The Glory of Tea

[scp12357]

For most of my youth, I wondered what the British obsession was with tea. I wondered why they didn't embrace soda like America, as it tasted much better. After exchanging stories and scientific studies with fellow engineers and taking a food science class for fun in college, I drink almost no soda now (aside from the occasional tonic with lime on

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[sithjawa]

I'm a soda addict... Need acidic beverage with my meal, and fruit juice makes me feel sick if I drink more than a glass.

Once, as an experiment, I stopped drinking soda entirely for about two years, in the theory that if I drank nothing but fruit juice and water, it'd stop making me feel sick. Nope. I mean, I survived the two years, but I spent a lot of time feeling sick :P

Tea, though, is wonderful. Don't like it with meals though. I like the really smooth, non-bitter, greens, and oolong. Numi makes a bagged black tea that I'm certain is actually an oolong, Chinese Breakfast, that I'm very fond of.

Speaking of which it's time to go try the new green tea I just bought... *runs off*