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[darchildre]

Okay, weird experiment explanation time. I drink a lot of tea, as you may have gathered, and I drink my tea with a lot of sugar. This is not ideal, as I sometimes feel that I consume more sugar in the course of the day than I would wish. But I can't drink tea without sugar - it's gross.

Then I thought "What if I made herbal tea from savory herbs? My brain won't expect that to be sweet, so drinking it unsweetened will be okay." So I've been trying that, and I also bought some things from the weird bulk tea section of my grocery store to experiment with: clover, and dandelion leaf, and dandelion root. Parsey tea is good, and so is sage.

All of this to say that today I made dandelion tea with a pinch of salt. And it tastes distressingly like drinking milk.

I have nothing against drinking milk when it's actually milk. But weird herbal tea that mysteriously tastes like milk instead of plants is kinda freaking me out.

Comments

[tricksters_queen]

This seriously had me laughing out loud at work just now. I mean, not a lot or anything, but I was chuckling audibly enough for a coworker to want to know what was so funny. :)

Yeah...I don't think I would want my tea to taste like milk. That would just be...bizarre.

[darchildre]

The laughing-at-work thing is a problem. With me, it always ends up being something I really don't want to share or something that takes about five minutes of set-up to explain and then isn't funny anymore. Alas!

Right? If I put milk in the tea, it can taste like milk. It shouldn't do that on its own!

[silveradept]

That seems like a useful thing to come away and spring upon someone as the crux of getting out of a bad situation.