T2 – Terrific Toffee
Still full of enthusiasm for T2’s Bread and Butter Pudding tea yesterday, I made another selection from T2’s dessert trolley with this here Terrific Toffee tea.
This one wasn’t nearly as good. I mean, they’re setting themselves up for a fall anyway, by putting “terrific” in the tea’s name. It just comes across as a bit boastful. Sorry chaps.
And I don’t think “Terrific” Toffee is quite true. “Tolerable Toffee” would have been near the mark. (And you would keep the alliteration.)
I know it’s a bit daft to complain about a toffee flavour tea being too sweet when actual toffee is about 130% sugar, but I’m going to do just that. This tea is too sweet. There’s a knack to accurately recreating sweet things in tea form without having too much sweetness which this tea sadly lacks.
T2 have achieved this before with Bread and Butter Pudding and Baxter’s Buns. SaChasi Tea and Bird & Blend are both masters of the art. I doff my hat to any tea, which can pull it off. But with Terrific Toffee my hat remained firmly undoffed.
The ingredients here are black tea, nougat bits and flavourings. Mostly, it tastes like a cup of tea that’s had five teaspoons of sugar unceremoniously dumped into it.
The nougat comprises 30% of this tea’s makeup and contains almonds and honey (in addition to sugar and glucose syrup). Any honey or almond flavours were lost on me here. I even tried fishing out the nougat bits and eating them straight from the box, but I still couldn’t taste anything but sugar.
All in all, Terrific. Toffee was a bit of a disappointment. And why when the only non-tea ingredient in it is chunks of nougat, is it called Terrific Toffee at all? They should rename it Nugatory Nougat* instead. Or, better yet, remove it from the dessert trolley altogether and make room for the far more satisfactory blends that I know T2 are capable of.
*nugatory – adjective (/ˈnjuːɡət(ə)ri,ˈnuːɡət(ə)ri/): Of no value or importance.
Today’s featured book is Edward Lear’s Nonsense. This was selected because I thought it would reflect the whimsical nature of a toffee-based tea. In a nice bit of serendipity, ‘nonsense’ turned out to be a succinct and very accurate review of this tea blend.
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