The silver lining.

[leahbobet]

And springing from the previous post like a daisy:

coffeeem: "I think it's time we asked the really important question here:

"Tea bags? Are Americans really so fixated on convenience, so limited in their tastes, that they no longer consume loose tea?

"Or are they afraid the very concept of "looseness" will be too much for impressionable, weak-minded citizens to resist?"

cristalia: "I now want a Loose Tea for Loose Women icon.

"Full of sexy, sexy darjeeling."

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I don't have working Photoshop. But I will pay a hefty bounty for this icon.

In blood.

(Or maybe chocolate.)

Comments

[coffeeem.livejournal.com]

Awww. Upton has a very nice image of loose Darjeeling, but I haven't been able to get a design incorporating the text that I like. (I hoped they'd have a shot of one of their nice metal tins with a label, but noooooooo.)

I'm sure one of us will, though!

[stillsostrange.livejournal.com]

This one is jasmine pearls. Are they more or less loose than Darjeeling?

[marydell.livejournal.com]

Hee! Here you go, assuming I uploaded everything properly:



If you like them, help yourself (pass along, free for whatever, etc)

[haruhiko.livejournal.com]

I despise, DESPISE tea bags. I always prefer to keep it loose whenever possible. XD

Teabagging is fine though. *flees*

[lenora-rose.livejournal.com]

Thanks - you just reminded me to run off and hunt for a beloved loose tea that's hard to find (As far as I can tell, available only at a half-thrift department store, none of the real tea places have it).

As it happens, there are a number of bagged teas I rather like (Well, I can be made happy with almost any un-Lipton English Breakfast, and Red Rose is a good catchall tea for a crowd of varied tastes), and oddly, it's the bagged teas, not the loose ones, which have forced me to formulate the theory that the more annoyingly pretentious the packaging, the better the tea within.

But my favourites seem lately to come loose-only.

[strayfish.livejournal.com]

loose = bad

but

teabagging = okay?

Silly Americans.

[moon-custafer.livejournal.com]

Ahem.