South American Herbal Insanity Tea

There is a person at my office who may or may not be "my boss," that does a lot of online shopping. The result is a deluge of odd packages that arrive at the office every day. Some days its' Porsche tires; some days we get Burmese wooden Buddhas wrapped in Thai silk. Some of the other recent purchases have been: racing seats, stick shift grip knobs, four giant boxes of leather bound literature classics, computer accessories, motorcycle chains, a translucent Rolling Stones mirror, and the list goes on. Usually about one item every day. Today, it was Peruvian tea. Or as the package says, Inka Tea. I'll save you the trouble of researching it- it's tea made from the Coca plant and as expected, it is illegal in the United States. This person in the office, who may or may not own the office, opens this box from Peru and walks into the kitchen with a GIANT plastic bag full of tea bags, their little strings all twisted around each other. This person in the office, who may or may not sign my checks, asks us if we want some "herbal" tea. I'm kind of thirsty and eager to take a break so I say, "sure!" The water boils and the tea steeps. It's pretty smooth and tasteless, which would be the worst thing that I could say about it. This is a good example of one of those things that I will make a crack about and someone will say, "you don't drink it for the TASTE!" like I'm some sort of asshole insulting their ugly kid sister. Why can't I drink it for the taste? You don't eat food for the societal impact it has on Ethiopia. You don't breathe air to prove all those fish wrong. If I'm going to drink tea, I'm going to dri... ...oooooohhhhhhh..... THAT'S why you drink this tea.... I'll catch you guys later, there's some R & D that needs doin'....