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Happiness is...

Two buttermilk biscuits, hot from the oven, slathered in jam.

Thank you, Mr. Dough Boy.

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Happiness is...

Two buttermilk biscuits, hot from the oven, slathered in jam.

Thank you, Mr. Dough Boy.

Good Hope Vanilla

Bought: Nine months ago at a Whole Foods, an impulse buy as I'd tried some rooiboos before and hadn't liked it with ginger, flowers, or fruit flavors. I'd kind of liked it plain, but it was missing something. This is from The Republic of Tea, and it's in the unbleached tea bags. Yes. I use tea bags. :-)

Brewed: Full boil (203) 10 ounces of water for 1 bag. 4 minutes.
Leaf is much like liquor scent: vanilla, hibiscus, and tobacco
Leaf color: brownish red confetti, more bark than leaf..

Rooiboos has always tasted surprisingly like tea tinged with what tobacco smells like and an underlying hibiscus floral scent. Sweet like hibiscus, but it doesn't actually taste tangy or acidy. It's mellow, smooth, and the vanilla fills it out some more with bourbon and cream. There something in there that reminds me of the same low-grade wood tannins in tea that have to be there to support the taste. The body and texture is a lot like a good black, but I'll admit I would not mistake this for tea.

There's a lot about the health benefits of rooiboos, but like with white teas and green teas, if it didn't taste good I wouldn't go back. In this case, I've gone through a 36 bag tin in less than nine months. That's amazingly fast for me.

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Good Hope Vanilla

Bought: Nine months ago at a Whole Foods, an impulse buy as I'd tried some rooiboos before and hadn't liked it with ginger, flowers, or fruit flavors. I'd kind of liked it plain, but it was missing something. This is from The Republic of Tea, and it's in the unbleached tea bags. Yes. I use tea bags. :-)

Brewed: Full boil (203) 10 ounces of water for 1 bag. 4 minutes.
Leaf is much like liquor scent: vanilla, hibiscus, and tobacco
Leaf color: brownish red confetti, more bark than leaf..

Rooiboos has always tasted surprisingly like tea tinged with what tobacco smells like and an underlying hibiscus floral scent. Sweet like hibiscus, but it doesn't actually taste tangy or acidy. It's mellow, smooth, and the vanilla fills it out some more with bourbon and cream. There something in there that reminds me of the same low-grade wood tannins in tea that have to be there to support the taste. The body and texture is a lot like a good black, but I'll admit I would not mistake this for tea.

There's a lot about the health benefits of rooiboos, but like with white teas and green teas, if it didn't taste good I wouldn't go back. In this case, I've gone through a 36 bag tin in less than nine months. That's amazingly fast for me.

8 of 10

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There is nothing as heartfelt as the cry of a very tired four-year-old after his whacked his head for the FOURTH TIME in a row. My shoulder is soaked, poor guy.

I will admit though, that I'm very very tired of the phrase, "Thank you for telling me what you want. I appreciate that that is what you want, but I am NOT going to (put ice cream on your smoothie, pick up your spent tissue, pick you up AGAIN, let you blow more bubbles, let you play yet ANOTHER video game, play another cartoon for you, play more video games myself, tell you it's okay to have candy for dinner, etc. etc. etc.) do that/let you do that. Period."

Yes. Jet is testing boundaries.

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There is nothing as heartfelt as the cry of a very tired four-year-old after his whacked his head for the FOURTH TIME in a row. My shoulder is soaked, poor guy.

I will admit though, that I'm very very tired of the phrase, "Thank you for telling me what you want. I appreciate that that is what you want, but I am NOT going to (put ice cream on your smoothie, pick up your spent tissue, pick you up AGAIN, let you blow more bubbles, let you play yet ANOTHER video game, play another cartoon for you, play more video games myself, tell you it's okay to have candy for dinner, etc. etc. etc.) do that/let you do that. Period."

Yes. Jet is testing boundaries.