Michael Plant wrote:
> 3/27/05
>
>
> >
> > Eric Jorgensen wrote:
> >> 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.
> >
> > Not just any scientist, a tea scientist. In fact, an Indian tea
> > scientist!
> >
>
> That's just uncalled for and unkind. (I think.)
>
> Michael
Um, no unkindness intended... it's just the thought of a tea scientist.
Are there tea colleges? Would there be a different course of study for
Indian tea? <JK>
I'm easily amused, does that make me insensitive?