Random tea thing I just HAD to share

[dr4b]

We have a bunch of different tea bags available in the tea/coffee room here at work. I've been drinking hot tea all week since my throat is sore.

Today I noticed we have a Tazo chai tea teabag, and I love chai so I thought I'd try it.

It sure smells like chai, but doesn't taste nearly as good as the stuff I think of as chai.

I've left the teabag in the mug as I drink it. The less and less liquid there is in the mug, the worse it tastes, but the better it smells.

Comments

[discofish.livejournal.com]

For chai, I don't trust teabags. Mostly because I had a similar experience to yours, and it was just... bad. For the "fake American chai" that I know and love, I trust Oregon Chai (packets or concentrate cartons). For the discerning chai enthusiast, my friend in the know insists that the best way to get chai is to actually go to an Indian market.

[bhudson.livejournal.com]

I rather liked the Bengal Spice from Celestial Seasonings until I went all snobby (a development helped along by my roomate's tendency to dump a couple balls of assam tea, some coriander pods, cinnamon sticks, and cloves into a pot of boiling water, to be topped off by sugar and milk in the last minute or so of cooking).