Well of course, I’d always rather be on the fizz cos it means there’s something to celebrate (or there isn’t, but there ought to be) but right now I am rather enjoying the old teapigs still.
I wasn’t convinced about chocolate flake tea (sweet drinks? ugh) but sometimes needs must. I turned to it when I was having one of my fasting sessions and it got me through – does actually taste like you’ve dipped some cadbury’s chocolate fingers (a small passion I devoted about a quarter of my first novel to) into the cup, which is probably because you sort of have – it has real flakes of the brown stuff in it. And I liked it! Which was a surprise as the tea bit is assam and I’m more of a darjeeling woman. Not sure I’d want it all the time but good as a pick-me-up when you can’t eat the real stuff.
My absolute favourite so far is Jasmine Pearls – this is really lovely – little balls of tightly wound jasmine leaves and buds in the pig bit – that unfurl in the water to produce a really aromatic, flowery, light (God, I’m rubbish at this descriptive bit – would never make a restaurant critic – hang on what do they say? “Very delicate green tea with a light, floral, refreshing, natural jasmine taste.” Oh, am not doing so badly then) flavour. I LOVED this one.
What I also love is the teapigs’
mood-o-meter
whereby you can choose tea according to your current state. It includes…
hungover
grumpy
wrinkled
podgy
stressed
Jane Wenham-Jones 
That does sound delicious – to the eyes as well as taste buds.
Thanks for sharing.
For goodness sake, woman, just chuck a PG Tips bag in your mug like everyone else! This Islington image is so passe.
thanks Bill. And YMM (MMM?) Such a philistine…. 🙂
Jasmine Pearls. Sounds lovely. My teas were gorgeous, Jane. Thank you! And Your Mate Mike doesn’t know what he is missing. Islington Image? Maybe just open-minded, willing to try new things? I believe TeaPigs have teas for ‘stuck in a rut’ 🙂
And there was I thinking they did only a ‘Pretentious’ range. I have tried everything from strawberry teas to leaves-lovingly-grazed-by-goats-on-a-south-facing-slope teas and still reckon PG takes some beating.
I would just like to stress that at no point have I ever given Teapig permission to use my face on their descriptions and I hope (for their part) that any likeness is purely coincidence…now, where do I get me some of this stuff?