SC - Re: smokey tea

[lilinah at earthlink.net]

Re: Lapsang Suchong tea, Gwynydd wrote:
>Yes, this was the offending tea!  I am glad to hear that there are people
>out there for whom this is a delicacy, but I seriously doubt that I will
>ever be one of them.  In fact, I am tempted to make all children drink the
>stuff to tell them what smoking tastes like (I am a non-smoker as well, so
>it is possible that the taste of cigarettes is better/worse and I would
>never know.  What I can say is that Lapsang Souchong tastes the way
>cigarettes smell - to me, at any rate)

Oh, no! Properly brewed - so it isn't TOO dark it is no more smokey 
than good smoked meats. I'm a non smoker, but i did try cigarettes a 
couple times just to see what it was all about. Patooey. Nothing like 
Lapsang Suchong. Much nastier.

Anahita al-shazhiyya