Tea from England

[Grogan]

My niece lived in England for a while, doing part of her University degree there. She brought me back some tea that we really like, a brand called "Bird & Blend". I found their website and they ship internationally.

https://www.birdandblendtea.com

So awesome, I'm going to order some of this tea for my niece and I. They have some rather interesting bagged tea, they are strange little mesh pouches filled with coarse tea and dried fruit and spices etc. (depending on the tea). So I got 3 kinds, 2 boxes of each. They were like $8 USD, some of them $9 USD, and $28 USD shipping by DHL courier, which I thought was bad enough. So it was going to be like $88 USD (which means like $140 in Canajun dollars)

I also didn't factor in that I'd be charged duty... got an email from the courier company with a link to pay $20.34 CAD.

So I essentially just spent $160 Canadian on fucking tea bags

I won't be doing that again, jeeze, I don't care how good the tea is.

[Zema Bus]

Still a fraction of the cost of DDR5 and NVMe drives

I looked over the various ones they have, if I was a tea drinker I'd probably be all over that. If they sell on Amazon that might be a cheaper way to get it.

[Grogan]

No, they don't sell on Amazon or I'd be sitting here with piles of opened boxes of different teas (because the cupboards would be full)

They have far more loose tea selections than the bagged ones. I should have gotten more with my order, but I was testing the process. I think I still have a tea ball, somewhere upstairs.

One we really liked that she got for me, was "Mulled Cider". It had dried apple, currants, spices. Also tea, which is most important... I don't do those herbal heath nut teas.

In my order I got Creme Brulee, Earl Grey Creme (Earl Grey with a bit of vanilla-ish flavour) and Creme Egg (it'll be chocolate/vanilla/caramel'ish like Easter Creme Eggs). They didn't have a lot of selection in bags at this time.

The only one I have left right now is Spiced Pumpkin Pie and while it's the good tea, with nice spices and pieces of actual dried pumpkin (rind and pulp), it tastes like pumpkin scented candles, more than pumpkin. Weird, but that's what happens when you dry some things. Concentrate some compounds, drive off others.

It's tea that you have to steep for a long time (e.g. at least 5 min or even more if you want more of the fruit) because it's coarse, and any fruit etc. has to defuse. However, the tea is mellow and roasted, it doesn't have that tannin bite that most people would expect.

With all this tea, I won't need new computer hardware... the stimulants will make me type faster.

[Zema Bus]

Earl Grey, Captain Picard's favorite tea

[Grogan]

Indeed, hot.

(I like Earl Grey tea, but typical grocery store brands of it are just soapy tasting shit, not the somewhat bitter bergamot citrus)

[Grogan]

I got my tea today already, I only ordered it Sunday evening. However, that's Monday in the U.K. so the order may have been processed right away.

At least it was fast air shipping for all the money it cost me in the end.