Quote Originally Posted by BizzleLuvin
I made a vow earlier in the year to consume only organic, free-trade tea and coffee, only organic soymilk and rbgh-free dairy products. I'm a big tea drinker .I'm quite the tea bigot, to be honest. you can get a cup of tea anywhere- from a hotel lobby to the police station (i know this first-hand). but its hard to get a high-quality cup and even harder to find one thats organic and free-trade. I prefer to steep the tea myself- not buying it in a bottle or having it prepared by a waitress.
so anyway, im on this never-ending quest to find a good cup of OFT (organic, free-trade) tea. every time i go to a new coffee shop or tea house (and there are a LOT of them in Annapolis), I ask if they serve OFT and rgbh-free tea, coffee, soy milk and dairy. i either get one of the four responses: 1) an indignant snort 'no, we dont serve that here' 2) a puzzled look and 'what's that' 3) a 'i'll go ask the manager' and a waitress that never returns with her response, 4) and on rare occasions 'yes, we do...what kind would u like'.
I had been to nearly ever shop in annapolis and to no avail have i ever found my holy grail cup of tea- untill i walked into this monolithic place called Hard Bean and Booksellers. Most of the time I ignored this place because from the outside, it looks like just another commercial Starbucks (and starbucks rarely brews or serves OFT products and charges me extra for organic soy-milk), so i was hesitant to give it a try. but when i walked in and asked the question 'do you serve organic and free-trade products?' the cashier smiled, cocked her head and said with great confidence 'of course! everything here is! from our sugar to the cotton smocks we wear. i promise'. those were her exact words! i almost leaped over the counter and kissed her. so anyway, i enjoyed a delicious and hard-to-find cup of Puh-erh OFT green tea. I was so happy that i told the cashier to compliment the manager for supporting the OFT, vegan, organic, vegetarian lifestyle. i also bough a bumper sticker and a go mug, since my previous one had STARBUCKS printed all over it. yay for Hard Bean, my new favorite coffee shop!

Bizzle, you sound like you're very high maintenance.
God v2.0 Reviewed by God v2.0 on . I <3 Hard Bean I made a vow earlier in the year to consume only organic, free-trade tea and coffee, only organic soymilk and rbgh-free dairy products. I'm a big tea drinker .I'm quite the tea bigot, to be honest. you can get a cup of tea anywhere- from a hotel lobby to the police station (i know this first-hand). but its hard to get a high-quality cup and even harder to find one thats organic and free-trade. I prefer to steep the tea myself- not buying it in a bottle or having it prepared by a waitress. so Rating: 5