Switching from clay to plastic at the scale of Indian tea-drinking was such an all-round disaster: environment, design/experience, flavor...
I still have these in memoriam. twitter.com/jmanooch/statu
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This is a pernicious idea, that clay pots are “sustainable”. Clay pots/kulhars are basically unglazed ceramic/glass and making them irreversibly destroys topsoil. It may look more aesthetic/natural than plastic but is an equally awful pollutant. At modern scales it would be worse
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They are fired. That much I know for sure. I’ve visited kilns where they’re made. I was only casually following the story when it was big news ~2004. You can follow up if interested. At the time, the environmentalist argument convinced me. outlookindia.com/magazine/story
It’s hard to like anything that Laloo has ever endorsed.
I hereby nominate auto-Laloo-nihilipilfication to the official list of cognitive biases 😂
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So long as we get away from pure impressionistic aesthetic harmony arguments I’m happy to accept evolving conclusions. Aesthetic reactions are just starting points of analysis for me not termini

