Barry's vs Lyons

Rasheed · 25-02-2013 05:49PM

Barry's loose tea. The only job.

uch · 25-02-2013 06:00PM

I like Ice T

25-02-2013 06:01PM

Barry's Gold blend by a mile over any other tea.

Cienciano · 25-02-2013 06:14PM

I have to do a taste test on both of them someday. At the moment it's Lyons.
But those Barrys Tea ads actually make me cringe they're so bad.

admiralofthefleet · 25-02-2013 06:17PM

would anyone be willing to try the tea made from cats shite?

kowloon · 25-02-2013 06:21PM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2IJdfxWtPM

admiralofthefleet wrote: »

would anyone be willing to try the tea made from cats shite?

Sure you're not talking about the celot coffee? Read about how those Ocelots get treated. Even if the idea of catsh1t coffee appealed to me I don't think I could have it. Also, it's really expensive.

3ndahalfof6 · 25-02-2013 06:22PM

Will the winner get a shot at Klitschko.

ArtyC · 25-02-2013 06:23PM

love my triangular tea bags me

Seaneh · 25-02-2013 06:25PM

scart wrote: »

Lyons all the way......Barrys tea bags are manufactured in Manchester UK

Er, you have it the wrong way around.

Barry's is Irish owned, operated and produced in Cork, Lyons is made by Unilever in Manchester.

BeardySi · 25-02-2013 06:28PM

Barrys! Unless I can't be arsed trekking all the way to Dunnes for it (only stockist hereabouts) in which case it's Thompson's Irish breakfast or good old Yorkshire Tea!

SEPT 23 1989 · 25-02-2013 06:31PM

No Dublin person drinks Barrys do they?

Moll'll fix it · 25-02-2013 06:32PM

missingtime wrote: »

McGrath's Tea in Aldi is very nice.

My sister tells me she heard on the radio some time ago that Barrys produced McGraths Tea in Aldi

qwert2 · 25-02-2013 06:37PM

Barrys Gold blend. It's a good cup of tea

Catari Jaguar · 25-02-2013 06:57PM

Lyons has ads?? I know it used to have those minstrel dancers. Tad racist. Is Barry's not those fukn golden moments sap and emmigration and "is this a date?" TV ads? The *insert name here*'s tea, and at Christmas; "Rudolph's tea" bus ads? I refuse to buy Barry's based on the ad campaigns.

Catari Jaguar · 25-02-2013 07:04PM

Seaneh wrote: »

Er, you have it the wrong way around.

Barry's is Irish owned, operated and produced in Cork, Lyons is made by Unilever in Manchester.

Yes, but from 1902 - 1996 Lyons was Irish owned. Their pioneeering in the introduction of the round tea bag captured 65% of the Irish tea market. No wonder Unilever snapped them up.

Moll'll fix it · 25-02-2013 07:04PM

Lyons Tea sponsor Joe Duffy's Liveline programme, something about putting the talk into tea

Mr_Spaceman · 25-02-2013 11:49PM

It's got to be Ulster's finest tay for me - Nambarrie.

Lawrence1895 · 26-02-2013 12:15AM

Green Tea with Jasmine or Vanilla Flavour :cool:

pvt6zh395dqbrj · 26-02-2013 12:17AM

I have a problem with either Barry's or Lyon's tea. The problem is that there is an ad where two people: A Human Male and a Human Female are talking directly to camera one by one. They are discussing how they first met. Anyway, the woman says, at the end, "So I texted him and said "Is this a date?" And he replied "I dunno, is this?"".

Now, what moron replies "I dunno, is this?" and not "I dunno, is it?". I hate that ad. Hate hate hate it. I hate it more than I hate the deranged look on the faces of the ethnic people I scream at when they won't tell me the correct time. They HAVE watches by the way I don't make un-attainable demands of these people.

Why must we decide between teas? Can we not just consume tea for its basic purpose which is to disguise the manner in which we take drugs and then get on with the business of creating a new Ireland free of economic woes??? Can't we???

Madam_X · 26-02-2013 12:19AM

Lyons.

Barrys has a horrible after-taste IMO and I hate the ads!

I know that ad and I hate it too, but she says "Is it?" but pronounces "it" as "iss" in a kinda "I'm coy yet sexy and a bit ditzy so I'm mispronouncing t" way.

greenflash · 26-02-2013 12:23AM

SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »

No Dublin person drinks Barrys do they?

Yeah. Barry's is just nicer. There's no room for parochialism in tea drinking.

pvt6zh395dqbrj · 26-02-2013 12:23AM

Madam_X wrote: »

I know that ad and I hate it too, but she says "Is it?" but pronounces "it" as "iss" in a kinda "I'm coy yet sexy and a bit ditzy so I'm mispronouncing t" way.

My god. Really? All these years of anger for nothing. Now I can move onto number two of my most hated things. Direct me to the Scarlett Johannson thread......

Seaneh · 26-02-2013 12:24AM

Catari Jaguar wrote: »

Yes, but from 1902 - 1996 Lyons was Irish owned. Their pioneeering in the introduction of the round tea bag captured 65% of the Irish tea market. No wonder Unilever snapped them up.

Yeah, but for the last 17 years they've been british owned, operated and produced, so eh, I'll stick to the barry's, cheers.

Killer Wench · 26-02-2013 12:25AM

I really couldn't tell you difference between the two. They are just tea. Then again, I make my tea with a hell of a lot of sugar and milk, and a splash of tea for a bit of flavor.

Antar Bolaeisk · 26-02-2013 12:26AM

Nolimits12 wrote: »

Worked in a place where I was the only one out of twelve staff that liked barrys (it was a family business so that could have been why). They never bought barrys only stupid huge boxes of stupid lyons. It just wasnt the same..

I also worked in a place like this, I brought in my own tea.

wp_rathead · 26-02-2013 12:27AM

Punjana

Kat1170 · 26-02-2013 12:36AM

Moll'll fix it wrote: »

My sister tells me she heard on the radio some time ago that Barrys produced McGraths Tea in Aldi

You can tell her AH says she is WRONG

:D

Henlars67 · 26-02-2013 12:41AM

I don't get the whole tea thing. I don't even know what it tastes like.

The reaction I get when I say I don't drink tea is one I'll never understand. It's usually followed by a daft question like "what do you drink if you don't drink tea?"

Indubitable · 26-02-2013 02:48AM

Mince Pie · 26-02-2013 03:10AM

Coffeee

Barrys

Yorkshire Tea http://www.yorkshiretea.co.uk/

Piss (obviously blasted first)

Ditch water

Sillage

Lyons cos none of the above available....

Barry's vs Lyons

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