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It is North America's only known native caffeinated plant and once threatened the British East India Company. So why has the world forgotten about it? (Yaupon tea)
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| 2/24/2021
Posted on 03/02/2021 4:59:08 AM PST by mylife
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Who knew we had our own tea? WTF gives with
The Boston Tea Party? And how did we end up with Sanka and Folgers crystals?
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posted on
03/02/2021 4:59:08 AM PST
by
mylife
A very interesting article, why didn’t Euell Gibbons tip us off years ago?
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posted on
03/02/2021 5:00:33 AM PST
by
mylife
(The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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posted on
03/02/2021 5:02:05 AM PST
by
mylife
(The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
To: mylife
I am going to take this home and plant it in Israel
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posted on
03/02/2021 5:05:57 AM PST
by
Jewbacca
(The residents of Iroquois territory may not determine whether Jews may live in Jerusalem)
To: mylife
I like harvesting wild foods if I Lived in the south I would harvest this.
To: mylife
I’ve got a large Mormon tea plant growing on the hill by my boulder field that I make tea out of. It has ephedrine in it. Good for colds.
By the mid-1800s, yaupon’s popularity in the US further declined as it became associated with poor, rural communities who could not afford to import traditional Chinese tea. The plant's intimate connection to Native American communities also diminished, as tribes were either wiped out or relocated to regions where yaupon didn’t grow. While yaupon ceremonies have persisted within some Native American tribes such as the Cherokee, and the beverage maintained popularity along isolated coastal areas in North Carolina, the tea became largely forgotten in the United States by the 1860s where it grew incognito for nearly 150 years.
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posted on
03/02/2021 5:07:19 AM PST
by
mylife
(The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
To: HighSierra5
ephedrine? are you high?? :)
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posted on
03/02/2021 5:08:55 AM PST
by
mylife
(The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
To: mylife
And...if kudzu contained THC...the South would rise again.
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posted on
03/02/2021 5:09:16 AM PST
by
moovova
(Yo GOP....we won't forget.)
To: Jewbacca
It may work, but isn’t that cultural misappropriation?
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posted on
03/02/2021 5:10:15 AM PST
by
mylife
(The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
To: mylife
I like harvesting wild foods if I Lived in the south I would harvest this.
To: Jewbacca
I’d check with the Ministry of Agriculture first...................
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posted on
03/02/2021 5:11:14 AM PST
by
Red Badger
(SLEAZIN' is the REASON for the TREASON .................................)
To: HighSierra5
A very common plant out here in West TX.
To: mylife
Well the flour tortilla was invented for Passover.
This is payment.
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posted on
03/02/2021 5:13:51 AM PST
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Jewbacca
(The residents of Iroquois territory may not determine whether Jews may live in Jerusalem)
To: riverrunner
I had all these miserable Hollys around my home in Tx that I finally had pulled out.
This would have been better.
Next I’ll find our there is a Red Tip Photina that you can eat or smoke.
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posted on
03/02/2021 5:14:09 AM PST
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mylife
(The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
To: moovova
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posted on
03/02/2021 5:15:36 AM PST
by
mylife
(The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
To: mylife
It hasn't been forgotten.
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posted on
03/02/2021 5:16:42 AM PST
by
Theoria
(I should never have surrendered. I should have fought until I was the last man alive)
To: mylife
h/t "Office Space"...
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posted on
03/02/2021 5:17:24 AM PST
by
newfreep
(“Leftism, under all of its brand names, is a severe, violent & evil mental disorder.”)
To: Jewbacca
That’s a Matzo you schmuck!! ;)
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posted on
03/02/2021 5:17:24 AM PST
by
mylife
(The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
To: Theoria
The history here is fascinating, we fight with the Brits over tea from across the seas, have a revolution, start trade with Africa and the ME to buy coffee...
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posted on
03/02/2021 5:21:17 AM PST
by
mylife
(The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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