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Feb 6Liked by Max Falkowitz

Remember a couple of weeks ago you said you appreciate a certain roughness in a tea vendor’s website? Well, at the bottom of the ABOUT US page in Denong’s English language site you can see “Liquid error (layout/theme line 125): Could not find asset snippets/ajaxify-car.liquid”

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Ha! Shopify's liquid code is a nightmare to work with so I wholly support this bug and what it says about Denong's priorities.

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Speaking of Denong, could it possibly be a coincidence that they have the same name as the giant tea storage warehouse in Yunnan but far far away from the puer mountains? https://babelcarp.org/babelcarp/babelcarp.cgi?phrase=denong&define=1

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Jan 16Liked by Max Falkowitz

Interesting thinking about the comparatively 'laid back' attitude towards labour practices in Yunnan tea production. And all worthwhile qualities for 'good' tea; would that I could afford to drink tea that feels good all the time 😄 As much as I envy the thought of buying a lifetime's worth of truly good tea for very little money in the early 2000s, I hope that the drastically rising costs are creating a better quality of life for farmers and producers

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This is how I feel about so many agricultural products—it's hard to get a "good deal" without someone being exploited in the process.

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