T2's chocolate tea

Sorry tea fanatics, I've been off due to THRUSH OF THE MOUTH. I promised myself I'd tell the truth on this blog, no matter how bad a taste it leaves in your mouth. P.S. THE ORAL THRUSH MADE EVERYTHING TASTE REALLY BAD, so I couldn't really review tea this past week. Well I could have, but everything would have tasted like THRUSH OF THE MOUTH, so the reviews would have been pretty boring.

Fortunately I have some good friends, one of whom is named Sarah, who totally name-dropped my blog on Facebook, and the traffic doubled. Sarah bestowed upon me this bunch of interesting teas today, so I thought I'd start by getting the batting average back up with a delicious smelling tea: T2's chocolate tea.

Sarah is a tea Santa. She has a sack of teas and gave me
some to check off my list.

Initial observations:

Hot damn this smells good. It smells like chocolate self-saucing pudding! Also this is the first time I've used this little metal tea bag thing, and by the looks of it, it has barely worked at all; there is little tea giblets everywhere outside of it! Why aren't the holes smaller!? That's the last time I raid my kitchen for tea tools.

This is what happens when turn Life Settings to 'graphic'

First thoughts on the first sips:

Wow that's nice. It's subtle, but nice. Subtle, is a subtle way of saying it's weak though. It's really weak. Talcum powder is stronger than this tea:

Yes I just made this just for this.
Geology is cool okay! Don't give me
a hard time.

Many sips later:

I'm a big cocoa fan, and therefore anything with cocoa beans in it is good. I can definitely taste the black tea base, it's bitterness looming over me like a raven, nevermore. This smells so much damn better than it tastes. Tea is a mirage oasis people! All tea smells amazing, but is usually disappointingly weak. That isn't a generalisation, if I wanted watered down versions of nice food, I'd buy tea. Hell even after a sip this still smells amazing.
Okay revisiting my mug after 20 minutes and now finding out this actually gets better the colder it gets, who knew? Maybe it has application as iced tea?

Recommendation: 

I'd get it just to try it, it's not often you find yourself drinking chocolate tea, if even for the gimmick; because that's what this is, a cheap, watered down gimmick.

Final words:

No matter how much tea I try, I can't get no...

Sources:

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[2] http://mineral.esci.umn.edu/sites/mineral.esci.umn.edu/files/11568_0.JPG
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[5] http://www.gemstonebuzz.com/files/gemstone/apatit-nepheline.jpg
[6] http://core.ecu.edu/geology/harper/mineral/22lg.gif
[7] http://www.rocksforkids.com/images/quartz%200908%20quartz%20rose2.jpg
[8] http://www.collectionstudio.com/images/blog/collectors/Rob+Lavinsky/Imperial_Topaz.jpg
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