Through the dialectical interplay of hot water and leaves tea both is hot leaf juice and something more, a contradiction in terms as it is both water and non-water, an elixir imbued with heat and longing and taste that can brighten up the darkest of days. It exists as multiple forms at once, and through the experience of drinking this tea it becomes tea, and even something more than tea, something that brings us close to the essence of life itself. :meow-coffee:
Beyond beverages, a lot of the compounds we think of as liquids are actually aqueous solutions, i.e., something that in its "pure" form is generally a solid dissolved in water. That probably makes everything a tea or a koolaid in terms of beverage class, no?
We have :meow-coffee: but not :meow-tea: This really says something about societea.
Yes but no. It can be steamed hot leaf juice (線茶), roasted hot leaf juice (ほうじ茶 ), fermented hot leaf juice (普洱茶), powdered hot leaf juice (抹茶), hot leaf juice with rice in it (お茶ずけ や 玄米茶), hot leaf juice with other leaves and a metric ton of sugar in it (شاي مغربي), shitty hot leaf juice you get when you're at the bar with friends but you're trying to cut back on drinking (Lipton); so much variety in hot leaf juice.
shitty hot leaf juice you get when you’re at the bar with friends but you’re trying to cut back on drinking (Lipton)
lol lmao
I bought a teapot recently and it fucking rules. I have an electric kettle, but being able to just make a good brew and have it there for refills is a game-changer
idk if this is the real definition of juice but unless you're squeezing the tea leaves and drinking the liquid from it i wouldnt call tea "juice"
yes. coffee is also a broth, unless the grounds (or leaves in the case of tea) are left in, then it's a soup.
I thought this was a comment on my post about HRT and I was like "I guess injectable estrogen kind of basically is soup huh"
I'm of the radical expressionist soupism school, I feel strongly we need to grapple with questions of what is a soup, what are its parameters that separate it from teas and ramen (or are those just artificial distinctions), and how do we properly assess the creation of soup in a capitalist world. I strongly reject the structuralist definition of a soup necessarily needing a carrot or tomato stock base, as well as Boyardee's chauvanist liquid-to-solid ratios and Progresso's close-minded theory of soup/stew dichotomy.
Yes. But the difference between good hot leaf juice and bad hot leaf juice is astronomical. Even the difference between good hot leaf juice and other good hot leaf juice is astronomical.
I would say it isn't simply hot leaf juice, in the same way humans aren't just salt water and a few minerals. The tea and the leaves are the only ingredients, but they have to be heated and introduced in just the right way to become tea. It also has to be certain kinds of leaves. sewer water on a hot fall day isn't tea.
i mean yes but that’s a bit too essentialist. soup broths are also just hot meat juice if you want to think of it that way but doing so is pointless and just serves to offend people really care about soup i guess?
