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sent me this and I think I’m getting along with it better than she is. While she got menstrual blood, I got fig newtons. I’m not sure that the flavor of “love” can be distilled into a rooibos blend. The envelop that TeaFrog uses calls it “Love Flavored Rooibos”. The ingredients include rose and orange, but I am not picking up on them (at least not so far). The dry leaves smelled like root beer, which was delightful but the brewed tea is a bit of an anticlimax. Is the TeaFrog presenting us with some sort of a Zen Koan about the flavor of Love? And more powerful than the tea itself, the name has me regressing into a Burt Bacharach kind of mood and I hear Dionne Warwick warbling “The Look of Love”. “I can hardly wait to hold you, feel my arms around you”—I think that was before she was a psychic friend.
A tea that gives me a Proustian moment cannot be all bad; but the previous tea I sipped led me to Florence Italy in my mind, which might be a better place to be than my old bedroom when I thought that Dionne Warwick was the epitome of sophistication and that Burt Bacharach was the bard of love!
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Great Note Doulton! :) I am glad that you “liked” the tea ;) I am really happy to see that it did illicit enough emotion for your thoughts to travel – that is the goal of any tea blender! :) Of course, as with any tea, everything is subjective – so our version of Love in a cup is not necessarily yours ;)
Oh, and isn’t Burt Bacharach STILL the bard of love? Or maybe we should aim higher – Lenard Cohen? ;) Thanks for the note!
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Great Note Doulton! :) I am glad that you “liked” the tea ;) I am really happy to see that it did illicit enough emotion for your thoughts to travel – that is the goal of any tea blender! :) Of course, as with any tea, everything is subjective – so our version of Love in a cup is not necessarily yours ;)
Oh, and isn’t Burt Bacharach STILL the bard of love? Or maybe we should aim higher – Lenard Cohen? ;) Thanks for the note!