right, shopping list for teas:~ black tea
~ chinese tea
~ green tea
~ oolong tea
~ white tea
~ roobois tea
~ eyelid tea
~ herbal tea
wait, what was that last one?
herbal tea?
no, the one before that...
roobois?
no...
oh, eyelid tea!
"While there really is no consensus on exactly where the earliest tea plants were grown in Asia and how people got the idea to drink it, there are a number of myths concerning how tea originated and why people started drinking it. One story says that a Buddhist monk named Bodhidharma, the founder of Chan Buddhism, was meditating for nine years, at which point, he fell asleep. The story says he was so upset that he cut off his own eyelids, which took root and grew into the first tea plants. Other versions of the story say that Buddha himself was the one who cut his eye lids off and started the first tea plants."
apparently, january is national hot tea month... so the folks over at neatorama have compiled a little story about all the great things about tea!
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