Disney – Remy’s Recipe (La Recette de Remy)
Note: I usually include a link in the subheading to where you can buy this tea online. But you can’t buy this tea online so I have included a link to Disneyland Paris. I accept that this would be a fairly expensive way to source some tea.)
When my daughter went to Thailand, I asked if she could pick up some tea. Thailand is well-known as a tea-producing nation. Funnily enough, when she went to Disneyland, I didn’t make the same request. Disneyland may be a land with its own historic and unique cultural heritage, but it is not known for its tea.
(Although it does have teacup rides, those don’t even have tea in them. A theme park ride that required you to immerse yourself in scalding hot liquid would be quite the experience.)
And yet. Here we are. My daughter still managed to source some tea for me in the most unprepossessing of tea-purchasing holiday destinations. I present to you Remy from Ratatouille’s Red Berry Flavoured Black Tea. They missed a trick not making this actually ratatouille flavoured but maybe the world isn’t ready for aubergine, tomato and courgette tea yet.
Let’s get the taste part of Remy’s Recipe tea out of the way at the outset. It’s not good. The tea base is flavourless, and there’s not a lot of help coming from the raspberry flavouring, strawberry flavouring, blackberry flavouring, strawberry pieces and hibiscus flowers.
And, yes. The ingredients are listed in that order. How on earth can flavourings be larger in weight than actual fruit and flower pieces? Either there are spoonfuls of flavouring powder in here, or the actual strawberries have been added in near homoeopathic quantities.
Remy’s Recipe tea tastes like some undefined 1970s confectionary. And by golly, I tried to define it because I felt like it reminded me of something very specific, but I couldn’t quite nail it down. I kept foisting cups of Remy’s Recipe tea on fellow Gen Xers to see if they could help. The closest I got was ‘dusty fruit pastille from the bottom of your handbag’.
But such negativity really misses the whole point of this tea. This tea has been devised and produced by Remy the rat from Ratatouille. That’s one hell of a celebrity endorsement. Who needs dusty old nineteenth-century prime ministers with their bergamot blends when we can have a tea honouring the best chef in Paris?
It’s just a shame that while Remy might be a dab paw at soups, omelettes and Confit byaldi, his tea-blending expertise needs a bit more work.
Today’s book pairing is The Day of the Dead Drawing Book by Maddy Brook. Obviously this would have been more appropriate for a Coco-themed tea, but I didn’t have any rat-chef-themed books to hand. And I used a Thumper from Bambi mug as well, so clearly I was just grabbing any vaguely Disney-themed things I had to hand.
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