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Barry's or Lyons?

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    #62
    LordSutch
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,078 ✭✭✭✭LordSutch


    Why is there a choice of just two teas in the poll :confused:

    Why Barry's or Lyons?


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    #63
    Malena72
    Registered Users Posts: 58 ✭✭Malena72


    McGraths is the best. Our next choice would be Lyons.


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    #64
    madcabbage
    Registered Users Posts: 2,300 ✭✭✭madcabbage


    McGraths = ****e Barrys = Awesomeness :)


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    #65
    lecker Hendl
    Registered Users Posts: 409 ✭✭lecker Hendl


    I used to think there was no difference until they got Barry's at work recently. Like drinking cups of piss. Lyons for me.


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    #66
    bob50
    Registered Users Posts: 535 ✭✭✭bob50


    Twinings Gold Label Tea

    If you like your tea strong Twinings has a great taste


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    #67
    darlett
    Registered Users Posts: 2,312 ✭✭✭darlett


    bob50 wrote: »
    If you like your tea strong Twinings has a great taste

    I do like it strong. I accept not everyone does.

    BUT my work mate Trevor likes it weak. How weak? Very weak!

    He puts hot water in his cup and drops the teabag momentarily into it. You are kidding me Trevor. Fanks, but I'll make my own. Take the piss-but dont make me drink the piss dude.
    Seriously someone picked that tea you waster. Just have hot water with milk if thats your thing you fackin' pleb.


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    #68
    Ruski
    Registered Users Posts: 581 ✭✭✭Ruski


    That stuff Chinese stuff that's like a ball but when you drop it in it starts spreading out like a flow n shít. That's the bomb.


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    #69
    Tony Soprano.
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 298 ✭✭Tony Soprano.


    Barrys


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    #70
    pavb2
    Registered Users Posts: 2,933 ✭✭✭pavb2


    Ran out of milk few days ago so started using Marvel, I find it gives a much cleaner taste and encourages a much more aromatic and richer flavour of tea to develop.

    Tastes c**p on me weetabix though.



    Must try McGraths


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    #71
    maxfresh
    Registered Users Posts: 688 ✭✭✭maxfresh


    Lyons for me i like the little pyramid tea bags


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    #72
    Vita nova
    Registered Users Posts: 740 ✭✭✭Vita nova


    Master of Nothing wrote: »
    Originally Posted by Madam_X
    Thought Lyons was Irish.
    ...
    Not anymore. Was bought by Unilever a good few years ago, who are a British-Dutch corporation.
    ...
    Unilever didn't just buy Lyons; they also closed Lyons' factory in Inchicore and transferred the tea processing part to PG Tips in the UK. They've done similar with HP Ice Cream and other brands; that's their modus operandi, which is normal enough for a food conglomerate.


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    #73
    Stained Class
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,808 ✭✭✭Stained Class


    Vita nova wrote: »
    Unilever didn't just buy Lyons; they also closed Lyons' factory in Inchicore and transferred the tea processing part to PG Tips in the UK. They've done similar with HP Ice Cream and other brands; that's their modus operandi, which is normal enough for a food conglomerate.


    So, Barrys it is then!

    I hate it when food is advertised as Irish & then found to be produced/prosessed in a diffrent country altogether!:mad:


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    #74
    Remmy
    Registered Users Posts: 2,921 ✭✭✭Remmy


    Has to be Barry's for me


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    #75
    Mickey H
    Registered Users Posts: 1,822 ✭✭✭Mickey H


    N64 wrote: »
    wheres the "I don't drink tea" option?

    Relegated with the "Atari Jaguar" option on this one.


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    #76
    ElvisChrist6
    Registered Users Posts: 595 ✭✭✭ElvisChrist6


    Lyons for me! But the best boxed teabags I've had are Bewley's. Amazing stuff!


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    #77
    Ghost Train
    Registered Users Posts: 30,110 ✭✭✭✭Ghost Train


    Barrys I guess


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    #78
    jupiterjack
    Registered Users Posts: 660 ✭✭✭jupiterjack


    has to be barrys...


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    #79
    Monty Burnz
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,455 ✭✭✭✭Monty Burnz


    Don't know if anyone has made the point yet, but Barry's is an Irish company, Lyons isn't (although they try to pretend they are). For some reason I always think of Lyons as Fianna Failure tea.

    Edit: Further to what others have said, as far as I know, Lyons was never an Irish company, it was a British company selling in Ireland.


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    #80
    Seaneh
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 18,300 ✭✭✭✭Seaneh


    snubbleste wrote: »
    Where in Ireland do they grow tea?

    The company is irish.

    They blend and package in ireland.

    They employ people in Irelnd.

    They pay corporation tax.

    The contribute to the local and national economy.



    and on and on and on.

    Lyon's in imported from the UK.


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    #81
    gammygils
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    Tetleys' for me is the best

    Bewleys' is the worst

    Also Mc Graths', SuperValu or Centra Green or Gold, Fallons' (Lidl) are good

    As for Lyons' or Barrys'?

    Lyons'


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    #82
    Fratton Fred
    Closed Accounts Posts: 26,567 ✭✭✭✭Fratton Fred


    Master of Nothing wrote: »
    Madam_X wrote: »
    Thought Lyons was Irish.

    It's my preference anyway - Barrys has a slight aftertaste I don't like.
    Not anymore. Was bought by Unilever a good few years ago, who are a British-Dutch corporation.

    I'll vote Lyons a thousand times over, since it's usually what we'd drink at home and I was never a fan of Barrys.

    Lyons is as Irish as Guinness tbh.

    Barry's tea drinkers are culchies, the same people who complain that they can only get avonmore milk in Dublin and Dawn is better.
    It's got feck all to do with taste, its more a parochial thing.


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    #83
    DEFTLEFTHAND
    Registered Users Posts: 16,500 ✭✭✭✭DEFTLEFTHAND


    Aren't Lyons now controled by P.G so basically its the same product.

    I could be inaccurate with that statement, if so somebody please shed some light.


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    #84
    Fratton Fred
    Closed Accounts Posts: 26,567 ✭✭✭✭Fratton Fred


    DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »
    Aren't Lyons now controled by P.G so basically its the same product.

    I could be inaccurate with that statement, if so somebody please shed some light.
    I used to work for the company that made the triangle tea bag machines for unilever. I think we made 7 in total, six for pg tips, one for Lyons. Then, they were definitely different products made in different factories, albeit the same shape. Lyons were apparently a different blend for the Irish market.

    That was 15 years ago though.


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    #85
    Frynge
    Registered Users Posts: 1,667 ✭✭✭Frynge


    Raised a barrys man but alas im now a convert.
    Lyons all the way


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    #86
    Vita nova
    Registered Users Posts: 740 ✭✭✭Vita nova


    Fratton Fred wrote: »
    Lyons is as Irish as Guinness tbh.

    Wrong!
    Guinness may be owned by Diageo but it's produced here among other places.

    Lyons is owned by Unilever and produced (selected/blended/packed) by PG Tips in Manchester. It used to be produced in Inchicore in Dublin but the factory was closed and production moved.


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    #87
    Ghost Buster
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    N64 wrote: »
    wheres the "I don't drink tea" option?
    Its down the bottom in small print




























































    Dont read this thread if you do not drink tea as it is clearly about tea.:p


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    #88
    RADIUS
    Closed Accounts Posts: 353 ✭✭RADIUS


    N64 wrote: »
    wheres the "I don't drink tea" option?

    It's on the ferry out of Ireland ya big traitor.


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    #89
    RADIUS
    Closed Accounts Posts: 353 ✭✭RADIUS


    What did Confucius think of the Tae?

    "I know why the Tae is not practiced. The intelligent go beyond it and the dull do not reach it. I know why the Tae is not manifested. The 'good' go beyond it and the unworthy do not reach it. There is no one who does not eat or drink, but there are few who really have 'taste.'"

    "If I can hear the Tae in the morning, in the evening I can die content."

    "The human being manifests the Tae. The Tae doesn't manifest the human being."

    “Great Man calculates in terms of the Tae, not in terms of earning a living. Agriculture is inspired by the fear of hunger; study, by an interest in salary. Great Man is concerned about the Tae; not about poverty.”


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    #90
    Seaneh
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    Fratton Fred wrote: »
    Lyons is as Irish as Guinness tbh.

    Well, no, no it's not.

    Guinness Ireland LTD. is still an Irish company based in Dublin, employing people locally, buying Irish produce (barley, hops, etc) and producing a product in Ireland. They pay Irish taxes and benefit the Irish economy.

    The parent company is spanish but the company itself is still registered in Ireland.


    Lyons is entirely based in manchester.


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