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Poll: Tea 2
13 November 2008 16:55
I accidentally left this question out of the last poll.
[Poll #1296828]
Last time I was in a grocery store supermarket I looked for Celestial Seasonings Bengal Spice tea. It's a good day starter for a cold day, and it has no caffeine. It does have some real zip to it. I did not find any Bengal Spice tea. I did find Madagascar Vanilla Red, which I didn't recall having before. It's okkay, but there's not really much of a vanilla note to it, so it seems lacking to me. It also lacks the zip of the Bengal Spice.
I have a couple other herbals teas handy. I find Stash's Wintermint tea to be nice, but it's not quite the thing to for the start of the day. Maybe later in the morning or in the afternoon. The same is true of Stash's Licorice Spice tea which is quite good, at least to those who like licorice.
The Stash teas have an advantage over the Celestial Seasonings stuff: the string. I suppose Celestial Seasonings gets a significant overall cost savings by not having a string attached to their tea bags, but it is a bit annoying to need to keep a pliers or forceps handy for extracting tea bags from the hot tea.
...doesn't mean they get another thing right.
A while back I ordered some licorice spice tea from Stash. Recently I found I needn't have done that. The stuff is available in a local store. This was discovered when I went to get more of some other tea. Some other tea with caffeine in it. Something with which to start the morning. While I like black tae as iced tea, I'm not so fond of black tea as hot tea. So I bought some green tea. Since I like the licorice spice so much, I figured I'd give Stash green a try.
I've had green tea before. In fact, the caffeinated tea I was using before was a green tea, though with mint as well. I should have looked for that again. It tastes better. This green tea taste like the runoff of bad mixed vegetables. Imagine the water that would run off from a mix of corn and cauliflower. Now think of a cupful. That's it. Monday I figured it might have been from over-steeping as I had been distracted and let it steep for quite some time. Tuesday I figured I'd go with the upper end of the recommended time: 3 minutes. No good. Still tasted like cauliflower & corn runoff. Today I dropped to 2 minutes. No good. Still harfy. And it's not a subtle note, either. I just tried to cover it up with the licorice spice tea. Licorice is not exactly known for lurking in the background of flavor. It did not help. The tea still tasted of cauliflower oozings. Deee-sgusting!
So now I have, er, had (just gave it all away, I think) 17 bags of harfy tea I don't want and need to find some other morning caffeine source - or maybe see if I can just give it up.
