Mike the Metal Ed Posted 12 August 2014 Posted 12 August 2014 Tetley. I seem to be in the minority. I've got a bad impression of Yorkshire tea because my nanna used to use it, brew it piss weak and put UHT in it.
Des. Posted 12 August 2014 Posted 12 August 2014 I don't like tea or coffee, no doubt in a minority here
Nick Posted 13 August 2014 Posted 13 August 2014 PG - strong but with plenty of milk and two sugars. I have to drink coffee more as I'm happy to drink that without sugar!
MikeyT Posted 13 August 2014 Posted 13 August 2014 I just started buying the Twining selection box. Only £1.50 from Asda. Has Ceylon, Assam, English Breakfast, Early Grey and Lady Grey in it. and you get 5 of each. Liking Earl Grey especially.
FoxesAreBlue Posted 13 August 2014 Posted 13 August 2014 I don't like tea or coffee, no doubt in a minority here I don't mind tea and will drink it when the occasion calls for it like when visiting someone's house or at a work meeting etc but I don't drink it at home/work usually etc. All teas taste the same to me (apart from flavoured ones obviously). Coffee on the other hand tastes like shit, heated up.
separator Posted 13 August 2014 Posted 13 August 2014 Twinings English breakfast tea for me. My mum drinks Tetley red bush tea which is disgusting stuff. I got slagged off at work recently as I said we mash tea in Leicester, these southerners I work with brew their tea.. weirdos
Finnegan Posted 13 August 2014 Posted 13 August 2014 This is a bit like me starting a conversation on best beers and recommending Fosters to Unabomber. If I've got to have bag teas I'll often have Yorkshire because it's generally stronger than the other cheap shit. I'd rather a good Ceylon, Oolong or Russian Caravan and preferably loose leaf. If you're in and around Leicester, get yourself in St Martin, tea shop there has a good selection of fresh teas and coffees. PG - strong but with plenty of milk and two sugars. I have to drink coffee more as I'm happy to drink that without sugar! I just threw up a little in my mouth.
Nick Posted 13 August 2014 Posted 13 August 2014 This is a bit like me starting a conversation on best beers and recommending Fosters to Unabomber. If I've got to have bag teas I'll often have Yorkshire because it's generally stronger than the other cheap shit. I'd rather a good Ceylon, Oolong or Russian Caravan and preferably loose leaf. If you're in and around Leicester, get yourself in St Martin, tea shop there has a good selection of fresh teas and coffees. I just threw up a little in my mouth. Now I can get into being a coffee snob - this I understand...... I readily acknowledge I'm probably a tea philistine. I have never understood earl grey preferences or any other weird coloured tea for progressives. I do however wholly resent being compared to a fosters drinker.
Finnegan Posted 13 August 2014 Posted 13 August 2014 Tea is wildly superior and infinitely more varied than coffee. Coffee snobs are ridiculous people. It all tastes like dirt. Wine all tastes like vinegar. Tea? Now tea is stunning.
Finnegan Posted 13 August 2014 Posted 13 August 2014 Oh and weird coloured tea is the Kopparberg Strawberry of the tea world. My missus had Aldi fruit variety teas. It's just hot ribena.
Nick Posted 13 August 2014 Posted 13 August 2014 Tea is wildly superior and infinitely more varied than coffee. Coffee snobs are ridiculous people. It all tastes like dirt. Wine all tastes like vinegar. Tea? Now tea is stunning. All I know is when I'm on holiday and I go for breakfast there is a wooden box with the word Twinning's on it. There's always plenty of stuff in there like 'Kiwi and Rose Petal' in a pretty feminine paper wrapping with a silly bit of dainty string which is totally impractical but I have to fight a man (of varying nationalities) for the last English Breakfast Tea. There has to be a reason for this. Also, saucers. I hate saucers - they seem to limit the size of the drinking vessel, get in the way and if you spill anything in them, your cup drips every time it's replaced and picked up again - daft, regal, posh, impractically designed, tosh. In Switzerland earlier this year the Hotel didn't even have a mug and I refused to drink out of the minuscule, saucer impeded vessel they intended for tea use so I drank my tea out of a soup bowl with handles. Boom. That's how I roll. And don't even get me started on the milk provided for tea abroad. And I like tea with sugar in the morning it helps me get over my fuzzy head and rationalise the money I've spent on my wine snobbery the previous night. I actually feel better now.
Strokes Posted 13 August 2014 Posted 13 August 2014 I'm with finners, tea is a wonderfully varied drink, if you move away from the pre-bagged. Coffee is for people who hate their tongue. Boom. That's how I roll. /quote]
FrankieADZ Posted 13 August 2014 Posted 13 August 2014 decaf PG TIps main question after is.....milk last or milk first?
Captain... Posted 13 August 2014 Posted 13 August 2014 decaf PG TIps main question after is.....milk last or milk first? Teapot or mug? If you are using a pot, then milk first, if you are making it in a mug then milk after you have removed the teabag, milk first is preferred, but milk and bag should never share the same vessel.
Webbo Posted 13 August 2014 Posted 13 August 2014 Teapot or mug? If you are using a pot, then milk first, if you are making it in a mug then milk after you have removed the teabag, milk first is preferred, but milk and bag should never share the same vessel. The Captain speaketh the truth.
Strokes Posted 13 August 2014 Posted 13 August 2014 if you are making a tea, you make a pot!! What kind of animals are you people?
Fox92 Posted 13 August 2014 Posted 13 August 2014 Always have PG. One of my housemate bought Tetley's once,and it tasted vile.
Guest Posted 13 August 2014 Posted 13 August 2014 I don't drink tea. My son likes Earl Grey best and my wife likes Roiboos.
Monk Posted 13 August 2014 Posted 13 August 2014 Twinings is such a terrible brand of tea, I don't know how they've got themselves such a good reputation across the world. It's just dust, tastes rank and costs more than other teas. For those of you saying that you like the variety of tea, check out http://www.pekoetea.co.uk/ in Edinburgh, I get all my loose tea from there and they have some awesome Japanese and Chinese teas. Saying that there's no variety in coffee though is a load of crap, there's huge variety in coffee.
Finnegan Posted 13 August 2014 Posted 13 August 2014 The Captain speaketh the truth. To be perfectly honest, if you're using most popular brand tea bags then it makes very little difference what order you chuck it all in. The end result is about the same. Being snobbish about how you prepare your typhoo or tetley tea is a bit like insisting your Carling comes in the correct Carling glass for flavour. It doesn't matter what you serve it in, it's a dreadful beer. He's right on potted tea though, of course.
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