Walnuts in tea? What a terrible idea. “Let’s steep a super bitter nut and see what happens!” you can imagine them saying. Guess what! It makes bitter tea! No amount of banana pieces or coconut shavings can save this tea from tasting like a walnut.
I have been drinking tea for almost as long as I could hold a cup with a handle. I blame this on my British expat parents, who also gave me an entire catalogue of culturally irrelevant reference points in which to confuse the world at large.
I drink almost strictly loose leaf, but the odd tea bag will cross my path due to well-intentioned in-laws and the like. I admit to a sad penchant for flavoured blacks, while aspiring to like more traditional unflavoured te …. oooh, vanilla.
Victoria B.C.
