With a taste of a poison paradise

[venta]

Today, I am drinking Organic Qi Detox Green Tea. Not because I feel that my qi (or indeed any other part of me) is particularly toxic, but because the list of ingredients made it sound like it might be nice.

The box says it has "the fresh taste of orange and lemon". Actually, what sold it to me was the peppermint, ginger and fennel in the ingredients list.

Having finished my first mugful, I can confirm that the actual flavour of the tea is "the inside of a health food shop".

Comments

[valkyriekaren.livejournal.com]

I'm always disappointed by herbal teas. They're never as nice as they look or smell they're going to be.

[lanfykins.livejournal.com]

I find that the Yogi Tea range has actual flavour. If you like fennel/aniseed their Egyptian Spice is lovely (they seem to have recently renamed it Egyptian Licorice, which makes sense). Their cocoa teas are also nice, if you can cope with the dark chocolate flavour in a watery product, which I found a bit too cognitive-dissonance for me. And if their Classic India Spice is the same tea I remember, it really doesn't lack flavour. Too. Much. Cinnamon...

[phlebas.livejournal.com]

Also they have fortune cookie messages on the tags.

[lanfykins.livejournal.com]

And random yoga positions on the boxes :)

[valkyriekaren.livejournal.com]

I don't like licorice/aniseed flavours much. I often drink chai but that's just a black tea with spices rather than a herbal one, and I have it with milk and honey in.

[lanfykins.livejournal.com]

Mmm, chai. I love chai but I really don't drink it often; it's too hard to find what I think of as proper chai, with the flavours really strong (both of the tea and of the spices) and with black pepper you can taste.

I ordered about ten different types of chai to test a couple of years ago, and only one of them was even drinkable, IMO.

[venta.livejournal.com]

It probably says a lot about me that my first association with Yogi is "come along, BooBoo" rather than far Eastern wisdom...

[venta.livejournal.com]

I think that's true of fruity teas, certainly. They're a snare and a delusion.