasionally* enjoy a cup of crappy Lipton tea,
> milky and sweet (memories and association?). Does this make me a bad
> person?

Not any worse than myself. In fact I just polished off a cup of
Luzianne tea hot with a nice lump of Mount Tai yellow sugar in it a
few minutes ago. I can also do Red Rose.

It's like a McDonald's BigMac/Fries or other similar garbage food that
still demands attention at times. It's slightly shameful but it just
has to be done. I'd imagine we all are hiding a similar dark tea
secret.

- Dominic

On Nov 26, 11:22*am, "Dominic T." > wrote:
> On Nov 26, 11:02*am, Warren > wrote:
>
> > I'm unarguably a tea snob. I have two cupboards at home filled with 30+
> > different types of teas at any given moment, and I pick and drink a
> > different tea depending on my mood or what I'm eating.
>
> > When I was a wee lad, my mum would give me a common tea along with
> > aspirin, ostensibly to assist in the efficaciousness of the analgesic,
> > and I still have, perhaps oddly, good memories of those times.
>
> > Now, I find that I *occasionally* enjoy a cup of crappy Lipton tea,
> > milky and sweet (memories and association?). Does this make me a bad
> > person?
>
> Not any worse than myself. In fact I just polished off a cup of
> Luzianne tea hot with a nice lump of Mount Tai yellow sugar in it a
> few minutes ago. I can also do Red Rose.
>
> It's like a McDonald's BigMac/Fries or other similar garbage food that
> still demands attention at times. It's slightly shameful but it just
> has to be done. I'd imagine we all are hiding a similar dark tea
> secret.
>
> - Dominic

Not Lipton's, but I've been drinking Melange de Chamonix for a couple
of Saturdays without reporting on it. For those days when you feel
more like cardemon than tea. Toci

In article > ,
Warren > wrote:
>I'm unarguably a tea snob. I have two cupboards at home filled with 30+
>different types of teas at any given moment, and I pick and drink a
>different tea depending on my mood or what I'm eating.
>
>When I was a wee lad, my mum would give me a common tea along with
>aspirin, ostensibly to assist in the efficaciousness of the analgesic,
>and I still have, perhaps oddly, good memories of those times.
>
>Now, I find that I *occasionally* enjoy a cup of crappy Lipton tea,
>milky and sweet (memories and association?). Does this make me a bad
>person?

No, but if you do like that now and then, try a cheap Indian CTC tea
like Lipton's Yellow Label. It's like what Lipton's would taste like
in a better world than ours.
--scott

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Warren > writes:

> I'm unarguably a tea snob. I have two cupboards at home filled with
> 30+ different types of teas at any given moment, and I pick and drink
> a different tea depending on my mood or what I'm eating.
>
> When I was a wee lad, my mum would give me a common tea along with
> aspirin, ostensibly to assist in the efficaciousness of the analgesic,
> and I still have, perhaps oddly, good memories of those times.
>
> Now, I find that I *occasionally* enjoy a cup of crappy Lipton tea,
> milky and sweet (memories and association?). Does this make me a bad
> person?

I actually don't enjoy any kind of tea milky and sweet. But I do
distinctly remember drinking a cup of American teabag Lipton in a
diner maybe eight years ago and loving it. No idea how it happened -
I find myself drinking that stuff every once in a while, and it's
never really given me pleasure except for that one time.

Shifting the subject a little, there are lowly teas that I enjoy when
I'm in a not-too-demanding mood. This afternoon I drank some Sea Dyke
brand "Wu-I Shuihsien" bought from a New York Chinatown supermarket
for 99 cents for 125 grams. It doesn't support more than three good
steeps, but it does have a nice Shuixian aftertaste, a bit like
Mexican molé sauce.

/Lew
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