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All About Tea, Wednesday
Jon nodded to the students. "Today we'll start with a bit of the background of tea. First of all, a lot of what we call tea isn't actually tea. Proper tea comes from the Camellia sinensis plant, which is an evergreen native to East Asia. We can track tea drinking back to at least the third century in China, and it was brought to Europe in the sixteenth."
Was this starting to sound more like an academic dissertation than useful information? Look, Jon was a researcher. He did his best.
"It's the second most popular drink in the world, after water. It's still grown widely in Asia, but also now in Africa, and in other places to a lesser extent. It's all largely the same plant, but there are a number of different sorts, mostly divided by how it's processed and aged. The two most common are black tea, which is wilted and fully oxidized leaves, and green tea, which is unwilted and unoxidized. There's also white, yellow, oolong, and Pu'er.
"After that, the next difference is in how it's packaged - loose leaf, tea bags, compressed, bottled, or, erm, instant." You could probably hear the disgust in his voice. Look, he was awful with tea, but even he had standards. "We won't be covering that one. Apparently even soldiers who got it in rations hated it, if that tells you anything." And that was saying something.
"Next, sometimes there are flavors added in - like Earl Grey, which has bergamot in it. Mint, cinnamon, and ginger are also popular. Sometimes different types of tea are combined. And then of course, there's how you fix it. Sugar, milk, lemon, honey - there are a number of possible additions."
He was probably boring the students now, wasn't he? Damn.
"So...erm. I hope you'll all speak up with any questions. And - oh! I have samples, so you can see what black tea and green tea look like, and I've got pictures of the others and some leaves and...I'll just put those up."
He fiddled with the computer to show the pictures. "But anyway, if you have questions. Or a favorite tea. Let us know."
Was this starting to sound more like an academic dissertation than useful information? Look, Jon was a researcher. He did his best.
"It's the second most popular drink in the world, after water. It's still grown widely in Asia, but also now in Africa, and in other places to a lesser extent. It's all largely the same plant, but there are a number of different sorts, mostly divided by how it's processed and aged. The two most common are black tea, which is wilted and fully oxidized leaves, and green tea, which is unwilted and unoxidized. There's also white, yellow, oolong, and Pu'er.
"After that, the next difference is in how it's packaged - loose leaf, tea bags, compressed, bottled, or, erm, instant." You could probably hear the disgust in his voice. Look, he was awful with tea, but even he had standards. "We won't be covering that one. Apparently even soldiers who got it in rations hated it, if that tells you anything." And that was saying something.
"Next, sometimes there are flavors added in - like Earl Grey, which has bergamot in it. Mint, cinnamon, and ginger are also popular. Sometimes different types of tea are combined. And then of course, there's how you fix it. Sugar, milk, lemon, honey - there are a number of possible additions."
He was probably boring the students now, wasn't he? Damn.
"So...erm. I hope you'll all speak up with any questions. And - oh! I have samples, so you can see what black tea and green tea look like, and I've got pictures of the others and some leaves and...I'll just put those up."
He fiddled with the computer to show the pictures. "But anyway, if you have questions. Or a favorite tea. Let us know."
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And she could tell you some things about Camilla.
Which was why she would end up in the Bad Place, yeah.
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