On 27 Mar 2005 11:22:07 -0800
"elgoog" > wrote:

> OMG this is a crime against tea!
>
> Wednesday March 23, 2:18 PM
> GUWAHATI, India (Reuters) - Feel like a cup of tea, but don't have the
> time to brew one up? Pop a "tea pill" instead.

> Indian tea scientists have produced a tea-flavoured pill that can be
> chewed or quickly dissolved in hot or cold water.

It takes a scientist to compress instant tea powder into a capsule?

People have been taking green tea pills for years though, it saves them
from having to gulp down the wretched green tea they tried to drink
medicinally. The green tea pills are probably just bottom-of-the-barrel
quality matcha.