Space Cowboy wrote:
>
> I can buy Cherry Bancha and Cherry Sencha at our annual Cherry Blossom
> festival.

This is in American, I gather. Whereabouts?

> The scent is so strong I buy Cherry Bancha so change
> mediocre too cheap. Next year I'll try the blossoms off my own trees
> if there is no early freeze like the last two years. The teas I buy
> have no blossoms and I've always suspected an industrial adulteration.
> It's too sweet.

So it's not just Japanese tea adulterated with actual cherry blossoms,
but rather tea with sprayed-on artificial flavoring? In the manner of
those horrid coffee beans made to taste like orange amaretto
cheesecake? This is sick, man.

--crymad

>
> Jim
>
> crymad > wrote in message >...
> > Space Cowboy wrote:
> > >
> > >Japanese Cherry Blossom is usually matched with mediocre bancha.
> >
> > Where, Starbucks? There is a beverage called Sakura-yu, but this is
> > salt-preserved cherry blossoms steeped in hot water, drunk usually at
> > auspicious occasions like weddings. But bancha with cherry blossoms is
> > pure imagination. You're just trying to get under my skin, aren't you,
> > Jim.
> >
> > --crymad