Monday, July 21, 2025

Why I stopped Drinking Tea

 

Why I stopped Drinking Tea

I used to drink over 20 cups when the blend was pretty good with excellent flavours. But all that changed when all the local blends got adulterated.

Let me bare the facts.

All the good tea is auctioned in the bourse and what was not purchased is sent back to the dealer.       The Local vendor guy mixes this with tea dust that was used as manure, in the good old days and wraps it with Kheels, ARPICO and other supermarkets brand names. The locals have no option but to drink this dirt tea daily. Just like all the high grown tea, the high quality rice is exported and rice with high content of arsenic, especially the brown rice is left for local consumption. I do not eat local rice for over twp decades due to high content of arsenic. I am trying to convince the rest not to eat rice albeit in a subtle manner. If one is eating rice one has to sock the rice the day before for the arsenic to filter through to the water. Arsenic is water soluble and this water should be discarded and the filtered rice should be cooked with fresh water.

Rice is a staple diet, the prevention of this addiction to rice is very difficult. Not eating rice is the best health advice that I dispense as a doctor of yore but only in private circles.

So, tea is out  and the rice is out.

Any other option left?

Thankfully Ceylonese coffee is still very good not like the dirty horrible Indian Nescafe.

I was a coffee addict and it took many years of sustained effort to wean myself off from addiction to coffee. I was a living example of caffeine syndrome which I read in a nursing journal.

I have found  a good Thai Brand of coffee which is pretty good.

I am back to original myself except no lack of sleep. Unlike my dog my liver can deal with any amount of alcohol and coffee. That was an ominous sign in twilight years.

So, I decided to cut on caffeine.

Starting with Coca-Cola it also contains caffeine

There is not a single brand of soft drink without caffeine in the local market. That is the very reason our youth are bad in sports including cricket.

The good old king coconut is not within the reach of the poor since our developers are clearing the remaining coconut plantations and there is no regeneration program in sight for coconuts.

I would wound up this piece with banana cakes.

Except in one place in Kandy all the banana cakes are horrible. I had a good hope that UNP would resurrect the economy. I was sadly a big mistake. They are not worth the paper money they print from borrowed money.

But Mesna Tea is the best in Kandy and they make a good Banana cake and Cheese cake to go with.

Everything, is horrible including food, life style and politics in Ceylon under NPP/JVP regime. 

It is becoming a Province in India.

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