The Purrfect Cup

I drink this strong, iced, and with nothing else added, often and really like it (family tradition) but I have never liked it hot.

I can’t do this tea. Just can’t. I am still reminded that this was the only box of tea in the house when I was growing up… nobody ever drank tea… I think that the same box was probably there from the time I was eight until I moved out at 18. The thought of that old, stale tea… that is what I think of when I see that box.

Yeah I am never doing this tea again no matter what! Yuck!

This was what we always used to make iced tea when I was growing up. I used to add a ton of sugar and lemon so it ended up tasting like lemonade instead of Lipton tea. Which was a good thing. It was a real surprise when I recently found myself enjoying one of Lipton’s flavored teas recently — green tea with citrus and jasmine in some combination — with nothing added.

Lipton Orange Pekoe tea bags were also what one used to get in restaurants when ordering hot tea (except Chinese restaurants) when I was a kid, too. I never liked it.