Sunday 23 October 2011

The Taste of Dried-up Leaves Boiled in Water

Not Tea.
One day soon, we may be able to hit a 'Drink' button. Allowing a highly detailed examination of our taste buds to occur, a spectroscopic analysis of our metabolism and then receive experimental signals down our neural pathways to the taste centres of our brain. With this, we can look forward to being presented with a cupful of liquid that is almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea.

One girl sitting in a cafe suddenly realised what had been going wrong with The Nutri-Matic drinks dispenser and she finally knew how to make it work properly. Sadly, before she could get to a phone a great catastrophe occurred. The idea was lost forever.
The Future.

However, this is not a story of a machine. But a story of an experience and extraordinary discovery. It is also about a beverage, an aromatic beverage known to us as tea. Not a new invention, though an agricultural product. Nevertheless, a remarkable beverage. In fact it is the worlds most consumed beverage second only to water.

Though this is quite a remarkable story of extraordinary discovery and how it intertwined with a beverage, it begins very simply. It begins with a cup.