What am I going to do about the tea?
When we went to Germany last year I
brought back a lot of tea. To me, at least, Germany is to tea what
France & Belgium are to chocolate. The flavor combinations are
amazing, and the sheer variety available boggles the mind. Since
I've done this a few times I have a system perfectly worked out. I'd
drink the tea I brought back home sparingly, so that it would last
until the next time I got to replenish my stock straight from the
source.
And then the Coronavirus went and
canceled the chance to replenish my stock. I mean, the Coronavirus
went and canceled our trip.
Bummer.
Breakfast buffets in Germany (and all
of Europe, for that matter) are amazing, if only because they
introduce you to the strangest (and yummiest) tea flavors in the
world. That Fennel/Anise/Caraway Seed tea that I'm so fond of?
Discovered at a breakfast buffet. The same with Vanilla/Honey/Sage
and all the other ones I like so much. So when I'm there I grab a
couple bags of each new flavor, and then enjoy them when I'm back
home. If I'm lucky, I'll then get to buy a box or three the next
time I'm back.
Now, though, the bag of teas liberated
from breakfast buffets last year is almost empty. I'd timed it out
perfectly, so I'd run out right before we went back to Leipzig at the
end of April. Only now, we're not going back at the end of April.
So here's my (first world) dilemma—do I keep drinking the teas I
still have, only to run out in a few weeks? Or do I ration the three
bags I have left until I know I'll be able to get some more? I enjoy
drinking them, so I don't know that I want to wait. On the other
hand, the teas are a year old now (I picked them up at the end of
April 2019). If I ration them out over the next however many months,
will the start to lose a little of their tea luster?
Once I drink them, they're gone. But
if I don't drink them, I have no idea if they'll be drinkable in the
future.
See what the Coronavirus did??
Of course, if this is the biggest
problem I have coming out of those whole period of insanity, I'm one
lucky person. Drinking teas should be the least of anyone's worries.
So I'll shut up about it now.
8-)
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