Cooking TTB #13
Once again, I tried a tea without knowing what it was supposed to taste like and was left saying, “Seriously…what the heck?”
Now, if I was held at gunpoint and forced to give an answer to what this tea tastes like, I would have said a hot bath. I am well aware of the fact that I should not have tasted a hot bath before in order to even be able to compare a tea to a hot bath, but I’ll be damned if I could compare it to any other thing in this world. (For the record, I am now attributing said bath-like taste to the ginseng) It’s like when you eat something that tastes like horse (like pork chops—forgive me if you like pork chops)…only you’ve never eaten horse and what you really mean is that it tastes the way horses smell when they’re hanging out in a barn after racing….no? Am I the only person who totally associates smells with tastes? Those two senses sort of run on connected systems, so…I can’t be the only one.
Anyway, this tasted the way a hot bath smells when you don’t put any soap in and the water is all steamy. Yeah. So, this tea and I will probably never meet again, and that’s okay by me. But, I can appreciate its ability to give me a very strange sensory experience.
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No, you’re not alone in that. A smell can totally smell like a taste.
I have an oolong that tastes like a hot bath to me…yuck. It’s blue unicorn by tealux. Maybe it’s something to do with teas with blue in the name! Ha!
I get that a lot too, experiencing something like tastes like the smell of something else. A hot bath though? Must be crazily unusual.
No, you’re not alone in that. A smell can totally smell like a taste.
I have an oolong that tastes like a hot bath to me…yuck. It’s blue unicorn by tealux. Maybe it’s something to do with teas with blue in the name! Ha!
I get that a lot too, experiencing something like tastes like the smell of something else. A hot bath though? Must be crazily unusual.