You're arguing with a meme that put clogged gutter as pure tea ingredient

You hit the issue, theyre confusing tea, a specific plant, with an infusion. Herbal tea is more correctly called an herbal infusion. Tea is a type of herbal infusion.

I'm steeping in sweat and I drank a lot of camellia sinensis, am I tea?

I came to say the same thing about Camellia sinensis, thinking "am I about to be more of a tea purist than is even encapsulated in this chart?" So I'm glad somebody else got there first lol

ISO 3103. RTFM!

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3103

I've been to a workshop about green tea recently and you can prepare it with any water temperature. You can make it with cold water, it just takes longer. You can even place ice cubes into the can, put tea leaves on top and let them melt

100% agreed.

Though I'm firmly in the "coffee is tea" camp

It depends. It's perfectly acceptable to boil the tea for many Indian preparations (usually called cha or chai).

If it's not made of tea, it's not tea. It's an infusion.

It's extra annoying to me because in my first language there's separate words for "tea-tea" and "some boiled herbs-tea" that are commonly used, but thanks to lazy translation people are beginning to call everything "tea".

If it doesn't come from the Camellia sinensis region of France it's not real tea, just sparkling leaf water

Thank you! Tisanes are not tea. I will die on this hill.

That is why I'm an ingredient purist. And I should add that Chamomile is an herbal infusion. No quote needeed. Don't offer me tee if your want to serve me some chamomile. Don't offer me tee either if you want to serve me hot water and present me an assortiment of plant a small bag. Tell me your going to serve hot water and I will chose what I drink.

And to keep the rant going in french "herbal tea" does not even have the "tee" word in it. So it is even more frustrating when someone offer you tee and you end up with some random "tisane" *rolling his eyes*

Anyone who would say no to a nice hot cup of Saturn is deranged.

I think I've seen mac and cheese cups that ask for hot water.

milk is tea

Yeah this. Biggest mistake most people that hate tea make is they dont bother learning that tea has specific temps for brewing depending on the leaves and that pouring boiling water off the stove on it will make most teas bitter.

Many teas are best at 85-90C, just off the boil.

Pho is just animal oil/juice suspended. Everything else is like milk, honey, lemon, sugar, etc. that people do consume in tea.

In that instance a clogged gutter is still tea