Today’s cold brew!
I never really realized how much Rhubarb and Custard was a British thing/flavour pairing until Laura, Sharla and I went to Churchill’s (the British food store in Saskatoon) yesterday. I saw so many variation of that pairing in the store: like three different kinds of hard candy, a taffy with the same flavour combo, and a chocolate bar with a rhubarb and custard filling! I then thought of this tea, and remembered it IS in fact from a UK based tea company. I feel like I’ve made some sort of worldly/cultural discovery.
It does taste AMAZING though as a pairing, so I definitely get it. The rhubarb is sweet and the custard is creamy and tempers some of the tartness that rhubarb often has. It’s really satisfying and the right balance between natural sweet and pastry sort of sweet.
Now I can’t help but ponder what other flavour pairings are cultural that I’m not aware of. At the same time, what are the Canadian flavour pairings that I just know and think of as normal that aren’t in other areas of the world?
Food, or tea, for thought…
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we have strawberries & cream sweets the same as the rhubarb & custard ones too. I dont know what you have in the states so its hard to know whats english or not
Canadian? Probably everything maple flavoured. Smoked salmon candy is a thing too. Otherwise we have a lot of stuff the US has so it’s pretty much the same.
smoked salmon candy? you bunch of weirdos
@Rasseru, I’m in Canada actually.
@Mookit Yeah; I didn’t even think about maple being very obviously a more Canadian thing.
:) Ahhhh its actual salmon but candied? ive had japanese sweet spicy fish in packets, and ofc teriyaki salmon. A bit like that?
I was imagining ‘sweets’ but fish flavoured :lol:
Haha, yeah! It’s called candied salmon, I guess I just kind of said it wrong. It’s essentially little bits of smoked salmon that kind of look like hard candy, but they are soft and delicious.
Oh yeah, I found some rhubarb & custard hard candies at the British store at WEM last year. So delicious.
Love this tea. Makes me want to try ALL the rhubarb/custard things. :D
we have strawberries & cream sweets the same as the rhubarb & custard ones too. I dont know what you have in the states so its hard to know whats english or not
Canadian? Probably everything maple flavoured. Smoked salmon candy is a thing too. Otherwise we have a lot of stuff the US has so it’s pretty much the same.
smoked salmon candy? you bunch of weirdos
@Rasseru, I’m in Canada actually.
@Mookit Yeah; I didn’t even think about maple being very obviously a more Canadian thing.
:) Ahhhh its actual salmon but candied? ive had japanese sweet spicy fish in packets, and ofc teriyaki salmon. A bit like that?
I was imagining ‘sweets’ but fish flavoured :lol:
Haha, yeah! It’s called candied salmon, I guess I just kind of said it wrong. It’s essentially little bits of smoked salmon that kind of look like hard candy, but they are soft and delicious.
Oh yeah, I found some rhubarb & custard hard candies at the British store at WEM last year. So delicious.
Love this tea. Makes me want to try ALL the rhubarb/custard things. :D