Decaf tea is close to the clean eating abyss

[cimorene]

I've been drinking Decaf Twinings Earl Grey and some herbal blends. I tried the Finnish specialty teashops that I have ordered loose leaf from in the past, but they didn't have any decaf tea that I wanted, let alone decaf chai and matcha, which was what I was looking for.

Today I finally made an attempt with various search terms and discovered that it's pretty easy to get decaf matcha in the US, but I couldn't find a single shop selling it in Europe, not even in the UK. I did find a shop that sells decaf chai, but it seems to be because it's the EU branch of a Canadian company. Also Wax and I both got rage headaches from the horrible pseudoscience and health food marketing gobbledygook on the websites I kept landing at. Ugh!! Why are they taking over tea😭. It's TEA!

Now, I could get my family to send me some matcha powder, but the cost of shipping from the US is prohibitive, IMO, for a consumable product that you would want periodic refills of.

So maybe it's better to not even bother getting a milk steamer... IDK if it's worth it for primarily coffee lattes and the occasional chai? Maybe it is. I hadn't even had a matcha latte till ten years ago and I did like the other kind back then...

I guess I'm just really annoyed by the lack of availability. This is a global economy in all the bad ways but I can't get decaf matcha or Reese's Pieces!

Comments

[princessofgeeks]

WOE

If it makes you feel any better, the demand for matcha has gone through the roof all over the world and now it's very hard to get the real thing. Some of what is being marketed as matcha...is not.

Good luck finding a hot drink you like.

[wychwood]

If it's any help, I don't mind experimenting with posting things on from the UK, if you can find matcha here - I know it's more complicated than it used to be post-Brexit, but it might be better than shipping from the US...

[cimorene]

Well, that's disturbing!! Maybe I should experiment with other flavors of coffee latte. At least it's pretty easy to be sure it's coffee beans 😂

[cimorene]

It would still be easier than the US for sure! And in fact a lot of UK shops will still ship directly, it just takes longer to get here now because you have to fill out customs forms before the post office will release the package to you. I sort of expected to find some UK results but I haven't so far. Thanks for the offer, I will keep it in mind!