Arrr!

I really wish Adagio would get in a new supply of Assam Melody so we could order our tea! Arrrrr.

That is all.

And the answer is...

Adagio is currently out of Assam Melody, which why we can order our tea yet. As soon as they get a new shipment, we're good to go.

And I'm a little too excited about the label. And hell no, I'm not making a video on my own. Although I could try to put an eyepatch on the cat and make that the video. There will be blood.

I have created our tea!

Alas, I am unable to order it immediately. (I e-mailed them to see why - I suspect there is some kind of turnaround time on new blends? Who knows.) That being said, they offer us the opportunity to create a video to promote our tea. This could be genius and/or craptacular, therefore I think we should totally do it.

Oh, and the label needs to be 700 x 300 pixels. I'll try to crank a couple of the photos below into that size, but of course it would be MUCH cooler if you wanted to draw something of your own!

The much delayed conclusion...

Yes, yes, this has been looking as though it's B's tea blog for a while. A sucks. There have been far, far too many words in her life recently. Thanks, work.

That being said, I still wanna create our tea! I vote for this:

Assam Melody: 50%
Rum: 30%
Spice: 20%

I find it only appropriate that we then give this tea a pirate name, because pirates make everything better.

Vote for:

A) Yo ho hos!
B) Arrrrr!
C) Hey there, sailor!
D) Johnny Depp!


Please advise. And figure out a picture that we can upload to the label.


Arrrr,
A

Liquor? I don't even know her!

Yes, that's crass. But whatever.

So for the continuing tea selection adventure, Adagio offers two alcohol-flavored teas: rum and pina colada. The notion of a pina colada tea makes me break out in a cold sweat, so I'm thinking rum.

And maybe the base tea should be something simple, like Assam?

That leaves the third element of the mix - caramel? vanilla? What else would go with rum?

There comes a point in everyone's life...

...when one woman turns to another and says: "Bitch, we must develop our own signature tea."

B? Bitch? We must develop our own signature tea.

This comes out of my recent order from Adagio Teas, where I went to get a sampler of white tea because, well, I've never had white tea that didn't taste like warm diluted Crystal Light. More in this in another post, because when I ordered my tea, they made me the proverbial offer we can't refuse: to design our own tea blend.

So here goes: Select three teas from their list, then select the percentage of each tea in the blend, name it and upload a photo. You can then order it and cry when you have 4 oz. of undrinkable tea.

But, because I am not one to lack in self-esteem, I think our tea will be genius. We can do eet!

First, let's talk which three teas. Obviously decaf is out, because, I mean, gawd, whatever!? They then have other categories - black; green; oolong; flavored; Crystal Light - I mean, white; herbal and rooibos.

From there, they have a billion subcategories, but first things first, right? I vote for a blend of black, green and flavored. Why? Because I just read in a book that Jane Austen mixed black and green and I'm unhealthily obsessed with catty dead writers. And you?

Rworr.

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Alas, due to cat drama (she's fine, minus one right canine tooth and did you know the root to said tooth extends up to the cat's sinus?) and a sudden medication schedule for the beastie, Yoga Boot Camp was foreshortened.

However, I do feel obligated to report on the tea that was served last Saturday and Sunday: Yogi Tea's Redbush Chai, which was neither redbush nor chai. But probably a pretty inoffensive starter tea for people who are interested in trying these varieties.