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So I decided to try and ween myself off as much diet soda as I can.
I am not stupid and I don’t think I am just going to not drink it anymore, but I decided to try and find an alternative to diet soda. So don’t get me wrong, I know I’ll break down and have some, but I want to drastically limit my intake, so I have been looking for a good substitute.
Yes, I could just drink water, but let’s be honest, that is boring, and the engineer in me would have no fun coming up with new types of water to try and combine, ya know?
So I decided to go down the road of tea, I got the inspiration from watching Kevin Rose on Diggnation. Sounds kinda odd I know, but they are always drinking beer on the show, and often Kevin is raging about the tea that he is currently trying etc. Somehow in my head, beer loving geeks might think alike so I decided to get my feet wet in the leafy goodness of tea and give it a go.
The adventure begins……
So Paul and I went out to Somavar in San Francisco for breakfast one morning and they have tea like a weapons locker has guns. All types, all flavors, and all of the do dads (I have no idea what most of this stuff is called), that you can think of.
I ask for them to recommend a nice breakfast tea to start off with and ordered my food. It was quite tasty, but didn’t quite hit the spot, so I decided to go back to the oracle of tea (that’s what I was referring to her to in my head), I asked for something stronger, something with a something something to it.
She comes back with something that she described as “very strong and aromatic”, Paul described as “fucking disgusting” quickly followed up with “Get that shit away from me Workman”, and I thought was fucking divine.
My good friends know that I love a particular scotch more than any other, Lagavulin, it smells like a cross between wood, smoke, dirt, and a peat bog. Yeah yeah yeah, I know, many of you are turning up your noses and looking on in horror. Well this tea she gave me tasted like Lagavulin without the booze in it.
This stuff could peel the paint off my car if you get a direct sniff of the raw tea, obviously I bought a huge can of the stuff right away, thus my journey to the dark side of tea has begun. I am new to all of this, so I have 3-4 other teas that I have not yet cracked open, but plan on doing so soon.
My next quest is to find a good night time tea, since the “Paint Peeler” has some ancient Chinese stuff in it that wires the crap out of me (but not really like what I was used to), so I need some sleepy time stuff.
So have a recommendation, let me know.
