Tea Madness: The Cult of the Tea Pot

Now, I have met a lot of tea enthusiasts, tea fanatics and tea freaks in my day. People everywhere, myself included, indeed mad about tea. The religious like devotion to the Camellia Sinensis is no surprise to anyone reading this blog. But what about a revering a Tea Pot?

and not just any Tea Pot - a 2-story cream colored teapot from which the devoted followers come to drink its "holy water".

A religious sect in Malaysia, Ayah Pin, uses the tea pot as as a symbol of the "Healing Purity of Water" and "Love Pouring From Heaven". While the sect claims to promote harmony among the religions of the world, it has the victim of attacks from fervent Muslims which feel the sect is luring believers away from Islam.

Hmmmm....I wonder if I could be a High Prophetess of the Tea Pot?

I had best not let my teapots read this entry, lest they let the sacred ideology go to their heads...not that I don't already revere the sweet and holy waters of tea...not that I am not a devout imbiber seeking to quench my thrist and start my day off with a sacred ritual all my own...

But I wouldn't go to jail for it....

Spotlight: Mel-iciously Sweet!

I have never reviewed my own tea blends, because, let's face it...how arrogant would that be to review my own creation and moreover to then pass it off as somehow unbiased?

So, it is with a unique blend of excitement and gratitude that I bring you this month's SPOTLIGHT which reviews my newest custom-made PersonaliTEA blend: Meliciously Sweet as written by an extremely mad sipper of tea of Tea Escapade!

This blend was custom made for Melissa in Lincoln, UK, using the PersonaliTEA method. This same tea was featured on the Siren FM morning radio show, Take On....

SPOTLIGHT: Meliciously Sweet!

"Oh the joy of a tea swap! Just this week, I participated in the “What’s in Your Pot Swap?” tea swap hosted by Madam Potts. I was the lucky swapper to exchange with Madam Potts herself. My donation was the Yellow and Blue herbal tea by Harney and Sons; however, Madam Potts sent me her very own, hand blended Meliciously Sweet...."

KEEP READING this REVIEW.....

Don't Nuke the Tea!

Because I just had to share this story....

Now these people are some SERIOUS Tea Drinkers!

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British planners feared tea shortage after nuclear attack
LONDON (AFP) — Never mind the radiation: British contingency planners worried there would be a dramatic shortage of tea in the aftermath of a nuclear attack, recently declassified documents showed Monday.

The shortfall of the staple British beverage would be "very serious" if the country were to come under attack with atomic and hydrogen bombs, said according to a memo drafted between 1954 and 1956.

"The tea position would be very serious with a loss of 75 percent of stocks and substantial delays in imports and with no system of rationing it would be wrong to consider that even one ounce (28 grams) per head per week could be ensured," it said.

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