MrChiversRegal wrote:
>
> "Mr Murphy" > wrote in message
> om...
> > strangely, although I've aways been quite fussy about my coffee, I do
> > drink more tea than coffee - and here's the rub - I'm quite happy with
> > a cup of PG tips or Tetley.
> >
> > I'm not sure if you get these brands in the US, but PG tips and Tetley
> > are big teabag manufacturers i.e. cheap, mass produced and charmless.
> > I actually don't like any of the specialist darjeeling and earl greys.
> > To each their own?
>
> Spot on, fellow Englishman. :-)
>
> I start each day with a cuppa tea made from said tea bags (I drink coffee at
> all other times, but breakfast tea is a must) - and I find when I do
> occasionally purchase loose leaf, green tea (normal tea to you and me) and
> make in a pot or cafetiere...it tastes exactly the same as Tetley/Typhoo
> bags. I've come to the conclusion that the difference in quality between
> real coffee and instant or coffee bags is far, far more noticeable than the
> difference between fresh tea and tea as you and I drink it.
>
> We are English, along with the Indian's and other parts of Asia..we are the
> master tea drinkers...and we all 'do' tea bags.....simply because they are
> great.

"coffee bags"??
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Peter T. Daniels