Cherry Body Tea

Fun Fact: Every time I see the name of this tea, in combination with the company name, all I can think about is the Body Break theme song…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-SHDDA4mi4U This one.

Anyway, this was my favourite of the three blends I tried by far – I had it iced and it was just so jam packed with dense, sweet cherry flavour. It reminded me a little bit of the cherry flavour that I enjoy so heavily in DT’s Cherry Lucuma and Cherry Berry Punch blends – but kind of tart as well.

I was having it and talking to a coworker, and what I compared it to was the highly pigmented red Slush Puppies you used to be able to get super cheaply in the early 2000s, with a pump of shocker. I remember as a kid, in the summer, we would stay at our Grandma’s house for a few weeks in super small town Eyebrow (population of like 150 mostly senior citizens) and there was an ice cream shop that only opened for the summer. It had a Slush Puppy machine with like a dozen different flavours which seemed like so many as a kid. It was $2.00 for a small slushy and $0.25 for a pump of shocker. We used to get $5.00 a day for snacks, so we’d grab a chocolate bar or a bag of chips for around $1.50 and then a slushy and load it up with as much shocker as we could afford – basically blasting off our taste buds with citric acid. This is not where near that level of sour/tart, but the deep cherry flavour is sending me back to that deep place of nostalgia and that’s why I enjoyed this one the most, ultimately.

I guess the “good for you” ingredient in this one was the garcinia, but I honestly don’t care about that. It’s just nostalgic cherry slushie to me…