I believe every single time somebody offers to buy tea for me or gets me to go out for tea with them, I get the worst frickin tea I've ever had in my life.

Typically, when I go out to these places, I get a jasmine or oolong tea, which is typically their specialty, and they absolutely bastardize it. Overbrewed garbage, either steeped too long or temps too high, but it just releases sour acidity in the tea. They have the fucking audacity to ask me if I didn't like it because it's "heavy-roasted". It's not because the leaves are roasted, it's because you fucking overbrewed the tea.

Anyway, ofc the general populace gives these places good reviews for their sugary milk teas and thinks it's the best shit ever.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago (5 children)

    Really it's more of a cultural issue. Most people just don't get it, haven't been taught how to get it, and aren't sufficiently self-motivated to teach themselves how to get it.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 month ago (4 children)

    You have to ask why that is, and look at what forces encourage this behavior ultimately. It's the same pressure on both sides.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    Go on then give is the marxist analysis as to why capitalism makes a shop over brew its tea.

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