Panera

I was out running errands today and I definitely needed this tea. This is my go to out and about tea. And the fact that I can get it in a giant cup makes it even better.

This week has been pretty awful. Work has been unnecessarily stressful and one my favorite coworkers had their last day on Friday. Happy for them to move on but sad for me. In addition to that coworker, another friend is moving away this weekend. Too much at one time.

This counts as tea right? I can’t explain why Panera’s black iced tea is my favorite. But it is. Not too strong, just your basic unflavored black. It’s probably lipton’s.

Is there even tea in here? I don’t know, but this was pretty tasty.. if much too sweet. I wish I could have adjusted the sweetener to my liking, but whatever, it’s Panera. The spice combo is surprisingly good!

This is less like tea and more like a fruity-tea-juice-beverage. But its also very delicious, and makes for either a nice refreshing start to the day, or a mid-day ‘oh my god school is fucking terrible’ refresher.

I had this today with lunch (a Mediterranean Veggie Sandwich). This is very sweet and more milk than tea but it is still yummy. It has a primary flavor of ginger with a background of cinnamon and cloves. I really quite enjoy it, but you really can’t taste the tea part.

I will not lie, this has little to no green tea taste – it is very sweet, there is definite melon and citrus flavor, it tastes like more of a juice than a tea, but I do find myself ordering one every time I go there.

Something about iced tea, I just like it to be sweeter, and the fact that it is fruity really is a strong selling point for me. Very little green tea flavor, but very good.

Heard a lot of buzz about this one, so I stopped by Panera Bread this morning and grabbed a cup :) aahhh refreshing way to start my day. Kinda fruity and exotic and pretty weak on the grassiness but yet still a solid icerr. Apparently its national iced tea day today so happy iced tea day everyone :) All in all content with this one, gave a great start to another great morning in Sunny South Florida. Now its time to hit the sea for some fishing, yup yup if you didnt know im a pretty die-hard fisherman.. :P

VERY sweet, distinct melon flavor, maybe a hint of citrus. No discernable green tea taste. This is basically southern sweet tea in green (or maybe a slightly more whole version of Lipton’s bottled citrus green tea). It’s wet and sweet and that’s about it… Next time I’ll get my usual hot RoT honey green ginseng, I just wanted something cold today.