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okimasa · Posted: Jun 27, 2008 3:00 am Post subject: Twinings Green Tea

With all this talk about Twinings tea, I went to the UK website.

sleepyredmoo · Posted: Jun 27, 2008 3:03 am Post subject: Re: Twinings Green Tea

somedia · Uh, Can I Add Sugar? Joined: 26 Jun 2008 Posts: 8

personally, i've really only tried Twinings green tea. and i thought it was okay. i like lipton's flavored green tea too. any one have any suggestions for good shelf bought green tea?

sleepyredmoo · Posted: Jun 27, 2008 3:09 am Post subject:

somedia · Uh, Can I Add Sugar? Joined: 26 Jun 2008 Posts: 8

i guess i've just never been exposed to real japanese green tea. do i need to buy a plane ticket to japan to get said green tea or is it available anywhere online?

okimasa · Posted: Jun 27, 2008 3:12 am Post subject:

sleepyredmoo · Posted: Jun 27, 2008 3:12 am Post subject:

you can buy it from this site! here's a link to the part of the site where it's sold http://www.o-cha.com/home.php

okimasa · Posted: Jun 27, 2008 3:14 am Post subject:

somedia · Uh, Can I Add Sugar? Joined: 26 Jun 2008 Posts: 8

sorry, i can't help but comment on the spammed link LOL.

are there specific brands I should be looking for at asian markets?

okimasa · Posted: Jun 27, 2008 3:21 am Post subject:

somedia · Uh, Can I Add Sugar? Joined: 26 Jun 2008 Posts: 8

Chip · Posted: Jun 27, 2008 4:03 am Post subject:

somedia · Uh, Can I Add Sugar? Joined: 26 Jun 2008 Posts: 8

Established members are permitted to post non self promoting links to competitors' sites.

yes I've read that 5 posts and 1 month makes you "established". that's fine. Yes, I did violate a few rules before, I apologize for that, you won't find me doing that anymore.

But even your avatar reeks of self promoting spam.

not violating any rules there. i personally like Twinings green tea despite how you all may feel about it. I also like other store-bought commercial tea brands probably due to my lack of exposure to "real" tea

Using a site paid for by a competitor even in the loosest sense for promoting a product you clearly have a stake in is lacking ethics...or class. It will not be permitted either.

first of all I don't need a lesson in ethics. i happen to be a tea lover myself, and I feel the Twinings blog has alot of good information and I'm simply sharing this with this tea community.

This is a forum for discussing all aspects of tea. This is clearly not the site for posting Twinings corporate propaganda...it won't fly here. Hidden agendas will be seen for what they are.

in case you haven't noticed, i'm not promoting any of Twinings' products in any of my posts, and i hardly consider it propaganda. I'm not saying go try Twinings green tea, go buy it. I'm posting informative and educational posts related to the focus of this site.

And before you say it...I have no affiliation with O-Cha. I am a Moderator of the forum.[/quote]

Oni · 2nd Degree Black Belt Joined: 15 Mar 2008 Posts: 213

I think these commercial tea brands are good, beacause they draw the attention of the crowds, and keeps them from experiencing great tea, so more of the good stuff remains for us, if more people would search for good quality tea the demand would spoil the quality because of the mass production, imagine if the demand for gyokuro would go up sky-high, even in Laos they would produce fake, knock off gyokuro, and the real thing would become too expencieve, so everybody please entjoy the poor quality tea your local supermarket sells you, and leave the good stuff to the cunosier.

Chip · Posted: Jun 27, 2008 5:15 am Post subject: