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Favourite Tea

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  • #32
    CrowleyM
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1 ✭CrowleyM


    My favourite tea is Barry's Gold Blend, brewed strong with lots of milk


  • #33
    Arghus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 16,413 ✭✭✭✭Arghus


    Lyon's Gold Blend if I had to name a favourite, but usually I can't tell one from the other.


  • #34
    [Deleted User]
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    Barrys. I have it sent to me if I can't get it. When I can't get it, I get Yorkshire Tea or Twinnings English Breakfast, but they're only a stopgap til the Barrys arrives.

    Only savages like Lyons.

    SAVAGES.


  • #35
    london bus 200
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 11 ✭london bus 200


    MY FAV TEA IS BEER


  • #36
    Temptamperu
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    Im a cheap bastard, Lidl all the way or supervalue instant coffee if im having coffee.


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  • #37
    learn_more
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,520 ✭✭✭learn_more


    london bus 200 wrote: »
    MY FAV TEA IS BEER

    My favourite T is the T in Tequila


  • #38
    Yusuf Green Cloud
    Posts: 81,308 CMod ✭✭✭✭ Yusuf Green Cloud


    Vanilla earl grey


  • #39
    mansize
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    Lyons Gold Blend. Even tough its packed in Manchester.


  • #40
    mansize
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    Bewely's is awful


  • #41
    Spanish Eyes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,199 ✭✭✭✭Spanish Eyes


    Aldi Gold Blend FTW. Gawjus.


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  • #42
    Rubberchikken
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,303 ✭✭✭Rubberchikken


    None of the ones mentioned. Like the one in aldi. Does the job. Hot and strong.


  • #43
    hairyprincess
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,300 ✭✭✭hairyprincess


    I can't abide tea or coffee, but I do have a box of Lyons for anyone who fancies a cuppa.


  • #44
    First Up
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,823 ✭✭✭✭First Up


    The standard supermarket brands are all much the same. Tea bags are mostly rubbish and if you put milk into it, then one will be the same as another.

    Robert Roberts produce some decent stuff - all African (Kenyan) I think. Their Campbells loose leaf (tinned) is excellent and even their Kenyan tea bags are tasty.

    There is lovely specialty tea out there (Sri Lanka, Indian - even Georgia and some South American) but unless you are serious about it, no point spending the extra.

    But if you are pouring milk into it and adding sugar then you might as well get the cheapest available. Just be careful with really cheap tea bags - some border on poisonous.


  • #45
    Dr Crayfish
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    I never got this feckin' Irish tea thing. It's just so bland. Tastes to me like you soaked cardboard in hot water for a while and added milk. If it's made really really really strong in a teapot, I do like it though.
    Anyway, I make my own version of tea from thinly sliced ginger and lemon juice in a cafetiere. It's gorgeous. Make a huge thing of it then drink the rest cold the next morning.
    Apart from that coffee, but I really need to cut down.


  • #46
    Summer wind
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,285 ✭✭✭Summer wind


    Lyons or Tetley. Nothing like a good cup of hot tea.


  • #47
    Capt'n Midnight
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    biko wrote: »
    None of the mentioned. I drink them all on occasion, tea is tea.
    Do you even scald the pot ?


  • #48
    foggy_lad
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    TheIT wrote: »
    What is your favourite tea?

    Coffee


  • #49
    frostypants
    Closed Accounts Posts: 209 ✭✭frostypants


    Fallons tea I think it's called from Aldi. Fine tea and I like my tea


  • #50
    The flying mouse
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    Lyons , because Barrys is from Cork. :=-=)


  • #51
    Winterlong
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,759 ✭✭✭Winterlong


    Lyons tea. Tastes like tea should taste like.

    On a side note, I got some of those liptons green tea capsules for the nespresso machine. Great waste of money. Cat yokes.


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  • #52
    rainbow kirby
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,928 ✭✭✭✭rainbow kirby


    Twinings Earl Grey or M&S Gold. Yorkshire Gold is pretty good as well.

    Lyons and Barrys are absolute muck.


  • #53
    fizzypish
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,000 ✭✭✭fizzypish


    rainbow kirby wrote: »
    Twinings Earl Grey or M&S Gold. Yorkshire Gold is pretty good as well.
    "Protestant tea" McNulty.


  • #54
    LordSutch
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,069 ✭✭✭✭LordSutch


    How come there'e only three brands of tea in the poll?

    A few of my fave's . . .
    Punjana,
    Bewleys,
    Tetley,
    PG Tips,
    TyPhoo...


  • #55
    First Up
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,823 ✭✭✭✭First Up


    LordSutch wrote:
    How come there'e only three brands of tea in the poll?
    Read the thread more carefully.
    LordSutch wrote:
    A few of my fave's . . . Punjana, Bewleys, Tetley, PG Tips, TyPhoo...

    Those are brands, not teas.

    We may be a tea drinking country but the ignorance in this thread is shocking.


  • #56
    LordSutch
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,069 ✭✭✭✭LordSutch


    First Up wrote: »
    Read the thread more carefully.

    Those are brands, not teas.

    We may be a tea drinking country but the ignorance in this thread is shocking.

    Sorry, I didn't realise there were only three teas available in Ireland, in which case I would have to choose Bewleys as my favourite tea. PS: where does that leave the others I mention?


  • #57
    jester77
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    ginger and orange tea with a bit of honey. Perfect in this weather


  • #58
    Glenster
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    First Up wrote: »
    Read the thread more carefully.

    Those are brands, not teas.

    We may be a tea drinking country but the ignorance in this thread is shocking.

    That's what the thread is asking.....................

    Away with your Darjeeling nonsense. Tea is tea. Its an old ladies drink and you cant hipsterise it.


  • #59
    First Up
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    LordSutch wrote: »
    Sorry, I didn't realise there were only three teas available in Ireland, in which case I would have to choose Bewleys as my favourite tea. PS: where does that leave the others I mention?

    Well whoever started the thread seems to know only three but anyone who knows anything about tea knows that there's dozens of options - including the many good ones that are not mass produced by the obvious names. Bewleys have a least a dozen varieties; Tetley, Lyons, Typhoo etc have hundreds between them. Nominating a brand is meaningless.

    If you use tea bags, it hardly matters what you buy - they are made up of the shavings from the bottom of the tea chests (and only that if you are lucky).


  • #60
    First Up
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    Glenster wrote: »
    That's what the thread is asking.....................

    Away with your Darjeeling nonsense. Tea is tea. Its an old ladies drink and you cant hipsterise it.

    I suppose wine is wine too?


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  • #61
    Glenster
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    First Up wrote: »
    I suppose wine is wine too?

    At least when you're talking about wine you might have a bit of wine in front of you and you might be having a bit of craic.

    If your drinking tea you're either sitting in a canteen with bland workmates or humouring your nan.


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