I hope they're telling porkies, but I wouldn't put it past them to make them here, fly them off to Madras for drying, then fly them back for packaging and sale.
They're possibly produced in Madras, and then shipped over here in bulk for the final packaging. I really can't imagine them getting from here to Madras without them drying before they ever get to see any sun.
One of my flist is a former pupil of Madras College in St Andrews; maybe the Scottish secondary education sector is so strapped for cash with the impending cuts that they're renting out their playing fields to Tesco's for poppadum-drying purposes?
If you can get hold of them, I can recommend Lijjat brand papads (http://www.lijjat.com/index1.asp). Much better than your Tesco muck, not least because you'd be benefiting a women's cooperative rather than lining the pockets of infamous gerrymanderer Shirley Porter.
Since Madras is now Chennai, it's possible they're actually talking about "madras" and not "Madras"; so maybe it's been sun dried while wrapped in a plaid cotton cloth.
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Date: 2011-02-27 04:43 pm (UTC)But, as for (UK(Madras)), boggle.
Nice to see they're gluten-free though
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Date: 2011-02-27 08:01 pm (UTC)(Scottish tea is just tea blended to be suitable for soft Scottish water.)
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