Have you ever wondered what a Pop-Tart tastes like in liquid form. Well it turns out that Davids Tea thought so as well. If you haven’t heard of Davids Tea, here is a brief summary. Their headquarters are in Montreal, and they have various stores here and there. One of them is in Oakville Place, which is convenient if you live in the Mississauga and Burlington areas.
When you walk into one of their stores, they have everything from tea to tea accessories. The best part is the wall of teas you have to choose from. Black, Green, Herbal, Rooibos, the list goes on. You can try a free sample of any of their teas, and if you want a full cup it will cost you about $2.20. Now some people would say the largest cup size from Tim Hortons is cheaper than that. They may be right, but this is premium loose-leaf tea. Its not some tea dust that falls of the assembly line that some how gets approved by health and safety and put into tea bags. I don’t necessarily have an issue with tea bags, but if you want a good cup of tea, loose-leaf is the better choice. But comparing these teas is like comparing a Smart Car to a Bugatti Veyron. Both have an engine and four wheels, but one has about 1,000 horsepower than the other. But enough of this tea grading nonsense, we’re here to talk about Pop-Tarts.
So, as part of Davids Tea spring collection of teas, Paradise Found is a black tea that tastes like a liquefied Pop-Tart. To me it was more of a mixed berry flavour, and I thoroughly enjoyed it. I had the tea with two percent milk and two pumps of agave, which is a natural sweetener as apposed to regular sugar. It was quite delicious, and I would definitely have another cup soon.
Though, I have this distinct feeling that Willa Wonka comes up with these crazy teas for Davids Tea. Because only he would make a tea that taste like Pop-Tarts, and one that tastes like fuzzy peaches. They even have a tea called Chocolate Chili Chai that has bits of chili flakes in it. That sounds very strange, but as a result the tea ends up tasting like a melted down fudgescicle.
But let's be realistic, we all know Willa Wonka doesn’t make tea, because if he did, there would be such thing as everlasting loose-leaf tea. Could you imagine, a tea that never looses flavour, no matter how many times you steep it? It would be amazing, but unfortunately we don’t live in the movie world, so we will just have to keep buying tea. Which is really not an issue because if you’re like me, you’re a tea enthusiast. It’s the same reason why you have a cupboard dedicated to your loose-leaf teas, why you use a tea timer, and very thoroughly read the steeping instructions. The same reason why you know not to poor boiling water directly over white tea, because the delicate leaves might get burnt under the intense temperature of the water. So going to buy more tea is no problem for you, or any tea drinker for that matter. Because at the end of the day when you walk into Davids Tea and have a huge wall of teas that you can buy or try out, you start to feel warm and inviting.
So, in conclusion, will I go back and have a cup of Paradise Found? Yes, and chances are 50 grams of it will be coming back home with me. And if you ever stayed up late wondering what a Pop-Tart would taste like in liquid form, Davids Tea has the answer.
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