One of my friend from India send me this Madoorie estate Assam(SFD)
grade dust tea and also Madoorie estate Assam(FTGFOP1) loose tea. I
tried them side by side and the result was:-

Both have the same taste, difference was the dust one was- more
robust, deep colored, Malty etc.

Now my question is- as far as I understand, we drink Assam for its
robust and malty taste. So why many of us don't drink Assam
CTC,PD,SRD? Why do we spend more money for Assam OP,FOP,SFTGFOP etc?

I have also tried this Assam(SFD) tea with cream and used an expresso
machine for bubbles. I think at last, I have found something for
Sunday morning with my cheesy bagels.

What do you think my fellow tea lover friends.

Ripon
(From Bangladesh)

(Ripon) wrote in
om:

What do you think my fellow tea lover friends.

As I have already fallen in love with a couple of Assams, I think I can't
wait to try it. Thanks for the tip.

--
fD

Ripon wrote:

One of my friend from India send me this Madoorie estate Assam(SFD)
grade dust tea and also Madoorie estate Assam(FTGFOP1) loose tea. I
tried them side by side and the result was:-

Both have the same taste, difference was the dust one was- more
robust, deep colored, Malty etc.

Now my question is- as far as I understand, we drink Assam for its
robust and malty taste. So why many of us don't drink Assam
CTC,PD,SRD? Why do we spend more money for Assam OP,FOP,SFTGFOP etc?

I have also tried this Assam(SFD) tea with cream and used an expresso
machine for bubbles. I think at last, I have found something for
Sunday morning with my cheesy bagels.

What do you think my fellow tea lover friends.

Frankly, I'm astonished that you can get bagels in Bangladesh.

dmh

On 9 Dec 2003 10:38:04 -0800, (Ripon) tripped the
light fantastic, then quipped:

One of my friend from India send me this Madoorie estate Assam(SFD)
grade dust tea and also Madoorie estate Assam(FTGFOP1) loose tea. I
tried them side by side and the result was:-

Both have the same taste, difference was the dust one was- more
robust, deep colored, Malty etc.

Now my question is- as far as I understand, we drink Assam for its
robust and malty taste. So why many of us don't drink Assam
CTC,PD,SRD? Why do we spend more money for Assam OP,FOP,SFTGFOP etc?

I have also tried this Assam(SFD) tea with cream and used an expresso
machine for bubbles. I think at last, I have found something for
Sunday morning with my cheesy bagels.

What do you think my fellow tea lover friends.

Ripon
(From Bangladesh)

My personal observation is that, since most of us don't use tea bags,
we avoid (for the most part) teas that are so fine that they will sift
through an infuser, possibly making the brew bitter. A paper filter
is the only thing I know of that would completely contain all
particles of a fine tea dust. However, if this is an exceptional
Assam, I'd be willing to sample it, brewed in any manner...Assams are
my weakness.


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(Ripon) writes:

One of my friend from India send me this Madoorie estate Assam(SFD)
grade dust tea and also Madoorie estate Assam(FTGFOP1) loose tea. I
tried them side by side and the result was:-

Both have the same taste, difference was the dust one was- more
robust, deep colored, Malty etc.

Now my question is- as far as I understand, we drink Assam for its
robust and malty taste. So why many of us don't drink Assam
CTC,PD,SRD? Why do we spend more money for Assam OP,FOP,SFTGFOP etc?

I'm certainly no expert on Assam but I think the answer is clear:
because we might want qualities beyond robustness and malt.

I have also tried this Assam(SFD) tea with cream and used an expresso
machine for bubbles. I think at last, I have found something for
Sunday morning with my cheesy bagels.

Hey Ripon: Ever try a dark Puerh brewed strong?

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

"David M. Harris" wrote in message ...
Ripon wrote:

I have also tried this Assam(SFD) tea with cream and used an expresso
machine for bubbles. I think at last, I have found something for
Sunday morning with my cheesy bagels.

What do you think my fellow tea lover friends.

Frankly, I'm astonished that you can get bagels in Bangladesh.

DMH:

Why are you astonised. In this globalization era- everything is
available in the market. Maybe sometimes it limited or expensive. here
I can get everything I need from US. Did you forget- www.netgrocer.com
LoL.

Ripon
(From Bangladesh)

Lewis Perin wrote in message ...


Hey Ripon: Ever try a dark Puerh brewed strong?

/Lew

Lew:

No, I haven't. How is it? Can you please tell me more about it. Thanks.

Ripon
(From Bangladesh)

Ripon wrote:

"David M. Harris" wrote in message ...


Frankly, I'm astonished that you can get bagels in Bangladesh.


DMH:

Why are you astonised. In this globalization era- everything is
available in the market. Maybe sometimes it limited or expensive. here
I can get everything I need from US. Did you forget- www.netgrocer.com
LoL.

Ripon

I'm in the U.S., and I can't get good bagels without having them
shipped. (Well, technically the U.S. Tennessee.) Maybe I'll go to
netgrocer.

dmh

"David M. Harris" wrote in message
...

I'm in the U.S., and I can't get good bagels without having them
shipped. (Well, technically the U.S. Tennessee.) Maybe I'll go to
netgrocer.

dmh

I'm astonished that you can get bagels in Tennessee.

g

Warren (in NYC)

"Warren C. Liebold" wrote:

"David M. Harris" wrote in message
...

I'm in the U.S., and I can't get good bagels without having them
shipped. (Well, technically the U.S. Tennessee.) Maybe I'll go to
netgrocer.

dmh

I'm astonished that you can get bagels in Tennessee.

I'm looking forward to visiting my family in Ohio and finally getting
some good fresh bagels. Jews do re-locate, you know, and central Ohio
is quite an outpost.

--crymad

"David M. Harris" wrote in message ...
Ripon wrote:

"David M. Harris" wrote in message ...


Frankly, I'm astonished that you can get bagels in Bangladesh.


DMH:

Why are you astonised. In this globalization era- everything is
available in the market. Maybe sometimes it limited or expensive. here
I can get everything I need from US. Did you forget- www.netgrocer.com
LoL.

Ripon

I'm in the U.S., and I can't get good bagels without having them
shipped. (Well, technically the U.S. Tennessee.) Maybe I'll go to
netgrocer.

Dmh:

About netgrocer- I buy other stuffs not bagles. Bagles always better
when it is fresh. One company make many different kinds of bagles in
Bangladesh and few people around here used to with bagles . It is not
good as "Manhattan bagles" though but good. I remember in
Memphis,Tennessee I had good bagles. I think best bagles are available
only around the east coast in US,specially NY. I can be wrong.

Ripon
(From bangladesh)

It was open stage night in rec.food.drink.tea, when crymad stepped
up to the microphone and muttered:

"Warren C. Liebold" wrote:

"David M. Harris" wrote in message
...

I'm in the U.S., and I can't get good bagels without having
them shipped. (Well, technically the U.S. Tennessee.)
Maybe I'll go to netgrocer.

dmh

I'm astonished that you can get bagels in Tennessee.

I'm looking forward to visiting my family in Ohio and finally
getting some good fresh bagels. Jews do re-locate, you know,
and central Ohio is quite an outpost.

OOH! Corky and Lenny's Jewish Delicatessens. OH, that takes me back
to high school days.

--
Derek

There is an island of opportunity in the middle of every
difficulty. Miss that, though, and you're pretty much doomed.

It was open stage night in rec.food.drink.tea, when David M. Harris
stepped up to the microphone and muttered:

Frankly, I'm astonished that you can get bagels in Bangladesh.

Why be astonished? They're a baked good. I mean, it's not as if he
said he got them at Starbucks.

--
Derek

There is an island of opportunity in the middle of every difficulty.
Miss that, though, and you're pretty much doomed.

(Ripon) wrote in
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"David M. Harris" wrote in message
...
Ripon wrote:

"David M. Harris" wrote in message
...


Frankly, I'm astonished that you can get bagels in Bangladesh.


DMH:

Why are you astonised. In this globalization era- everything is
available in the market. Maybe sometimes it limited or expensive.
here I can get everything I need from US. Did you forget-
www.netgrocer.com LoL.

Ripon

I'm in the U.S., and I can't get good bagels without having them
shipped. (Well, technically the U.S. Tennessee.) Maybe I'll go to
netgrocer.

Dmh:

About netgrocer- I buy other stuffs not bagles. Bagles always better
when it is fresh. One company make many different kinds of bagles in
Bangladesh and few people around here used to with bagles . It is not
good as "Manhattan bagles" though but good. I remember in
Memphis,Tennessee I had good bagles. I think best bagles are available
only around the east coast in US,specially NY. I can be wrong.

Ripon
(From bangladesh)


Ripon,

You are exactly right about bagels. When I grew up, only a few cities in
the US with significant Jewish populations had bagels available. Then
bagels were "discovered". Now they are all over the place.
Unfortunately, a lot of what is being sold as bagels has little
resemblence to what I grew up eating. A lot of bagels these days are
very soft and almost fluffy. Also, bagels are made with strange flavors.
Yesterday I saw spinach bagels in the supermarket. When I grew up there
was no such thing. Bagels were dense and very chewy - good for a baby to
teethe on. They were fresh for a day at most. There was no question of
shipping bagels anywhere. By the next day, they would be rock hard.
Other than pumpernickel bagels (very dark brown, made with the addition
of rye flour and molasses and dark coloring agent), the only flavors were
onion, garlic, poppyseed, sesame, and salt. The flavors were in the form
of things sprinkled on the top of the bagel. There were no cheese
bagels, blueberry bagels, jalapeno bagels, and other flavors like that.
I'm not saying that people shouldn't enjoy those things if they like
them. Rather, I am saying that the only resemblance those things have to
the traditional bagels that I ate growing up in Brooklyn in the 1960s
(too young to notice in the 1950s) is that they are round, have a hole in
the middle, and made out of wheat dough.

When I was young one of my favorite snacks was a very salty salt bagel
(the top was fairly much encrusted in coarse salt) eaten along with a big
glass of very cold milk. There were bagel shops every few blocks along
the main streets of my neighborhood. One of the first errands I would be
assigned was to go to the bagel store. The bagels would always be
freshly baked, still at least a little warm from the oven. Oh the
memories!

Strangely enough, bagels were never taken with tea (in my family,
anyway). But then again, the only tea my parents knew was from big
companies well-known in America and sold in teabags, and my father, who
was very parsimonious, would save and re-use a teabag several times.

The thought of bagels in Bangladesh is very strange to me - I don't think
of Bangladesh as a place where high risen oven-baked breads (as opposed
to griddle-baked flat breads) made of white wheat dough are common, or as
a place where there is a significant Jewish community. Maybe you got
bagels from Bangladeshis who were exposed to them in the US, in which
case your bagels are probably more like new American bagels than the ones
of my childhood. Or maybe they are yet another generation of mutation,
and come in flavors like garam masala, jeera, and hing (warm-flavored
mixed spices, cumin, and asfoetida for folks who don't know what those
are), just as those flavors are added to pappadams. Actually, hing
bagels would be a lot like onion bagels and might be pretty good...

Debbie

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crymad wrote:
I'm looking forward to visiting my family in Ohio and finally getting
some good fresh bagels. Jews do re-locate, you know, and central Ohio
is quite an outpost.

Are they still kettled there? Despite a large Jewish population in my
area, bagels have devolved into misted circular rolls, rather than
something you have to really exercise your jaws to consume. And I've
seen blasphemies such as ham and cheese 'bagels'. I think they were much
better before they became popular with the larger culture :-).

Karen