Yes, this is my experience. My friend got me on to mixtures of ordinary tea and fruit. Somehow you taste both. I'll ask her for current suggestions
This was the case years ago, but the standard has improved and all I have tried lately (Twinings, Sainsbury's own brand, Pukka, Clipper) have taste.Do you not find that the fruit teas smell nice but don’t taste of anything? Have tried a few over the years but just went back to black tea in the end after various nicely-scented hot waters.
If you look at the ingredients of most fruit teas it is always rosehip and hibiscus, whatever it actually claims to be on the front. Then they stick in some "flavourings". So they smell nice but just taste of rosehip and hibiscus.Do you not find that the fruit teas smell nice but don’t taste of anything? Have tried a few over the years but just went back to black tea in the end after various nicely-scented hot waters.
Twinings, Williamsons and Ringtons are all reasonable quality normally. How very dare you malign the drink of the discerning. I have had some unpleasant examples of Earl Grey i grant you but great man, great tea. Needs milk though.Here is a question for the UK-based Forteans: is Twinnings considered a good tea brand? I much prefer it to Liptons. I don't want to be a tea snob, but only a middle-of-the-road tea imbiber.
I think Earl Grey smells and tastes like cat piss. Meow!
I prefer it. I drink a 50/50 blend of Twinnings Assam and E.G. No milk.Here is a question for the UK-based Forteans: is Twinnings considered a good tea brand?
Fauchons Earl Grey comes to mind, tried it onceI have had some unpleasant examples of Earl Grey
I think Earl Grey smells and tastes like cat piss. Meow!
A word of warning. Once you start on the elephant tea caddies it is hard to stop. Three or four were prised from my claw-like hands and taken to the charity shop recently, but I can’t bring myself to let go of them all. The Art Nouveau one is currently my favourite.Morrisons Best Assam teabags £2.10 for a pack/100. Except there has been no stock for months - but there is plenty of Twinings Assam teabags £5.30 for a pack/80 - for goodness sake. Anyway, I don't have an elephant-shaped tea caddy, but I do have an elephant on my teabag caddy (Williamson Tea. Tea Farmers since 1869)
View attachment 48640
That way they're worth more.You must think me so lowbrow; I leave my tea in the original boxes.
It’s the satisfying ‘pock’ noise you get when you take the lid off a tea caddy. You don’t get that with a cardboard box. You can never go back….You must think me so lowbrow; I leave my tea in the original boxes.
See if your local supermarket carries Tetley British Blend. Old tea lost in the back of the cupboard is probably not going to be too good.I knew the first time I saw Picard command the replicator to make him a cup of Earl Grey, that I was going to like him. It has been too long since I've had anything but Lipton or Tetley black tea. We drink a lot of that in this house. I used to enjoy lots of different things like Morning Thunder and some other things from Celestial Seasonings. Also, a good strong cup of English Breakfast Tea (is that just a Murrican thing?) is a good coffee substitute. I think I liked Bigelow's version of that the best. I've apparently just got into the habit of grabbing whatever is in the front of the cupboard, which is either Lipton or Tetley depending on the price or, these days, what we can get. I'll have to do some digging and see what we have stashed back in there.
Here is a question for the UK-based Forteans: is Twinnings considered a good tea brand? I much prefer it to Liptons. I don't want to be a tea snob, but only a middle-of-the-road tea imbiber.
I think Earl Grey smells and tastes like cat piss. Meow!
FULL STORY: https://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2022/1...d-Records-cups-of-tea-one-hour/5221666107868/Woman prepares 249 cups of tea in one hour for Guinness World Record
A South African woman broke a Guinness World Record when she prepared 249 cups of tea in one hour.
Ingar Valentyn of Wupperthal chose rooibos tea, a red herbal tea that comes from the leaves of South Africa's Aspalathus linearis shrub, and served her cups to a group of local students and residents. ...
Guinness World Records set the goal for the record at 150, and at the the end of her attempt Valentyn estimated she had made about 170 cups. The official count turned out to be 249 -- officials said she poured 250 cups, but one was not full enough to qualify for the record. ...
Wait...what?!It's a big reason why Americans don't really use electric kettles