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Bird & Blend Advent Calendar Day 17 – Mince Pie
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We’re on day 17 of Advent and the tea in my Bird & Blend advent calendar today is MINCE PIE!
Mince pies are amazing. They are the Christmassiest food there is. They are probably the Christmassiest ANY kind of thing there is. Sure, there’s Santa and tinsel and trees and Wizzard singing ‘I wish it could be Christmas every day’. There’s also Jesus’s if you’re into that sort of thing. But nothing says Christmas like a mince pie. If you’ve got some pastry-encased spiced fruit in your hand then you’re totally Doing Christmas Right.
Bird & Blend have done it proud with this Mince Pie-flavoured tea. It tastes exactly like the real thing. Uncannily so.
It tastes like someone has blitzed some mince pies in a blender, dried out the results, mixed it with some tea, and put it in a tea bag. I’d like to think that is exactly how Bird & Blend actually makes it, but the ingredients tell me that it is, in fact, made from Sri Lankan black tea, cinnamon, almond pieces, orange peel, red cornflowers and natural flavouring.
No matter how they came by it, the result is a cup of unparalleled festive awesomeness. It’s going straight to Number 1 in my tea ranking. My only worry is that Bird & Blend – by having this in the 17 box rather than holding it back for the 24th – may have peaked too early. It can’t possibly get any more Christmassy than this.
Tea Ranking
- Mince Pie (17th Dec)
- Hazelnut Rocher (7th Dec)
- Gingerbread Chai (16th Dec)
- Salted Caramel Lebkuchen (13th Dec)
- Panettone (11th Dec)
- Banana Bread Chai (12th Dec)
- Fairytale of NY (9th Dec)
- Poppin’ Xmas Butter Toffee (6th 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)
- Cold Weather Warrior (15th Dec)
- Fireside Snuggles (8th Dec)
Today’s featured book continues to be The Night Before Christmas by Clement C Moore. I have once again managed to feature the same page two days in a row. Shocking planning on my part. Honestly, you wouldn’t think it would be that hard to keep track of these things, would you?
