Ghost products: Twinings Pu-Erh tea
The topic today will be ghost products… But what are ghost products?? Well, according to me, ghost products are those that we see one day, maybe we even buy them but then when we try to get them again we can’t find them, we do a little research on the internet and it’s like they never existed; sometimes we even start to doubt our sanity, did we see the product on a dream??, was it really ourselves who bought it or did someone told us about them??.
I chose this topic today because I happened to stumble upon one of these products. This is my story…
Being somewhat of a tea enthusiast myself, the other day I bought a box of Pu-Erh tea from Twinings; I had read a lot about this kind of tea on the internet but have never tried it before so it was natural to me to get it when I saw it on a stand while walking through the aisles of Wal-Mart in Ensenada (Mexico).
At first I didn’t like it a lot so I just stored it for a few months, but then after reading an article on the origins of the tea and the health benefits it delivered I decided I had to give it another try.
This time it was great (what??? information changes the way you taste things?? of course it does!!) and iced it was even better. In less than two weeks I had ran out of my “new” favorite tea and I had to get more so I went to Wal-Mart to buy more but, noooo!, there was no Pu-Erh tea, nobody knew nothing about that tea and it seemed like they were not going to get more.
I went to a few other stores and although I found Pu-Erh from other brands I decided I didn’t want to go wrong so I had to get the Twinings tea but unfortunately it was nowhere to be found.
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