Coffee is tea

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Ughubughughughughughghlug

Ughubughughughughughghlug

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Tea is a plant, but tea is also a beverage that refers to any hot water that has had plant matter soaked in it. That can be actual tea leaves, but it just as often refers to leaves, flowers, roots, fruit, etc.

Coffee is bean that's been ground up and soaked in hot water, but you don't DRINK the bean, it's removed, you either filter it out or if it's a coffee maker you ran the water through it on its way down.

This means that if "herbal tea" is tea then coffee is also just another type of tea if there is any consistency at all.
 
If its Turkish coffee, you drink the bean. There are several coffee preperation methods where you drink the beans as it is part of the coffee.

The same is true of several preperations of tea. Japanese ceremonial green tea is actual tea leaves extremely finely ground with water added to them. So, you do indeed drink the tea leaf.
 
Ughubughughughughughghlug said:

First two guesses at the top of my head and both exist.
If you can think of it, a chink will eat/drink it.
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Interesting. I think the distinction between "coffee" and "tea" is simply culinary, in a similar way to there being a difference between "culinary" fruits and vegetables or botanical fruits and vegetables. A more technical distinction would be that usually teas are decoctions, whereas coffee beans are usually brewed as an infusion.

A similar distinction would be that in most parts of the world, bats are considered wildlife, but in China, they are considered an excuse to start a global sars outbreak.
 
Ughubughughughughughghlug said:
Tea is a plant, but tea is also a beverage that refers to any hot water that has had plant matter soaked in it. That can be actual tea leaves, but it just as often refers to leaves, flowers, roots, fruit, etc.
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The term you're looking for is "tisane." A tea brewed without using actual camellia sinensis leaves is a tisane.

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Aunt Carol said:
The term you're looking for is "tisane." A tea brewed without using actual camellia sinensis leaves is a tisane.

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I love chances to plant and flower sperg! Because plant nerds, like me, can't just leave things simple. True tea can be classified now according by Camellia species. C. sinenses is the most common species on the market. Mostly found at higher altitudes. C. assamica, is best known in breakfast teas, found in lower altitudes and warmer climates, such as India. Much rarer is C. taliensis, found in isolated, wild patches at lower altitudes, being primarily tended by minority forest tribes in Southwest China. I've read differing reports about the caffeine content of C. japonica, the common garden Camellia, but have not found evidence of it being used to make tea.
Sperging aside, confusion could be made about flavored teas which do contain tisane elements. Still tea, but isn't pure tea. Not recommended, as I'm a tea purist. Scented tea, such as jasmine tea, is pure tea, only being scented with flowers and rarely containing plant material other than Camellia leaf.
 
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