I called on Poseidon, I searched for all his sons
Because the weather has flipped suddenly autumnal and it is now possible to spend more than five minutes outside without melting into protoplasm, ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
rushthatspeaks came by this afternon and sat on the front steps and we talked in person rather than over the iPad, which suffered a near-death experience on Friday and now has a new charger courtesy of selkie, since these days mayflies are envied their lifespans by Apple products.
The excuse for Rush-That-Speaks' visit was a packet of Mermaid Latte which originated with their friendambyr and which they thought there was a strong chance of my actually liking, since the stuff is essentially an algae-based herbal chai; they requested only that I send them pictures when I tried it. I took a couple of minutes to look up the sole unfamiliar ingredient in order to double-check that it wouldn't kill me—it hasn't so far—and then asked spatch to pull out his phone.
I felt immediately like an unboxing video.
Or one of those recipe blogs that is secretly Marcel Proust.
I wasn't sure what to expect from the advertising, but I would in fact call that color marine blue.
Which I then had to dilute in order to get the rest of the cup of goat's milk in.
It was still blue!
Latte art was out of the question, but the swirl of the spices on the surface made a nice substitute.
Drinking from the mermaid's cup.
With great satisfaction.
Verdict: it's delicious! It actually tastes less like honey-dipped kelp than I had been hoping, but there is a distinct tidal flavor with vegetal undertones combining to suggest that when a salt marsh and a peat bog love each other very much, they go to a coffee shop and order a vegan chai latte. Having never before encountered butterfly pea flower, blue spirulina, ashwagandha, or whichever species comes under the header of "Arctic sea algae," I'm not sure how to distinguish their contributions from the general air of drinkable littoral, but the coconut and the honey and the five-spice powder are all present and correct. And it looks oceanic, which charms me even without latte art. I haven't had a powdered chai mix I could drink in years. I am delighted this is the one I've got.
P.S. And a package fromyhlee just arrived, containing books and a beautiful jellyfish by Stephanie Pui-Mun Law. This has been a significant improvement of a day.
rushthatspeaks came by this afternon and sat on the front steps and we talked in person rather than over the iPad, which suffered a near-death experience on Friday and now has a new charger courtesy of selkie, since these days mayflies are envied their lifespans by Apple products.The excuse for Rush-That-Speaks' visit was a packet of Mermaid Latte which originated with their friend
ambyr and which they thought there was a strong chance of my actually liking, since the stuff is essentially an algae-based herbal chai; they requested only that I send them pictures when I tried it. I took a couple of minutes to look up the sole unfamiliar ingredient in order to double-check that it wouldn't kill me—it hasn't so far—and then asked spatch to pull out his phone.
I felt immediately like an unboxing video.
Or one of those recipe blogs that is secretly Marcel Proust.
I wasn't sure what to expect from the advertising, but I would in fact call that color marine blue.
Which I then had to dilute in order to get the rest of the cup of goat's milk in.
It was still blue!
Latte art was out of the question, but the swirl of the spices on the surface made a nice substitute.
Drinking from the mermaid's cup.
With great satisfaction.
Verdict: it's delicious! It actually tastes less like honey-dipped kelp than I had been hoping, but there is a distinct tidal flavor with vegetal undertones combining to suggest that when a salt marsh and a peat bog love each other very much, they go to a coffee shop and order a vegan chai latte. Having never before encountered butterfly pea flower, blue spirulina, ashwagandha, or whichever species comes under the header of "Arctic sea algae," I'm not sure how to distinguish their contributions from the general air of drinkable littoral, but the coconut and the honey and the five-spice powder are all present and correct. And it looks oceanic, which charms me even without latte art. I haven't had a powdered chai mix I could drink in years. I am delighted this is the one I've got.
P.S. And a package from
yhlee just arrived, containing books and a beautiful jellyfish by Stephanie Pui-Mun Law. This has been a significant improvement of a day.