When I’m drinking this, usually it means that I’m at an airport or a hospital. This time around, it was the latter. I tried it with one cream and one sugar, as opposed to the usual double-double, and it wasn’t as enjoyable. It was noticeably thinner. Interestingly, my mom also ordered her dark roast with one cream and one sugar, which we also normally order as a double-double, and we made similar observations with the coffee. It definitely tasted more like some plain, boring coffee you brew at home with only a bit of milk added. I guess I can conclude that I love TH double-doubles for, well, the tea/coffee-to-cream-and-sugar ratios a lot more so than the tea/coffee itself.
On another note, the apartment staff was serving St. Patty’s mini cupcakes in the lounge today and my mom and I tried one each when we got back. They were advertised as Bailey’s vanilla and Guinness chocolate. Sound promising, right? I think they lied. Seriously. They just tasted like ordinary, mass-produced vanilla and chocolate cupcakes. They were moist but the flavour was very disappointing. To top it off, we overheard one of the staff members telling someone that the green icing in the Guinness chocolate one was green because it had tea in it. Umm, a) it was bright emerald green which matcha itself simply cannot make and b) no tea flavour, just chemical, probably from the obvious green food colouring. I mean, it was a nice gesture doling these out but damn, so not worth the calories.
