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I'm on a weekend vacation and forgot to bring my tea and the international grocery didn't have it, so I settled for Darjeeling. I can barely notice the difference. It's so subtle that it might as well just be a different tea brand.

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[–] aufbau161@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

do you mind me asking about the amount of tea you have used as well as the time you let it sit for? most black tea like darjeeling and blends of breakfast teas taste very similar if brewed too strong (i.e. too much tea or too much time). i like to use about a tee spoon full of tea for a mug size and let it sit for about 3-4min max.

[–] OhStopYellingAtMe@lemmy.world 12 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

I am confused as to why you spelled “tea” correctly six time in your comment, and then spelled “teaspoon” (a spoon used for stirring & measuring tea) wrong.

Not criticizing, just confused.

[–] KittenBiscuits@lemm.ee 12 points 2 weeks ago

They use a tiny wooden spoon made out of a golf tee, duh.

[–] aufbau161@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

lol i wondered why i looked so wrong but couldn't put my finger on it. truthfully though: "tee" would be the proper spelling in my native language and i haven't had a cup of tea yet so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[–] princessnorah@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

you dropped this \

(because \ is an escape character, you must use ¯\\\_(ツ)\_/¯ to correctly display ¯\_(ツ)_/¯)

[–] aufbau161@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 2 weeks ago

thank you very much for that fix!

[–] Alexstarfire@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

You appear to be missing an arm so I'll forgive you..... this time.

[–] EleventhHour@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

They were probably using a voice dictate feature. You know how unreliable those things are…