Drabble: Tea Snob

[quaggy]

Title: Tea Snob
Author: quaggy
Rating: G/FRC
Setting: Post-Chosen
Characters: Giles & Buffy
Pairing(s): slight traces of post-Chosen Buffy/Giles (easily ignored if that's not your thing)
Word Count: 200
Warnings: Nope
Notes: Yes, I'm a bit of a tea snob myself and I named dropped a few of my favorites. If you prefer, you can also find this over here on AO3. I'm happy to receive feedback in either place.

Like any good Brit, he loved his tea, but he wasn’t too particular about type or band. He was happy enough with PG Tips or Yorkshire Tea as he was with something much posher. Which was probably for the best since he had to choke down Liptons on more than one occasion during his time in America.

 

Buffy was a different story. There really wasn’t a tea that she didn’t enjoy, but she had definite preferences. There were specific tea sellers in London that she would frequent and her loose teas took up a full cabinet in their house in Bath. She could tell you in detail the differences between Assam and Darjeeling and why she preferred genmaicha in particular to all other green teas. It made him laugh, since he was the one that introduced her to tea in the first place, and now she was the one educating him. That and because she always looked so baffled as to why he didn’t already know all of this already.

 

Giles took a sip of the Lapsang Souchong that she had just brewed for him —her favorite— and sighed with pleasure. He had to admit, she did have excellent taste.

Comments

[il_mio_capitano]

Nice, although I'm not big on tea. I guess this makes me a bad Brit? ;)

[quaggy]

Ha! No, it just makes you a rare Brit. I have encounter a few of you non-tea drinking Brits, but you are few and far between! :-D