Tea Snobbery Top Ten: Constant Comment (#10)

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I hope everyone has enjoyed the holiday season, whether you celebrated it religiously, secularly, or just celebrated when it was over!! I'm going to start a new countdown, focusing on my love of tea. I don't drink "regular" tea (unless I have to). No, I'm more of a flavored tea lover. Therefore, I'm going to count down my ten favorite flavors. Here's the first tea on the list. #10: Constant Comment This is the tea that got me started drinking every flavor except regular. I've been drinking this for dang near 40 years now. And, for your trivia buffs, Leonard Cohen's song "Suzanne" references the tea: he explained numerous times that the line "she feeds you tea and oranges" was Constant Comment tea. A black tea mixed with bits of orange and clove, Constant Comment is Bigelow's signature tea. It's such an integral part of the company that my Bigelow "tea shirt" has a Constant Comment tea tag on the back. ("Tea shirt," see what they did there? ) It's the most readily available of Bigelow's teas, easily purchased in grocery stores in both regular and decaffeinated. I'm very happy that there's a decaf version available because I love it at night after dinner. It was my first flavored tea, and it's still a favorite. Constant Comment From Bigelow Tea Here's Leonard Cohen's "Suzanne," inspired in part by Constant Comment tea: