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·
    16 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·
      16 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·
        16 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·
          16 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.