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It's not tea, it's Mate. They sip it in the south of Brazil, too.

"Ne te courbe que pour aimer..." René Char
by Melanchthon on Thu Nov 20th, 2008 at 04:38:41 PM EST
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Mate has certain similarities with tea, especially, green tea. It's closer to tea than, for instance, Coke - in spite of the caffeine.

But we use multi-lensed POVs here. Are we talking cultural, chemical, physiological or semantical? To describe something as 'tea' is merely a limitation upon categorization. 8 -)

You can't be me, I'm taken

by Sven Triloqvist on Thu Nov 20th, 2008 at 05:37:31 PM EST
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