Today's unpleasant discovery

[steepholm]

I do like an afternoon pot of green tea, but - ugh! - not with ginseng, apparently. It tastes as if it it's had some ghastly artificial sweetener mixed in. And now I have a whole packet to work through. That'll teach me to stray from the strait path of antioxidant goodness. First it was green instead of white, then green with added bergamot (a little decadent?), and now this ginseng perdition - the death of a thousand perforations. Fly, fly my friends! Learn by my fate!

Comments

[heleninwales.livejournal.com]

Your warning has been noted! It sounds horrible.

I have to say I tried white tea once and hated it, but I like green and also green with jasmine. But I am not as virtuous as you. I drink a variety, including bog standard Co-op 99 decaf.

[steepholm.livejournal.com]

Jasmine's good. But I can't stand the bog standard stuff. For many years I believed I didn't like tea at all, since that was all I'd ever been offered, so green and white have transformed my world, somewhat. I do get laughed at by my mother when I turn up at her house with a little stash of my arty-farty teabags, however.

[a-d-medievalist.livejournal.com]

this is when you take the packet in to work, and leave it in the tea room with a note on that says, "help yourselves" ... or is that just me?

[booksandtea.livejournal.com]

Yes, that is what I thought.

[steepholm.livejournal.com]

Good idea - I suppose somebody might like it...

[dru-marland.livejournal.com]

If it had a note inviting me to help myself, I would immediately suspect an ulterior motive. Perhaps simply leaving it there would encourage surreptitious use.

And perhaps I have worked in some very dodgy places...

Ici on boit translucent tea. That's hot water to you. Subtle hints of the Sharpness Canal.

[steepholm.livejournal.com]

Ici on boit translucent tea.

When I first moved to Bristol, the buses used to run an ad reading "Round here we drink Bristol water!" I used to wonder what the buses said in Bath...

Ginseng

[(Anonymous)]

They do say it's good for your sex drive