Awhile back The Zero Boss mentioned this online tea store, Adagio Teas, that had jipped him out of his free tea set due to a technicality of an archived page's Google Page Rank. (He eventually received the set and an apology.) But it got me thinking, free tea for putting a link on my blog page? Sign me up! Hmm, I didn't know I could be so easily bought...
Somehow the Google Gods like me and my pitiful little site has a rank of 5/10. Which is high enough for the deluxe set according to the link rewards page. And I got it! And in case you haven't gone to the page yet, go now and check out how the nifty ingenuiTEA teapot works. You know what they say about simple minds...
Anyway this is also the first time I've ever tried loose leaf tea. Yeah, yeah all you purist tea fanatics can throw your empty loose leaf tea tins at me, I've been a Lipton bag girl since I was old enough to drink out of a mug. So this morning, I nuked some water, dumped in a tablespoon of loose tea (I received a black variety, yunnan jig) into the teapot, waited (at which point Zach asked me what the heck I was doing, "making tea!" and then he gave me one of those looks like "my mom has gone off the deep end"), and then um, emptied the liquid into my mug. The action kinda reminds me of those dolls I had as a kid that you held over the toilet and squeezed their bellies to make them "pee". But back to the teapot, it worked perfectly! No spills at all, I'm impressed. I mean hey, it was free, I really wasn't expecting too much.
So loose leaf tea. Not much different than bagged tea... Okay maybe it is but my allergies have stuffed up my head again. The yunnan jig was like a very, very good breakfast blend. I'm not sure I'm completely convinced to switch to loose leaf (those little bags are pretty darn convenient) but there's a good chance I'll order a sampler set from Adagio Teas in the near future.
But all this has got me thinking, what else can I whore out my site for in exchange for free goodies and money? *winks*
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