> wrote:
>On Sep 14, 2:54 am, Alan > wrote:
>
>> We also have a market (http://market.treasureshidden.com/) that
>> sells lots of imports; mostly Asian but some British. They have an
>> entire aisle with nothing but tea! One end is British; I'll check
>> there for Twinings in tins, too.
>
>I checked their website and funnily enough they only had exactly those
>same 4 blends I bought over here, even the prices are almost the same.
>Maybe those are their bestselling blends. I wonder where all those
>other great blends are gone, like their "Irish breakfast" and those
>more exotic varieties of yore.

What happened is that Twining's closed down their blending plant in
North Carolina a couple years back. All of the Twining's tea you see
in the US now is blended in England. The English tins are a somewhat
different shape and many of the less-popular blends do not seem to be
being imported here.
--scott

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