babelcarp, 30 days ago

@alex If divers recovered the leaves submerged during the Boston Tea Party, that would be harbor tea, right?💡

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lite, 30 days ago

@babelcarp @alex @tea did somebody mention Boston Harbor tea?

Back of tea canister reads: Colonial Bohea Brewing Tips: 195F for 5 minutes Bohea (pronounced “Boo-Hee”) is a distinctive black tea blend with a light smoky flavor. It was so popular in colonial times that bohea became the common word for tea. It was imported in larger quantities than all other teas combine, and it was the majority of tea destroyed during tea tax protests in revolutionary America. Packaged for Colonial Williamsburg Foundation Williamsburg, Virginia 23185 www.williamsburgmarketplace.com

babelcarp, 29 days ago

@lite Lightly smoked? I was thinking more of heavily salted.

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zdl, 30 days ago

@alex @tea 港口 just means "port", so it's "port tea".

I'm going to guess it's shorthand for a specific port that is famous for tea shipment. Kind of like how 普洱, a trading town, became the name for a "class" of tea, pu'er, (when it's really a bewildering variety of classes of tea) or how المُخا was a major trading port in Yemen where coffee was famously traded gave us the term "Mocha" as shorthand for coffee.

tfb, 30 days ago

@alex I guess the German marketers thought that sounded nicer than Haffentee

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