[at-l] Re: Green tea

[KAB@concordia-ny.edu (Kurt Bodling)]

I love to drink the stuff myself (though no longer at breakfast, since
I found out that the tannins in tea interfere with absorption of iron
from my vitamin pills).

But isn't this colonial use of tea known today as water pollution?
Good thing it wasn't done near the AT!

Concordia

> Message: 1
> From: ATRerunner <atrerunner@yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: [at-l] Green tea
> Date: 29 Sep 2002 17:28:38 GMT
> Organization: Backcountry.Net
> To: at-l@mailman.backcountry.net
>
> Green tea, or the more processed types of tea (black, oolong), all come
> from the same plant that taxed the patience of Patriots to the point that
> they impersonated Native Americans while performing the first known
> fluoridation of a municipal water supply, albeit unintentionally.