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Alan Petrillo > writes:

> Scott Dorsey wrote:
> > Alan Petrillo > wrote:
> >> Space Cowboy wrote:
> >>> I wouldn't necessarily throw it out.
> >> Throw it out? Good grief no! It was nectar!

> > That same brand of keemun is still available today from the same
> > sources. Kam Man supermarket in NYC stocks it, for example.

>
> Well, if it's still available then it's findable. Since I work for an
> airline I get to travel free, so it might be worth a trip to NYC to
> find it, if need be.
>
> > But as with any
> > agricultural product, it will change from harvest to harvest.

>
> Indeed. This is the nature of truly natural products, and I wouldn't
> have it any other way.


Sure. But at the risk of saddening you, let me say that I live in New
York, and I have bought the very tea in Kam Man, though not for
several years now, and it's been nothing special for the last decade
or so.

/Lew
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