I'd love a cup of tea

zeusnero · 05-08-2011 02:16PM #1

For some reason I just started thinking of home and Ireland and tea. God I'd love a cup of tea. And not the crap tea they have over here with all their fancy flavours - just a nice bog bog standard cup of Barry's with a few drops of milk. Tea and a few Chocolate biscuits, say Cadbury's Shortcake. Ah jaysus, I'm getting depressed now. I miss Ireland

TheZohanS · 05-08-2011 02:16PM

feck off cup.

Ruu_Old · 05-08-2011 02:17PM

Tin of USA biscuits!

Mint Sauce · 05-08-2011 02:19PM

Barrys? BARRYS?

Lyons is where its at.

Frank Black · 05-08-2011 02:20PM

I've just finished one - lovely so it was, accompanied by a nice shortbread biscuit.

W.Shakes-Beer · 05-08-2011 02:21PM

irish-stew wrote: »

Barrys? BARRYS?

Lyons is where its at.

I agree, after drinking Lyons tea, Barry's tastes like the tea leaves are made of shedded old mans sock and cigarette ashes.

Guill · 05-08-2011 02:25PM

It's pronounced tae ya upitty fecker.

D1976 · 05-08-2011 02:31PM

How about this?

wobbles-grogan · 05-08-2011 02:32PM

Personally i prefer Punjana tea bags.
Or lyons Gold Blend.

Hmm, gettin thirsty now...

policarp · 05-08-2011 02:37PM

Can you not bring tea back with you everytime you come home on holidays or get friends and relations to bring you some when they visit you.

Next you'll be looking for Suicre sugar. . .

kingtut · 05-08-2011 02:38PM

Tea is rank! Coffee for the win! :cool:

Dudess · 05-08-2011 02:38PM

Yeah, the Barrys love I do not get - Lyons ftw.

CardBordWindow · 05-08-2011 02:40PM

Lyons Kenya Blend:
A luxury blend for the tea connoisseur.

MungBean · 05-08-2011 02:40PM

If your gonna drink tea get yourself some Twinings, something you dont have to load with sugar and milk to make it palatable.

epgc3fyqirnbsx · 05-08-2011 03:07PM

lol @ Lyons tea drinkers with their uneducated palates.

Barrys for the sophisticated gentleman

LandL84 · 05-08-2011 03:18PM

Love cup of tea ! ! !

viota · 05-08-2011 03:18PM

barrys is the best lyons is foul

mardybumbum · 05-08-2011 03:22PM

I don't understand the lyons vs barrys debate.

I fcukin love a nice cup of tea but I would never tell the difference between any brand whether it be lyons, barrys or spar value.

It's all in the head i reckon.

05-08-2011 03:23PM

zeusnero wrote: »

For some reason I just started thinking of home and Ireland and tea. God I'd love a cup of tea. And not the crap tea they have over here with all their fancy flavours - just a nice bog bog standard cup of Barry's with a few drops of milk. Tea and a few Chocolate biscuits, say Cadbury's Shortcake. Ah jaysus, I'm getting depressed now. I miss Ireland

+1

jester77 · 05-08-2011 03:26PM

I've a half empty box of Barry's in a press somewhere. My poor mum can't make a trip over to me without filling half her suitcase with tea bags

jme2010 · 05-08-2011 03:29PM

*Gets the kettle on*

Paddy Samurai · 05-08-2011 03:38PM

Before I developed my "super sensitive sophisticated palate" ,I would have tried all of the above.

Punjana MMMMMMMMMMmmmmmmmmmm!!! AAAHHHHHHHHHHH!.

Nectar of the Gods!;)

Alter-Ego · 05-08-2011 03:40PM

Lyons tea is for losers! Barry's is where it's at, or the Lidl brand, or Aldi tea bags, or even Lyons actually, because they all taste pretty much the same.
The Tesco brand tea bags are a crime against hot beverages though.

zeusnero · 05-08-2011 03:40PM

black francis wrote: »

I've just finished one - lovely so it was, accompanied by a nice shortbread biscuit.

Ouch! Ah come on now - no need to taunt and turn this into one of those 'Boardsie takes offence, tracks down offending boardsie and...', well you get where I'm going (might as well leave some work for the investigators

)

Should've thrown in a poll for the inevitable Lyons vs Barry's debate

05-08-2011 03:43PM

mm earl grey

Larianne · 05-08-2011 03:46PM

zeusnero wrote: »

For some reason I just started thinking of home and Ireland and tea. God I'd love a cup of tea. And not the crap tea they have over here with all their fancy flavours - just a nice bog bog standard cup of Barry's with a few drops of milk. Tea and a few Chocolate biscuits, say Cadbury's Shortcake. Ah jaysus, I'm getting depressed now. I miss Ireland

Get someone to send you some teabags then. I carried around a bag of Lyons tea with me when I travelled around Australia.

Mickjg · 05-08-2011 03:47PM

Are you in the US?

You can get Irish tea all over the place, especially Barry's. Most supermarkets have a small Irish/British import section where you can get Barry's, Lyons, PG Tips (FTW), HP Brown Sauce, Digestive biscuits and Rich Teas (sometimes Jaffa cakes too) and a few other things. If your local or nearby supermarket doesn't have an import section you could try and find a World Market who would also have the above plus a whole range of sweets from back home.

If you can't buy it in a store somewhere you can order it online. We just order 480 bags of PG and 12 cans of Heinz from Amazon.

There is no need to suffer

maxxie · 05-08-2011 03:47PM

Assam tea is the finest you peasants

Queen-Mise · 05-08-2011 03:51PM

Barrys Tea is the only one. Lyons tea is gack, absolutely horrible. I can tell the difference between Barrys & Lyons easily - I drink my tea black (no sugar) so it is really obvious.

A few years ago I convinced a girl I knew that the difference between Lyons and Barrys was because of FF & FG :eek::eek: The same way the split is between Times and Indo readers and loads of other Irish products. She hated the English with a passion and would only drink Lyons tea - so when we made her tea, we always used PG Tips, 6 months later when she found it out, she didn't speak to us for ages. It was one of the funniest things I have ever seen; her reaction when she found out she had been drinking English teabags...

05-08-2011 03:55PM

ebay... is there nothing you cant buy?
http://shop.ebay.com/i.html?_from=R40&_trksid=p5197.m570.l1313&_nkw=barrys+tea&_sacat=See-All-Categories

http://cgi.ebay.com/Cadbury-Chocolate-Shortcake-300g-G-British-G-/280684759431?pt=UK_Home_Garden_Food_SM&hash=item415a1d8987

VenusPlays · 05-08-2011 03:59PM

Lyons Kenya blend for me too. Nicest tea out there.

Punjana has a chemical aftertaste and Barrys is as musty as a tramps old sock!

Biscuit has to be those big chocolate chip and hazelnut cookies, totally can't remember the brand now but you get like 6 of them in a packet which is ridiculous but they are just so tasty.....

I'd love a cup of tea

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