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I have now "tested" this product, and I'm quite pleased! Listen, I had to search ads on Amazon for "loose tea" quite intensively to find this (strangely). I looked at one offering after another that ... working ... out ... the price ... per once ... were all ... hugely expensive! A lot of money for a tiny bit of tea. I started to wonder "is this just the way it is." But no!

The other thing is, I was not going to buy a plastic pouch of tea.

Well, it arrived, a big honking tin, filled, when I opened it, to the brim with plump, gleaming, richly black leaves. It sure looks nice. And I did taste. I say ... very nice.

So I feel like I've struck gold. I mean, I'm kind of ecstatic. By the way, my wife, who's sort of an expert, said it's actually quite a good price, a little less than she pays, where she gets her tea, which is the best price locally.

Now, I am a big beer drinker, in the afternoon, and a very big coffee drinker, in the morning, but some things were happening in my life, and for a couple of weeks I drank nothing but cup after cup of hot tea, from early in the morning to late at night ... which, by the way, I was making with tea bags from Trader Joe's ... which came in boxes of 48 bags, which were quite affordable, and rather nice, so a bag in my mug, and then fill it with water from the kettle, and in with a bit of cream, and I'm set, even luxuriating.

But I'm sort of not that into disposable stuff, so doing all those bags bothered me a little. As garbage goes, they're not that bad, really - I was still composting them - but, gee, sort of silly. So I wasn't even sure I was doing the right thing, I mean, am I too obsessive? but I sort of initiated this search anyway, and then went ahead and tried this product.

I'm more back to coffee and beer, now, but I've got the tea, and yesterday, in the afternoon, I made myself a couple of cups, now with a nice tea ball, and a very nice, big mug, that I've got ... and I was kind of pleased. One note: I made one cup kind of strong, piling the leaves high in the ball, and I made the second cup weaker, filling just half the ball, a level half ball, and I think I liked the first one better. It's Earl Gray, so it's intense, but ... still.

Ahmad tea offers, as far as I can tell so far, also:

It appears the Ceylon comes in a box ... which is just as good.

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So, one more thing. I drink my tea with Heavy Cream, but, I really have one favorite heavy cream which is what I buy if I possibly can, and that's Trader Joe's Organic. It comes in a paper carton ... and it's not homogonized, so gooey masses of it come to the top, and eventually cake up around the spout. Keeping it real isn't entirely easy. I guess it's just habit forming, though. I can't seem to get myself to go back. Ugh. Just the thought of makes me cringe!

What I'm saying is, very real heavy cream is a health food, par excelence. Think about it: it's basically made from wildflowers. It's like the world's most complex vitamin supplement - and there's a special relationship between vitamins and fats, too. I think that's a scientific fact. (In the same way, I'm very big on cheese, which even has a powerful probiotic component.)

I'm not saying this to get you onto an all cream diet, or anything like that. In fact that kind of thing is exactly what I'm campaigning against. To my mind, an old fashioned comfort food diet, with a hearty home cooking component and a completely rounded assortment of every kind of farm fresh goods and traditional products - there's something powerful about traditions, too - plus even some Cheetos and Snickers bars ... that's a healthy diet ... and you don't have to do silly and ridiculous things like throwing away the yolks of the eggs - God! - or the cream! Properly it's the whey you might discard! I could say similar things about exercise ... homes ... clothes ... and you might live forever.