It's here! And it couldn't have come at a better time. I only have $9.10 left on my last Bizzle gift card from Xmas. That is only 4 drinks. I was really worried that someone was going to have to find some sort of Iced Tea rehab to check me in to so I could kick the habit - or else I was going to have to get a second job or turn tricks to support my local Baristas. But now, I don't need them. I CAN quit you Starbucks! As many of you may know, the Bizzle Venti Black Iced Tea, Unsweetened is IT for me and T Diddy. The habit, at least for me, started after O was born. Sleep? What sleep? Sleep is for sissies. I know that tea doesn't have as much bang for your buck as coffee, but I have this weird thing where I don't like to drink calories - unless it comes in a glass with a paper umbrella and some alcohol. Sorry, where was I? I don't care that the tea comes with the Bizzle logo, but when I drink the tea, all is right with the world. Or at least in MY world (my world doesn't have impoverished children or hate - rainbows and kittens mainly). The taste is like no other, and believe me, I've sampled. And at $2.10 for 20 ounces, it is a small price to pay for pure joy - no?, my husband doesn't think so either. I only need one a day, and it lasts all day. It's not like I make several stops a day. (side note: vacations don't count. Then I can have as many as I want as evidenced in New York and Reno - but T Diddy was there and she is harsh with the peer pressure. I blame her.) I thought I got a lucky break a while back when the cafe downstairs in my office building started serving the iced tea!!! They charged a little less - but sometimes I got hooked up and only paid for the small size but got the large cup. AND there were free refills. Then one day I came in to get my tea. What the F? China Mist! Needless to say there was probably some inappropriate spitting for a food service establishment, but, gross. So, back to the Bizzle.
So in an effort to figure out how they make it and why it is so good, I started asking around at the various stores. They played very coy and acted as if they weren't privy to that kind of important information. They'd throw out "Tazo" and "big tea bags", but that is about all I could get out of them. Realizing that my nice Xmas funded run with the Bizzle is about to be over, I knew I had to step my game up. I got on line and in a matter of minutes, I had my answer - and slapped myself for not utilizing this technology sooner. A former disgruntled Bizzle employee spelled out just how they make it and even where to get it!!! I'm going to be sending her a cookie basket real soon. Turns out, that while it is Tazo brand tea that they use, they have a special ICED tea bag that they brew in concentrate!!! Oh man!!!! I can almost taste it. As I start to search for retailers that carry this special bag, I find that most are SOLD OUT!!! So I buy it at the first place I see it in stock. $35 for 24 tea bags. Get up off the floor, let me finish. Each tea bag brews a gallon!!! If my calculations are correct - which they are most likely not, someone better check my math - I will be saving $0.07 cents an ounce. The Bizzle's bottom line won't know what hit them!!! In an unusual show of restraint, I didn't upgrade to overnight shipping.
But it's here. It was waiting for me when I got home today. I turned on the longest tivo'd program I could find to babysit O. The instructions are clearly written...for industrial use. And T Diddy is wearing flannel in some motor home right now - which I will never discuss again, we all should just forget that was ever mentioned, cause if any of you know T Diddy, that isn't how she usually roles - and unavailable for my numerous questions. So I brewed the tea as closely as I can to what it says and I got out my cocktail shaker to make it ice cold, like the Bizzle. And then it was ready to taste. I gingerly lifted it to my lips, careful not to spill any, my hands were shaking pretty bad at this point and...it's OKAY. What? Just okay? Something has gone wrong. But I can tell I'm close. I think I may have diluted it too much. The flavor profile is there, but the punch - totally missing. But now I have close to a gallon of this liquid gold which I can't bare to pour down the drain. Luckily I still have that $9 to fall back on until I perfect it. And I will still send my teeth whitening bill to the Bizzle corporate office. I figure it is the least they can do after making what could rival O's college fund (if he goes to community college), off me on Iced Tea. Don't get me started on the baked goods. T Diddy, you better get your baking pans ready...
*by the way, I haven't taken the time to figure out how to link stuff so the pic of brit brit came from: http://www.cbc.ca/thehour/blog/images/britney-starbucks.jpg
Thursday, January 24, 2008
Liquid Gold!
It's here! And it couldn't have come at a better time. I only have $9.10 left on my last Bizzle gift card from Xmas. That is only 4 drinks. I was really worried that someone was going to have to find some sort of Iced Tea rehab to check me in to so I could kick the habit - or else I was going to have to get a second job or turn tricks to support my local Baristas. But now, I don't need them. I CAN quit you Starbucks! As many of you may know, the Bizzle Venti Black Iced Tea, Unsweetened is IT for me and T Diddy. The habit, at least for me, started after O was born. Sleep? What sleep? Sleep is for sissies. I know that tea doesn't have as much bang for your buck as coffee, but I have this weird thing where I don't like to drink calories - unless it comes in a glass with a paper umbrella and some alcohol. Sorry, where was I? I don't care that the tea comes with the Bizzle logo, but when I drink the tea, all is right with the world. Or at least in MY world (my world doesn't have impoverished children or hate - rainbows and kittens mainly). The taste is like no other, and believe me, I've sampled. And at $2.10 for 20 ounces, it is a small price to pay for pure joy - no?, my husband doesn't think so either. I only need one a day, and it lasts all day. It's not like I make several stops a day. (side note: vacations don't count. Then I can have as many as I want as evidenced in New York and Reno - but T Diddy was there and she is harsh with the peer pressure. I blame her.) I thought I got a lucky break a while back when the cafe downstairs in my office building started serving the iced tea!!! They charged a little less - but sometimes I got hooked up and only paid for the small size but got the large cup. AND there were free refills. Then one day I came in to get my tea. What the F? China Mist! Needless to say there was probably some inappropriate spitting for a food service establishment, but, gross. So, back to the Bizzle.
So in an effort to figure out how they make it and why it is so good, I started asking around at the various stores. They played very coy and acted as if they weren't privy to that kind of important information. They'd throw out "Tazo" and "big tea bags", but that is about all I could get out of them. Realizing that my nice Xmas funded run with the Bizzle is about to be over, I knew I had to step my game up. I got on line and in a matter of minutes, I had my answer - and slapped myself for not utilizing this technology sooner. A former disgruntled Bizzle employee spelled out just how they make it and even where to get it!!! I'm going to be sending her a cookie basket real soon. Turns out, that while it is Tazo brand tea that they use, they have a special ICED tea bag that they brew in concentrate!!! Oh man!!!! I can almost taste it. As I start to search for retailers that carry this special bag, I find that most are SOLD OUT!!! So I buy it at the first place I see it in stock. $35 for 24 tea bags. Get up off the floor, let me finish. Each tea bag brews a gallon!!! If my calculations are correct - which they are most likely not, someone better check my math - I will be saving $0.07 cents an ounce. The Bizzle's bottom line won't know what hit them!!! In an unusual show of restraint, I didn't upgrade to overnight shipping.
But it's here. It was waiting for me when I got home today. I turned on the longest tivo'd program I could find to babysit O. The instructions are clearly written...for industrial use. And T Diddy is wearing flannel in some motor home right now - which I will never discuss again, we all should just forget that was ever mentioned, cause if any of you know T Diddy, that isn't how she usually roles - and unavailable for my numerous questions. So I brewed the tea as closely as I can to what it says and I got out my cocktail shaker to make it ice cold, like the Bizzle. And then it was ready to taste. I gingerly lifted it to my lips, careful not to spill any, my hands were shaking pretty bad at this point and...it's OKAY. What? Just okay? Something has gone wrong. But I can tell I'm close. I think I may have diluted it too much. The flavor profile is there, but the punch - totally missing. But now I have close to a gallon of this liquid gold which I can't bare to pour down the drain. Luckily I still have that $9 to fall back on until I perfect it. And I will still send my teeth whitening bill to the Bizzle corporate office. I figure it is the least they can do after making what could rival O's college fund (if he goes to community college), off me on Iced Tea. Don't get me started on the baked goods. T Diddy, you better get your baking pans ready...
*by the way, I haven't taken the time to figure out how to link stuff so the pic of brit brit came from: http://www.cbc.ca/thehour/blog/images/britney-starbucks.jpg
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