Tea
Lately, I read it's possible to grow tea in the Netherlands. It doesn't sound odd to me since we have plenty of greenery houses and we use them for vegetables and flowers too. We can stop with the flowers and grow our own coffee and tea instead of importing it. Good for us and the environment. There's someone trying out which tea plants are the best for the Dutch weather circumstances. Tea can be made out of herbs and fruit too. I wonder if it should be called tea if it's made of fruit. It sounds more like a warm lemonade. I do not like tea made out of fruit out of herbs I do. If you ask me they are better for your health anyway.
I like peppermint tea made of fresh leaves.
Although this plant isn't hard to keep it dies in my dark, cold place plus it makes a terrible disappointing drink with the water I have.
Daily I drink a lot of tea.
The water I use isn't great which means the tea seldom tastes good, at times it's even smelly. At the moment I don't dare to drink it so I go to the tap in town to fill bottles. If it comes to tea only I need about 6 liters of water. Next to that, I drink mineral water which I buy. At times I drink beer or some coffee and hope it makes me fall asleep for some time (instead of sneezing and suffering from allergies or pain).
No matter what kind of tea we drink it's black/natural.
I mean no sugar, no milk. In most cases, I start my day with tea as dark/strong as possible. It's Earl grey I drink. I do not like all kinds of Earl grey. Most do not taste or at least not with our water. I once drank tea with tangerine and it really tasted great but I never found that tea again.
No matter which supermarket you visit you will at least find 30-50 different kinds of tea if not 100 or more.
Many teas these days are perfumed. Pickwick is one of the branthatwho do so. What you buy is "the garbage" of tea leaves with some perfume. With the smell, they try to fool you but what you smell is completely different from what you taste. Disappointing and for sure not what I call tea.
Some cities still have a tea shop.
You can buy real tea, not the rests in teabags that tear apart if you add water to it and color your water. Hardly anyone buys it. It's too expensive plus it takes time to cook a really good tea and that is time hardly anyone likes to invest these days.
Not all tea is black.
You have white, green, yellow and even a reddish tea like the one on the photo which smells great.
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Theme: my favourite tea
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