I was lucky enough to be sent a sample of this by Paul at White2tea. It reminds me of ‘American Flagg’, especially the later ‘Amerikan Flagg’ reboot. Hmm, how do I do reversed Rs on here. I need some cyrillic, stat. I’m sure it’s just the name, and I have no idea if Paul is a Howard Chaykin fan but I cannot get that eighties comic goodness out of my head while drinking this. In fact, this issue best sums it all up:
http://www.comicvine.com/howard-chaykins-american-flagg-9-loose-women-and-b/4000-383555/
Shame I can’t post images here. That would be proper cool and make the point better.
The tea itself smells floral when dry and fruity when wet, and it has a proper kick to it. Cwyn has given an awesome review of it, so I really don’t feel I can add much more to that. I can feel the energy of this tea giving me a kick in the seat of the pants. My mouth has gone dry and prickly, the bitterness lingers in my throat and the rounded, full-on flavour lasts for ages. I’m working on 10 second steeps at 95C (the slider says boiling but that is because Steepster is not communicating properly with Chrome once more) at the moment because I put a lot of leaf in the pot and I am feeling slightly incoherent from the onset of tea drunk. I guess that makes this a party in a teapot. Mmmm …
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Omg that link is funny! Twodog pointed out a YouTube vid of a singer named Amerykah. Yet the comic really does illustrate the gaudy slam you get from this tea.
I used to love that comic way back when I was just a callow youth (or maybe a little bit older) but this tea is so dayglo 80s in so many ways that it reminded me of it. Took me a while to recall the title so I could get the right cover image though.
Exactly, and hence the early 80s high school references in my own notes, sooo funny.
I think it is brilliant, as are your notes. The eighties were a terrible era according to so many people, but I totally had the best time of my life then (don’t tell my wife I said that!). :)
80’s were the bomb!
The kids all envy us nowadays.
How coincidental that 3 80’s children on the same site and same subject. Now the next question, anyone listened to Men at Work, The Who, The Kinks or REO Speedwagon lately?
Not so much those bands, but I have had the Ramones and Dead Kennedys on endless repeat for a bit now. Does that count?
Oh yes I remember the Ramones and the Dead Kennedys. Those were great years to live in.
Yes, a great decade.
Omg that link is funny! Twodog pointed out a YouTube vid of a singer named Amerykah. Yet the comic really does illustrate the gaudy slam you get from this tea.
I used to love that comic way back when I was just a callow youth (or maybe a little bit older) but this tea is so dayglo 80s in so many ways that it reminded me of it. Took me a while to recall the title so I could get the right cover image though.
Exactly, and hence the early 80s high school references in my own notes, sooo funny.
I think it is brilliant, as are your notes. The eighties were a terrible era according to so many people, but I totally had the best time of my life then (don’t tell my wife I said that!). :)
80’s were the bomb!
The kids all envy us nowadays.
How coincidental that 3 80’s children on the same site and same subject. Now the next question, anyone listened to Men at Work, The Who, The Kinks or REO Speedwagon lately?
Not so much those bands, but I have had the Ramones and Dead Kennedys on endless repeat for a bit now. Does that count?
Oh yes I remember the Ramones and the Dead Kennedys. Those were great years to live in.
Yes, a great decade.