PG Tips

[Jofang]

We have just bought an 1100 bag of PG Tips, which usually last abour a year, only to find that they have done away with pyramid bags and changed to flat bags as well as changing the source if the tea. Result is insipid, flavourless tea even after 5 minutes steeping. I've seen reports that the makers say better tea, better saturation with flat bags, which is rubbish. This is all about profit. How do you feel?

 

[Ianbenny]

even my grannies old favourite Co Op Dividend Loose Leaf.

Indian Prince from the Co-op brings back memories

Ringtons for me. Flavour never changes - and they sell superb biscuits too.

Ringtons for us too. Top notch and they deliver as well. Not sure they are country wide as they are a North East Company but they do sell on the web

 

[Northernraider]

1100 at a time. Yikes. But it’s Tetley for me.

When my mum died last year she had 16 boxes of 240 tea bags in the cupboard .

She also had well over 100 toilet rolls

 

[BouncyBoatFolk]

Tea is probably the worst drink in the whole world (not counting energy drinks obviously).

No coffee liquor holds that accolade.
Mike.

 

[Barriesimpson]

No coffee liquor holds that accolade.
Mike.

I would rather be tied down and force fed (drunk? drink? whatever) coffee liqueur than drink tea to be honest.

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[Jim]

I buy Yorkshire gold in those boxes of 80, and only when it is on offer. Every few months in both Tesco and Coop the price drops to £3, sometime £3.50. I Normally buy it all. Siân groans when I arrive home with it. Trouble is, if I'm down to my last 5 boxes, a fluttery unsettling panic sets in, and I have an overwhelming need to buy more ASAP.

We are all strong tea drinkers. I, personally, get through 10 tea bags a day. I drink a couple of coffees too. And when I'm out walking on the trails, it seems I pee more than the dog.

 

[Ray-Vic]

Vic could be considered something of an expert on tea, particularly PG Tips, having worked for Unilever for many years selling the stuff. She spent countless hours in the "tea tasting room" at ULHQ, and visited their tea plantations many times. She even still has her tea colour chart!!

I just showed her this thread as I thought it may peak her interest and she commented that, irrespective of preference of taste, you could not fault the quality of PG Tips for a mass produced product as it literally had nothing other than the top 2 leaves and a single bud from each stalk, hence the name. UL were very strict on this requirement. They were (not sure if they still are) also the only brand which bought the tea by bulk and not weight, as the dust, sticks and droppings brands (Tetley) do.

I imagine any change in quality of either the tea or the bags would be down to Unilever selling off their tea business in 2021 to venture capitalists, meaning profits were likely then far more important than quality.

Personally I'm a coffee drinker, which horrifies her!

 

[Barriesimpson]

We are all strong tea drinkers. I, personally, get through 10 tea bags a day. I drink a couple of coffees too. And when I'm out walking on the trails, it seems I pee more than the dog.

Yes, both tea and coffee will provoke that, being diuretics.

 

[carolyn]

Vic could be considered something of an expert on tea, particularly PG Tips, having worked for Unilever for many years selling the stuff. She spent countless hours in the "tea tasting room" at ULHQ, and visited their tea plantations many times. She even still has her tea colour chart!!
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I just showed her this thread as I thought it may peak her interest and she commented that, irrespective of preference of taste, you could not fault the quality of PG Tips for a mass produced product as it literally had nothing other than the top 2 leaves and a single bud from each stalk, hence the name. UL were very strict on this requirement. They were (not sure if they still are) also the only brand which bought the tea by bulk and not weight, as the dust, sticks and droppings brands (Tetley) do.

I imagine any change in quality of either the tea or the bags would be down to Unilever selling off their tea business in 2021 to venture capitalists, meaning profits were likely then far more important than quality.

Personally I'm a coffee drinker, which horrifies her!

I always say I drink builders tea. Do I really have to say “I drink I don’t do dairy tea”. I know I sometimes shop in Waitrose but that sounds really pretentious. I might get banned from MHF.

 

[Ealander]

Typhoo Tea is set to appoint administrators as the 120-year-old brand's sales slump, losses widen and debts rise.
The makers of Yorkshire tea.

I believe that Yorkshire Tea is owned by Taylors of Harrogate.

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[Puddleduck]

Northernraider When my Gran died she had a tin labelled "bits of string, too short to be useful" other string tins were labelled by the length of string within. They hoarded when they didn't have a pot to.....

Even the tins were washed out food cans with paper (newspaper) or fabric covers held on with elastic bands begged from the postman!!

 

[Northernraider]

I buy Yorkshire gold in those boxes of 80, and only when it is on offer. Every few months in both Tesco and Coop the price drops to £3, sometime £3.50. I Normally buy it all. Siân groans when I arrive home with it. Trouble is, if I'm down to my last 5 boxes, a fluttery unsettling panic sets in, and I have an overwhelming need to buy more ASAP.

We are all strong tea drinkers. I, personally, get through 10 tea bags a day. I drink a couple of coffees too. And when I'm out walking on the trails, it seems I pee more than the dog.

Sound like my mum , she started to worry if she had less than 6/7 boxes , she did drink at least 8 or 9 cups a day but we encouraged that as she drank nothing else and was always dehydrated.

She used to buy hers from b&m or homebargains, about £2.50 for 240 bags.

 

[Northernraider]

Northernraider When my Gran died she had a tin labelled "bits of string, too short to be useful" other string tins were labelled by the length of string within. They hoarded when they didn't have a pot to.....

Even the tins were washed out food cans with paper (newspaper) or fabric covers held on with elastic bands begged from the postman!!

My mum was terrible for stockpiling, she always bought everything in 3's or 4's never just 1 of something and she'd often forgot she'd bought it. I think a bit rubbed off on me lol.

 

[Shrimp]

Yorkshire tea for us!

 

[Shrimp]

Sound like my mum , she started to worry if she had less than 6/7 boxes , she did drink at least 8 or 9 cups a day but we encouraged that as she drank nothing else and was always dehydrated.

Tea is a Diruetic and as such flushes water from the body as well as other things.
Mil has been told to drink less tea!

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[PP Bear]

Can’t stand strong builders tea, it stems from when I was a kid. Step dad worked for Unigate at the time and I hated being woken at 0400am, especially on school days, and off to deliver the round. He had a huge aluminium tea pot, that was filled with cold water from the tap, half a ton of tea and put on the gas to boil. By the time I was up and down stairs, it was like pure tar. Almost black and the tea strainer had a mini model of Tutankhamen pyramid on it with every cup he poured, that then got put back in the teapot and on the gas to stew. I hated it. Couldn’t drink it like that as I got older, even on range days.

When people used to say how do you take your tea, I used to say, same as I like my women, white, weak and wet.

Woke brigade banned all that banter, well it did when I left the army, but back then it was a Julie Andrew’s, or NATO, or a Whoopi Goldberg

 

[Burge]

Sorry I might & probably WILL get slagged off here BUT.... I can’t believe a TEA BAG has created so much interest on a so called Motorhome Forum.....there I've said it.Ps Yorkshire Gold for me.

 

[dash300]

Real tea does not come in tea bags.

Or from Yorkshire!

 

[offagen]

PG Tips is for chimps. Yorkshire teabags taste OK-ish but are coated with tea dust. I don't like dusty tea.

For two thirds of my life I steadfastly refused to use tea bags, until my arm was twisted so hard that it hurt. I still much prefer Whitards leaf tea in a pot with integral strainer.

 

[fishplug]

Tea?

My 'daily' coffee of choice has gone up from £5 for 500g to £8.50 pre to post pandemic.

I just bought 6kg in order to get a 'cost saving' to ..um.. just over £0.80/kg

Tea, outside of the filtered and purified water high end ultra cared for variants (which are luxurious and fantastic in equal measures) are frankly the leaf equivalent of Dowe Egberts instant coffee with chicory and dog turds.

Well, thats what it tastes like....

Leaf tea or nothing for me, and even then..

filtered water, pre heated pot, good quality tea and maybe, just maybe...

Big steaming pot of coffee for me though. That's what life's about....

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[billym]

Typhoo Tea is set to appoint administrators as the 120-year-old brand's sales slump, losses widen and debts rise.
The makers of Yorkshire tea.

As others have suggested, Yorkshire tea is not an offshoot of Typhoo Tea. What makes you think it is?

 

[Widge]

Vic could be considered something of an expert on tea, particularly PG Tips, having worked for Unilever for many years selling the stuff. She spent countless hours in the "tea tasting room" at ULHQ, and visited their tea plantations many times. She even still has her tea colour chart!!
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I just showed her this thread as I thought it may peak her interest and she commented that, irrespective of preference of taste, you could not fault the quality of PG Tips for a mass produced product as it literally had nothing other than the top 2 leaves and a single bud from each stalk, hence the name. UL were very strict on this requirement. They were (not sure if they still are) also the only brand which bought the tea by bulk and not weight, as the dust, sticks and droppings brands (Tetley) do.

I imagine any change in quality of either the tea or the bags would be down to Unilever selling off their tea business in 2021 to venture capitalists, meaning profits were likely then far more important than quality.

Personally I'm a coffee drinker, which horrifies her!

Ahh that might explain why you cannot get liptons yellow label loose tea any more (also ex unilever).
We are not big tea drinkers and always tended to get PG, it was an easy thing visitors could put in their baggage, and tended to use 1 bag between 2. Then covid happend so no visitors and ran out of PG, we dont like the bags you get over here as they are usually double wrapped often in plastic and the stupid bit of string and tag, that just gets in the way.

But we did find that our local supermarket did liptons yellow label loose tea, not particularly strong but not a bad flavour, and nice size leaves. It has now disappeared off the shelves and you cannot even get it mail order, so it obviously has been stopped.

When I was in the uk in may I picked up a couple of different loose teas, one was a main brand, the other was waitrose own, both were just dust, we have now found a nice little shop that does nice loose teas and coffees, unfortunately not very local and a bit expensive.

As far as the pyramid bags disappearing, I understand a lot of bags had a certain amount of plastic in them, maybe when PG dropped using plastic, the pyramid bags wouldn't hold together properly.

 

[Minxy]

I like Tetley normal tea bags, not the 'one cup' ones as they're way too weak! I usually leave it brewing in the mug for 10 mins or so with a cover on it so it stays hot, it's nice and strong then!

As I like tea late on before bed which isn't ideal as the caffeine in normal tea bags doesn't help me get to sleep I have some PG decaf ones, they're quite weak but sufficient for my night time supping. I sometimes have different 'normal' tea, ie from different producers, as they all have their own flavour and sometimes it's nice to have a change but nothing beats a nice hot strong mug of Tetley.

TIP: When wiping down dirty plates, cutlery etc, a used tea bag is ideal (especially in a MH!), just be careful not to be too rough with it otherwise you'll end up with loads of tea leaf bits over everything!

 

[andyelbac]

Twinnings Lady Grey for me, unless I'm really feeling in touch with my feminine side and then it's a cup of M&S Empress....preferably whilst watching the original BBC adaptation of Pride and Prejudice with Colin Firth and Jennifer Ehle!

 

[KiwiKampers]

When I lived in England (26+ years ago) I used to drink Lifeboat Tea which gave a donation to the RNLI from every packet bought. That wasn’t why I bought it. I liked the taste. Do they still have Lifeboat Tea?

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[Helen Ariel]

Twinings English Breakfast for me. A decent brew with just the smallest rumour of milk. Darjeeling in the afternoon, no milk

I like twinings extra strong breakfast and just a tiny bit of milk. I want my tea to taste of tea not hot milky water! Afternoon a loose leaf earl grey.

 

[PP Bear]

I remember collecting these as a kid, so it must have been Brooke Bond tea that my step dad poisoned me with daily

 

[carolyn]

It’s a myth that tea and coffee dehydrate you to any significant degree. Yes there is caffeine in tea but is would be a disaster if doctors and nurses started telling “most” people to stop drinking tea. I say most as most of them don’t drink enough anyway and they’re certainly not going to start drinking water when they’re 80.

The diuretic effects of the caffeine are minimal, people who drink a lot of tea pee a lot because they drink a lot. There is more in very strong coffee of course but it’s not the diuretic effect doctors are worried about it’s the possibility it will put your BP up or maybe upset your Atrial fibrillation.

Keep drinking your tea and coffee, stop worrying, it counts towards your fluid intake. Unless a PROPER health care professional has told you not to of course.

 

[Roby2008]

We have just bought an 1100 bag of PG Tips, which usually last abour a year, only to find that they have done away with pyramid bags and changed to flat bags as well as changing the source if the tea. Result is insipid, flavourless tea even after 5 minutes steeping. I've seen reports that the makers say better tea, better saturation with flat bags, which is rubbish. This is all about profit. How do you feel?

It is literally a matter of taste. , I have my box of pyramids (and a spare), Twinings English Breakfast, and a selection of Meßmer (German brand) teas, both bags and loose. I like fruit teas very strong and black teas wet and weak with milk, all depending on the mood.....

I drink coffee too; we have an Italian-style MH, no carpet, no oven, but a proper automatic coffee machine.....

I understand the Pyramids were phased out because of micro-plastics, or PG didn´t want to pay the Egyptians a royalty for the use of the shape

 

[denisejoe]

As others have suggested, Yorkshire tea is not an offshoot of Typhoo Tea. What makes you think it is?

I read it somewhere and your right it’s owned by Taylor’s of Harrogate

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[the1andonly]

Once upon a time i used to drink Ringtons then delivery day didnt concur with swmbo days at home so back to Sains Red label (or gold when available) our local leaf availability is so low we have to buy at least 5 bags at a time. Strange to see my youngest son and wife have transferred to leaf tea but have ended up with CO-OP tea because of local availability.