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German Tebiev

I have a question, the answer to which isn't yet settled in my mind. However, the act of asking it makes things a little clearer.

The @tea that we drink is all about Camellia sinensis. Is it inevitable or accidental? Could there be some other plant instead of it? Or is it that only Camellia sinensis's characteristics can lead to what we now know as a huge family of different teas, pleasurable for drinking? Maybe there is some not cultured Pcamellia psinensis which could create the ptea culture?

25 Nov 2023 at 7:26 | Open on hachyderm.io
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Lew Perin

@turbobureaucrat Sure, it’s possible. If someone manufactured a really interesting maté, say, or kuding cha, to me that wouldn’t be as surprising as generative AI.

But life is short and there are so many types of C. sinensis teas…

@tea

25 Nov 2023 at 11:46 | Open on social.tchncs.de
Josh

@turbobureaucrat @tea The obsession about tea probably stems from the caffeine. Coffee's not that far off too.

26 Nov 2023 at 6:03 | Open on mstdn.social
Lew Perin

@puerh Caffeine might be necessary for tea culture but it isn’t sufficient. Tea culture goes way beyond coffee culture, let alone maté.

Similarly, grape wine and beer (alcohol, duh!) have cultures, orange wine not so much.

@turbobureaucrat @tea

26 Nov 2023 at 12:07 | Open on social.tchncs.de
German Tebiev

@babelcarp @puerh @tea, oh, this Spring I saw the scheme from the picture, and not I feel citruses hide many mysteries.😃
26 Nov 2023 at 17:20 | Open on hachyderm.io
Sebastian Dröge 🍵

@turbobureaucrat @tea Maté was mentioned before already, but I thought this article is interesting in this context:

nytimes.com/2023/09/11/world/m

IIRC @babelcarp shared that a few months ago.

2 Dec 2023 at 9:58 | Open on toot.cat
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