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The last time I ordered the Golden Assam tea I like from McNulty's, I asked them to also send 1/4 pound of the "blended chocolate tea." I just tried a cup, and there's no there there. It's a not very interesting blended black tea, with little or no detectable chocolate. I tried it black, and then added sugar: the sugar made me think vague chcolate thoughts, but I think that was because all the chocolates I eat are sweetened, almost always with sugar. With milk and sugar, it might as well have been Red Rose: drinkable, but no more than that, and weaker than I expected for the amount of tea I used.
I poured that out, put the kettle on again, and am now drinking a cup of my usual Assam. While I drink an occasional cup of spice tea (mostly various "chai spice" teabags), my day-t0-day tea is the Assam, Irish breakfast (sometimes teabags are easier), and various teas in that direction that are the closest that a given restaurant or cafe has. Until I was writing this, it didn't occur to me that I could have made spiced tea instead of plain after giving up on the "chocolate."
I mostly order from McNulty's by phone, rather than going online and possibly looking at the catalog. The phone conversations manage to be both brief and chatty; they have my address and a credit card number on file, and the guy at the store once apologized for not recognizing my voice after I gave my name(!) This time, I'd been looking at their online catalog because someone posted about the chocolate spice tea she liked having been discontinued/replaced with something different under the same name, and I was wondering whether either McNulty's or Porto Rico had an alternative. I didn't think a non-spice chocolate tea would satisfy, but was feeling curious enough to order some.
I poured that out, put the kettle on again, and am now drinking a cup of my usual Assam. While I drink an occasional cup of spice tea (mostly various "chai spice" teabags), my day-t0-day tea is the Assam, Irish breakfast (sometimes teabags are easier), and various teas in that direction that are the closest that a given restaurant or cafe has. Until I was writing this, it didn't occur to me that I could have made spiced tea instead of plain after giving up on the "chocolate."
I mostly order from McNulty's by phone, rather than going online and possibly looking at the catalog. The phone conversations manage to be both brief and chatty; they have my address and a credit card number on file, and the guy at the store once apologized for not recognizing my voice after I gave my name(!) This time, I'd been looking at their online catalog because someone posted about the chocolate spice tea she liked having been discontinued/replaced with something different under the same name, and I was wondering whether either McNulty's or Porto Rico had an alternative. I didn't think a non-spice chocolate tea would satisfy, but was feeling curious enough to order some.
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