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drank Cool Cucumber by DAVIDsTEA
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Everyone, run out and buy yourself some cool cucumber! You can thank me later :)

I made a 500 ml mason jar of this over ice. I didn’t think I’d dig hot cucumber anything, let alone tea, so iced it is. I would bet my house this has mint in it, but the ingredients don’t say anything about mint. However, if you look at the photo associated with the cool cucumber tea on DAVIDs website
http://www.davidstea.com/cool-cucumber?&TF=&DEID=
you will clearly see, to the right of the two cukes with sunglasses there is something that looks a heck of a lot like a sprig of mint. So I’m gonna say that part of the “natural and artificial flavouring” is mint. Go ahead and tell me otherwise :)

But I like mint so it doesn’t bother me. I love how you can taste the melon and the cucumber and that bit of mint that isn’t there makes it all very refreshing. 1.5 tsp of demerara sugar to the concoction while it was steeping. I will be going back to get more of this. lots more. Goji pop more. (note: goji pop more means restocking in 150 gr amounts biweekly)
Preparation
205 °F / 96 °C 4 min, 15 sec
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OMGsrsly
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I confirmed it is spearmint flavour.

Nxtdoor
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Thanks, OMGsrsly! Tells us all we ain’t crazy. I love how a lot of tasters said.. Yo, there’s mint. But there’s no mint. Now we know!

OMGsrsly
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Even in-store, some people said there was mint and some said there wasn’t! I cannot stand spearmint, and my BFF is hideously allergic to peppermint, so I needed to know. :)

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OMGsrsly
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I confirmed it is spearmint flavour.

Nxtdoor
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Thanks, OMGsrsly! Tells us all we ain’t crazy. I love how a lot of tasters said.. Yo, there’s mint. But there’s no mint. Now we know!

OMGsrsly
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Even in-store, some people said there was mint and some said there wasn’t! I cannot stand spearmint, and my BFF is hideously allergic to peppermint, so I needed to know. :)

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I started drinking loose leaf tea in the spring of 2013 (why do we feel compelled to mark the date of tea drinking somewhat like addicts counting their sobriety days?)

Never been much into tea before. Growing up in Romania, tea was something mom made for you when you were sick. As an adult, my hot beverage of choice has been coffee, both flavoured and regular. I’ve recently stumbled upon Teavana and DAVIDs TEA and quickly got addicted to the latter. Then came steepster and all else followed.

Formerly a mathematician and insurance adjuster, I gave up the corporate world and am now a professional chef. I drink wine and sometimes cheat on it with tea.

I lean heavily towards flavoured black teas. I’ve started to crave the occasional straight oolong and green but so far unflavoured black teas leave me unimpressed.

I’m learning so I drink them all. Am even introducing myself to pu’erh. So far I can do fine with the sheng cause frankly, they don’t taste like pu’erh to me. The shou is another story.

Note*: The virtual cupboard does NOT contain any of the samples I hold since most of them are one-cup quantity.

Note**: My partner, our home improvements, gadgets, mortgage, travel, wine and food have budget priority over tea.

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Toronto-ish, Canada

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