Honest Tea

Okay, so I was all set to relate the won­ders of Hon­est Tea, a tea drink in a bot­tle ($1.35 here in the mid­dle of the Mid­west) that was billed to me as delight­ful and only slightly sweet. I have a sweet tooth when it comes to drinks, and it would do me good to kick that par­tic­u­lar habit. So today I got three bot­tles when the boy and I gave Mommy some alone time with a trip to the gro­cery store:

• Gold Rush Cin­na­mon — This stuff smells great, sweet, with a lot of cin­na­mon. It tastes pretty good, too, but here is the trick for tea: it smells much stronger than it tastes. In the case of this one, that’s not bad. I would drink this again, and might even go out of my way to look for it.
• Lori’s Lemon Tea — Pretty plain, bor­ing tea. If you can’t be both­ered to make it your­self, you could spend some money to buy this. I was hop­ing, from the name, that it would be more like a lemon­ade tea, but it’s more like a tea, with lemon wedge.
• Moroc­can Mint Tea — Not so impres­sive. Smells like mint, has an after­taste of mint, but the mint tea we used to brew at home from the pep­per­mint leaves we got at the New Pio­neer Coop was much better.

That said, I am look­ing for­ward to find­ing some of their other fla­vors. From their web site, I can see being inter­ested in Vanilla Mint White Tea and Kash­miri Chai. They also have a new line of fruit juices com­ing out, but they might defeat the pur­pose (reduc­ing my depen­dence on sweet drinks).

The wife is of the opin­ion, and rightly so, that we could make much of this at home. If I could get Hon­est Tea at work, or the fla­vors I like, it would be great. But buy­ing it at the store and bring­ing it home (where I could be mak­ing my own tea) does seem silly. I do like their phi­los­o­phy though, and who can resist the whimsy of their naming?