Trick or Treat! The Wheel o’ Tea selected this one for my nightly herbal, so it seems even RNG seems in favor of me finishing off my T2 samplers. So it seems the dessert tea tonight is green rooibos flavored with vanilla. The last vanilla-flavored T2 tea I tried tasted like banana to me (the demon food, bleeeeeeeeeeh), specifically the banana flavoring of those nasty Circus Peanut candies. I can only hope the flavoring will actually taste like vanilla on this one, or at the least the base rooibos will salvage it otherwise… (One question though, why did they name this Red Green Vanilla if it is only green rooibos and doesn’t have red rooibos in the ingredients? That perplexes me…)
Thankfully, the flavor of this tea doesn’t taste of banana (phew). The aroma of the tea smells like sweet caramel, and that is what this tea tastes of to me, as well, though I do get some vanilla notes toward the finish. I don’t really get much of the green rooibos base, which is typically quite vegetal, as this is a very honey-sweet tea, a characteristic I usually taste in red rooibos or honeybush, though it does have a lighter and somewhat refreshing mouthfeel. I’m getting a slight sarsaparilla note in the aftertaste, which I noticed in another recent rooibos I sampled that also included green rooibos, so perhaps that is contributing to that flavor? It’s tasty, but other than being a bit lighter, the flavor doesn’t really provide anything I haven’t really tried before in rooibos, such as Metropolitan Tea Co.’s Creme au Caramel.
Flavors: Caramel, Sarsaparilla, Sweet, Vanilla
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Haaa, circus peanuts holy shit. I had a babysitter when I was four, very vivid memories of her torturing me with shit food. My diet at her house consisted of White Castle hamburgers, bologna and mayo sandwiches on Wonder Bread and circus peanuts as a ‘treat.’ I would cry when she told me I better finish my food before she came up from the basement with the laundry.
Thank god her husband would sneak me the other Hostess Ding Dong out of his pack when he got home from work. Yeah, pretty much totally unrelated to your tea.
If I remember right, I think it was the “Blue Mountain” T2 sampler that I nearly spat out because it tasted like banana to me; but specifically that fakey, syrupy sweet Circus Peanut kind of banana. Man, those things are the worst. I loathe banana more than any other food, but find very few people that actually like that fruit that also like Circus Peanuts. Bottom tier candy for sure. Ding Dongs, on the other hand, are most definitely top-tier.
Haaa, circus peanuts holy shit. I had a babysitter when I was four, very vivid memories of her torturing me with shit food. My diet at her house consisted of White Castle hamburgers, bologna and mayo sandwiches on Wonder Bread and circus peanuts as a ‘treat.’ I would cry when she told me I better finish my food before she came up from the basement with the laundry.
Thank god her husband would sneak me the other Hostess Ding Dong out of his pack when he got home from work. Yeah, pretty much totally unrelated to your tea.
If I remember right, I think it was the “Blue Mountain” T2 sampler that I nearly spat out because it tasted like banana to me; but specifically that fakey, syrupy sweet Circus Peanut kind of banana. Man, those things are the worst. I loathe banana more than any other food, but find very few people that actually like that fruit that also like Circus Peanuts. Bottom tier candy for sure. Ding Dongs, on the other hand, are most definitely top-tier.