Tea is considered to have originated in China. But it’s the delicate, fresh-tasting green tea that became popular in Eastern society and is still the base of tea culture there today.
As tea culture spread and tea was processed for export to trade beyond regions, neighboring countries and eventually across oceans, it was discovered that the more oxidized black tea would retain its freshness and flavor better over long journeys than its minimally oxidized green tea cousin.
In the earliest days of border trade between China, Tibet and other neighboring countries, tea was fermented, dried and pressed into bricks to be used as currency. To this day, most of the black tea produced in China is exported out of the country.
Blends:
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Earl Grey tea: Black tea with bergamot oil
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Engl*sh Breakfast tea: Full-bodied, robust, rich and blended to go well with milk and sugar.
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Engl*sh afternoon tea: Medium bodied, bright and refreshing. Strong Assam and Kenyan teas are blended with Ceylon which adds a light, brisk quality to the blend.
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Irish breakfast tea: Blend of several black teas: most often Assam teas and, less often, other types of black tea.
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Masala chai Indian spiced tea: Combines black tea, spices native to the Indian sub-continent, milk, and a sweetener such as sugar or honey
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currently listening to chomsky on bad faith. don't think he's nearly as shit as people here make him out to be.
Chomsky was my next step after Bernie. He’s good in certain areas, but I think the criticisms of him I’ve heard are solid, too.
You can go ahead and keep listening, but if you're 10 minutes into the episode then you've already heard everything. He only repeats himself the rest of the way.
i don't think he's being dumb or old when he repeats himself. I think he's just saying what he believes to be the most logical answer to the vote blue nomatter who debate. They keep pressing him on that and he gives the same answer because that's the right answer in his opinion. I think maybe he thought they just didn't get it or something.
He was asked other questions and he told brie that she might as well be asking him why they live under capitalism. like "why do we keep getting stuck with 2 shit canditates?": capitalism is the answer.
i distinctly remember them asking him what strategies we can use after the election (since everyone kept pushing the "activism" to then) and he literally answered "we can talk about that, but the important thing is that you take ten minutes..."
i didn't get to that part i stopped watching lol
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ok yeah i stopped listening before i got to that part because it was pretty cringe to listen to.
He keeps hounding on the fact that the literal existence of the human race is at risk so there really isn't anything more important than that. Basically it's raw logic that losing job or getting covid is still better than the human race dying out. i can see how people have problems with that.