• squiblet
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    111 year ago

    I thought I was hip to discover Pu-erh at my local
    Coop… then I met this guy who had a whole box of special bricks, like “this is some 1991 white… you gotta try this one…”

  • @[email protected]
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    101 year ago

    I imagine the Brits used to have the same reaction at the end of the nineteenth century “Earl Grey? Darjeeling? Irish breakfast? I want black tea!”

    • Th4tGuyII
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      51 year ago

      You’d think more flavours of tea would be better, and normally it is, but sometimes you do just want to be able say “tea” and know you’re getting a mug of the good stuff

  • Match!!
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    61 year ago

    Buying tea in 1423 was also very much like hitting up a dispensary, if not literally the same building. It’s the 1900s that were weird