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  • Re: Canadian tea drinkers- Red Rose tea - what happened to =?UTF-8?B?cX

    From Silver Skull@21:1/5 to All on Sun Jul 21 02:51:25 2024
    On Wed, 17 Apr 2024 7:00:02 +0000, Edfury426 wrote:

    I posted here earlier at my horror as to what had been done to Red Rose
    Tea. Corporate geed is destroying our world and now has taken my
    favorite tea as well. It is deeply disgusting!

    Not just Red Rose Tea.

    Every tea seems to have become weak these days. More dust that actual
    leaves.

    I have since found PG Tips to be a very good tea. I get the "original" variety. It is said to be the most popular brand in England, FWIW...

    Yes, even PG Tips.

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  • From Silver Skull@21:1/5 to John on Fri Sep 6 01:27:23 2024
    On Mon, 2 Sep 2024 17:15:02 +0000, John wrote:

    I’ve been drinking Red Rose since kindergarten where I drank it after school at my best friend’s grandparents house for afternoon tea every
    day. Recently I double the tea bags and still it is now just poorly
    flavored water. I Can’t even call it tea anymore. Ps I’m turning 60 this year so it saddens me to say I will probably not buy it again.

    Buy loose leaf tea !

    It's way better than the dusty bits of broken leaves that the big names
    put in to bags and call "tea".

    Proper loose leaf tea is worth the extra dollars.

    https://www.mightyleaf.ca/collections/loose-leaf-tea

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  • From Scott Dorsey@21:1/5 to All on Fri Sep 27 10:53:04 2024
    On Wed, 17 Apr 2024 7:00:02 +0000, Edfury426 wrote:

    I posted here earlier at my horror as to what had been done to Red Rose
    Tea. Corporate geed is destroying our world and now has taken my
    favorite tea as well. It is deeply disgusting!

    The problem with cheap commodity tea blends is that the people who blend
    them and the saources they are blended with aren't always consistent and
    so the tea changes with time.

    Red Rose was an orthodox process blend that tasted to me like it was
    mostly African sourced. If you like that, you might try Upton's Tea
    Imports TK120 "Ruken Estate Rwanda BOP" which is a much higher grade version
    of the same kind of thing. You will find the smell very familiar.
    --scott

    --
    "C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."

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  • From Silver Skull@21:1/5 to All on Wed Oct 9 12:51:22 2024
    Liptons is shite.

    Get real tea from the source. India. If they ship to Canada, they'll
    ship anywhere ! The only bag you need is in your pants. Loose leaf tea
    is the way to go.


    https://www.teabox.com

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