Let’s play good news, bad news.
Good news: I ordered something from Teavana recently and saw that it included 1 oz. sample of this blend. That’s a lot of tea. Thanks, Teavana, you are so generous.
Bad news: 85% of the 1 oz sample is German Rock Sugar, which is waaaaaaay too much sugar for me. So it’s not really a 1 oz. sample of pure tea. It’s really only for 2 cups of tea.
Good news: That’s okay. I can just open the bag and pick out the pieces of rock sugar. This should be easy, right? They’re just really large pieces, and I can tell the difference between tea leaves and chunks of crystal.
Bad news: Yeah… no. There’s way too much stuff in these tea to even tell what’s rock sugar and what’s a candied fruit.
Good news: I pick out whatever I can to best of my ability. I’m getting a good chunk of sugar out, I’m sure.
Bad news: I steep it, go to drink it… and it’s still deathly sweet. All I taste is sweetener and cinnamon. Is there anything else in this tea, because I sure can’t taste it. I can’t even taste the ginger, which is supposedly one of the main ingredients.
Teavana, I get that you love your German Rock Sugar but PLEASE think about us folks that maybe don’t want our tea sweetened to death. Would it have been THAT hard to include just the tea? And if people really needed to, you could include the rock sugar in a separate package for people to add in with the tea. That way both parties are happy and everybody wins.
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Good News: Now that you’ve tried it, you won’t make the mistake of buying it! :D
I am totally off Teavana these days…
They actually included a sample pre-sugared? That’s ridiculous.
I understand that all their samples have sugar, and most of the in-stores shames do as well. I think they leave it out of their monkey picked oolong and blooming tea.
well that’s just silly. I love trying a tea without anything first and then if necessary adding to it.
I tried a different sample from them once and it was mostly sugar!
Pre-sugared sample? wow. And chai is “supposed” to be super sweet with milk..
I just got this sample today, afraid of what all that sugar will do to me. Dang.
I totally agree way to much sugar.
Funny the one I have of this has no sweetener at all.
Good News: Now that you’ve tried it, you won’t make the mistake of buying it! :D
I am totally off Teavana these days…
They actually included a sample pre-sugared? That’s ridiculous.
I understand that all their samples have sugar, and most of the in-stores shames do as well. I think they leave it out of their monkey picked oolong and blooming tea.
well that’s just silly. I love trying a tea without anything first and then if necessary adding to it.
I tried a different sample from them once and it was mostly sugar!
Pre-sugared sample? wow. And chai is “supposed” to be super sweet with milk..
I just got this sample today, afraid of what all that sugar will do to me. Dang.
I totally agree way to much sugar.
Funny the one I have of this has no sweetener at all.