Gunpowder Tea

angevine · 12-21-2007, 07:11 AM

My great grandfather used to swear by drinking gunpowder tea - two
teaspoons every day.
He was convinced it was a great source of vitality and the key to a long life.
He lived to the ripe old age of 98;
leaving twelve children,
21 grand-children,
seventeen great-grandchildren,

and a fifty metre crater where the crematorium used to be. Boom Boom!

**cgutzmer** · 12-21-2007, 05:03 PM

Where can I get some

Chris

silentbrain · 12-28-2007, 03:51 PM

Holy crap, hahaha!
Well, it was originally developed for that purpose, apparently...
Although it's final use is the exact opposite...

cmdrted · 12-28-2007, 04:20 PM

Hey we use nitrates in the ER to save hearts, there must be something to it, and no, no one has been detonated by using the shock paddles on someone during resuscitation!

Lepercan · 01-17-2008, 10:33 PM

Gunpowder tea really is a type of tea. And while on a trip a year or so ago, I found some gunpowder tea in a shop in Ft Worth and, at the same place, found some of the dried Habanero powder I like to use in my chili.
When I got home, I marked two plastic jars with the appropriate names and emptied my purchases into them. As I poured the second one I noticed I had inadvertently switched the containers. "What the heck, I'm the only one who uses either and I'll remember."
Imagine my daughter's surprise when she decided to try dad's new tea...

Lep

Al hazlet · 01-19-2008, 02:07 AM

Gunpowder Tea is called that because the leaves are rolled into balls and dried and they look like corned powder (they look like gunpowder grains as used in cannon). It's good tea, certainly one of my favorites, but not so much the explosive...

12-21-2007, 07:11 AM	#1 (permalink)
angevine Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Dorset, UK Posts: 225	Gunpowder Tea My great grandfather used to swear by drinking gunpowder tea - two teaspoons every day. He was convinced it was a great source of vitality and the key to a long life. He lived to the ripe old age of 98; leaving twelve children, 21 grand-children, seventeen great-grandchildren, and a fifty metre crater where the crematorium used to be. Boom Boom! __________________ Angevine **************************************** It may be small, but it gets the job done!

12-21-2007, 05:03 PM	#2 (permalink)
cgutzmer Reserves Librarian Card Models Administrator Join Date: May 2006 Location: Sun Prairie WI Posts: 4,635	Where can I get some Chris __________________ Looking for models - try the Zealot WIKI! Click here -> http://wiki.zealot.com/index.php/Free_Models

01-17-2008, 10:33 PM	#5 (permalink)
Lepercan Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Eastern Oklahoma Posts: 107	Gunpowder tea Gunpowder tea really is a type of tea. And while on a trip a year or so ago, I found some gunpowder tea in a shop in Ft Worth and, at the same place, found some of the dried Habanero powder I like to use in my chili. When I got home, I marked two plastic jars with the appropriate names and emptied my purchases into them. As I poured the second one I noticed I had inadvertently switched the containers. "What the heck, I'm the only one who uses either and I'll remember." Imagine my daughter's surprise when she decided to try dad's new tea... Lep __________________ TANSTAAFL! ( There ain't no such thing as a free lunch! ) Lazarus Long AKA Robert A.Heinlein

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12-28-2007, 03:51 PM	#3 (permalink)
silentbrain Junior Member Join Date: Oct 2007 Posts: 13	Holy crap, hahaha! Well, it was originally developed for that purpose, apparently... Although it's final use is the exact opposite...

12-28-2007, 04:20 PM	#4 (permalink)
cmdrted Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Avondale,Pa. USA Posts: 1,993	Hey we use nitrates in the ER to save hearts, there must be something to it, and no, no one has been detonated by using the shock paddles on someone during resuscitation!

01-19-2008, 02:07 AM	#6 (permalink)
Al hazlet Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Honolulu, Hawaii Posts: 147	Gunpowder Tea is called that because the leaves are rolled into balls and dried and they look like corned powder (they look like gunpowder grains as used in cannon). It's good tea, certainly one of my favorites, but not so much the explosive...