16 Aug
1999
16 Aug
'99
2:18 p.m.
On Mon, 16 Aug 1999, Max Eskin wrote:
On Mon, 16 Aug 1999, LordTyran wrote:
In Peru, the tea of choice is Matte de Coca, or coca leaves (you need to
chew it with lime to make it the "good stuff" :) You can get Matte de
Coca tea packets, but some nicer restaurants (like the good vegetarian one
down the street I would often patronize) gave you a steeping cup of coca
leaves. I'd drink mine straight (no sugar) like I drink all my tea.
I drank it almost every morning and sometimes during lunch and dinner.
Matte de Coca, while obviously not caffeinated, did have special
properties. Purportedly, it was good for alleviating altitude sickness (I
was at ~11,500ft), good for your immune system, assisted digestion,
alleviated fatigue, and had a few other benefits (this is what was printed
on the tea packets :) I'd have to say it did live up to a lot of these
claims after having drank it for the better part of a month.
Too bad America has this silly aversion to coca leaves due to this
obnoxious and fruitless drug war we've been unsuccessfully waging for the
past 15 years or else we might be able to get some here.
Sellam Alternate e-mail: dastar(a)siconic.com
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TRASH!?!?! I *love* lipton and two heaping spoons
of Coffeemate creamer. I
prefer that over coffee when I have time in the morning, but if I'm trying
You should try loose tea. For one thing, I must say that green tea,
either bagged or loose, is excellent, sometimes better than other colors.
Lipton orange pekoe tea gets real boring, and it just doesn't have half
the aroma of loose tea. Today, I dipped a ball full of indian tea into a
cup of hot water, and the room smelled like I had a bouquet of flowers in
there.