Tasty, but dumb

[omorka]

So I got up at about 12:30, did the usual getting-dressed stuff, unloaded last nights load of dishes and loaded the dishwasher for the next one, and thought to myself, "Self, this is the definition of luxury - rising after noon, surveying the aftermath of a damn good if low-key party with great food, breaking one's fast on a big slice of leftover apple pie* and a cup of cranberry-blood orange tea."

Okay, yes, I can see you tea snobs out there sneering at me for that last one. Yes, I buy the flavored froufrou teas from Republic of Tea and SeredipiTea and all the rest. I like flavored froufrou teas. Those of you who drink pu-erh unadulterated from a 300-year-old teapot can go ahead and laugh; I'm tough, I can take it. (Oh, gods, if you feel like you need to defriend me over something so embarrassing as that, I totally understand . . . .)

Anyway, I had something in one hand and was reaching for the flavored tea with the other and the stack of tea cannisters started sliding. I managed to catch two of them, but the others managed to not only fall onto the floor, they took another stack with them - and when that stack hit the floor, the lid popped off my British Breakfast and the loose tea went all over the floor.

*facepalm*

So I had to clean the mess up before I made my tea, and now I need to check to see if either Middle Market or Partial Edibles has that one loose. I'd rather just refill the canister than buy a new one.


*Shut up, it's better than a pop-tart.

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In other news, the minor evidence for my needing to watch Glee continues to mount; apparently Stephen Tobolowsky has a recurring role.


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Comments

[fiona-conn.livejournal.com]

Not particularly fond of flavoured tea. I can take it if the flavour is subtle -- like Green Tea with orange or something. But for the most part, I prefer my tea unadulterated with flavourings, preferring that if there's supposed to be fruit/spice/herb in it, that it be *real* fruit/spice/herb in the teabag/loose tea.

This said, I DO like chai latte. <3 There's this powdered mix I get which I add hot milk to. Mmmmmm <3

(And I have a cannister of matcha in my kitchen, too.)

[omorka.livejournal.com]

Er, fruits/spices/herbs in the tea is what I mean by "flavored tea." (With the exception of the peach iced tea, which does have 'peach flavoring' in it, but that's iced tea and thus doesn't count.) You know, as opposed to nothing-in-the-cup-except-hand-picked-tea-leaves.

[fiona-conn.livejournal.com]

Yeah, here, stuff that's meant to be fruit tea may have the leaves of the fruit, and a fruit flavouring thrown in, or in the aforementioned green tea case, it be the green tea simply has an orange flavouring added to it. -.- Twinings, surprisingly, has gotten real bad for doing this.