* Claus-trophobia!
Bird & Blend Advent Calendar Day 23 – Bucks Fizz
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I’m very disappointed with today’s advent calendar offering.
After a nice long run of proper black tea and rooibos blends, with this Bucks Fizz tea, we are once again back on generic orange/hibiscus/rosehip fruity tisane territory.
This is not, however, the source of my disappointment.
Bucks Fizz‘s box promised “gold sparkles”. I may have been unimpressed with the tea’s ingredients list but the idea of sparkly glitter in my tea had me very excited indeed.
Friends, there were no sparkles.
There was a bit of funny-looking sediment atop my cup. But nothing that could – by any stretch of the imagination – be considered gold sparkles. I was expecting glitter and I got a cup of un-shimmery watery fruit flavours.
This tea won’t be going to the absolute bottom of the tea ranking list because there are Lapsang Souchongs and things that tastes like Vicks vaporub down there. It’s going to the bottom of the fruity tisanes though. Not because it tastes any worse than the others but because it let me down.
I was promised sparkles. I want my sparkles.
Tea Ranking
- Mince Pie (17th Dec)
- Hazelnut Rocher (7th Dec)
- Chocolate Digestives (18th Dec)
- Snowball (18th Dec)
- Gingerbread Chai (16th Dec)
- Salted Caramel Lebkuchen (13th Dec)
- Christmas Cake (21st Dec)
- Panettone (11th Dec)
- Rhubarb & Custard (20th Dec)
- Banana Bread Chai (12th Dec)
- Fairytale of NY (9th Dec)
- Poppin’ Xmas Butter Toffee (6th Dec)
- Dark Choc Chilli Chai (22nd Dec)
- Candy Cane (5th Dec)
- Winter Is Coming (4th Dec)
- Peppermint Hot Cocoa (3rd Dec)
- Mistletoe and Wine (14th Dec)
- Christmas Cranberry Pie (1st Dec)
- Cherry Cola Bottles (10th Dec)
- Mulled Cider (2nd Dec)
- Bucks Fizz (23rd Dec)
- Cold Weather Warrior (15th Dec)
- Fireside Snuggles (8th Dec)
