caveat emptor

[deird1]

So, the question is, having bought a new kind of tea that I despise, do I:

1) Throw it out, and laugh off the expense?
2) Stoically drink my way through the whole disgusting lot of it, and let it be a lesson to me?
3) Keep it hidden in a drawer in the hopes of one day finding someone who wants to take it off my hands?


It's black tea with extra caramel - and turns out to taste just like a weird form of coffee. Given that I drink tea to avoid all things coffee...

Comments

[velvetwhip]

Give it to someone you dislike.


Gabrielle

[angearia]

Maybe set it out with an advertisement:

Single black tea seeking someone with a sweet tooth to love and devour it.

You could be the tea's matchmaker!

[swellen.livejournal.com]

Bring it to life group tonight and give it to me, who will probably like it. (I'd offer to pay you for it, but I am broke. I can, however, swap it for a fruity berry sweet tea that I bought and don't like...)

[swellen.livejournal.com]

Sorry, that sounded like an order. I meant to put a 4) at the front to make it a suggestion...

[deird1]

Hurrah! I will do that. :)

[swellen.livejournal.com]

And I shall (hopefully remember to) bring the two teas I bought and didn't really love.

[snickfic]

Gifting is definitely in order. Stick it in a pretty glass jar with a ribbon and give it to the aunt whom you can never figure out a gift for and who always gives you unfortunate scarves.

[(Anonymous)]

"Sometimes you have to chuck out the 'chicken'". Is the stress of having it sitting there, reminding you of your error, greater than the stress of throwing it away and 'wasting' money.

[stultiloquentia]

Have you ever felt the urge to make a treasure map, or a set of "found" letters, such as one might find at the bottom of a trunk in a cobwebby and gabled attic?

[deird1]

Definitely. Why?

[stultiloquentia]

Dying paper with tea is the classic way to make it look aged. :)

[deird1]

Excellent idea... *plots*

[guy-who-reads.blogspot.com]

I think the standard response is to keep it against the possibility that some random house guest will love exactly that tea. I know that we have about a million different little boxes and bags of tea that none of US will touch, but that we hope others might take off our hands.

But, exchanging it for something that you might like is also a very good idea.

[watchingtheaeroplanes.blogspot.com]

You have housemates! :-p Although you appear to have already given it away, if this sort of thing crops up again, we're happy to at least try it and see if someone in the house likes it. We are, after all, both coffee- and tea-drinkers.

[immer_am_lesen]

I would have happily taken it off your hands, were it not already spoken for... :-)

What to do with bad tea...

[(Anonymous)]

Followed from Slacktivist, immediately hit the "tea obession" tag, seeing if I can guest-post here...

My advice only applies to artists... When I have leftover tea I don't like too much, it becomes art-material. I like to paper-stain. I once got some smoked tea I enjoyed for a while but could only take so much of, so when I found the rest sitting around, I wound up using it to create an old-looking map for one of my writing-hobby fantasy worlds.

If you can't find someone who will drink the stuff, find someone who paper-stains if you don't do that kind of thing yourself.

What kind of tea is this?

[(Anonymous)]

I'm hoping you still read new comments on such old posts! If you remember, could you tell me what kind of tea this was? I have a coffee lover that I'm trying to transition into a tea lover.

Re: What kind of tea is this?

[deird1]

Hi!

I can't quite remember, but I'm pretty sure it had a slight caramel flavour.

It might have been this one?