Reply With QuoteYou know you really have to get out more :blackeye:
I'm off tea at the mo' for stomach reasons but, I love a good strong brew and enjoyed Yorkshire tea bags. Aye Lad! :lol:
Just another random thought...
The conventional 'wisdom' is that tea bags are filled with the dust left over from leaf tea production. It seems to me that leaf tea use has fallen greatly from what it was 20 or 30 years ago, but people still drink lots of tea (despite the rise of the evil coffee). So I'm wondering what's happening to all the 'good' tea leaf parts? Is there a tea leaf mountain in PG Tips land? Or is better quality tea going in tea bags?
You know you really have to get out more :blackeye:
I'm off tea at the mo' for stomach reasons but, I love a good strong brew and enjoyed Yorkshire tea bags. Aye Lad! :lol:
I think leaf tea use outside of the UK is booming, we're stealing your tea :wink:
We typically have 4-5 teas in the house, drink it every day and it's always loose leaf and bought "fresh" from a shop that sells only tea. Earl Grey Gentleman this morning.. mmm..
+1 :D although we do still use loose tea.Originally Posted by blue-dread
Rod
Anybody use these?
http://www.ringtons.co.uk/
When you look long into an abyss, the abyss looks long into you.........
As long as it can be brewed to "builder strength" then who cares? :wink: Now where's that cow pie I put out for my elevenses? :D
Another "interesting thing" is that English tea does not come from England :shock:
Seen an article on TV recently and apparently its from India.
Now apparantly they are starting to grow it in England on some grand estate, but it will be 10-15 years before its ready to churn out.....
Well I'll stick to Tetley :wink:
You can't be feckin' serious?! India?! Never! :shock:
My employers have just stopped packing loose (leaf) tea in the UK.
Several hundred tons of tea bags go out the doors each week though :lol:
So all the tea used is going into tea bags......
What, not Punjana? I actually have 3 packs of Punjana on my desk awaiting export to Berlin. It's a brand I have only recently re-acquainted myself with and it's funny how many of their marketing jungles I can still reel off from hearing on the radio.
In the Sotadic Zone, apparently.
Oddly there is a tea plantation near the Eden Centre in Cornwall.You can't be feckin' serious?! India?! Never! :shock:
http://www.giddylimits.co.uk/over_50s_i ... h_tea.html
'English' tea is English Breakfast tea: named for obvious reasons. Strong. Brits prefer black teas.
I find it still too weak so my preference is for Sainsbury's loose Assam. Black and strong - with a touch of milk and two sugars.
I do like Twinings Tchai - tea flavoured with spices. Liptons use aniseed, Twinings use cloves. Nice late at night because it's soothing and won't keep you awake.
One formula I've found over the years trying different teas is that the larger the leaf the weaker the tea. Sometimes that's okay. Chinese gunpowder tea - named because the leaves are rolled into small pellets of tealeaf - gives off a powerful smoky flavour and when you pour the leaves away the've opened up to half postage stamp size.
Pg tips for me in morning and late at night. Twinnings Revive & Revitalise (Lemon & Ginger) the rest of the day. No coffee for me
Tesco Finest Earl Grey Loose leaf always hits the spot :P
"I looked with pity not untinged with scorn upon these trivial-minded passers-by"
Yorkshire tea for me...although i also like Assam and Kenya...on that basis i think i might try those Punjana ones.
I was thinking tea bagging
That takes me back. My mum used to have Ringtons delivered in Rotherham when I was but a lad in the 1950s :D
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