Oolong tea leaves are picked and left to ferment until the leaves are 30% red and 70% green and then rubbed together and dried and magically turned into tea for you and me. This is why Oolong tea is so rare, it takes a professional oolong tea person to know when it is at just the right point between red and green teas to call it oolong. Be sure to note the red is referring to the color of the leaf and not red tea (rooibus). Rooibus typically originates from South Africa while oolong originates from Eastern Asia. As I now notice, my bottle of tea claims to contain "organic black tea." So basically oolong tea is underdeveloped black tea without the baby status of green tea. Its the awkward teenager of the tea family.
So just for fun heres some fascinating double O words:
ooze: to flow, percolate, or exude slowly, as through holes or small openings
oothecae: a capsule containing eggs, as that of certain gastropods and insects (cool word not definition)
OOTB: "Out Of The Box"
oory: 1) shabby, dingy 2) melancholy, languid
oophorosalpingectomy: surgical removal of one or both ovaries and the cooresponding Fallopian tubes.
Oonagh: (pronounced oo-nah) a girls name
oolemma: (the definition is some boring biology term no normal person needs to know but isn't this fun to say?)
oof: the sound one makes when struck in the abdomen (thank you dictionary.com for pointing out the obvious)
and of course
oodles: a large quantity, dozens, gobs, many (it also clarifies that the origin is unknown)
