Geek Steep S1E6 – Spiderman: The Animated Series
Like I said in my tasting note for Ginger Lemon, which is the other tea I chose for my pairing this week, I actually chose two teas for this geek. I watched the first two episodes on one evening and the last one on the next evening which gave me a chance to improve upon things I thought could be improved with my first pairing…
I was trying to create a feeling of nostalgia surrounding my first ever experience with this Geek – and that was rooted in watching the show when I was sick and drinking Gingerale. So, I started with a tea that I consider a really good “sick tea” and while it hit some of those nostalgia buttons, it didn’t totally work for me. The areas of opportunity, I thought, were that it needed to be a bit “punchier” and more flavourful to better reflect the saturated colours in the animation and break neck pacing of the TV show…
I stuck with Ginger, because touching on those nostalgic roots was important to me with this pairing. There are probably a dozen other teas in my stash that I could have picked with a punchier ginger flavour that would have fit the bill, but I went with this one because honestly I really like it/wanted the excuse to brew it up. It’s a peach ginger, which is a slightly different route – but it still has the ginger I wanted. Plus, it’s called Peach Zing and that seems like the PERFECT “comic book action word”. Y’know – like the words that go in the jagged bubble/circle whenever any type of action happens…
Spiderman punches Green Goblin? POW!
Hobgoblin blows up the podium Fisk is speaking at? BAM!
So, why not a Zing!?
It was honestly the perfect pairing – I got the right intensity/flavour level for the tone/style of the show but still capitalized on the nostalgia factor I wanted!
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