Blargh! This tea is nasty! It so sour and not in a “you cheated and added hibiscus” way, more like “let’s make this as unpalatable as possible” way. I can’t even call this tea ‘tart’ as that implies that it has a bit of fruity-sweetness to it. Which is doesn’t. It starts off sour and then it gets an almost salty-savory taste in the mouth. The end is curiously bland and tasteless.
TEA FAIL, Lipton!!!
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Like hot cranberry juice, huh?
Love cranberries… but hibiscus is just gross after a while. WHY is it so ubiquitous? It’s like, in everything tart that Lipton/Celestial Seasonings does, and it’s in a ton of loose leaf blends. I’m so sick of it that I’ve gotten wary of even drinking something with “hibiscus” in the title. Not that I hate it. It’s just so mediocre.
@Cofftea: I don’t mind cranberry juice, I wouldn’t be bitching as much if it had tasted that way. There were some other (nameless) herbs and fruits added to the tea according to the packet. Altogther it was not a good mix. DX
@Teaplz: I think hibiscus is so common because it’s a cheap, quick way of approximating the taste of various tart fruits. It’s used to simulate the taste of raspberry, pomegranate, gojiberry, blackberry, etc.
Jillian, yet it doesn’t taste like any of those things. :(
Like hot cranberry juice, huh?
Love cranberries… but hibiscus is just gross after a while. WHY is it so ubiquitous? It’s like, in everything tart that Lipton/Celestial Seasonings does, and it’s in a ton of loose leaf blends. I’m so sick of it that I’ve gotten wary of even drinking something with “hibiscus” in the title. Not that I hate it. It’s just so mediocre.
@Cofftea: I don’t mind cranberry juice, I wouldn’t be bitching as much if it had tasted that way. There were some other (nameless) herbs and fruits added to the tea according to the packet. Altogther it was not a good mix. DX
@Teaplz: I think hibiscus is so common because it’s a cheap, quick way of approximating the taste of various tart fruits. It’s used to simulate the taste of raspberry, pomegranate, gojiberry, blackberry, etc.
Jillian, yet it doesn’t taste like any of those things. :(