tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-753589427119541238.post3353724939038085106..comments2023-07-05T09:38:23.624+01:00Comments on The Half-Dipper: If You Want Me to Love You, Don't Give Me TeaHobbeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10719619695211038389noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-753589427119541238.post-84653012560240026532014-12-07T22:31:52.434+00:002014-12-07T22:31:52.434+00:00I would take glow-in-the-dark TGY over bicycle-tyr...I would take glow-in-the-dark TGY over bicycle-tyre rubber any day :)Hobbeshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10719619695211038389noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-753589427119541238.post-86187320831344314272014-12-06T16:03:39.288+00:002014-12-06T16:03:39.288+00:00Ah yes, the story of life-threatening TGY gifts is...Ah yes, the story of life-threatening TGY gifts is a familiar one. After it became known that I like tea a classmate from the mainland gave me some supposedly made in his home village. It was some of the greenest, most chemical tasting TGY I have ever tried. Sadly, about 50% of my oolong stash (which is very small) is this kind of gifted poison tea that I don't know what to do with (I don'Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-753589427119541238.post-90211410156124960492014-12-06T13:11:07.718+00:002014-12-06T13:11:07.718+00:00You're lucky, Hobbes and Twodog. At least you ...You're lucky, Hobbes and Twodog. At least you get "real" tea, I keep getting cream/coconut/strawberry flavoured green tea.<br /><br />It can alway get worse...Squirrelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09687315862467150003noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-753589427119541238.post-38091254217241479942014-12-06T11:48:52.259+00:002014-12-06T11:48:52.259+00:00This happens to me often with Tieguanyin. People h...This happens to me often with Tieguanyin. People hear I like tea and proceed to give me Tieguanyin so laden with chemicals and fragrances that it could strip grease off of an axel.<br /><br />It's a pity. I think they mean well.Twodoghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06049277551668517782noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-753589427119541238.post-86797074979321019442014-12-05T15:57:42.152+00:002014-12-05T15:57:42.152+00:00I've fortunately escaped anything really awful...I've fortunately escaped anything really awful from friends/relatives. A couple of friends gave me some mystery puerh last Christmas, along with 45 or so mini-tuochas; while neither works at all for gong-fu brewing, they're perfectly adequate as cheap tea at work. I do not envy your fate.Dragoranhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09517153873465265362noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-753589427119541238.post-90086073816331872882014-12-05T12:08:26.936+00:002014-12-05T12:08:26.936+00:00Poor cousins - they try so hard, and yet their tea...Poor cousins - they try so hard, and yet their tea sucks with such magnificence.<br /><br /><br />Toodlepip,<br /><br />HobbesHobbeshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10719619695211038389noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-753589427119541238.post-67322183330346006562014-12-05T05:15:00.275+00:002014-12-05T05:15:00.275+00:00Sounds like a real winner!Sounds like a real winner!Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09704188579636197074noreply@blogger.com