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An oldie but goodie. Although it has lost quite a bit of flavor, I think. I don’t remember it being so subtle before.
I can still bits of the honey-fig-strawberry jam combo though. It’s a very sweet and ooey-gooey, sticky flavor. Would be lovely with a cheese board, he he.
Not sure yet whether I’d reorder this one, it’s difficult with DF because you can only get 100g, and I’m not going to drink that much of a single tea easily.
Flavors: Earthy, Fig, Honey, Jam, Strawberry, Sweet
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Clearly you need to have fewer teas and then 100g will fly off your shelf lol
I thought you could always only get 100 grams and up, but Youngest was in Paris yesterday and picked up 50 grams of a tea for me and 25 grams of another. If I had known you could get smaller amounts in store, I would have had a nice long shopping list ready…
@Sil – That’s the goal ha ha!
@ashmanra – That doesn’t surprise me, I went to a store in Nîmes and they had the teas in giant tins and weighed it into paper bags on demand. So it makes sense that they would allow any weight you want.
Our “local” (Raleigh) tea shop says you have to buy a minimum of 100 grams. When I was alone in the shop one day they told me you could buy 50 grams as long as you were buying at least four different teas but they didn’t advertise it because the weighing is time consuming. Shortly after, they started putting out samplers of four packs of fifty grams each. So I thought it was common practice.
At Gurman’s in Dublin, though, you could ask for any amount, but I asked for four ounces and was haughtily informed that they don’t DO ounces and treated like an imbecile. Ha ha!
What is this OUNCES you speak of?! Harrumph! ROFL!!!
Exactly! You must have been there when it happened. I feigned meekness in the face of his derision and asked for a hundred grams. I’m sure he was muttering that my mother was a hamster and my father smelled of elderberries. He was in a high dudgeon.
He wasn’t Irish, by the way. The Irish were so laid back and friendly, and most spoke slowly as soon as they realized we were American so we could understand them! Ha ha!
(I can just hear those coconuts clopping together as he stomped away from the counter!)
I slithered away in humility and shame, just as I should!
Clearly you need to have fewer teas and then 100g will fly off your shelf lol
I thought you could always only get 100 grams and up, but Youngest was in Paris yesterday and picked up 50 grams of a tea for me and 25 grams of another. If I had known you could get smaller amounts in store, I would have had a nice long shopping list ready…
@Sil – That’s the goal ha ha!
@ashmanra – That doesn’t surprise me, I went to a store in Nîmes and they had the teas in giant tins and weighed it into paper bags on demand. So it makes sense that they would allow any weight you want.
Our “local” (Raleigh) tea shop says you have to buy a minimum of 100 grams. When I was alone in the shop one day they told me you could buy 50 grams as long as you were buying at least four different teas but they didn’t advertise it because the weighing is time consuming. Shortly after, they started putting out samplers of four packs of fifty grams each. So I thought it was common practice.
At Gurman’s in Dublin, though, you could ask for any amount, but I asked for four ounces and was haughtily informed that they don’t DO ounces and treated like an imbecile. Ha ha!
What is this OUNCES you speak of?! Harrumph! ROFL!!!
Exactly! You must have been there when it happened. I feigned meekness in the face of his derision and asked for a hundred grams. I’m sure he was muttering that my mother was a hamster and my father smelled of elderberries. He was in a high dudgeon.
He wasn’t Irish, by the way. The Irish were so laid back and friendly, and most spoke slowly as soon as they realized we were American so we could understand them! Ha ha!
(I can just hear those coconuts clopping together as he stomped away from the counter!)
I slithered away in humility and shame, just as I should!