Hi faithful readers!
Wow, you’re still with us? We’re on tea #22! That’s right, just two more to go and we will have finally completed 24 Days of Tea by DAVIDsTEA. Look for a summary post coming up in early April (thanks to our reader Sonja for this idea back in the early days) where we rank the top teas and provide suggestions based on your tea drinking preferences. Until then, Stacey and I begin to question our feeling about DAVIDsTEA marketing as we review “The Skinny”…
Tea: The Skinny (Organic)
DAVIDsTEA description: Did you just eat and eat and eat? And then eat some more? 2000 years of ancient Chinese wisdom suggest you try this organic blend. It contains oolong and pu’erh teas, both reputed to speed your metabolism and block fat absorption after a heavy meal. Plus it’s got ginger and ginseng, two more traditional metabolism uppers. So go ahead, drink up. The only thing you’ll gain is wisdom.
Ingredients: Chinese oolong tea, Chinese pu’erh tea, ginger, eleuthero root, orange peel.
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Brooke: A weight loss tea? Isn’t that… like… all the teas?
Stacey: The more and more we do this, the more I realize how ridiculous their marketing ploys are.
Brooke: It’s just a tea!
*si-* OW! Oh man that is still incredibly hot.
Stacey: Doesn’t smell very orange-y.
Brooke: It smells like a sickness tea because of the ginger.
*sip*
Brooke: WOW Orange. Hello.
Stacey: I don’t think I’d associate orange with skinny… It’s.. round. It’s a round fruit.
Brooke: Um…?
Stacey: I guess I wouldn’t have picked orange, I would have picked apple! Don’t shake your head at me!
Brooke: This is so citriousy. Puts kiwi to shame.
Stacey: It reminds me of something.
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Brooke: …What?
Stacey: I was thinking!! I was thinking it reminded me of a Crush orange drink but I had to make sure it did, so I had to sip again! It smells like Orange Crush. It kind of has that similar flavour. Would you agree?
Brooke: … … … … Yes.
Stacey: I don’t like it at all.
Brooke: Me neither.
Stacey: I don’t want to have a tea that reminds me of a carbonated beverage.
Brooke: yeah… this is… um… weird.
Tea vibes:
Stacey: All I can taste is pop right now… it’s not cool. I don’t like that this tea tastes like sugar! It turns me off. I’m glad I tried it, when I was in the store it peaked my interest, but it’s safe to say we will not be getting this. No, no, no. 4/10
Brooke: For those of you with a sweet tooth, give this one a try. It’s packed full of that orange sucker, orange pixie stick, orange jujube, orange jelly bean kind of flavour and it hits you hard. The ginger is nice and soothing in its scent but it gets overwhelmed pretty quickly. I wish I could comment on the oolong and pu’erh mix up, but I’m way too distracted. 4/10
Well that was a quick one. Stacey thinks oranges shouldn’t be considered diet food and we both don’t like soda pop teas. There you have it.
Enjoy your week and we’ll see you soon! Two more to go!
Until next tea,
Brooke and Stacey
Yeah… we’re going to need you to lose a few centimeters…
Tea Connoisseurs 
Weird that it’s so sweet… I don’t see sugar in the ingredients? Is it candied orange peel? The oranges are round exchange is hilarious but aren’t apples also round. They should’ve stuck with a real skinny fruit, like a banana.
I have this tea myself and am definitely NOT a fan of anything sweet or overly sweet. I did not find this tea too sweet at all, nor does it taste like soda to me. not sure what you put in yours but this tea has a smooth fruity flavor with an earthy aftertaste. I will admit though, it is predominantly fruity. Still, a wonderful tea and definitely not a 4/10.
Thanks for the reply! Pretty interesting how different people have different tastes! Thank goodness DAVIDsTEA has so many to choose from! : )
Huh. Just sipping on my second cup of this for the day. I can’t see how you got Orange Crush from this. The orange was very subtle for me, ultimately the ginger shone through the most. It was not very sweet at all, unlike what you guys noted. This blog was posted in 2013, and it’s 2016 now, so maybe they’ve changed it a bit? Who knows. 🙂
Thanks for the comment! DAVIDsTEA does tend to change recipes around quite heavily over the years while still keeping the same name. Just from doing this 24daysoftea set each year we have been able to see how differently we rated certain blends year to year. I’ll have to get this one again and see if the ginger rings out more now, too! Thanks 🙂