Morning Thunder is/was a blend of black tea and roasted yerba mate. At
the time, many people assumed that all Celestial Seasons teas were
caffeine-free and "herbal," as most were. It just so happened that both
ingredients of MT were *loaded* w/ caffeine.


Lars wrote:
On 1 May 2006 07:47:27 -0700, "Mike Petro" wrote:

I remember one blend called "Morning Thunder"

Aah, Morning Thunder! That is the tea that Jerry Seinfeld was
drinking, without knowing that it had caffein in it.

High octane stuff, I gather.


Lars
Stockholm

My earliest tea buying venture was "good fortune" tea in a box by
bigelow. I loved it. I never see it anywhere maybe not made anymore but
that wasa long time ago and had reverted to coffee as a "grown-up" Mama
made us herbal teas when we were sick. A few years ago my hubby went
to find a box of tea for me when I was sick, I asked for good fortune
or jasmine. I got a box of Tazo with different flavors. A friend at
work had a bag that had chinese oolong mixed with jasminehat a friend
sent to her from California. You know the little rolled up oolongs,
and I started my quest. I looked everywhere then had to search the
internet, and the rest is history. I wonder is good fortune is still
around?
My good fortune is the internet cause it has provided me a place to get
the best teas I can in an area that is sorely lacking in good tea.
Jenn

"Lewis Perin" wrote in message
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Lars writes:

On 30 Apr 2006 11:07:39 -0700, "whytebyrd" wrote:

Thanks, all... After reading these replys it just goes to show how
broad the appeal of tea is.

I like the fact that people interested in teas usually has several
quite different teas, for different occasions. While most coffee
drinkers have only one brand, and don't relly want to try others.

It's so much easier to get a wide range of flavors and aromas from
different teas than it is with coffees.

/Lew

That said, my wife is a big coffee fan, so for Christmas last year I bought
her a few pounds of green coffee beans from various estates around the world
and modified a hot air popcorn popper so we could roast them ourselves.
It's amazing how much better coffee tastes when one uses good beans, freshly
roasted and ground - you can pick up all kinds of interesting flavors:
chocolate, nuts, earthy notes, wood. I'm not abandoning tea by any means,
and I agree that the range of flavors and styles with tea is astonishing,
but roasting my own coffee has given me a new appreciation of just how good
coffee can be, properly treated.

Dean

Hi Jenn,

Good fortune tea is still available in the grocery store from Bigelow.
I have a few bags left and just saw last night that they have
redesigned the box to look more like twinnings new boxes, all one
color. Look in the tea section of your supermarket and you should
find it easily.

As an aside, Walmart doesn't have as large a tea section as your other
local supermarkets might, so try those if Walmart doesn't carry it.

Kitty

On Wed, 03 May 2006 13:25:17 GMT, "DPM" wrote:

modified a hot air popcorn popper so we could roast them ourselves.

Did you build your own because you really wanted to, or because there
are no "family size" roasters to buy?

Some years ago I used to roast tea. Just put it in a pot and heat
on the stove for a few minutes before brewing I think it was some
large leave Japanese tea. Course stuff with twigs in it. Good though!



Lars
Stockholm

"Lars" wrote in message
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On Wed, 03 May 2006 13:25:17 GMT, "DPM" wrote:

modified a hot air popcorn popper so we could roast them ourselves.

Did you build your own because you really wanted to, or because there
are no "family size" roasters to buy?

Small roasters are certainly available, but they're fairly expensive
(US$75-100). My unmodified popper cost $15. I modified it 1) to save
money; 2) because I'm an engineer by trade and considered it a challenge; 3)
because I was not sure we would think the results worth the effort and
wanted to minimize the initial outlay.

Dean

well, i start trying tea because my mother use to have tea from time to
time, although at home everyone takes coffee, in fact spain is coffee
drinker, there are 'cafeterias' or bars where having a coffee
everywhere. in fact i begun to take coffee because is one of those
things you are suppose to do, but never liked completely, and i tried
all the possible combinations. i like very much the smell, the morning
freshly made smell of coffee is quite warm, and then the taste is
another thing, although here we also use to have a dense coffee, as
italians and portugueses

but also my mother use to make her own mix, i have the memory of going
with her to the market, and there bought several packs of coffee beans
and mix them in 75%, 25% ['natural' and 'torrefacto', like natural
roasting and a stronger one] and then make the grinding and packing in
the moment. afterwards this shop was closed, there was not another
place to grind the coffee that way, so she begun to do the same at home
with a small grinder have been always at home, since i remember, i know
it's not the same wide variety of different teas, but it's not as
simple as it could seem go to the cafe and ask for a coffee. i'm now
remembering a shop to buy coffee in beans in the very center of madrid
and the coffee smell spreading all along the street... don't rememeber
the name, in preciados or carmen street...

but it's true that is not usual to find places in which you can ask for
a particular coffee... maybe is something related with an industry or
just likes and dislikes... first time i went to england and go into a
food shop, i searched among other things plain yogurt, and i couldn't
find it, there were flavoured yogurts in all inimaginable varieties,
but not plain, not sugared, not diet yogurt. it was astonishing.

regards from madrid,
bonifacio barrio hijosa
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