Twinings breakfast tea in the morning. Twinings Assam in the afternoon. Milk, no sugar.
When I was a kid, my mum would tell me that tea was a refreshing drink. This didn’t compute. How could hot brown liquid be refreshing? Dandelion & burdock was where it was at. Now at 48, with a mug of breakfast tea in hand, I finally realise where she was coming from.

I like mine strong, in a massive mug, and preferably available on an hourly basis. 🙂

Don’t really care what type of standard tea bag is used, but I’m not into fancy flavoured rubbish.

I’m not snubbing Earl Gray, rather that you’re putting milk in it. You monster.

Also, sugar in tea is evil.

Again, wrong. I defer to ‘proper tea’ acquaintances who both have milk and one sugar. It must be UHT milk though.

#whatsyournationaltea

but I’m not into fancy flavoured rubbish.

Milk and sugar?

I like Yogi and Puka teas. Used to drink a lot of normal tea, but now drink coffee instead.

Rusty Spanner –
Yorkshire tea tastes of soap.
Ironic really.

Tetleys, Typhoo and PG Tips, in that order.

At last someone talks sense! Well, apart from the fact that I’ve never been able to get any flavour out of Yorkshire, soap would be a bonus.
Tetley is the only one strong enough, and I’d put Thompson’s Punjana 2nd (maybe 1st, but it’s more expensive)

It must be UHT milk though.

Now you’re just trolling, surely.

but I’m not into fancy flavoured rubbish.

Milk and sugar?

Milk is ok. Not into sugar though.

Orange and pistachio rooibos, home made oat milk

Takes me back to my working class roots

I like a proper strong olde fashioned breakfast tea – any brand really, however Dilmah do a really good one that has that has quite a distinct flavour, goes well with a couple of sugars & milk /heathen (teathen?)

Come to think of it – can any of you tea snobs tell me what that distinct “breakfast tea” flavour that comes through is? Is it from a particular type of tea that’s in the mix?

Remember doing a tour of a tea plantation place in Sri Lanka & being told that the tea that goes into tea bags is just the broken leaves from same production as the £££ large leaf fancy teas, just depends on the blend as to what goes where – there’s not a big crop of shit tea that goes straight into the bags, although some are shit.

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can any of you tea snobs tell me what that distinct “breakfast tea” flavour that comes through is? Is it from a particular type of tea that’s in the mix?

Assam, probably.

Dim question but is it possible to buy “fresh” (as in not been sitting in cold storage for 6 years or rather picked the week previously) tea leaves?

Local coffee roaster’s Russian Caravan. Strong and slightly smokey.

Orange and pistachio rooibos, home made oat milk

Takes me back to my working class roots

Damn! That stings. (Throws soy milk and redbush into bin)

All better now. 😉

Frazzle sandwich?

Tea with milk, no sugar. I like herbal wossnames too.

Love an Earl Grey at any time day or night, particularly enjoying Aldi’s own brand Earl Grey just now.

My kids bought me a bag of T2 Earl Grey, was shocked at the price but when you do the sums it works out at 25p a cup. Makes a cracking cup of tea with a hint of peach to it.

No sugar or milk in the T2 only milk in any other tea!

Mix of Yorkshire and Twinings or M&S Earl Grey. No sugar, sometimes black, mostly with a splash if semi skimmed.

Multiply the above many, many times a day.

Wee Tea Company in Fife doing some goodstuff, they also do mail order.

Earl grey & blue flower and assam are my favourites. Wifey likes the various fruity infusion nonsense though.

Partial to a cup of Chai myself

Brooke Bond Taj Mahal Loose Leaf Black Tea … mine is 900g.

Nearly 3 pages in and no one has mentioned M&S Gold Tea?

Demonstrably not.

Clipper Organic , even better than Yorkshire. Any Clipper is excellent.

I think I have tried some M&S Gold tea before but nothing special as I can recall otherwise I would be drinking them now, instead I have 16kg of Taj tea. 😆

Moses – Member

Any Clipper is excellent.

I’ll agree with that.
Masala chai FTW though.

Earl Grey… cracking… hint of peach

Nope

Palais des Thés used to have a store in Dublin. Their loose Earl Grey was the finest I’ve ever tasted.

AlexSimon,

If you like oolong teas, have you tried this

http://www.cantonteaco.com/big-red-robe-oolong-tea.html]http://www.cantonteaco.com/big-red-robe-oolong-tea.html
It is one of my favourite oolong. A great comfort tea.

Mogrim, I will have a think about another spider thread

So any of you lot, when you visit other people and they offer you a cuppa, do you go “Yes please. I’ll have a phoenix roobios earl grey blend with a hint of pistachio and a dash of unsweetened organic soy milk please.”

Twynings, Twinings and Twinnings so far. Carry on.

roper – Member

AlexSimon,

If you like oolong teas, have you tried this

http://www.cantonteaco.com/big-red-robe-oolong-tea.htmlhttp://www.cantonteaco.com/big-red-robe-oolong-tea.html
It is one of my favourite oolong. A great comfort tea.Yes, I have it. For some reason I haven’t added any taste notes, so I’ll have to try it again over the weekend. I’ve forgotten what I thought of it, although smelling the bag, it seems like one of the more caramel/baked ones which aren’t usually to my taste.
Mine is this:
https://www.imperialteas.co.uk/red-robe-da-hong-pao-number-1

Mogrim, I will have a think about another spider thread

Yay!