Bird & Blend – Candy Floss
Bird & Blend’s Candy Floss tea is a surprisingly pleasant tea blend. I say ‘surprising’ because the primary flavours of actual candy floss are sugar and air. Bird & Blend have thought outside the flavour box however and gone for a blend of Chinese white tea, apple, hibiscus, elderberries, rosehip, strawberries and cornflowers.
Normally I’m a bit disparaging when Bird & Blend roll out the old apple, rosehip and hibiscus trio. Those three ingredients are the equivalent of mixed herbs in the Bird & Blend tea-blending kitchen. They clearly think they go with everything.
It works fine here. A sturdy white tea base and some additional berry flavours help. But I think I was mostly OK with it this time because it’s been a while since I last had a tea with these flavours. I got very annoyed during Bird & Blend Advent Calendar Season (or ‘December’ as it prefers to be known) when it seemed like every second tea was some apple, rosehip and hibiscus blend.
Candy Floss is known as Cotton Candy in the US. The mechanical cotton candy machine was invented by Tennessee dentist, William Morrison. That’s a bit weird, isn’t it? A dentist inventing mass-produced candy floss? You’d think he’d have been against such things. Maybe, he figured that promoting excess sugar consumption in the populace was a good way to drum up more dentistry business.
Morrison’s cotton candy machine was introduced at the 1904 St. Louis World’s Fair. This is the same world fair that is the focus of the 1944 movie Meet Me In St Louis. I think we can all agree that the story of the sugar-loving Tennessee dentist and his tooth-rot contraption would have made a much better story than Judy Garland and her dull family’s.
Bird & Blend’s Candy Floss is a pleasant – if unspectacular – tea blend. Mind you, if you do want some spectacle, then you need only to look at the tea ingredients before you brew them. Candy Floss tea is festooned with multi-coloured cornflowers and star-shaped sprinkles. If you were wondering which tea would make the best biodegradable confetti to hurl at freshly-married couples, then I would strongly recommend this one.
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