Re:Some tea bags may shed billions of microplastics per cup
by microcolonel on Wednesday September 25, 2019 @01:19PM
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Folgers instant is an adequate approximation of coffee. Accept it. :- )
Re:Some tea bags may shed billions of microplastics per cup
by jolmg on Wednesday September 25, 2019 @01:23PM
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> than this ignorant American
I can't see rayiner giving any indication that they were American, though.
Re:Some tea bags may shed billions of microplastics per cup
by mikestew on Wednesday September 25, 2019 @01:32PM
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No, I'm the ignorant American. Lipton is suitable only for iced tea. Then again, maybe Lipton is fine and I just don't like orange pekoe tea.
Re:Some tea bags may shed billions of microplastics per cup
by selimthegrim on Wednesday September 25, 2019 @09:17PM
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Do they not get Darjeeling or Assam in Bangladesh?
Re:Some tea bags may shed billions of microplastics per cup
by rayiner on Wednesday September 25, 2019 @10:06PM
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None of my aunties ever mentioned where the tea came from. That wasn’t a thing. https://www.dhakatribune.com/business/2018/02/20/value-addit...
> “In the past, people used to drink normal black tea. But now, they are not satisfied with the normal tea and moved to organic and value added products, concerned about their health benefits and taste,” SM Didarul Hasan, senior manager (marketing) of MM Ispahani Limited, told the Dhaka Tribune.
“Normal black tea” is what everyone drank when I lived there. “Normal black tea” was universal and egalitarian, instead of individualistic and self indulgent. Appropriately conformist and British.
I hope that wasn't an appeal to some kind of authority. All that tells me is that some Bangladeshi women have even worst taste in tea than this ignorant American. There's quite a wide gulf between not wanting to consume the least common denominator and making a lifestyle out of it. As for flavors, just because one's view says tea should only come in one flavor doesn't mean reality has to agree.