Departing from Narita, Japan, Japanese flight attendants creatively trying to put Japanese into English fail to surprise me. The first time a Western flight attendant asked me if I wanted green or black tea did surprise me though. Never having heard another native English speaker refer to black tea, or not remembering, I wondered if that was common English usage where she came from. The flight attendant explained that black tea differentiated black tea from green tea, but the term was new to her too.
Googling, I found millions of references to black tea. Wasp tea references merely numbered in the hundreds. Never having drunk wasp tea, I wondered what it would taste like. Once in Morocco, sitting outdoors on a plaza in Fez, or
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