Overheard at the Guardian reading, Tofu eating, Yoghurt weaving, Vegan Deli Counter

Hope they’re not real leather!

Came to post that.

Someone brought a Mariage Frères Earl Grey Imperial into work about a year ago and every earl grey I've drunk since then seems lacking.

Is there no statute of limitations for an appearance here?

Absolutely not, none, nope

Not bike related but maybe you want to treat youself in different ways, ethique are closing down and it's 60% off site wide. Shamboo bars, that sort of stuff.

https://ethique.co.uk/

French tea...you disgust me. Tea is English....or is it tea bags.

An ex-collegue of mine whose wife was Chinese used to lose his shit if you ever said tea was English.

It was great sport to ask if anyone had a Yorkshire tea bag spare.

Those Yorkshire tea fields....none of that foreign muck. Have been told, by a random in Tesco's while I was in the tea isle, that Yorkshire tea is the best tea, as it isn't foreign muck.

We grow it over the road from the rhubarb - as you drive on the A1-M1 link; rhubarb left, tea right.

Quite the hill to die on by your ex-colleague. Obviously incredibly proud of China’s… erm… tea growing contribution to the world.

https://www.reddit.com/r/etymologymaps/comments/g4bmh3/chai_tea/

Forced rhubarb? The sound of that stuff growing is scary.

There is tea grown in the UK! Recently found out(after the Yorkshire tea), tea gardens (why not a plantation) are in Cornwall, Wales and Scotland too. They sell enough to be commercially viable!

Still love the story of how tea was found by a leaf falling in to a cup of hot water.

Looked up how much some of that Cornish grown tea is, made my eyes water

From experience it’s the novelTea (sic) that makes it pricey, not the taste.

They don't even hand pick it, it's picked by a solar powered robot

They don't even hand pick it

I knew that was coming

Bad punning makes baby jebus cry.

Guessed as much, but thought hand picking is the way to get the perfect leaf ripeness for what is needed

People who you’d expect have never swam in cold water

We have the 6.9l kitchenaid but it gets used multiple times a week for making sourdough for us and some neighbours

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I get free Gregg's coffee with Monzo.