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Today's tea is courtesy of a gift basket (long story, not relevant). It is identified only as "Organic" (From "Davidson's Organics") but does not indicate the type of tea. The single-bag packaging has an image of some generic leaves on it. The company's website has a large variety of teas available, so we need more clues.

The tea bag smells minty, but a search on "mint" narrowed to "tea bags" only shows me the box packaging for 15 different teas with that keyword, and does not show what the individual teabag packaging looks like. So we are no closer to a clue.

Brewed at 212F for ... hmm, well, as long as it took me to write this up.

The aroma in the cup is pretty much what you get from a plain spearmint tea. It's a very pale gold, so if there's an admixture of tea proper, it's fairly small. Taste is pretty much like I'd expect from plain spearmint tea.

I'm not all that fond of plain mint tea. Though I have memories of having tea parties as a child with mint tea because my mother didn't think regular caffeinated tea was good for children.

I have several child's tea sets that I think date to my grandmother's childhood rather than my mother's (though it may be some were new to my mother and some older). One is so tiny it isn't good for anything but display. One is made from some sort of metal and only involves the serving vessels and no cups. The only set that is complete for serving tea is a lovely pink-flowered design, with teapot, creamer, sugar bowl, and two cups with saucers. There's also a set of dishes with teacups + saucers, plates, and a serving platter and bowl, but with no beverage service items, in plain white with a blue rim design. All of these are actual china and some show the ravages of their fragility, mended in various ways.

Do children still hold tea parties? Is it a thing? Or are these yet more of the generational detritus that someone, some day, will need to make decisions about?

Anyway, back to the mint tea. I think it's drinkable when sufficiently sweetened, but like most herbal teas, it isn't really my thing. (The one exception being Celestial Seasonings "Tension Tamer" which I drink under certain specific ritualized conditions.)

Date: 2022-07-09 04:33 am (UTC)
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I am not much younger than you, but I never had tea partites as a child. I knew of the concept, as kids in books did it, but I never understood the point. Note that I never saw my mother or her friends drink tea, so perhaps it is a class thing? Mom a single parent and was a second generation American with Finish parents. She drank coffe with breakfast and beer after work. The tea parties in books were much more formal affairs than anything I had ever seen in person, and totally uninteresting to me. (I didn't find out that tea is sometimes accompanied by scones with jam and cream till I was in Australia, or it would have been interesting, at least the food part! I still rarely drink tea.)

Date: 2022-07-10 05:33 am (UTC)
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I totally understand the wanting to use what you have! I am not certain I have ever seen a miniature tea set in person, so I guess that is one more for the list of retroactively figuring out why I never had them. (Not having any friends under 12 years of age at the moment, I have no data at all for the "do kids today do that?" question that prompted my personal musing.)

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