I’m on a weekend vacation and forgot to bring my tea and the international grocery didn’t have it, so I settled for Darjeeling. I can barely notice the difference. It’s so subtle that it might as well just be a different tea brand.

  • randombullet@programming.dev
    3·
    10 days ago

    Darjeeling is just a region where tea is made right?

    It’s like my Keurig tastes the same as my hand ground coffee from Columbia?

    • Noel_Skum@sh.itjust.works
      6·
      10 days ago

      Champagne is just a region where sparkling white wine is made grown right?

      Some regions just have the right mix of climate, soil, sun, temperature, precipitation etc that gives the product its cachet.

      • zout@fedia.io
        4·
        10 days ago

        You’ve just proved the point, there are plenty of good regions for sparkling white wine which are not named Champagne.

        • Noel_Skum@sh.itjust.works
          2·
          9 days ago

          Oh, for sure. I’d pick an unknown Cava over an unknown Champagne any day of the week. The thing is that humans have this inbuilt competitive thing - coffee, tea, wines, tobacco, potatoes, ganja, cheese, etc etc all have the same mythos around them. The experts want to class one particular product “best in class”. To the casual enjoyer it can often all taste/look pretty much the same. Also “industry best” does not have to equate with personal favourite. They can be two different things.