Had an interesting conversation about tea yesterday. I shop for bulk tea, good spices, fresh pita and other Middle Eastern breads at a Halal market near work. After a lunch at their next door restaurant (no menu, just a buffet, and the ladies behind the counter will tell you what each dish is) I did some shopping, and compared the tea classifications I was finding on the containers (something you WON'T, to my knowledge, EVER find on a box of Lipton). A young Arab man entered the aisle and we struck up a conversation. At one point, one of us picked up a bagged package of loose tea and pointed at the label to illustrate what we knew about that particular grade of tea. We passed it back and forth between use several times, each time the bag was flipped so whoever held the bag could read the language on top, English or Arabic. In the end he chose the Arabic version of Lipton (he needed tea bags this time, apparently).