[Sca-cooks] Tea
Lonnie D. Harvel
ldh at ece.gatech.edu
Sun Oct 16 17:36:35 PDT 2005
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".
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