Tea

14-12-2008 11:36am #1

I love my tea. Would probably drink around 4 cups a day. But I have been wondering about something; why do they charge different prices between a small-medium-large tea. I mean when you think about it, it's not like they're adding any extra tea-leaves or tea-bags. Just water, which can be gotten for free regardless.

mikemac · 14-12-2008 11:48am

I only found out recently we have a coffee and tea forum, it's pretty dead

Probably a marketing scam, like those pyramid shaped tea-bags
But hey, they introduced it so someone is buying it

galwayrush · 14-12-2008 11:49am

Horrible stuff:pac:

themadchef · 14-12-2008 11:50am

Tea, I hate the stuff. More a coffee girl myself.
I cant even make a nice cup of tea. Tea bags are a bit like using instant coffee are they not? Not every where has separate prices for cup or mugs of tea. It's a bit of a joke really....extra hot water = extra 50c. Irish people are only now realising how unquestioning their attitudes were in this respect for the last 5 to 10 years. Places that want to survive will have to offer more value for your €€ or lose your business. The thing is though, if you're not speaking with your feet...they won't lose and won't learn.

On another point: As a coffee drinker i can just about stomach a cup of instant crap if it's my only choice. Is it that tea drinkers are lazy? We go to the trouble of getting the auld percolators or bodums out to have the perfect cup of coffee. Why don't people who claim to be almost addicted tea drinkers make real tea

bronte · 14-12-2008 11:50am

This bothers me immensely...what are they charging the extra for?
Have to hand it to the local starbucks..they always offer me an extra teabag if I order a grande tea...nowhere else does that.

Having a nice cup right now..mmmm.

6th · 14-12-2008 11:53am

I maybe drink 4 cups a week but the West Coast beside me in Temple Bar charges €1.70 for a Tall and €1.75 for a large. Sure you might think the charge is just for extra water but Its water, more milk(?) and if you are taking it away then its a bigger paper cup. Still my place has a tiny difference, maybe other places are far worse?

14-12-2008 11:55am

Sabotage wrote: »

I maybe drink 4 cups a week but the West Coast beside me in Temple Bar charges €1.70 for a Tall and €1.75 for a large. Sure you might think the charge is just for extra water but Its water, more milk(?) and if you are taking it away then its a bigger paper cup. Still my place has a tiny difference, maybe other places are far worse?

I have seen places charge between 20 and 50c extra.

emeraldstar · 14-12-2008 12:36pm

Deleted User wrote: »

I love my tea. Would probably drink around 4 cups a day. But I have been wondering about something; why do they charge different prices between a small-medium-large tea. I mean when you think about it, it's not like they're adding any extra tea-leaves or tea-bags. Just water, which can be gotten for free regardless.

4 cups a day? Pffff. Feeble effort, man.

Minimum 10 ftw :cool:

Censorsh!t · 14-12-2008 1:15pm

I agree with above. Only 4 cups a day? You don't love tea at all:p

I think I'm addicted to the stuff. back when I was in school I used feel like absolute crap until I had a cup of tea when i got home. After walking any amount of distance, I need tea. When I wake up I need at least 2 cups of tea to start functioning. Before I go to sleep, I need tea. While studying I need LOTS of tea. While interneting I need lots of tea. I basically need lots of tea.

The worst thing about tea is that once you've finished a cup, you just want more and more which means getting off your ass to make it.

moonboy · 14-12-2008 1:26pm

Censorsh!t wrote: »

I agree with above. Only 4 cups a day? You don't love tea at all:p

I think I'm addicted to the stuff. back when I was in school I used feel like absolute crap until I had a cup of tea when i got home. After walking any amount of distance, I need tea. When I wake up I need at least 2 cups of tea to start functioning. Before I go to sleep, I need tea. While studying I need LOTS of tea. While interneting I need lots of tea. I basically need lots of tea.

The worst thing about tea is that once you've finished a cup, you just want more and more which means getting off your ass to make it.

you must get the sh!ts an awful lot.

abitlonely · 14-12-2008 1:28pm

Deleted User wrote: »

why do they charge different prices between a small-medium-large tea. I mean when you think about it, it's not like they're adding any extra tea-leaves or tea-bags. Just water, which can be gotten for free regardless.

They charge more because people are willing to pay more.
See how much they'll charge you for a cup of hot water.

Thomas_S_Hunterson · 14-12-2008 1:30pm

micmclo wrote: »

I only found out recently we have a coffee and tea forum, it's pretty dead

Probably a marketing scam, like those pyramid shaped tea-bags
But hey, they introduced it so someone is buying it

Those pyramid bags allow the companies to make the teabags with a lot less waste compared to other bags, the circular ones especially.

simu · 14-12-2008 1:38pm

Deleted User wrote: »

I love my tea. Would probably drink around 4 cups a day. But I have been wondering about something; why do they charge different prices between a small-medium-large tea. I mean when you think about it, it's not like they're adding any extra tea-leaves or tea-bags. Just water, which can be gotten for free regardless.

They probably do use more teabags/leaves for a bigger pot; they ought to, at least.

Regardless, there is a crazy mark-up on tea in cafés but it's hard to say no if you're a tea lover!

Epic Tissue · 14-12-2008 1:48pm

themadchef wrote: »

Tea, I hate the stuff. More a coffee girl myself.
I cant even make a nice cup of tea. Tea bags are a bit like using instant coffee are they not? Not every where has separate prices for cup or mugs of tea. It's a bit of a joke really....extra hot water = extra 50c. Irish people are only now realising how unquestioning their attitudes were in this respect for the last 5 to 10 years. Places that want to survive will have to offer more value for your €€ or lose your business. The thing is though, if you're not speaking with your feet...they won't lose and won't learn.

On another point: As a coffee drinker i can just about stomach a cup of instant crap if it's my only choice. Is it that tea drinkers are lazy? We go to the trouble of getting the auld percolators or bodums out to have the perfect cup of coffee. Why don't people who claim to be almost addicted tea drinkers make real tea

Irish people?:pac: Sure they are all leprechauns are they not?:eek:

Also, I find tea drinkers aren't as elitist as coffee drinkers.

moonboy wrote: »

you must get the sh!ts an awful lot.

Tea isn't like coffee

cooperla · 14-12-2008 1:49pm

Deleted User wrote: »

I love my tea. Would probably drink around 4 cups a day. But I have been wondering about something; why do they charge different prices between a small-medium-large tea. I mean when you think about it, it's not like they're adding any extra tea-leaves or tea-bags. Just water, which can be gotten for free regardless.

4 a day isn't that much. I drink tea and coffee - go through a minimum of two coffees and 5 or 6 tea's.

But chargin extra for a large tea is a bit dodgy. the local place doesn't charge any difference for regular of large though.

14-12-2008 1:56pm

I drink about 3-4 coffees at work and a couple of teas at home
weekend is about 5 teas or so a day

IvySlayer · 14-12-2008 2:18pm

According to the Guinness World Records, we are the nation that drinks the most tea! Wahey!

100 years of calling us alcoholics, look who's laughing now :pac:

Anyway, day starts with a cup of Lyons. Have at least 5 a day. With chocolate bourbons of course.

Fabritzo · 14-12-2008 2:31pm

Some places put an extra teabag in the cup if your buying a large one

Pighead · 14-12-2008 2:34pm

Pighead hates the stuff.

Hate the smell, colour and taste of the loathsome liquid. But worst of all is the social aspect of it. Old women in the country actually get angry with you and hold a grudge if you refuse to accept a cup of tea from them.

Pighead has been told to "Get the fcuk out of my house you little runt, you mean nothing to me now" by many aunts and a couple of grannies down through the years. You could assasinate the pope whilst making love to a sheep and it still wouldn't come near the hatred generated from not drinking their tea. They say heroin destroys families but teas worse.

Rosedale6 · 14-12-2008 2:35pm

I really enjoy a cup of tea. I must drink about7,8,9 cups a day. I hate it when you go to a cafe and it tastes like water.:mad:

Wertz · 14-12-2008 2:52pm

themadchef wrote: »

On another point: As a coffee drinker i can just about stomach a cup of instant crap if it's my only choice. Is it that tea drinkers are lazy? We go to the trouble of getting the auld percolators or bodums out to have the perfect cup of coffee. Why don't people who claim to be almost addicted tea drinkers make real tea

Good point. I love coffee and tea equally, but both have their time and place.
I'll drink instant if it's all that's going but if I'm offered the choice between that and tea, I'll take the tea.
At home I won't touch instant, it's grinding my own beans and making it in the cafetierre...but I usually only drink coffee in the morning or evening...during the day or sometimes with breakfast it'll be tea (bags in a pot), but it would never occur to me to buy loose leaf tea. I know it tastes nicer and that but it isn't the same difference that there is between instant coffee and the real thing.

As for buying tea/coffee? I won't buy tea to take away...1.60 or whatever for a cup of hotwater and a teabag is lunacy...coffee to take away, it depends...some of the machines in shops make nice fresh frothy stuff and some it's just glorified instant. I'm far more inclined to spend 2 quid or whatever on the coffee (I don't know if the profit margins are the same as tea in this regard)...I just don't think that tea offers value for money and it's never as nice as it is from a pot...

Spunge · 14-12-2008 2:55pm

I loves me tea.
Only barry's tea though, everything else is gash

Coffee wise any brand is usually alright, but prefer barry's

emeraldstar · 14-12-2008 2:56pm

Censorsh!t wrote: »

The worst thing about tea is that once you've finished a cup, you just want more and more which means getting off your ass to make it.

Which is why tea pots are so incredibly wonderful

rubadub · 14-12-2008 3:02pm

Epic Tissue wrote: »

Also, I find tea drinkers aren't as elitist as coffee drinkers.

Both hot drinks, but quite different in preparation. It is far more likely to get a crap coffee than crap teas.

Wertz · 14-12-2008 3:20pm

Anyone ever drink instant tea (as in freeze dried)? Only had it once myself..and that was one too many times.

It'd be better to equate that with instant coffee and use comparisons of teabags to loose leaf as being the difference between cafétierre coffee and that from a gaggia or similar...

Censorsh!t · 14-12-2008 3:35pm

moonboy wrote: »

you must get the sh!ts an awful lot.

hahaha, no i cant say i do. Just a lot of weeing:p

emeraldstar · 14-12-2008 3:35pm

rubadub wrote: »

Both hot drinks, but quite different in preparation. It is far more likely to get a crap coffee than crap teas.

Hmmm, I dunno. It's so so easy for tea to be too weak or too strong. And if you don't heat the pot properly beforehand it could be too cold. So many people are really quite particular about making their own tea so it will be strong enough/right amount of milk, etc. Then there's the type of tea bag...

Yadda yadda yadda

Censorsh!t · 14-12-2008 3:36pm

emeraldstar wrote: »

Which is why tea pots are so incredibly wonderful

True true.
I am really tempted to buy a kettle for my room...but that would mean buying a fridge to keep the milk in, and a sink for washing the cups and spoons...

emeraldstar · 14-12-2008 3:37pm

Censorsh!t wrote: »

hahaha, no i cant say i do. Just a lot of weeing:p

Me too

So much so I've often told myself to cut down on my tea intake. But I can't. It's far too good. And this country is far too cold.

emeraldstar · 14-12-2008 3:39pm

Censorsh!t wrote: »

True true.
I am really tempted to buy a kettle for my room...but that would mean buying a fridge to keep the milk in, and a sink for washing the cups and spoons...

I rented a room once which had a kettle and mini fridge in it. It was great.

Plus it had an ensuite, which is necessary with all the tea drinking. It was perfect.

PurpleBerry · 14-12-2008 3:39pm

Tea, you say?

I'd love one. Cheers!

Shacklebolt · 14-12-2008 3:42pm

emeraldstar wrote: »

Which is why tea pots are so incredibly wonderful

I only realised there was one in my apartment the other day.. Its brilliant

But does anybody find the teapots in restaurants are verybadly designed and prone to spillages?

Censorsh!t · 14-12-2008 3:44pm

Shacklebolt wrote: »

I only realised there was one in my apartment the other day.. Its brilliant

But does anybody find the teapots in restaurants are verybadly designed and prone to spillages?

My god, yes. I mean, half the tea ends up on the table:(

Ruu_Old · 14-12-2008 3:45pm

Indeed, tea seems to want to cling to the spout and just drip down the side of it instead of into the cup. Requires skill.

Having a nice cup of Lyons Gold Blend now.

PurpleBerry · 14-12-2008 3:46pm

I need a good teapot. Which is better? The steel ones or the ceramic ones?

14-12-2008 4:37pm

Damn it, now I'm going to go and make a cup of tea.

Social drug, I think...

Shelflife · 14-12-2008 4:55pm

Why are the larger cups of tea dearer? a couple of reasons which on a per cup basis are small but over the year mount up.

-the larger cup costs more,
-more water is used , its not free we are on a meter
-if more water is used it costs more to boil it
-the larger cups tend to use more sugar and milk.
-the more water that go through the machines ie the more they are used then the more maintenace they need.

if you only sold 12oz tea versus 8oz tea thats 50% more water used, over a year that adds up.

Fizman · 14-12-2008 5:00pm

My mum and sis went into the Marriott hotel cafe in Limerick a few days ago to have a cup of tea. €4.50 :eek: And it was just a standard cup of tea! Coffee was the same!!!!!! Criminal!

Shacklebolt · 14-12-2008 5:41pm

Censorsh!t wrote: »

My god, yes. I mean, half the tea ends up on the table:(

Ruined my Indo a few weeks back... Aggravating in the extreme.

14-12-2008 5:44pm

Fizman wrote: »

My mum and sis went into the Marriott hotel cafe in Limerick a few days ago to have a cup of tea. €4.50 :eek: And it was just a standard cup of tea! Coffee was the same!!!!!! Criminal!

yep

RayM · 14-12-2008 5:46pm

Shacklebolt wrote: »

But does anybody find the teapots in restaurants are verybadly designed and prone to spillages?

That's easily solved. Take the tea bag out before pouring, and I can assure you that will never happen again. :cool:

Wertz · 14-12-2008 5:53pm

RayM wrote: »

That's easily solved. Take the tea bag out before pouring, and I can assure you that will never happen again. :cool:

Yep, the s/steel catering tea pots have a lid that gets pushed up slightly when you try and pour tea from a full pot...the floating bags lift the lid and tea runs over the lip and down the sides...it can look like it's coming from the spout but it's not.

It's reckoned that tea tastes better from china or ceramic than out of steel pots, but I've never tasted any difference. Steel pot is easier to warm, but ceramic seems to keep it warmer for longer...

RayM · 14-12-2008 6:00pm

Wertz wrote: »

Yep, the s/steel catering tea pots have a lid that gets pushed up slightly when you try and pour tea from a full pot...the floating bags lift the lid and tea runs over the lip and down the sides...it can look like it's coming from the spout but it's not.

I discovered that the hard way. Absent-mindedly poured a mug of tea in a café, while simultaneously reading. Tea flowed off the table, straight onto my trousers. Of course, I couldn't get up and leave until it dried.

eirebhoy · 14-12-2008 6:04pm

Never in my life bought a cup of tea. What a rip off.

Saibh · 14-12-2008 6:05pm

Love my first cup of tea in the morning, then usually have coffee during the day, tea again in the evening.

Shacklebolt · 14-12-2008 6:09pm

RayM wrote: »

That's easily solved. Take the tea bag out before pouring, and I can assure you that will never happen again. :cool:

You have changed my life

Tea

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