Licorice

December 2nd in my Fru P Christmas calender. After yesterday’s blend which was rather overwhelming in the licorice root department, I can’t say that I wasn’t a little disappointed by today’s tea when I saw what it was. I love licorice, but I tend to feel about it the same way Husband does about mint. I will happily eat it, but I don’t particularly wish to drink it.

Anise Attack! That’s what this blend might as well have been called. It smells more anise-y than licorice-y and I don’t count that a good thing at all. Anise may taste vaguely like licorice, but it has nothing to do with licorice otherwise. Licorice =/= anise. But that’s a rant for another day. I seem to recall I actually made that particular rant a couple of years ago.

Happily this is a black tea, unlike yesterday’s herbal blend, and as it turns out the base really manages to temper the flavouring here so I’m not getting licorice overload. I am however lacking the licorice root-y aftertaste and throat feeling, which brings us straight back to the anise problem.

Yeah, I’m not particularly keen on todays offering, but it seems to be vaguely drinkable.