Comment by semi-extrinsic
23 days ago
What you are describing is fairly easy to get, at least in Europe, e.g. from https://www.whittard.com/tea/tea-type/green-tea/dragon-well-...
They also have some of GPs favorite: https://www.whittard.com/all/ceylon-orange-pekoe-loose-tea-p...
come on, $26 per 50g. it is like someone trying to sell you the full ownership of OpenAI for $1 billion USD in H1 2025.
Yeah, they are the poshest tea shop in London, of course they're expensive. If you know of a more affordable place with shipping and high quality, I'm all ears.
It is THE problem for me: tea become "posh" in Europe. You have tea dust from Lipton in bags on one end of the spectrum, posh tea which costs about 100x to its origin (26€/$ per 50g! 520€ for a kilo! It is insane, it is lifestyle price, not food/grocery price!) on the other end of the spectrum and nothing in-between.
Ok, Germany or Netherlands never were known for tea tradition, but UK was THE Tea country. UK created Assam, Darjeeling, Ceylon teas in the first place! How did this happen?