What was the first tea you ever tried?

The first tea I ever drank was super sweet Southern iced tea. Back then, Lipton said it was orange pekoe. My mother swore by it, and we only had it in loose leaf until I was about ten or twelve and Dad found teabags and Mom rejoiced. She put THREE CUPS – that is not a typo – of sugar in just under five quarts of tea. It was syrup! Ha ha! Everyone loved it and she made a gallon a day in the summer.

My mom used to make iced tea from a concentrate, maybe Nestea? Even then, I didn’t count it as tea. :)

My mother used to drink a grocery store loose black tea. I started having a small cup when I was around 10 years old. Tea time in my family was always there when someone needed to talk, visitors, family crisis. The pot was always on during those times and meant family time. These days I don’t have anyone to share my tea with. Most times I don’t mind and enjoy a peaceful moment alone; but there are moments when I miss a good conversation over tea (Of course there are still conversations, but I am having tea and they are having coffee!)

My first ever tea was the powdery Lipton tea that comes in the can and had to be premixed. Once I got older and knew better than my parents, i realized I was missing out on the real tea.

My first tea was probably sleepytime as a child. The first tea that wow’d me was Rishi Snow Sprout. At the time it was marketed as a green tea. A few years later they were marketing it is a yellow tea. I don’t think it was either and actually was an experimental process. I still can’t figure out what it really was. It was from Yunnan. Was an all bud tea with soft grey colored buds. It looks like it could have been the taliensis varietal maybe. It was best described as a very very lightly oxidized black tea. Could have been something similar to the Yunnan Sourcing Certified OG Yellow tea (which is not really yellow tea and which I really enjoy), but using the taliensis varietal or maybe large leaf. Sure wish I could figure out what that Snow Sprout was.

My first one was probably Constant Comment, with my grandma.

In college, a couple of friends and I started experimenting. (For better or worse, just with tea, lol!) We found some random Asian markets and all different kinds of places where we could get packets of 10 tea bags, and we’d swap and compare notes. We thought we were really fancy since tea didn’t mean Lipton to us. :)

As a child,I drank my memaw’s Liptons iced tea. During my teen years I was introduced to Constant Comment by a friend.

I remember that the tea I drank for the first time was Jin Junmei black tea. I bought it at UMITEASETS. No experience because of the first tea making, So I added some milk and some sugar, The taste is amazing, Since then, I really like Jin Junmei black tea. https://www.umiteasets.com/tea-leaves.html Then I also bought other teas at this store.

My first tea was also Constant Comment, when I was 11. In college I switched to Earl Grey, also from Bigelow. I fully admit that once in a blue moon I still drink Bigelow Earl Grey.

sun-brewed black tea at grandmas from a big glass jug, poured over ice. no sugar or lemon.