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(Scott Dorsey) wrote in
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> Ozzy > wrote:
>>
>>The Tibetans drink black brick tea with butter, milk, and salt -- not
>>bad, actually, no matter how it sounds.
>
> It's not just ANY butter, though.
>
> It's YAK butter.
>
> And it's not just any yak butter either.
>
> It's RANCID yak butter.
> --scott

I don't know that Yak butter of the authenic degree of rancidity could have
been easily come across in the restaurant where I used to try it. :-)
(Never can tell, though.) Anyway, I used to like it, but not in the
summertime, for obvious reasons.

Ozzy