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Thanks to mtchyg for the sample!

I read the name of this and was like “what’s genmaicha?” and “do blueberries really grow in sandy areas?”

Genmaicha is green tea + roasted brown rice, Google tells me. Also, blueberries are mostly grown in America, Holland-ish Europe, S Korea, and Japan. Not much blueberry action in Cairo. So now you know.

I’m going to reserve a rating on this tea at the moment because I totally oversteeped it. I got a phone call and forgot about my gravity steeper until about 5-6 minutes in (approx 3-4x the steep time).

What I can say is that the smell weirded me out in the bag. And the taste is also pretty weird.

It’s got this toasted, cinnamon, popcorn, blueberry thing going on.

You could have tortured me slowly for years and I never could have thought up such a thing. The Gestapo would be like “COME UP WITH A WEIRDER TEA” and I’d be like “seriously, um, I have no idea what you’re after. Kiwi, hibiscus, honeybush, and blue cheese?” and they’d be like “NOT WEIRDER THAN THIS THING LIQUID PROUST HAS GOING ON. TRY AGAIN.”

I promise a better review when I haven’t trashed the tea. I have a bunch left.