Barrys or Lyons???

Lawless_Samurai

Hey guys,

Help settle an argument I'm having with a friend.... She reckons Barrys tea is better then Lyons & we cant come to an agreement so we said which ever wins the vote on Boards is the winner.....


Cheers :):D

Mr Magnolia

I am actually surprised that this question has never came up here before.

Of course I will remain unbiased.










Lyons FTW

Fast_Mover

Even though I'm from Cork its gota be Lyons!!!:D

bill_ashmount

Barrys all the way.

Slaphead07

Lyons, Barry's Tea is very bitter. Mind you..... I drink Bewleys.

JIZZLORD

Barrys irish breakfast tea is where its at.

davejones

Lyon's tea is by far the nicer tea IMHO
i also quite like Tetley tea

JIZZLORD

tetley is piss

Ruu_Old

Always been a Lyons man. *slurps cup*

Jimbo

Barrys, to be sure

I read in Guiness Book of Records that we cosume the most tea per capita, over 1000 cups per person per year. Crazy. Whos drinking all the tea?

challengemaster

lyons

davejones

JIZZLORD wrote: »

tetley is piss

it's not that bad.
I like it

copacetic

lyons, they shouldn't be allowed to call Barry's tea, it should have 'tea flavoured drink' or some such on the box

copacetic

davejones wrote: »

it's not that bad.
I like it

what about the tea though?

davejones

copacetic wrote: »

what about the tea though?

I was referring to the tea.
I stopped drinking piss a couple of years ago.

Lawless_Samurai

jimbo78 wrote: »

I read in Guiness Book of Records that we cosume the most tea per capita, over 1000 cups per person per year. Crazy. Whos drinking all the tea?

Me for one!!! :):D

cazzy

Neither. Bewleys afternoon tea i s my favourite. (get at work)
I also like M&S tea and Aldi tea isnt bad either. (M&S in press at moment)
No Barrys or Lyons in my cupboard.

conzy

Barry's is ****e!

Lyon's and Punjana are great

dudara

Barry's Gold Blend loose leaf tea. Being from Cork, I was bought up on this stuff, Tea bags just don't compete.

I also quite like Bewley's Clipper Red

There's a big difference in taste between the English (Tetley's, Punjana etc) and Irish teas. The Iisih teas seem to be stronger with more taste.

Black Swan

Lyons!

JIZZLORD

dudara wrote: »

Barry's Gold Blend loose leaf tea.

aye, the best tea imo is some loose barrys in the auld french press.

dudara wrote: »

There's a big difference in taste between the English (Tetley's, Punjana etc) and Irish teas. The Iisih teas seem to be stronger with more taste.

i've always noticed this and last night i was on the wikipedia entry for irish breakfast tea and it mentioned that there is a prevalence in ireland towards assam tea

ali.c

jimbo78 wrote: »

I read in Guiness Book of Records that we cosume the most tea per capita, over 1000 cups per person per year. Crazy. Whos drinking all the tea?

1000 a year is not that much to be fair its only like 3 cups a day. I know people who would put away over ten so i suppose it averages out!

Lyons FTW

Lawless_Samurai

I grew up in Cork for part of my childhood and I still go back from time to time and everyone I know drinks Barry's down there and everytime I have a cup of tea I just think... It ain't like Lyons back home (Kildare)


Love Cork, just don't like Barry's!!! :):D

Crumble Froo

having recently moved country and had to depend on 'dilmah' tea...

LYONS FTW!!!

****in hell, the stuff here... isnt *bad*... but just.. isnt... *lyons..*

Lawless_Samurai

narco wrote: »

****in hell, the stuff here... isnt *bad*... but just.. isnt... *lyons..*

Exactly! I remember when I used to go on Family holidays abroad and my mam used to bring a supply of Lyons teabags with her. I used to think she was mad..... Went to Denmark and Holland this year and didn't bring any of my Lyons with me and I suffered for it! The tea there was some crap english tea that just wasn't tea in my book! From now on I'm bringing Lyons with me!!! :):D



Thank you Mam for giving me my love/addiction to tea!!!!!

Crumble Froo

haha, niamh's christmas request....

send moar lyons.

Rowley Birkin QC

I can honestly say I haven't ever drank a cup of tea. I don't see the point of it. That is all.

Lidl brand tea FTW.

I'm a poor student, dontcha know.

Potential-Monke

Lyons all the way, and revolutionising tea making with the pyramid! Geniuseseses!

dfx-

bigkev49 wrote: »

I can honestly say I haven't ever drank a cup of tea. I don't see the point of it. That is all.

+1

Ditto for coffee

*runs*

Rob_l

Lyons tea is the king of Tea's
thats barry's stuff has a manky after taste to me, summit wrong with it I say

Mr E

Bewleys for me.....

loyatemu

Twinings Assam

Lawless_Samurai

bigkev49 wrote: »

I can honestly say I haven't ever drank a cup of tea. I don't see the point of it. That is all.

You are missing out big time!!! :):D

Where can you get the loose leaf tea? I've never noticed it in the shops and only had it a few times when I was down in Galway years ago and after reading a few comments about it I'd like to try it again :):D

JIZZLORD

i hadnt had loose tea since the summer but this thread sent me down to dunnes and i returned with loose tea.
Barrys ftw \o/

_blank_

Lyons for the win.

JackieChan

Grew up on Lyons myself. But I now drink Robert Roberts/Bewleys/Barry's Decaff depending on special offers!!
Had a cup of barrys regular tea last week and I nearly got sick. Had a cup of regular Bewleys this morning and found it better. I find regular tea very strong. Its like moving from sugar in your tea to none....After a few weeks if you try it again with the same amount of sugar it tastes almost poisioned!

Unpossible

Lyons for me when I'm home. Twinnings have an Irish Breakfast Tea here and its pretty close to Lyons so I get that (when I have run out of my lyons supply).

Hal1

and punjana a close second

deisemum

ali.c wrote: »

1000 a year is not that much to be fair its only like 3 cups a day. I know people who would put away over ten so i suppose it averages out!

Lyons FTW

I would easily drink more than 10 mugs of Lyons tea every day. Slightly less in fine weather.

I have to have tea first thing in the morning or I'm like an anti-christ if I haven't had my fix first thing.

JIZZLORD

ah, 10 cups a day. any day i'm helping the auld fella on the farm 10 cups and upwards aren't unheard of.

Xavi6

Lyons ftw. That is all

Lawless_Samurai

I was always fond of tea but I think my addiction for it grew from the leaving cert.... Every 15mins going for a break from study to make a cup o tea!!! :):D

johnnyskeleton

Barrys is the Catholic, working man's tea, while Lyons has always been a bit anglo Irish hoity toity.

That said, Lyons have been really trying to gain market share among the people.

I have to admit that those pyramid bags have often tempted me away from my proletariat mainstay - they really make a lot of difference to the tea.

lucyburn

I enjoy both brands actually, but if i had to pick one it would be Lyons.

god's toy

Lyons all the way!

Nothing comes close.

copacetic

johnnyskeleton wrote: »

Barrys is the Catholic, working man's tea, while Lyons has always been a bit anglo Irish hoity toity.

That said, Lyons have been really trying to gain market share among the people.

I have to admit that those pyramid bags have often tempted me away from my proletariat mainstay - they really make a lot of difference to the tea.

thats total rubbish, if anything lyons in the working mans tea, barrys is the stinking rich, tax robbing farmers tea!

Badabing

I voted Lyons but prefear Typhoo lovely stuff.

Someone else

:mad:

The new Lyons tea adverts are very deceiving, irish accents all over the place.

It turns out that Lyons tea pulled out of Ireland a number of years ago....

And now the tea is blended in England and imported into Ireland.

The only one left blending in Ireland is Barrys.

TBH I like Lyons but have changed this week to Barry's as if it aids the keeping of jobs in Ireland etc.

FTGFOP

What about Bewleys? You could drink theirs as well, no?
Mmm... tea.

copacetic

Someone else wrote: »

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TBH I like Lyons but have changed this week to Barry's as if it aids the keeping of jobs in Ireland etc.

I wouldn't drink Barrys if my own job depended on it.