On Jan 3, 5:51*pm, JB wrote:
On Mon, 24 Dec 2007 15:09:15 -0800, andrei.avk wrote:

Right. *When he grew up, his politics improved but his tea aesthetic
turned Colonel-Blimpish.

Well, I think the only good tea available at the time
was the type of english breakfast or irish breakfast
blends, so he couldn't say much about other
varieties, but his advice on these strong english
teas was more or less spot on. He mentions that
chinese teas are not very good, but I think he
meant green teas and the ones that he could
get were likely low grade and stale..

/Lew
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Lew Perin /
http://www.panix.com/~perin/babelcarp.html

I don't think a lot has changed since Orwell wrote. As a matter of fact I
fear that the quality of tea, for the majority of people, has gone down
and that includes green teas. The tea bag did not do any favours to
quality.

JB

There's a lot of different changes, some good and other,
really bad. On one hand you can get really good teas on
the internet and specialty shops that were not around
back then, and good strong Twinings loose leaf blends
are affordable to everyone, but on the other hand people
drink bottled soda drinks and insanely terrible instant
mixes and bad coffee instead. Availability and affordability
of good tea went way up but average tea quality that's
drunk went under, just as you say.

-ak