Teapsy – Summer Camp
It is very definitely summer out there. So it seemed like a good time to break open some Teapsy Summer Camp tea. This is a blend of Sri Lankan black tea, cocoa nibs, cocoa shells, safflower and natural flavourings.
The purpose of the safflower is, apparently, to make the contents of the teabag look like a campfire, which it kind of does, I suppose, if you’re the sort of person who spends time looking at the contents of your teabag through its silky biodegradable mesh.
This is an honest-to-goodness black tea and chocolate combo, so it obviously found favour in the Tea Fancier household. I do love a chocolatey black tea. I’m not sure why chocolate is considered the flavour of summer camps. Maybe it’s a nod to s’mores. I’m pretty sure Teapsy is a British company, but all their cultural references seem to come from the other side of the Atlantic.
I’ve never had a s’more myself. The closest thing I’ve had to going to a summer camp was my Duke of Edinburgh expedition. The dominant flavours of that trip were reconstituted Beanfeasts and Woolworth’s strawberry bootlaces.
There must have been tea as well. Even as a teenager, I can’t imagine I would have prepared to embark on a ten-mile hike without a nice cup of tea inside me. (Although obviously, it wouldn’t have been fancy schmancy cocoa-infused tea. I didn’t know such things existed back then. And this particular blend definitely wouldn’t have existed given that the company was founded in 2022.)
I’m not much given to camping these days. I think of myself as the sort of person who will happily bung a few belongings under a bag and sleep under canvas. I used to be. But, hey, we all change as we grow older and nowadays I only holiday in places where I have easy access to a toilet at 3 am.
But, you know, if I did decide to go camping again, I would be totally up for packing some Teapsy Summer Camp tea to take with me. It would be just the thing to give me the energy I’d need to erect a tent and carry all my dirty dishes to the washing-up tap at the other end of the campsite.
Today’s featured book is Learned Optimism by Martin Seligman because this tea should be paired with some positivity.
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