I am the world's biggest lover of chai (and by chai, I technically mean tea with marsala spices as the word "chai" just means tea but you know what I'm talking about) so I was so ecstatic when I found Jarrah Chai at the supermarket yesterday.
Since I'm slacker than hessian underwear, I rarely make chai from scratch. It involves boiling things and brewing them. I wander off and forget what I'm doing and come back to a mess on the stove. Mostly I use the Lipton's Chai sachets but they work out quite calorific.
The Jarrah Chai Latte sachets are a lowly 63 calories per serve. So far, so good. Except that I made it and tasted it and it was pretty damn yuck. Like caramel flavoured hot water - no spices, no yumminess. I thought maybe I'd put too much water in so my sister had one with less water. Same result.
I think they would have been better off keeping it simple. Go with the chai or go with the caramel - don't combine the two! And don't waste your money on these - you could get the same effort pouring a little diet caramel topping into hot water.
Now I'm left with the problem of what to do with the rest of the box.
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6 Comments:
Regarding the Jarrah chai dilemma. Throw the box of poisonous crap out. Asparame (sweetener 950 or 951) is the artificial sweetener used by Jarrah and it is great for helping large tumours grow, fibromyalgia and other lovely disorders. Burn it now.
That was meant to be Aspartame
That was meant to be Aspartame
Just a passerby, but I thought the same thing when I saw the Jarrah Chai (yay), and thought the same thing when I tried it at home (nay!).
But then I tried it with hot milk (fat free of course) - it's DIVINE. Honestly you wont' believe the difference...
Just thought I would say that the Caramel and the Vanilla flavours of Chai from Jarrah do not have aspartame, but the Chocolatte does.
Cheers
Frank from Aussieland
I was actually looking for the Jarrah site at the time of finding this site to ask Jarrah to replace the aspartame with stevia, a natural sweetener, just as strong and so much more natural.
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