I’ve actually had this tea before – many, many years ago before I even knew what red tea was. I’m not really sure what I thought of it then, but I don’t think it was all that positive. Based on the smell, I don’t think that view is going to be changing any today. It basically smells like a lightly lemoned plank of soured, wet, moldy wood. The sourness in the smell makes my mouth water unpleasantly.
Okay, this is gross. Like, gross nasty made me gag a little when I sipped gross. The first taste is tart and unpleasant, then it shifts to woody and slightly less unpleasant and then it finishes with a sour and really freaking unpleasant.
Ever let a cat sniff toothpaste? For some reason one of my cats likes to sniff random things – toothpaste, nail polish, breath – and every time she sniffs toothpaste, she makes this really unpleasant face as she gets close to the source. She squints her eyes, flares her lips a little. Then she takes a big whiff… and promptly gags for the next few seconds.
Yeah, that’s me drinking this tea.
Maybe the sink will enjoy it more.
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So did you like it? Naw, just kidding sounds like an AWFUL experience.
Yeah, um… Rachel… I’m going to go with NO, I don’t think she liked it. LOL
Thought I would be sarcastically funny. Did it work? :-) Just kidding.
I’d be curious as to your cat’s reaction to the tea and whether it scores higher than the toothpaste.
Haha – it was just delightful! Okay, maybe not! :) I didn’t think to try the kitty-sniff test. Totally going to have to do that next time! (Well, next time I have a horrid tea, not next time I have this tea. Because I will never have this tea again!)
Urgh.
I tell you seriously — I meant it when I said in one of my notes that one rooibos I tried made me think of bile. :( Life is too short to drink disgusting tea!
Eeeeeeeeew.
I have it on good authority from my plants that rooibos makes excellent compost. ;D
So did you like it? Naw, just kidding sounds like an AWFUL experience.
Yeah, um… Rachel… I’m going to go with NO, I don’t think she liked it. LOL
Thought I would be sarcastically funny. Did it work? :-) Just kidding.
I’d be curious as to your cat’s reaction to the tea and whether it scores higher than the toothpaste.
Haha – it was just delightful! Okay, maybe not! :) I didn’t think to try the kitty-sniff test. Totally going to have to do that next time! (Well, next time I have a horrid tea, not next time I have this tea. Because I will never have this tea again!)
Urgh.
I tell you seriously — I meant it when I said in one of my notes that one rooibos I tried made me think of bile. :( Life is too short to drink disgusting tea!
Eeeeeeeeew.
I have it on good authority from my plants that rooibos makes excellent compost. ;D