Crack on my good man, crack on!

Well the C51 gives us the traditional English square teabag, simp,e to use, simple to store and some might say gives a larger surface area for brewing. The C24 is more common in Europe but has infiltrated the uk stores over the past few years. This format offers, in some people’s opinion, a more premium feel due to the individually wrapped bags and the string and tag which offer a more interactive brewing experience.

I concur. Long live the c24. And I’m afraid, CHB, despite Carol’s obvious charms (Thanks for the photos BTW) I will never be a Yorkshire tea kind of chap.

Amen Mr Stoner. Drop me a mail.

I will never be a Yorkshire tea kind of chap

*goes right off stoner*

a more premium feel due to the individually wrapped bags and the string and tag which offer a more interactive brewing experience

😯
Bugger that. I find it really annoying. Niminypiminy little strings on the teabags FFS.
And more packaging=more waste.
Ooh, I can’t tell you how much this winds me up!

They won’t have it any other way in some markets, personally I agree with you but I am but a UK consumer brought up with the humble square tea bag

Well who would have thought it! You ask for tea on STW and you get employees from two UK companies offering to help!
Disappointed in Stoner, always thought of him being a chap of taste and discernment. 😉

I too am astonished at the high tea company employee count in here. Now, is there anyone who can sort out my luxury sports car problem?

If John is spending that much on IMA machines (made in Bologna), then he might be able to get you a deal on a cheap Italian sports car. However like his teabags, it probably comes with strings attached. .

he might be able to get you a deal on a cheap Italian sports car. However like his teabags, it probably comes with strings attached.

If he did, at least it wouldnt be orange, unlike if Yorkshire Tea supplied one 😉

Honestly Stoner, you are a hard guy to please.
Oh well, your loss. 🙂

Don’t listen to CHB. Only one place to go for your earl grey and that is Twinings. Sorry CHB but you have to admit defeat on specialist teas

Earl Grey – eeewwww! Horrid perfumed nastiness. Green, silver needle, Oolong; definitely. Earl Grey: (makes spitting noise).

Two things,

1) I’ve never got on with Yorkshire Tea. Maybe it’s a Pennines thing. If the lovely Carol would be up for teabagging me I’d be more than willing to give it a second chance.

2) This ‘attaching a bit of card to a teabag with some string’ phenomenon makes me want to drown puppies. When the measure of a premium brew isn’t good tea but the frelling paper it’s wrapped in, I weep for humanity. Exactly what First World Problem is this supposed to address, those poor neglected souls who were born without teaspoons? Take your “C24” and shove it up your ‘arris, the gorram thing leaps into the cup as soon as you pour water on it anyway (unless you’re drinking from something girlie rather than a proper mug I suppose).

This thread has made me very happy.

Stoner has brought a splendidly ridiculous problem to the table, and y’all have solved it with good humour, ingenuity and acute ridiculousness, many times over, in 3 pages of gibberish.

Chapeau, everyone. 😀

y’all have solved it with good humour, ingenuity and acute ridiculousness, many times over, in 3 pages of gibberish.

Pretty much by definition really, it’s what we do. That’s a deliciously succinct summation.

I’ve never got on with Yorkshire Tea.

It’s because it’s crap.

Anyway this is the real solution

Bring back tea ladies

I miss Yorkshire Tea

Surely the “tag on a string” is to loop round the handle allowing the bag to be held mid cup so allowing better percolation of the contents?
And I certainly wouldn’t use a ferrous metal spoon to retrieve the bag, or even worse do that squeegeeing thing against the side of the cup – uch!

And I certainly wouldn’t use a ferrous metal spoon to retrieve the bag, or even worse do that squeegeeing thing against the side of the cup – uch!

As always this can always be fixed by reverting to the only real solution

cougar, you’re gonna go completely fruit shoots at a TWG tea bag!

Never tried TWG bags, but their Singapore Breakfast Tea is one of my favourites – can only seem to find it at Harrods though, not my favourite store but usually pick some up if I’m passing by.

I too am astonished at the high tea company employee count in here.

They’re all out there now, toiling in the heat, on the south facing slopes of the pennines, picking the finest, youngest tips. And cutting long lengths of string into lots of short lengths of string.

Transport lose tea leafs and use one of these!

Loving the mole

Loving the mole

Sloth, surely?

Could be a Sloth, don’t they have long tails, and are a bit ugly?

johnj2000 – Member
Could be a Sloth, don’t they have long tails, and are a bit ugly?

Kind of cute looking, and certainly no tails.
Baby sloth resents being called ugly!

They’re cute when they’re young, but a bit leary when they grow up

[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K26T_vGLyXw[/video]

Sooooooo all you C24 lovers, have you seen the new advert?

STW you have disappointed . An opportunity to comment on the humble tea bag.

embrace the string

Yellow plastic centre from a Kinderegg?

Four pages and 112 posts on how to carry around a few teabags. Only on STW could this occur. 😉

Just wait till we get onto the subject of what cheeseboards for bike packing?…………..

Solved Stoners original issue though. He now has teabag transportation 🙂

I am indebted to johnj2000 🙂
Have dispatched Mrs Stoner to work armed with a cornucopia of tea based products and a couple of natty boxes to carry them in.

Pleasure, hope you find something you like.