A certain specialty tea trend phenom is not as healthy an alternative as it claims (or shoves down your throat each time you enter the place). In its popular bestsellers, you’ll find this listed in the ingredients under “flavours” on their website, in tiny lettering they confess to using a toxin which they claim is harmless. Found in many shampoo products, yum. So to those deciding between loose leaf and store bought: most boxes I have purchased at your run of the go grocery store have only natural flavourings. Whereas those bought at this particular tea shop were about 5-10 bucks more with “flavourings”. Save on organics too. —Steeped
This article appears in Jun 30 – Jul 6, 2011.
Eh. I don’t bother with their teas anymore because I just can’t get a good flavour out of their teas. I like mine pretty strong, and no matter how long I steep the tea I just can’t get it tasting more than mildly flavoured water (where I can only taste the ‘tea’ in an aftertaste very vaguely). I like their premise though, and I LOVE how their tea smells and I love their mugs, etc…, and I wish I liked their tea better, but I just don’t.
I don’t drink tea for the health effects to be honest (though that’s an added bonus), I drink it for flavour, mainly in the winter (or passion iced tea in the summer — but I haven’t been able to make it at home that well) and the best teas I’ve tasted are celestial seasonings and starbucks’ tazo teas (you can buy those at the grocery stores A LOT cheaper than in a SB store). My favorite is their passion tea. <3
Huh. I like their teas, I mean, I realize the health benefit is probably a bit of a load of crapola, but when I want organic, I want organic. I’ll go check it out OP and perhaps I’ll switch brands…
If this is the place on SGR I agree on the no flavour thing. I bought iced tea twice and that Vitamin Water crap had more flavour.
There is a tea place on Granville that I go to that is much better. Just about everything herbal she sells comes from farmland up in Hants Co.
I like that place too SwampDonkey.
tea, just fucking yuck. might as well drink dog piss. so really, what are the benifits of that shit, other than puking it up.
Tea tastes fine LS.
I love their teas, and have had no issues with lack of flavor.
I buy their teas because to me they taste better than the store bought bagged stuff. I don’t really care so much about the health benefits of tea, I just want a cup of tea that tastes good. And so far they’ve delivered.
Just goes to show health food places (and tree huggers) are just as sneaky shits as the big bad corporations.
Bleh I just do not like tea. I tried this one kind that was good that tasted like warm juice but that seems like cheating. I’ve tried other kinds of tea and I found there was zero flavor or just tasted really weird… Like old shirts sitting in clothes dye… I don’t know why. I don’t even know what that would taste like, that’s just what I think of when I tasted it :P. I’m more of a coffee lover 🙂
I used to hate tea and coffee until 2008, honest to frig. I randomly tried coffee one day because I wanted the caffeine and I liked it. Then I tried tea one day, randomly, and I liked it.
Weirdest thing.
i didn’t start drinking coffee til i was in my twenties but i can live without it
I hated coffee until I bought someone a Keurig as a gift. I needed caffeine, drank it, and fell in love 🙂
i guess it requires getting a taste for it, much like eating pussy, hint, hint.
Um …
Lol
Goodnight world.
Don’t worry OP, that place will soon be out of business. Won’t miss it at all.
You realize it’s a chain, right? If anything they’re on the up.