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Okay, I have to say that there is something going on here which just leaves me utterly perplexed. I’m not picking on you, Ricky, but I think you are about the 15th review of our teas that I’ve read that started something like, “I really don’t like X, but I decided to try 52teas X flavored tea.”
I guess I should be happy that our powers of salesmanship are so great that people still buy our teas whether they think they will like them or not. “I HATE liver and onions, but LOOK, 52teas has a liver and onion flavored tea! I have to have it!” :)
Sorry. I bit my tongue on a lot of other reviews like this and I just finally had to say something. I feel better now, thanks.
Woaps! I’ll edit my post and state that I received this from the traveling tea box. Don’t worry, I wouldn’t have bought this if I didn’t like it in the first place =P
It’s okay, really. I probably still shouldn’t have said anything except I just keep running across the same types of reviews and every time it just makes me scratch my head.
Anyway, it totally makes more sense knowing you got it from the traveling tea box. Hope there was something in there from us that you DO like. Have a great day!
I don’t think it’s a bad thing to get something that your’re not sure you’ll like. I generally think that everybody ought now and then to try something that they previously didn’t like, because sometimes your tastes have changed or something is an acquired flavour that will grow on you. This has been my experience with this particular one.
Furthermore, it might also be that someone will find that the stuff they don’t like on its own works in tea. I mean we’ve all seen examples of the opposite thing. Something we like a lot otherwise, but can’t stand as flavour in tea. For me that’s peaches for example. There is no reason why the phenomenon shouldn’t work the other way around.
But I agree that it’s weird that people will buy something that they’re honestly doubtful that they’ll like. I think it has to do with being adventurous in the areas of one’s interest.
You know, from what I’ve been reading recently, it seems pumpkin pie/spice flavored teas are usually hit or miss, with a lot of misses. Personally, I hate it when my tea tastes “squash”-like or sweet-potato-y, so I probably wouldn’t like pumpkin pie tea. But yeah, sometimes you can be surprised by what you like in a tea and don’t like in real life. For example, I don’t like coconut things usually, but I don’t mind it in tea.
No need to apologize, Ricky. You reviewed the tea according to your taste, and that’s all that matters! This is your personal tea log, not anyone else’s, and you clearly stated in your review that you’re unfamiliar with pumpkin pie. Pumpkin pie lovers will understand that. That doesn’t mean, however, that your review is invalid just because you dislike pumpkin pie.
No one’s reviews are invalid on Steepster!
Unfortunately there were only two teas from 52teas in there upon my arrival. On the bright side, your pina colada is so delicious that I’m almost out of it! Having plain honeybush right now and I miss your pina colada already.
Ohh Angrboda… I took a sampler of the Gunpowder Blend, well now Black Powder Explosion Blend, and I’m scared! Lapsang round two? Haha. I don’t know if I’m ready to kill myself yet. Will it be similar to your peach experience? =P
Yeah, I feel that tea can taste different from it’s food equivalent when blended with the right things. I guess that’s why I try strange teas. I didn’t like Earl Grey or chai at first, but I’m slowly getting accustomed to it. It’s like if your stranded on an island with nothing to eat except umm the one food you hate the most… rhetorically speaking of course… you’ll grow to love it =]
But poor pumpkin pie was doomed from the beginning. It didn’t stand a chance!
Well I love it (obviously) and I love LS too. :p I find the black powder blend is smoothed out a bit more on the smokyness due to the EBB base and the green tea in it, so it might be tolerable for you.
Or it might not be.
But if you like it enough to get through the first cup, I’ve found that there are generally two good steeps in it. Sometimes three if I’m really really careful with it and don’t mess it up by oversteeping.
Okay, I have to say that there is something going on here which just leaves me utterly perplexed. I’m not picking on you, Ricky, but I think you are about the 15th review of our teas that I’ve read that started something like, “I really don’t like X, but I decided to try 52teas X flavored tea.”
I guess I should be happy that our powers of salesmanship are so great that people still buy our teas whether they think they will like them or not. “I HATE liver and onions, but LOOK, 52teas has a liver and onion flavored tea! I have to have it!” :)
Sorry. I bit my tongue on a lot of other reviews like this and I just finally had to say something. I feel better now, thanks.
Woaps! I’ll edit my post and state that I received this from the traveling tea box. Don’t worry, I wouldn’t have bought this if I didn’t like it in the first place =P
It’s okay, really. I probably still shouldn’t have said anything except I just keep running across the same types of reviews and every time it just makes me scratch my head.
Anyway, it totally makes more sense knowing you got it from the traveling tea box. Hope there was something in there from us that you DO like. Have a great day!
I don’t think it’s a bad thing to get something that your’re not sure you’ll like. I generally think that everybody ought now and then to try something that they previously didn’t like, because sometimes your tastes have changed or something is an acquired flavour that will grow on you. This has been my experience with this particular one.
Furthermore, it might also be that someone will find that the stuff they don’t like on its own works in tea. I mean we’ve all seen examples of the opposite thing. Something we like a lot otherwise, but can’t stand as flavour in tea. For me that’s peaches for example. There is no reason why the phenomenon shouldn’t work the other way around.
But I agree that it’s weird that people will buy something that they’re honestly doubtful that they’ll like. I think it has to do with being adventurous in the areas of one’s interest.
You know, from what I’ve been reading recently, it seems pumpkin pie/spice flavored teas are usually hit or miss, with a lot of misses. Personally, I hate it when my tea tastes “squash”-like or sweet-potato-y, so I probably wouldn’t like pumpkin pie tea. But yeah, sometimes you can be surprised by what you like in a tea and don’t like in real life. For example, I don’t like coconut things usually, but I don’t mind it in tea.
No need to apologize, Ricky. You reviewed the tea according to your taste, and that’s all that matters! This is your personal tea log, not anyone else’s, and you clearly stated in your review that you’re unfamiliar with pumpkin pie. Pumpkin pie lovers will understand that. That doesn’t mean, however, that your review is invalid just because you dislike pumpkin pie.
No one’s reviews are invalid on Steepster!
Unfortunately there were only two teas from 52teas in there upon my arrival. On the bright side, your pina colada is so delicious that I’m almost out of it! Having plain honeybush right now and I miss your pina colada already.
Ohh Angrboda… I took a sampler of the Gunpowder Blend, well now Black Powder Explosion Blend, and I’m scared! Lapsang round two? Haha. I don’t know if I’m ready to kill myself yet. Will it be similar to your peach experience? =P
Yeah, I feel that tea can taste different from it’s food equivalent when blended with the right things. I guess that’s why I try strange teas. I didn’t like Earl Grey or chai at first, but I’m slowly getting accustomed to it. It’s like if your stranded on an island with nothing to eat except umm the one food you hate the most… rhetorically speaking of course… you’ll grow to love it =]
But poor pumpkin pie was doomed from the beginning. It didn’t stand a chance!
Well I love it (obviously) and I love LS too. :p I find the black powder blend is smoothed out a bit more on the smokyness due to the EBB base and the green tea in it, so it might be tolerable for you.
Or it might not be.
But if you like it enough to get through the first cup, I’ve found that there are generally two good steeps in it. Sometimes three if I’m really really careful with it and don’t mess it up by oversteeping.