Comment on Tea Time

sylveon@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

• Skalbagge@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  You’re arguing with a meme that put clogged gutter as pure tea ingredient

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  • Manifish_Destiny@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Correct. That would be tea as long as it’s camellia sinensis.

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    • lowleveldata@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      That’s the spirit

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      • fossphi@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        No, it’s tea

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    • MonkderDritte@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      You’re a purist.

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    • match@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      In China it’s called 地沟茶

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  • problematicPanther@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    i mean, if you consider tea to be leaves soaked in water until the flavor comes out, then clogged up gutter water is tea.

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    • bitwaba@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      What’s the proper steeping time for decaying oak leaves “until the flavor comes out”?

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      • problematicPanther@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        I’d say you should steep them for up to a year, that way you get all the taste.

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    • pseudo@jlai.lu ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      In some countries where tee grows naturally you can found riviers and pond where the water carried tea leaves fell from the tree, which give naturally to the water some aroma.

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  • Censored@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    The meme is terrible and shows the creator has taste buds that probably can’t distinguish between gutter water and tea (especially after it’s been BOILED a few hours).

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• C126@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  You hit the issue, theyre confusing tea, a specific plant, with an infusion. Herbal tea is more correctly called an herbal infusion.

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  • bitwaba@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    From en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbal_tea :

    … most dictionaries record that the word tea is also used to refer to other plants beside the tea plant and to beverages made from these other plants. In any case, the term herbal tea is very well established and much more common than tisane.

    Furthermore, in the Etymology of tea, the most ancient term for tea was 荼 (pronounced tu) which originally referred to various plants such as sow thistle, chicory, or smartweed, and was later used to exclusively refer to Camellia sinensis (true “tea”)

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    • pseudo@jlai.lu ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      I think the confusion come from the fact that in many languages and cultures the name for tea and plant infusion is the same. Tea is name plant infusion because it is among the go to infusion if no plant is mention. But then in these language the name for “herbal infusion” or “herbal tea” does not contain the name of the specific plant “tee”. This or the languages got it wrong. Yes, I go that far.

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• MxRemy@lemmy.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  I came to say the same thing about Camellia sinensis, thinking “am I about to be more of a tea purist than is even encapsulated in this chart?” So I’m glad somebody else got there first lol

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• dQw4w9WgXcQ@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  ISO 3103. RTFM!

  en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3103

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  • sylveon@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    This standard is not meant to define the proper method for brewing tea intended for general consumption, but rather to document a tea brewing procedure where meaningful sensory comparisons can be made.

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  • gedaliyah@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Misread that as Nobel prize and …lol wtf

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  • Censored@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3103

    Oh shit. My earl grey (brewed in a ceramic (earthenware) mug) is not tea because it brewed in a mug, not a tea pot.

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• match@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  I’m steeping in sweat and I drank a lot of camellia sinensis, am I tea?

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  • jawa21@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Unfortunately for you, yes. Please report to the nearest Tetley factory for processing.

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• lugal@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  I’ve been to a workshop about green tea recently and you can prepare it with any water temperature. You can make it with cold water, it just takes longer. You can even place ice cubes into the can, put tea leaves on top and let them melt

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  • Censored@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Yes, sun tea is tea. I’d really like to see this meme done by someone who actually knows something about tea (and doesn’t think it involves boiling tea leaves)

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  • Crashumbc@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Ice brewed tea is a thing in the US. Take a pitcher with water and ice, throw it in the fridge overnight with some tea bags

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    • KISSmyOSFeddit@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Or without the tea bags, if you want to brew American beer.

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      • Crashumbc@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        Zing!

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• Klear@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  100% agreed.

  Though I’m firmly in the “coffee is tea” camp

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  • hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Coffee is hot bean juice

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    • gedaliyah@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Coffee with vanilla and soy milk is a three bean soup.

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      • angrystego@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        As a bean purist, I have to disagree. (My puristic view: a bean can only come from a legume.)

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      • hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        No that’s spoiled bean juice

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      • Censored@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        I think you’re right!

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      • pseudo@jlai.lu ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        I want to drink this!

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    • bitwaba@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Coffee beans aren’t true beans. They are the pit seeds of the coffee cherry fruit, similar to other stone fruit such as cherries, peaches, plums, olives, and dates.

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      • hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        Okay, coffee is hot ceed then

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    • chocoladisco@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      As is miso soup

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    • Censored@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      No, the fruit must be squeezed for juice. Soy milk is bean juice, but coffee is not.

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  • sylveon@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    As long as you’re not claiming to be a purist I’ll allow it.

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  • match@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    I think coffee is sometimes tea, but turkish coffee and espresso are definitely not

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• SexualPolytope@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  It depends. It’s perfectly acceptable to boil the tea for many Indian preparations (usually called cha or chai).

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  • sylveon@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    True, I forgot about that!

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  • Censored@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    That’s not tea, it’s chai.

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• pseudo@jlai.lu ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  It depends of the kind of tee your using. Once I bought the wrong type of turkish tea and next thing I now I’m boiling my tea during month so I don’t drink a slighty darker version of hot water.

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• Censored@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Thank you. I am horrified that I had to scroll past a discussion of “is pho tea”? to get here. The so-called purist has never even made a proper cup of tea! So obviously pho is NEVER tea, since stock is extensively boiled.

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