Space 2/19/04


Your free agricultural crop assay will give you a breakdown on fecal
percentage by mammal and bird. From what I know mammals have a common
enzyme and so do birds. Any new tea I get I check for contaminents in
the first pot. For fines you can see the imperfections before
brewing. For OP you examine the brewed leaves. From the recent posts
on perfumes in tea you can see the oils on the surface of the brewed
tea like a slick. So my cheap YinHao wasn't gassed and apparently so
far a fantastic bargain. Leave the tepid brewing water to the
courageous and always boil your water.

Jim


Jim,

Never fear the extraneous material you discover in your leaf and brew; fear
that which you don't find.

BTW, there is a good point to be had from your Bai Hao discussion: Many
Chinese descriptive phrases find their way to more than one type of tea. Bai
Hao describes a type of green tea as well as it describes a type of oolong
and is used to name both. Don't blame me though.

Now, back to the rat goodie count. (Reminds me of a story about ants and
aphids....)

Michael

On Fri, 20 Feb 2004 11:42:01 GMT, Michael Plant
cast caution to the wind and posted:

Never fear the extraneous material you discover in your leaf and brew; fear
that which you don't find.

No Lie,

The one that really grossed me out was that a small can of mushrooms
is allowed to contain up to 40 maggots.... And I love mushrooms......

Mike

This email may contain up to 50 bytes worth of excretions...

Michael Plant writes:

Space 2/19/04


I could give you links to Bai Hao White Down but I'd have a feeling
somebody would say gotcha. If you're curious plug in Yinzhen Bai Hao.
I drink Formosa Champagne and never heard it called Bai Hao oolong.
Just another marketing gimmick by disengenous websites fleecing the
flock.

Jim

When you think about it, "Bai Hao" (white down) is descriptive. "Formosa
Champagne" is a marketing phrase.

Not to mention *Oriental Beauty*.

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

I worked at a canning factory every summer doing college. The stories
I could tell. I still don't eat canned vegetables. I'm going to
insist my agricultural service update it assay profile for insect
excretia. How do you know the websites aren't substituting snail
sludge. My stomach trumps my palette. I only recommend taking a blow
torch to the kettle. It wasn't always the case. If the elephant is
still under the BigTop and since I found my contacts I did some more
research and made a call. The Formosa oolong is called Bai Hai. My
source said he got a call from Georgia once and the lady came back
from Taiwan and wanted some BooHoo. This in response to my question
why almost everybody seems to call it BaiHao. The real problem with
transliteration nobody in Chinatown understands what you mean and we
use it to confuse ourselves. I made a note to add the characters for
BaiHao and BaiHai to my cheat sheet. The only way this works is find
the rosetta can of tea in the store with Chinese and English and see
what is inside. Or since I recently got my phone's company version of
broadband high speed dsl I can go surfing for those UTF-8 webpages in
Chinese. If it's 5 miles to the phone switch I'm sitting at mile
marker 7 and not getting what I pay for with the babybell disclaimer
your results will vary. Anyway better than 14.4. It's been too long
since I've been to Chinatown. You'll get more hits on Lin Yun BaiHao.
The rats are scurrying for cover since the Asian bird flu outbreak.

Jim

Michael Plant wrote in message ...
Space 2/19/04


Your free agricultural crop assay will give you a breakdown on fecal
percentage by mammal and bird. From what I know mammals have a common
enzyme and so do birds. Any new tea I get I check for contaminents in
the first pot. For fines you can see the imperfections before
brewing. For OP you examine the brewed leaves. From the recent posts
on perfumes in tea you can see the oils on the surface of the brewed
tea like a slick. So my cheap YinHao wasn't gassed and apparently so
far a fantastic bargain. Leave the tepid brewing water to the
courageous and always boil your water.

Jim


Jim,

Never fear the extraneous material you discover in your leaf and brew; fear
that which you don't find.

BTW, there is a good point to be had from your Bai Hao discussion: Many
Chinese descriptive phrases find their way to more than one type of tea. Bai
Hao describes a type of green tea as well as it describes a type of oolong
and is used to name both. Don't blame me though.

Now, back to the rat goodie count. (Reminds me of a story about ants and
aphids....)

Michael

On Thu, 19 Feb 2004 17:40:57 GMT, Michael Plant wrote:
Come on guys. Step back and smell the elephant.

But how much elephant excreta is allowed in food? grin


N.

Natarajan /20/04


On Thu, 19 Feb 2004 17:40:57 GMT, Michael Plant wrote:
Come on guys. Step back and smell the elephant.

But how much elephant excreta is allowed in food? grin


N.


Funny you should ask. According to the lLaws of the United States of
America, any amount. Elephant excreta is *not* specifically mentioned on
the list. Well, mammal, I guess. Also, I suppose an elephant turd in a can
of tuna could be considered unaesthetic by some.

BTW, I have never seen chapati cooked on an elephant pie. Why?

Michael

crymad wrote in
:



fLameDogg wrote:

A lab-coated government inspector holds a clipboard with one too
many hash-marks in one hand as he admonishes a rat with the other.
The rat looks suitably abashed.

Understandably so. Rats are smart, clean, affectionate pets. Rat
hair finds its way into my mouth daily, after kissing the little
loves.

I can relate. I once had a Japanese hooded rat, which I got from a pet
store when barely weaned. She very much liked to kiss--the first time she
snuffled between my lips to find my tongue, I was a bit afraid she would
consider it a tasty treat, but it turned out to be just affection (or
whatever animal impulse). She would chase my fingers much like a cat will
do, and she liked to sit on my shoulder, my head, or best of all, my shirt
pocket. That's where she was the day I learned that rats tend to urinate
in much greater volume than, say, hamsters. On the other paw, I've never
had a hamster want to sit in my pocket, so there you are.

Catch rat scratch fever: http://www.rmca.org/

Nice! I'm not *that* much of a fan, but glad to know it's there.

--
fD

Not surprising. There is, in fact, a highly prized (or is that
"priced") coffee produced from the beans that have passed through the
digestive tract of palm civets in Indonesia.


And the best durians are reputed to be those that have passed through the
innards of an non-chewing elephant. Of course, the concept of "best" with
respect to durian is perhaps more subjective than usual.

-DM

While intrepidly exploring rec.food.drink.tea, Dog Ma 1 rolled
initiative and posted the following:

Not surprising. There is, in fact, a highly prized (or is that
"priced") coffee produced from the beans that have passed through
the digestive tract of palm civets in Indonesia.


And the best durians are reputed to be those that have passed
through the innards of an non-chewing elephant. Of course, the
concept of "best" with respect to durian is perhaps more
subjective than usual.

Ok, I had to go and look that one up. And now I'm not sure that
"best" and "durian" can actually be used in the same sentence.

--
Derek

You know you're a nerd when you have to go and steal the herpes
virus from a research laboratory rather than going out and catching
it in the wild like everyone else.

Recursive questions make my head hurt.

Jim

Derek wrote in message ...
While intrepidly exploring rec.food.drink.tea, Space Cowboy rolled
initiative and posted the following:

For anybody who cares I hated doing this post

Have you figured out yet that you're the only one who cares?

Derek wrote:
While intrepidly exploring rec.food.drink.tea, Dog Ma 1 rolled
initiative and posted the following:
And the best durians are reputed to be those that have passed
through the innards of an non-chewing elephant. Of course, the
concept of "best" with respect to durian is perhaps more
subjective than usual.

Ever seen a durian shell?

No elephant is stupid enough to try to swallow that whole.

Ok, I had to go and look that one up. And now I'm not sure that
"best" and "durian" can actually be used in the same sentence.

Smells like rotting onions and spooge. Tastes like bananas
and melon. You have to wonder about the first guy to try
one though...

--Blair
"And the guy he married."