a nice cuppa tea!

[StephenFord 866]

But what's the point of warming the pot if you are going to make the tea with a teabag in the mug? Or am I missing something.....

[mick2me 3,033]

I always pour boiling water into my mug swill it round and empty it, before placing the teabag and adding boiling water.

[notty ash 370]

When I was young, there used to be blue enamel signs all over the place for "Mazawattee Tea" around where my aunt lived in East Anglia. Never tried it though.

[StephenFord 866]

Thought that was a wacing car, as pwonounced by someone who couldn't woll his R's.

[katyjay 5,090]

I grew up drinking Typhoo tea, with sterilized milk. I shudder at the thought of that milk now. I guess it didn't go off as quick as the flat top milk, and we only had the pantry floor as our 'fridge'. When we first got married we lived next door to a farmhouse in Langar and got very friendly with the farmer and his wife. They only shopped in Melton Mowbray [on market days of course] and only had their tea from a little shop on the main street, had the name Sally in the title name. I got their tea for them sometimes, it was in a blue packet, wish I could remember its name, it was lovely tea [loose leaf] Most likely gone out of business now, both the shop and the tea. We drink Yorkshire nowadays, my brother brings catering size bags of it over with him.

[Compo 10,328]

Melton stilton: #15 Check out the standard Yorkshire tea - it has a higher percentage of certified tea than the Gold.

[Compo 10,328]

The recommendation from a Sri Lankan tea estate I visited was "Never, ever, use tea bag tea." The manager then went on to show me why.

[FLY2 10,108]

Tell us then Compo.

[carni 10,094]

Why

[Compo 10,328]

Here's a message we sometimes forget. Cheap tea requires more per pot thus reducing apparent savings:

[Pixie 162]

Iv allways wondered this - what's the difference between '1 cup' tea bags and regular tea bags? Iv notices typhoo do 1 cup bags and normal, personally I can't taste the difference!

[Limey 242]

I do use tea bags - good loose tea is hard to find here - BUT, I always use a teapot and it is always warmed first. Tea made with a bag in the mug never tastes right to me and seems a lazy way of doing it. We even have a teapot in the RV!

[StephenFord 866]

One-cup tea-bags are obviously for making two MUGS of tea with...

[Compo 10,328]

Basfordred and Carni: This is a tea grader. The teas fall into the boxes from the machine. Owt that's left at the end goes into tea your ordinary tea bags. In other words - DROSS.

[Pixie 162]

One-cup tea-bags are obviously for making two MUGS of tea with...

I know it's a stupid question, but it confused me as I thought all tea bags were meant to make one cup of tea!

[StephenFord 866]

Hi Pixie - I wasn't being sarcastic! I consider any "one-cup" teabag should be sufficient octane to give two full mugs of tea. Mind you, neither I nor my good lady like it too strong (her mum calls it young people's tea !) - Reminds me of an old TV advert that my mum used to quote "Dear Aunt Jane pours out pure rain, but mother sees we've Co-op teas."

[MELTONSTILTON 452]

I am now a tea drinker but as a kid, I detested it, because my mum used the old rule, 1 spoon of tea for each person, and one for the pot, we had a huge teapot and with 6 of us it was a lot of tea, and STRONG, she also kept the pot on the side of the Rayburn, which stewed it even more, We called "it Mums stew", when we has visitors, for some strange reason they declined a cup of tea if mum made it, but drank it if dad made the tea.

[carni 10,094]

#64 Compo

Thank you for your reply, It sounds a bit off putting, but i will turn a blind eye because its so convenient to use Tea Bags. Ooh i think i'l put the kettle on. Anyone fancy a cuppa.

[MELTONSTILTON 452]

Milk and two sugars please

[carni 10,094]

Change of plan, ask Catherine to put kettle on, we are all coming to yours, there is only 150 of us.

[Limey 242]

Speaking of weak tea, if presented with a cup my dad would say "when I was that weak they were sitting up all night with me!"

[katyjay 5,090]

My mam would say, this looks like a bleddy fortnight [too weak]

[banjo48 928]

Dads term for weak tea, was "Its like gnats p*ss" he was ex navy so got used to stand your spoon up in it stuff !

[MELTONSTILTON 452]

Dad used to say "The tea was so weak it could be a fortnight"

[Pixie 162]

Mum + step dad popped down yesterday, I ran out of tea bags and my strainer things were soaking (they go horrible after a while but I find boiling water and white vinegar brings them back to new) so I opened my new strainer ball things, these were only £1 off eBay as aposed to my £4.90 ones in soak. So as my step dad is drinking his cuppa... He noticed around half of the leaves I used were in the bottom of the mug!! Now that couldn't of been a nice cuppa tea!

Was in co op earlier and saw the boxes of 99's. Decided to stick to what I know and buy PG tips.