Tea or Coffee?

My local supermarket has stopped selling Irn Bru. I am not amused.

Sugary for the win!

I don't drink tea or coffee, and I despise artificial sweeteners.

I have no idea what root beer is. Is it alcoholic?

You don't have root beer in the UK. It is a very popular soft drink here n the US.


en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Root_beer

Also, diet coke is awful: I prefer the full fat coca-cola.

Root beer is meh, diet coke is meh, diet anything is meh. Any normal soda like Coca-Cola or Fanta wins. Here we also have soda water, my favorite is You C-1000's versions. Since the normal You C-1000 is too much for my stomach, I can handle the water version much better.

A professor at our hospital gifted us a coffee machine with some small coffee boxes to make our own espresso and latte. I wish he sent us something related to tea instead lol!

Rooibos latte, anyone? That's what I ordered at a coffeeshop last Sunday since they didn't have any decaf Earl Grey to make a London Fog. So, the downtown coffeeshop makes a great rooibos latte, but the winner for local coffeeshops goes to the place uptown (literally uptown, since it's up the hill!) because that's where they have lots of decaf options plus dairy alternatives... Starbucks is way lower on the list, though, since it's just a tiny one in the grocery store and the employees often don't know their teas. (Sigh)

Tea is such a versatile drink. There is everything from peppermint, blackcurrant to camomile. I, personally, love good old Tetley tea or PG Tips.

I can't be bothered with fancy tea!

Big scandle thats broken here is that there is sugar in your tea bags...especially if you drnk fruit flavoured or mixed blends but even in bags marked pure rooibos 1% was sugar.


Hjalmar Permentier of the UMCG ( University Medical Center Groningen) exposed the whole thing earlier this year, in some cases up to 5% of the contents of a tea bag were sugar globules that often look like small brown or white grains.

www.tellerreport.com/life/2021-08-05-sugar-in-your-tea--manufacturers-use-the-word--aroma-.rJWjN-J91Y.html

My favourite tea company is Celestial Seasonings. Occasionally, I'll get Tetley for decaf Earl Grey (to make a London Fog!) and Stash (for a few flavours, including decaf English Breakfast). I sure hope those companies are being honest about their teas!

London fog? 

Earl Grey latte with vanilla syrup. Yum! Younger sis introduced me to the drink at Starbucks way back when, proving that even a non-coffee-drinker can find something they'll like at Starbucks!

I make mine with heated coconut milk (microwave, since I'm lazy) and I have the sugar-free vanilla syrup that's used in the coffeeshops (though I haven't bought the actual pump top to measure well).

Other great lattes: rooibos, Candy Cane Lane (Celestial Seasonings, decaf green tea with peppermint), strawberry pomegranate, English Breakfast... Just about any flavour of tea!

Bags, wouldn't that be improper?

I use pre-bagged and loose-leaf teas. However, some bags have microplastic and nanoplastic particles that can leech into your drink when boiled.. so I just cut them open and make it loose-leaf lol