After teaching classes at the Heralds and Scribes event out in Rome, NY, a group of us went out to dinner at DiCastro's in Rome. Tasty food, really nice wait staff, all in all an excellent place. The iced tea was perfectly adequate as a caffeine delivery system to stave off my headache.
But.
There's always a "but" in these stories, isn't there?
+Juliean Galak ordered hot tea. What he received was a cup of hot water with a tea bag from a company I had never heard of (a coffee company, to boot). This tea was so far "off brand" that it was recognizable as tea only by the fact that it came in the classic bag-shaped form with paper wrapper. It produced a bitter brown water with a disturbingly mineral-ish tang, rather as if someone had distilled the essence of Cooper's Lake's rock-hard orange water into tisane form. Really, only the fact that the bag produced a brown brew rather than an orange one disproved this theory. It was wretched and vile, and not even sheer desperation would have driven me to do more than taste it. I tasted it only to provide this necessary warning to others. Beware the off-off-off-brand Lipton knock-off.
Because I drink bad tea, so you don't have to.
You owe me. :-)
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