[Sca-cooks] Tea

[Lonnie D. Harvel]

Stefan li Rous wrote:

>  Johnnae mentioned an early mention of tea:
>
>> ....and those people would
>> gladly give a sack of rhubarb for one ounce of Chai Catai'.
>
>
> Huh? *rhubarg*! Why rhubarb? I would have expected this to have been  
> phrased in terms of gold or silver or salt or sugar? But rhubarb??? 


I think the reference is to Chai Catai being more beneficial as a 
medicinal plant than a "sack of rhubarb".