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This is my go-to everyday tea. Always have a large box of it in my cupboard, ready to go. Have a glass most days right after waking up.
To prepare, I boil a large mug of milk, steep one tea bag directly in the heated milk (which takes some effort as the tea doesn’t like leaving the bag without plenty of dipping and stirring….), add a generous amount of sugar, stir again, and enjoy a blissful drink to start the day.
Once the cup is gone 30+ minutes later, the day can finally begin!
This is the only tea my mom owns. It is one if the first teas I tried and I hated it. For years I thought I hated tea because of this and Red Rose.
Well today I was supposed to get on a train back to London but I missed it and will now be taking a train tomorrow morning. As such, all of my stuff is packed and still in the back of the car, including my tea. That’s why I decided to revisit this.
Honestly, while it is much more palatable than it was when I was a child, it still isn’t my favorite. It is smoother than I recall (probably because I actually know how to brew tea and didn’t drastically oversteep it) but also much more boring. A slight bit of malt and a slight floral-ish quality but not much more.
The only tea my mom ever drank was Lipton. I grew up thinking all tea a bitter and astringent. I’m so glad I decided to give other teas a try.
I feel you. For years I thought that all black tea tasted like Lipton and all green tea tasted like… well GREEN Lipton. Based on years of bad grocery store brew experiences, I thought tea was disgusting. It wasn’t until I got to college and started trying some of my roommates CS teas (which are still grocery store, but better than lipton) that I realized all tea wasn’t awful.
Of course, now I am way WAY beyond most CS tea! LOL
I remember finding a bunch of bagged green teas hidden in the back of my cupboard years after I’d “become one of the teaple” and couldn’t believe there had ever been a time I had drunk such swill. It wasn’t even Lipton, but some generic grocery store stuff. Flavorite, I think. Out of curiosity, I brewed a cup and couldn’t believe the color and smell coming from the cup. One sip and I gagged.
