Hello! (I found something weird on my tea -- 2 times in a row)
Hi.
My name is Guilherme, I’m from Rio, and I just plan to numb myself with tea until the Olympics are done.
I’ve been loving Steepster for too long, but I decided to register for I need help.
I found something quite odd in a blend a friend brought me from India (green tea, cinnamon, cardamom). I notice the tea was too dark (well, darker than usual) but paid no attention to it, and drank it. Then I prepared a second cup. Still dark, and I still drank it. When I opened my infusor I got a weird amount of very black powder. Between charcoal, coffee and plain dirt. I have no idea what this is. The rest of the blend is fine and Unknown Black Substance free. I have absolutely no idea what it looked liked before being thrown in 70C water two times in a row.
Here are some pics.
Second story.
A friend brought me the blend Matin Parisien, from Mariage F. And I found a stone right on top. A little stone. A weird one, can’t quite describe it. It sparkles. It’s metalic. And I broke the stone with a spoon, and it divided itself in 3 small parts and dust! And a few sparkling dots covered my hand.
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Should I throw both away? Am I being paranoid? I’m not the greatest tea connoisseur out there.
Thanks. Needless to say I have this crippling case of hypochondria. :)
They try to get rid of everything with large sifters, but it’s inevitable that some things make it. Probably a tea picker got a stone in her back. You could always go through your own tea by hand.
It would be a shame to waste good tea because you found a stone in it. It’s been a while since I have boiled up some nice chai, but last time I used a strainer, I got a mess of black stuff too mostly spices.
I’m not even watching the Olympics, honestly they are all a bunch of dopers anyway. But, at least you will get some publicity for Rio. I am looking forward to Tokyo 2020 though, just because of where it is.
Hello! Thanks for the replies.
I’ll throw the chai away. I should be fine. No mysterious third eye yet or something.
I’d contact the seller but unfortunatelly my friend throw that info away (a friend visiting Delhi brought him this tea; he gave it to me a month later after drinking none of it).
About the stone, I contacted MF. They said: “We think that the stone is the natural essential oil that has hardened in a stone.”
After drinking two cups of charcoal tea, I’ll keep it.
About the Olympics: we despise it. They promised to clean up our watersways and done basically nothing. A terribly lost opportunity. But the city is quite pretty and you’ll have a blast watching some of it on TV (I’d never miss the cycling sports, perfect landscapes, Rio is paradise on Earth sometimes).
Greetings.
Oi! Eu lamento profundamente sobre os Jogos Olímpicos, mas bem vindo à Steepster!
Wow, I understood that ^. College Spanish certainly seems to help with Portuguese! :) Sim, mas bem vindo à Steepster!
If you start drinking puerh, you will have lots of hair, as well as the occasional fingernail and cigarette butt to look forward to.
…and sunflower seed shell, stone, bird feather… puer is like the cracker jacks of tea!
Once, on TeaChat, someone commented that they’d found pubic hair in their pu erh. I said the pube was why their sheng tasted like wo dui. :D
Just how did the person on Teachat know where the hair came from I wonder. Could just as easily have been from someone’s beard.
I suppose I’ve been lucky! I bought aged sheng from a local vendor that had long human hair in it (several strands in 150g). Like a woman had brushed her hair over the pile, or something. :o
I’m happy to report I’m still alive. But ask me again in a couple of weeks: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/mar/06/alexander-litvinenko-and-the-most-radioactive-towel-in-history
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