Scep - tea - cal
Tea has suddenly become the in thing to consume.

Catering for this trend and the impending Christmas rush, Target is selling tea kits, complete with chinese-y looking tea pots ( I must admit to being tempted to buy one)along with fortune cookies, and tea blends in visually attractive looking bags. Clever marketing here.

At the expo last week, there was a very interesting stand devoted to organic teas, which affect different part of the body - in a healing way of course. No marketing here, just bucket loads of dried grassy looky stuff, boiled up and served in cups.
I've been a huge tea consumer all my life, never making that perceived 'adult' change over to coffee. I don't like coffee, it gives me a headache, and makes me jumpy.
While loving teas so much, I have been prepared to try out different flavoured ones on offer ( peach and lemon, even caramel flavour - sounds better than it actually tastes )just to stem the boredom of drinking the ordinary black stuff.
But I am going to draw the line at trying out the stuff that purports to heal while looking like the dried remains of someones weeding spree in their back yard, and probably tastes....well I was hoping to sample some, but the girl on the counter did'nt offer me one. She looked totally disinterested in the product she was selling. Or maybe it was the latent effect of drinking the stuff?

Hokey looking teas are not for me. Call me unadventurous.

Tried and tested .....pour me another cup!