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3/28/05

>
> 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?
>

No, my friend. 'Twas a joke, alas. I thought you were being sarcastic and
facetious, at least I had hoped you were being.

I'm sorry to have to report that there are indeed tea colleges and courses
of study for the agriculture and production of tea in various places, among
them Japan, India, and China. (I'm not positive about India, but I've read
some pretty sophisticated papers from India on tea production, so I guess
so.)

Michael

Michael