These are a few of my favourite things - Black Currant Tea

This could turn into a regular feature on the blog. I tell you about things I enjoy, just like Oprah. That sounds just as fun for you as it is for me!

I've liked tea for a long time, before I started drinking coffee, even. Like anything else when you are just starting out, I stuck to the generic Earl Greys and Orange Pekoes. But then those became boring.

Much like beer, I like to try a lot of different flavours of tea. Last year, in one of the variety packs I had, I came across the black currant bag.

I grew up on a farm, with several currant bushes scattered around the property and I can remember tasting them as a kid and finding them rather bitter, so I wasn't too eager to try them in tea form.

Much to my surprise, it was the best tea I've ever had, and remains so to this day. I'm not stuck on any one particular brand, but the best I've had so far is Twinings. I just came back from the Tea Garden here in North Bay with a canister of loose leaf black currant tea and an infuser... my first attempt at going the non-bag route. Yuppie-ness attribute, + 1.

Funny tea story: I can remember sitting around with my buddies Wes and Jamie on a Friday night in the summer of 2004. We were all in our early twenties and probably should have been out enjoying something more strong than tea, but there we were, three guys in the prime of their partying lives, sitting around my parents kitchen table sipping on tea and playing Rummy. I just find that hilarious.