Same comparison I make!
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The same stuff that makes air fresheners smell also makes our food taste the way it does. Natural and artificial flavors.
Starbucks somehow manages to make their tea both burned and weak. Itās appalling. I never ever order tea from them. At least coffee I donāt care about, so Iāll keep slurping down my caramel macchiatos.
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I was going to say that about their coffee. I like mine black though. A caramel macchiato is a milkshake, not coffee.
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Oh yes, my number 2 tea.
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They used to burn their espresso shots before they got their current machines. You really have to rinse out the baskets after each use or youāll burn the same grounds again and again and again. Same with the frothing pitchers, which is why I have my nonfat vente latte on ice (no milk to burn).
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Yeah, I admit it. I like coffee flavor, not actual coffee. So gimme that eggnog latte and no one gets hurt.
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I do like the occasional mocha with whip, or coffeeish hot chocolate when I feel decadent otherwise a cappuccino if I am having espresso or just drip/french press.
I drink the evil thing of decaf instant at work as I can only take so much caffeine and it is sufficiently coffee like.
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Trees?
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As long as Iām paying the shipping, I usually for the Yorkshire Gold instead of the plain-Jane Yorkshire Tea (as pictured by a couple of posters). I used to live between Hull and York, which I think gives me enough Yorkshire cred to weigh in.
After being back in the States for a few years I mainly lost the tea habit, but then I spent a stretch in Oslo where the coffee, while mainly excellent, is absurdly expensive, so after sourcing great huge sacks of English teabags like @AnonyMouse pictured (at the local Asian food store) I started drinking tea again, and the renewed habit has stuck.
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Buying something at Starbucks and expecting good value for moneyā¦ What?!?
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Iām going home for a visit next week and I hadnāt thought about it but the snowball stands should all be open. I hadnāt been able to get one the last two times. Last time was a family emergency and the time before that it was around x-mas.
For me though, chocolate snowballs. Probably from Plum Street, but Pandora would do.
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Yes, I buy Chinese loose leaf green tea in kilograms. I donāt know anybody who can tell it from Japanese Sencha, and itās a tenth of the price.
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And Bergamot oil comes from the Bergamot Orange, which grows on a treeā¦
Bergamot oil applied to the skin increases photosensitivity, and excessive consumption can cause convulsions and death in children. Essential oils. Not even once.
My wifeās grandfather was an officer on the Cutty Sark. Wash your mouth out with soap. The tea clippers were so called because they were usually faster than the steam ships of their era. Robert Lowell refers to them as āsupercilious winged clippersā, which seems about right. Cutty Sark was of composite construction, and the strength was needed to bear the press of sail.
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To compare and contrast, a pack of 240 bags of Yorkshire tea is Ā£4.50 here, which is about $6.30.
Thatās about $0.80 per 100g, so about ten times cheaper than what Mark got ripped of for.
Mind you, 240 bags lasts about 2-3 weeks in our house of three tea drinkers.
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I get 1200 Yorkshires at a time and with the exception of guests Iām the only one who drinks it (the wife drinks her own special chai tea, everyone is richer for knowing this information), but it is the right amount for me. I wouldnāt go for the pricey gourmet stuff but I am willing to get a starbucks which is horrible and about Ā£2 for a pint of it. The convenience of being hydrated when out and about I suppose.
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Maybe tea is more expensive over there because they keep chucking it in the sea and canāt be trusted with it.
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You were in Oslo and didnāt get your tea from the Black Cat?? Their blablomst (sp?, blueflower) tea is my favourite.
