Everyone's been making fun of this new tea called Pungency, for obvious reasons - it's a terrible name for a drink. It has bad connotations, and it isn't a normal part of speech for a brand name. But I have to admit, I was hoping it was right on. Bottled 'royal milk tea' is always too sweet and mild. In the last few years, there have been drinks that claimed to be stronger - double tea leaves, espresso brewed - but it all tastes mostly like milk and sugar. They were all missing a certain... pungency.
Alas, this tastes the same as always. No bracing bitterness to balance the sugar. They should have called it Regularness. Or Normalcy. Maybe next year's attempt will be called Same-as-before-ish.
Also, "pungency" is not a well known English word around here. The entire
Pungency ad campaign revolves around answering what the word means. Is that really where you want to start?
2 comments:
I just had it too. You are right, I was expecting much more of a drink adventure with the name.
Right? Also, if the last one was double the tea leaves and this one is also double, is this quadruple the regular one? Or still just double? Or does any of it actually mean anything?
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