Off topic but the only reason I knew the name was because I fear that truck pulling up. If I see it it means my wife has spent hundreds of dollars on food that we don’t even have room for in the freezer. I have even turned the lights out to pretend I wasn’t home when I seen the truck pull up, didn’t matter he still left the food in insulated bags with a bill and extra charge for the insulated bags. I have since forbid her from ever ordering from Scwans again
Ha! Yeah they are over priced. I used to love their food as a kid, but now with my adult taste buds, it's actually not very tasty! Definitely not worth the cost unless that guy starts bringing kava.
I could believe this! I imagine the fresh-picked root, whether it's flash-frozen or thoroughly refrigerated upon harvest and cleaning (we don't want actual dirt in our peppery dirt water, right?) when it ships to RoH, they'll need to clean it before they do anything else with it. At any amount of time between shipping and delivery, anything microbial could be going on. And depending on how quickly they go through fresh root, it'll need to keep on being chilled until they have orders to grind up and ship.
YES, some transparency would be great. I do wish Tyler or any RoH rep was active here. I should check the official site and see if they keep an active blog or something.
I agree, seems the next best thing is to ask Judd which is oddly promoting his competitor, a lot. But I moved this thread to ROH, so if Tyler has a vested interest in this product he is more then welcomed to stop by and clear these things up for all of us.
It's not odd. I like the product a lot and I like Tyler. It's a product that I don't offer so I'm comfortable promoting it. If I were selling fresh kava it would be a different story.
I took it from you that the fresh kava is something you like a lot. I liked it a lot too! It's a very novel idea and I--no, WE want it to succeed. It's sad to hear people are having a poor experience from ROH especially since I had the opposite when I ordered my fresh-ground root.
Sounds to me like the delays are most of the problem. Sucks for people that order, but it's not major. They're not stealing people's money or anything.
Agreed, currently delays are the problem. I believe the old phrase "the squeaky wheel gets the grease" applies here.
This was the only thing on my bucket list. It really meant a lot to me, to be able to drink actual fresh kava. I was happy to wait 2 weeks and it took far less than that. The root was perfect and I was over the moon with joy. Even the price was immensely affordable. Cost about $2 per large shell for fresh kava. One would have to have a very different set of priorities from me not to see that as the bargain it is, and as the tremendous service and opportunity it is.
