the thought "coffee is tea" entered my head unbidden and i had to make the whole alignment chart in order to banish it
@chr Sadly, for bathwater to qualify we would need to extend the chart
@chr finally the “hot bean juice” vs “hot leaf juice” debate has been settled! 🤣
@chr I would brew coffee and tea in cold or hot water. Never in boiling water.
@chr Since it's made from corn syrup, by the bottom-right definition, Mountain Dew is also tea
@matt @chr well hey, at least it’s not a sandwich
@chr meanwhile I'm off the chart in an extension having a mug of chicken broth for tea
@chr GOD NO
TEA TREA OIL IN YOUR MOUTH, *gags* NO. NEVER. I DON'T WANT TO SUFFER TAURIFIC FATE
@chr please do not drink tea tree oil ;-;

@alexandria @chr

Came here to say this.

"Avoid swallowing tea tree oil. Drinking even small amounts can be toxic and lead to breathing and movement problems."

https://www.mayoclinic.org/drugs-supplements-tea-tree-oil/art-20364246

Tea tree oil

Explore how tea tree oil is used for its antibacterial and antifungal properties.

Mayo Clinic
@stuartyeates @alexandria @chr tea tree oil is also from a completely separate Australian tree, Melaleuca alternifolia! I think it got named tea tree because it stains the water its leaves fall into brown, like tea. I'm not sure what else could replace it in the table unfortunately...
(edit to apologise for fact checking a 5 year old post! 😂)

@caitelatte @alexandria @chr

Well oak bark has been used in tanning to make reddish / brownish stuff for ~3000 years, so there's someplace to start?

@chr i would count herbal tea, green/black/white tea, and matcha as tea personally. i'm not sure what infused water is exactly
-F
@chr this chart shouldn't have "tea tree oil is tea" in the column "must be made from Camilla sinensis" because tea tree oil is not made from Camilla sinensis it is made from Melaleuca alternifolia. Completely unrelated.
@chr I'm straight in the middle of this chart
@chr QC here, can confirm maybe syrup is a perfectly suitable drink :) (joke)
@8bitdemongirl What do you think of whisky with maple, like Sortilège? As a Westerner I like it on rocks or ice cream but whisky purists are prob horrified.
@Canuckduff Honestly, I have little idea, since I don't drink alcoholic stuff; I'd assume it's sweeter than normal but I don't know how whisky normally tastes
@chr Now is tea soup?
@countablenewt @chr Not unless you drink it leaves and all. But it may be broth.

@chr ok hear me out, if we're going with the logic of the bottom right corner:

*Is gasoline tea?*

It's made from plant matter, and it is to some definition "drinkable". If not then moonshine is still definitely tea so there's very likely an overlap in the two categories of "can run your car" and "technically tea"

@Plan_A_to_Y @chr Yep. Oil is tea (according to the bottom right).

@chr

Posts that would kill a british person immediately. In fact I'm writing this reply from the afterlife

@chr coffee is emo cherry juice
@TheMNWolf can I boost this toot? .-.

@passocacornio lol absolutely.

For those that don't get the joke, coffee beans come from cherries.

@TheMNWolf @passocacornio and you can dry the fruity bits of the cherry and make tea out of them. Tastes (unsurprisingly) like the faintly fruity aromas of good bean coffee, and still contains caffeine:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coffee_cherry_tea
Coffee cherry tea - Wikipedia

@chr I do love how many people piped in with "uhhh please do not drink tea tree oil, also it is NOT made from camellia sinensis"

but also, yeah.

@aud @chr

I was about to do the latter then I realized the original post is dated 2021 and I'm like "....that would be very late, and I'm sure it's already there".

@Snapai oh no I saw this too late 😂
@chr Coffee leaf tea or kuti is an actual thing and actually predates using the beans. This is a very funny chart, btw.
@chr @janeadams wait, Tea Tree oil comes from camellia sinensis??

@artcollisions @chr @janeadams

er, no
(also, please don't drink it!)

@artcollisions @chr @janeadams No, the Australian tea tree is Melaleuca Alternifolia, so not related at all.
@chr ... would not want to drink tea tree oil, but I guess it's not an impossibility!
@asakiyume @chr It is... unpleasant.
#GranolaChildhood
@Canuckduff @chr 😨 My somewhat granola parenting involved using it externally but I can't imagine making someone drink it 😬
@asakiyume @chr IIRC it was to boost immune system or anti-candida? Thought it was a few drops in glass of water, taken like a shot, but may be confusing w oil of oregano.
@Canuckduff @chr Anti-candida sounds plausible. It was supposed to have great fight-stuff potential. Antibacterial, etc.

@chr Thank you! This is something that comes up occasionally in my circle. (Or maybe it might be just me.)

Now I have a chart to show!

@chr "mixing into water" + "any part of a plant" -> a clogged gutter is tea.
@chr I keep telling people that they have to call coffee tea if they insist on calling traditional maté tea.
i mostly get confused stares 🤷

@chr In the Dragonlance novels, coffee is called tarbean tea, which I always thought was tea from a place called Tarbea until someone pointed out it was tar-bean tea.

I would add a line to the chart for can be brewed in cold water to allow cold brew coffee to be a tea but not hot cocoa.

@chr No, coffee is bean sauce, something like soy sauce. Coffee with milk is soy milk.
@chr
Bottom left is hurting my brain
Tea tree oil is from a very different plant
Melaleuca alternifolia rather than Camelia Sinensis
If it was rewritten to say "the tea plant" or similar then it would work because anything colloquially named a tea tree/shrub/etc would qualify