"Her Serene Highness" writes:

"ChipsChap" wrote in message
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The only thing that matters is this- who is drinking YOUR tea? If someone
wants to put thing in their Darjeeling that I find silly or disgusting, I
may be upset for a second- but I don't have to drink it. It won't ruin my

The next poster completely misses this point, and your point, combined with my
point about providing education, is more than good enough for me, and, I would
expect, most other reasonable people.

We aren't talking about matters of life and death; and in the end, if someone
wants to have tea in a way that we find suspect, we don't have to follow
suit. For instance, I simply can't stand bagged tea. Does that mean that
millions of drinkers of bagged tea are 'wrong'? Of course not. Lots of
people put ketchup on eggs. While the very thought makes me shiver, they're
eating it, not me. Are they 'wrong'?

In matters of taste, there is simply no objective standard of right and
wrong.