I’ve always just heard of that as “cut and rolled” . Perhaps there’s a specific term that I’ve forgotten as well.
As for “best tea memory” do you mean on the board, or just in general?
Because the first was just some of the authors fighting it out over “best tea” in an article (Rob is a Yorkshire Tea loyalist). while personally, it would have to be either discovering the fancy teashop close to my home, or just one of the many times I’ve had with a wintry storm outside, with me safe and warm inside, drinking a pot of tea with a good book. It’s just a little thing, but so relaxing.
A neighbor gave us some Yorkshire Gold in a holiday basket one year. Damn, that stuff is good. When my BF ran outta coffee a while back, that’s what I gave him. He fell in love w/it, too, but then we were all out.
Found a great tea caddy - a nice hinged metal box w/Yorkshire Gold and the background art from the boxes on it - w/80 bags inside. It was only around $8 on amazOMG, so I ordered it w/my YouGov gift card.
A longtime friend of my honey’s stayed w/us last weekend, and my BF hipped him to it. He ranted and raved about it just like we had, and had a coupla cuppas every morning.
After he’d finished packing, he and my honey were in another part of the house, so I grabbed a buncha YG teabags, and stuck 'em in his backpack - along with a glow in the dark eyeball superball! I told him I’d stashed a present in his backpack, but that it was nothing to whomst the tsa would object
My BF ordered a whole bag of 'em - blue, green, brown irises - off amaZOMG. His friend is awesome, and well worth 10 teabags of Yorkshire Gold and a glowy eye superball.
I just like to read people’s comments and giggle. You all are too funny (and fierce)!
Also, whenever someone posted something extraordinarily provocative, I learned not to respond because it will get eaten. Sigh. I promise to be more engaged now that the other site is closing up.
Looking it up and i think what i’m thinking of is related to tea grading. But it seems like such specific terminology that it’s not useful for the discussion, i’ll just leave it at that
I’m really going to miss the automatic gif generator and the various reaction emojis. My communication language is visual. Maybe we’ll get them in the future?
Edit: By the way. I must credit the gang here for “woking” me. No way would I be a MAGAt these days, but I am certainly more aware of folks’ lived experience.
If they really looked like pellets it was probably CTC, or Crush-Tear-Curl. It’s basically a homogeneization process where the leaves are flattened, cut into strips then rolled into pellets. You get a very strong tea, but you lose any complexity or subtlety. It is usually done to get the most out of low grade teas, and is better for robust strains like assam than the classic sinensis.
It’s usually good to mix with strong spices like indian massala, and/or to take with milk and abundant sugar. It’s certainly caffeinated! Does not make much sense to waste your expensive smoked tea when you’re going to smother the complex aromas in cinnamon, clove, pepper and ginger, after all
CTC tea is the basis of most oil-scented teas like Earl Grey too. Again, does not make sense to waste good tea if you’re going to disguise it with citrus oils.
Nowadays, with the popularization of tea shops everywhere, it has fallen a bit out of favor, because CTC is associated with cheap teas (ie: the ones you get in bags at the supermarket). Is not necessarily a good thing: toasted tea may be better, but only if you use good material, and I can tell you many tea shops do not use good material to make the oil-scented teas (nor they should!)
hi, all!
i learned over the years that one needs to read all that has transpired before in a thread before inputting one’s own. this was a lengthy thread, but as it was created only a couple of days ago, it was easy enough to do.
that being said, i will nostalgize my own introduction to BB was around 2000(?) when i was an avid reader of Wiired magazine online. i don’t recall just who or what sent me to the “Directory”, but it was cool. i read main page stuff for years before ever finding comments - and thereafter - the BBS.
i had an account with the Disqus iteration, but did not migrate in 2013 to the Discourse platform. i still lurked, however, and came to recognize many of your handles and avatars in that time.
when i cut ties with that zuck joint, i decide to come over. i felt i already knew many of you and it was an easy transition from a place where i met so much shade and bs for my outlook and affiliations.
when i made my Florida Man persona, it was with full knowledge of the baggage “florida man” carries, but wanted to be a kind of opposite of that conotation.
i have never felt more at home, or more included than i have been with you all. thank you for that.
for whatever reason, my account was “granted” that subscription to sub (or SuS, as you all call it). in the initial flush of “oh, wow! me?”, i went over, not knowing of the shit that was adjacent. i just wanted to keep some connection to y’all that i have come to feel extremely close to.
thanks to @Kii, i have found y’all here and the love continues.
being as close to Buddhist as i feel i can be in this lifetime, i am one who will “let that shit go”, but the fellow travelers we meet on the path come with, or find their own way.
thank you all for letting me come along this way. may you all reach enlightenment before I, it is the bodhisattva way.
It just seems the thing to do 
