All my life I've drunk tea the 'British way' (with milk) because hey, that's how we drink it in South Africa too. Ever since I've been spending more time in mainland Europe however I started to expand from just your average black tea into a whole world of flavours and spices and blends...all without milk! European tea and coffee houses are really the best! It did take a lot of convincing, however...I will always remember the running joke of the family of my ex-boyfriend about how I used to drink 'baby tea' because it had milk in it.
In Austria and Germany they have a brand of tea called Teekanne. Teekane specialise in herbal and fruit teas, and I think you can even get them in America now. I think they have the most delightful names...take a look at these:
"French Kiss" (a strawberry and cherry flavoured tea)
"Heisse Liebe" ("Hot Love".A raspberry and vanilla flavoured tea...my personal favourite! I have boxes of it!)
"Kleine Suende" (This is hard to translate. I think it almost means something like "Little Sinner". It's a blueberry and vanilla flavoured tea)
Aren't those tea names all just adorable? And they taste great too! Check out the other flavours over here
All pictures sourced from: www.austria-onlineshop.com, www.teekanne.at and www.emmas-enkel.de
Ahw why don't we have those in the Netherlands?!! I always take the celestials, nothing beats a good cup of tea :)
ReplyDeleteI think you have tons of great flavours there too though! Way better than in England. We literally have the most boring tea flavours on earth. That's why I like it when I'm in The Netherlands and someone presents me with their tea box to pick a random new flavour to try...:P I already asked my boyfriend (he is Dutch) the other day to find me a mint and apple flavour tea because I got it in my head that this would be a really great combination flavour. We didn't really come up with any results so instead he's going to bring me some apple vanilla Turkish tea instead to try. Long live boyfriends!
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