BS: Help! `Catter needs a 'fix'

Subject: RE: BS: Help! `Catter needs a 'fix'
From: Mudlark
Date: 24 Sep 03 - 01:28 AM

BBCAmerica has a website with a whole virtual store full of English goodies...

Subject: RE: BS: Help! `Catter needs a 'fix'
From: Bassic
Date: 23 Sep 03 - 12:43 PM

Thanks for the advice! If ever I get to visit I will know where to go as well, I_I>, now about getting a teapot.................

Subject: RE: BS: Help! `Catter needs a 'fix'
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 23 Sep 03 - 11:52 AM

Tea shouldn't be treated reverently as if it was some kind of ornate ritual. It's significant that, as I've heard it, when the Japanese Tea Ceremony is completed, they throw away the stuff they've made, because it's not drinkable. That's where ritual gets you in such things. Tea is for drinking, preferably by the pint.

Incidentally, having a string on a teabag isn't for show, it's to help you fish the thing out without getting your fingers wet. But loose tea does make better tea, and if you have to use a bag it's still better to use a pot then just the cup, and it's a lot less messy.

Subject: RE: BS: Help! `Catter needs a 'fix'
From: GUEST,ClaireBear
Date: 23 Sep 03 - 11:52 AM

If Taylor's Yorkshire Gold would fill the void, try Beverages & More (they're good on cheese, as well):

Beverages & more! San Diego - Carmel Mtn.
11475 Carmel Mountain Rd.
San Diego, CA 92128
e-mail: [e-mail]
Phone: [phone]

Subject: RE: BS: Help! `Catter needs a 'fix'
From: Amos
Date: 23 Sep 03 - 11:50 AM

I've also sent her over to Trader Joe's which is closer to the campus.


A

Subject: RE: BS: Help! `Catter needs a 'fix'
From: GUEST,heric
Date: 23 Sep 03 - 11:33 AM

She needs to go to Extraordinary Deserts on Fifth Avenue in Hillcrest and try Cost Plus in La Jolla, and I think we'll be able to see her through this.

Subject: RE: BS: Help! `Catter needs a 'fix'
From: katlaughing
Date: 23 Sep 03 - 10:58 AM

These shops might help her to feel more at home: Tea Parlours, some of which are in San Diego and specialise in English teas, etc.

Subject: RE: BS: Help! `Catter needs a 'fix'
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 23 Sep 03 - 10:58 AM

Do a search in Mudcat on tea. We've had this discussion before. I've recommended Market Spice Tea out of Seattle. I bought a bunch of good loose tea very inexpensively when I was in New York City this summer. Pearl River Mart. Here is their tea page. Very reasonably priced, very good quality. I plan to shop there online myself when I run out of this if I can't think of an excuse to go to NYC before then.

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: Help! `Catter needs a 'fix'
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 23 Sep 03 - 10:44 AM

Here's the Tea Council's site. All kinds of fascinating stuff in there.

Subject: RE: BS: Help! `Catter needs a 'fix'
From: katlaughing
Date: 23 Sep 03 - 10:33 AM

I am emailing my niece in just a moment. She's is getting married this Saturday next and working on a research paper at the moment, so it might take a day or two to get a reply. I didn't know Edain was in San Diego! She should get together with my niece, etc. sometime!

Anyway...with any luck, I'll have some info, soon.:-)

kat

Subject: RE: BS: Help! `Catter needs a 'fix'
From: okthen
Date: 23 Sep 03 - 05:41 AM

I checked the goodwoods site and found box of 240 pg tips to cost £15 without postage, can't you post some from this country (UK) to USA?
Strewth, given the cost and the usual student habits, she'll have to use each teabag at least 3 times to make it economicaly viable!

Subject: RE: BS: Help! `Catter needs a 'fix'
From: Noreen
Date: 23 Sep 03 - 05:29 AM

Edain is in San Diego (UCSD) studying for the next year, so kat's niece's nearly-mother-in-law(!) could be of great help!

Looks like there will be tea to be had when she's found her way around. I'm just surprised she didn't take a year's supply with her- tea bags are the first thing I'm packing for my Getaway trip!

Subject: RE: BS: Help! `Catter needs a 'fix'
From: katlaughing
Date: 22 Sep 03 - 10:36 PM

Dave, I think in the L.A. area?

Bassic, Goodwoods does mail-order all over the country and all they sell are British goods, teac, food, etc.

My niece's soon-to-be-mother-in-law in San Diego is from the UK. If all else fails, I can ask my niece to find out where she gets her tea.

Has she checked with any health/natural foods markets? Should be loads of them and there's bound to be some import shops as well which should have it. (We really didn't chuck it all over the side way back when in Boston, ya know?**BG**)

Good luck!

kat

Subject: RE: BS: Help! `Catter needs a 'fix'
From: kendall
Date: 22 Sep 03 - 10:13 PM

My tea comes from China or Celon or India. I didn't know you grew tea in England

Subject: RE: BS: Help! `Catter needs a 'fix'
From: Dave Swan
Date: 22 Sep 03 - 10:10 PM

uhh, make that PG Tips.

Subject: RE: BS: Help! `Catter needs a 'fix'
From: Dave Swan
Date: 22 Sep 03 - 10:10 PM

Both PF Tips and Typhoo are easily obtainable in the San Francisco Bay area. Where is Edain?
D

Subject: RE: BS: Help! `Catter needs a 'fix'
From: open mike
Date: 22 Sep 03 - 09:51 PM

one more link--this one is for all the U.S. but has part of the list for CA Health Food Store List

Subject: RE: BS: Help! `Catter needs a 'fix'
From: open mike
Date: 22 Sep 03 - 09:43 PM

i htink these folks are in pennsylvania..but do mail order
iam not in southern calif. but these folks are:
http://www.elixir.net
they do not know how to spell county, but perhaps they
know about tea...there is a british/english product
link on this page too.
perhaps they have vegemite! (or is it marmite?)
http://los-angeles-countey.com/Tea/Tea.htm

Subject: RE: BS: Help! `Catter needs a 'fix'
From: open mike
Date: 22 Sep 03 - 09:29 PM

many chinese tea in californai...
i do not no about l.a. but i bet
there is some china town type part of the city.
in fact is \n't there a sidewalk with foot prints in it
near chinese restaurnt?
health food stores have a good
selectioni of teas too. bulk, herbal, etc.

Subject: BS: Help! `Catter needs a 'fix'
From: GUEST,Bassic
Date: 22 Sep 03 - 09:03 PM

Edain is in America, west coast, studying for the next year. SHE NEED TEA! Propper tea, English tea, like you get in the supermarket in England, not fancy Twynings or Liptons with bits of string hanging off, but REAL tea, like PG TIPS or TYPHOO. Is there anywhere in California that sells it? Is anyone going there that could take her some? (Shelbacks? hint hint!!) The only thing I can suggest is trying TESCO "on line" and ask when the next delivery van is going to California. ( I think they go there on Tuesdays:-)
Either that or find an English family that live there and see if you can "borrow" a couple of tea bags, (I am sure there is a family called Osbourne who live in California somewhere).