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Originally Posted by Poppaea
Taylors of Harrogate??? Who is this now? Oh, astra, you were meant to stop me, now I have to find out about Taylors of Harrogate! Shame on you!
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dear.
I buy my tea from a droghiere. A drugstore. Down town Milano. Apparently a very serious establishment. Traditional, whatever that means, maybe that people buy tea there since a number of years. Nothing fancy. But he has the stuff. He takes the tea that I want from big cans and put it in paperbags and write on them what the tea is. I pay about 4 or 5 euro for 50 gr. Maybe double for some fancier stuff (by the way that's the price for extragood foie gras, of course with tea you go a much longer way, while with 50 gr of foie gras you get about a couple of bites).
I buy small quantities (50 gr tipically). In any case the drogheria is on my way to work. I drink mostly Keemun and Oolong so of those I buy 100 gr at the time. He has only one Keemun and one Oolong (actually the Oolong costs a little more but not much, maybe 6), I have started with Sencha now so i will get that in large packages also, but then it is 3 teas in the main rotation and their individual use has to go down anyway, as the number of liters of tea that I might drink in a day is what it is.
I could not care less for the packaging of tea. I might care more for the packaging of other articles. But the ones that really interest me are not for sale anyhow, for money at least. I mean pocket money.
Tea is such a good thing. Simple and at the same time deep. There is no need for fancy stuff, both around it or into it, just water actually. Whow, after such a show of pseudo zen bs, i'll go and make myself a ... what, i was almost saying something to drink. a Tanqueray plain (he drinks that blue Imperial College stuff, Tanqueray is stronger and it has a stronger flair, that other one drinks those thick peat extracts, that one drinks microbrewery suds), but I gave up drinking. I'll smoke something than, no wait, I gave up smoking (12 October 2010). I'll ... Yes, that might be a good idea. Bye.