Michael Plant wrote:
> 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.
Maybe, a little. ;-)
> 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.)
Well, how about that then; tea colleges, and Indian, Chinese and
Japanese tea colleges! Please, excuse my mistakes, they enable me to
learn.
-elgoog
"Mistakes are the portals of discovery." -- James Joyce