Tea
Tea is a plant from which the leaves are taken and dried.
These leaves are then packaged to retain the oils and flavors. Good tea is hard to find. Like a cache.
Tea comes in many colors and tastes. Bitter, sweet, mint, fruity and spicy to name just a few. Different blends are mixed and packaged. Tea that is swept up from deepest recesses of some tractor shed in some no name sweat shop in a place no worth naming is packaged into teabags and walked three times around the world for 23 months by a line of camels malnourished and hosting an armada of a 1000 fleas each. These eventually fall onto some generic shop shelf to be purchased by sheep who read propaganda stating this product is somehow superior to what cultured people refer to as 'real tea'.
Real tea is actually picked and packaged as leaves and not ground into dust and wrapped in paper and hung on a string. Real tea does not need to be strained when it is poured from a pot. This is because the leaves actually expand in the hot water and are allowed to release their flavorful goodness. Real tea leaves can be used over and over again in a 24 hour period and can be used later as garden mulch on your favorite potplants. You have to pay for real tea and make a decision for your self instead of having to put up with some generic marketing spun, baseless and bitter infusion liken to last nights washing up grey water mixed with the grease extracted from the kids week old football and hockey socks.
You need to find good tea like you sometimes find a good cache. You just can't pick it up next to the jam and cereal.
How to brew Kitchen Tea
How to brew Billy Tea
