Arctic Raspberry

Sip Down

We had the neighbors over on Friday for an evening fire. We finally had the chance to meet them after 9 months of living at the house. I’ve been too shy to try to make any contact since I’ve not seen anyone outside their house, so I didn’t want to knock on any doors. Ha-ha. Thankfully, they saw us bringing groceries into the house and made first contact three weeks back. I finally asked if they wanted to stop by and drink tea. Lo and behold, they are coffee drinkers, but we still offered tea. ; )

The neighbor’s eldest child thought we were giving them “really good Kool-Aid,” but I reassured that this was a tisane (I went into the whole tea vs tisane, which seemed to bore the poor kid. Teenagers don’t usually seem fascinated by these things. That’s ok, it was nice to surprise them with good tea and get a positive reaction). All in all, I do agree it has a wonderfully sweet Raspberry flavor, especially since the wife made it in her traditional Southern sweet manner. She advised it wasn’t as heavily sweetened per her usual way, but anything with more than 1 tsp of sugar is sweet to me. Ha-ha.