Mystery Tea!
Jul. 8th, 2022 04:04 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
hrjToday'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.)
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.)
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Date: 2022-07-09 04:33 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2022-07-10 01:27 am (UTC)A couple of times I've had adult tea parties, just to have fun using the equipment.
I don't recall my mom drinking tea much, though we always had Lipton or the equivalent in the house. And she'd tried coffee in college and found it made her heart race unpleasantly. My dad is a solid coffee drinker, though when I was a kid he mostly drank instant decaf unless we were on a road trip (when he'd be driving all night). I didn't really get into coffee until after college, and didn't *like* it until I got all finicky with grinding my own beans and brewing fresh and whatnot. I'd been more of an indifferent and erratic tea drinker until I made it part of my work-from-home routine.
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Date: 2022-07-10 05:33 am (UTC)