Caffeine!

[cjsmith]

Mmm, Darjeeling tea right here at my desk. It's HOT and it's YUMMY and I'm even okay for caffeine today. My hands are slowly warming up from their office-air-conditioning-induced iciness. I'm even getting stuff done this morning. Life doesn't suck.

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[thorswitch.livejournal.com]

Yeah! :)

I don't think I've ever had Djarling tea -- isn't that the stuff that comes from the special mountain with goats or something?

[wcg.livejournal.com]

Ah! You're a Darjeeling fan. It is delicious stuff, I agree. I've bought a pound or two of it from Stash Tea over time, and my friend ladysprite has been quite pleased with it.

[klwalton.livejournal.com]

I *love* Darjeeling. St. Michael's English Breakfast Blend in the morning (I have a wonderful friend who buys it for me at Marks&Sparks when he goes to the UK) and a cup of Darjeeling in the afternoon. I'm about to run out of the stash of Darjeeling I brought home from India, so I'm going to have to find a nice one which can be acquired here. You like the Stash Darjeeling?

[wcg.livejournal.com]

I do, though I'm no expert on it. I think it's more telling that Becky (ladysprite) likes it, since she's the connoisseur. They offer several varieties of Darjeeling, you should look at their catalog.

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Um, I don't know. It's, um, something from India? I'm no connoisseur...

But it's hot and yummy and caffeinated. :-)

[wcg.livejournal.com]

According to Darjeeling is a small resort town with an elevation of 6500 feet above sea level. (http://www.stashtea.com/w-111191.htm) It goes on to say that "Darjeeling teas are considered the finest, rarest and most prestigious of black teas. The taste of Darjeeling varies with the seasons or harvest periods."

The Darjeeling tea I've typically had is a light golden colored tea that's somewhere between green tea and the more traditional black teas. I think that most of the Darjeeling tea sold in the US is the "second flush" or summertime harvest variety of Darjeeling.

[(Anonymous)]

Mmm. Even cheap darjeeling manages to be a good tea. It has range though; if you want to get into the whole tea thing, upton's has a good darjeeling sampler that covers a whole range of qualities.
(www.uptontea.com, a "local" boston area tea importer, that started out as a guy who would bring stuff back on business trips to the far east when he worked for Wang :-)
next time you're back east, we should have a tea party... _Mark_

Darjeeling and "Ah! My Goddess!"

[(Anonymous)]

Don't want to intrude, but Belldandy, of "Ah! My Goddess!" fame (anime) is fond of Darjeeling tea as well.. (Ah, search for Belldandy and Darjeeling on any search engine...)

Now back to your regularly scheduled non-geek programming. :)

AnimeFan

Re: Darjeeling and "Ah! My Goddess!"

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

(chuckle)!