Can anyone post a picture of a Yorkshire tea bag for me?

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Please?

Have you sniffed your water? My tea started tasting wrong a day or so ago and the water from my tap smells sort of like chlorine/metallic. Water filtered by the fridge is fine.

Yorkshire tea has gone downhill of late. I have started buying extra strong PG Tips instead.

Ordinary Yorkshire is a bit meh.
Biscuit Yorkshire is foul.
Yorkshire Gold is the better brew.

@SoupDragon

Have you sniffed your water? My tea started tasting wrong a day or so ago and the water from my tap smells sort of like chlorine/metallic. Water filtered by the fridge is fine.

Agree with this, I live in an area where when we have a lot of rainfall the water company add chlorine to the water to presumably keep it safe. But it definitely has an odd taste to it and ruins a good cup of tea! 😤

Every so often our hot drinks ( coffee & tea) taste awful. We have decided it's something to do with the water company and them doing 'something'

I drink the Yorkshire Gold and every so often there is a duff box. I also have the red (but it is inferior) and it may also be a duff box.

If you leave them out they pick up whatever is in the atmosphere and can make terrible tea. I never keep mine in the box because once opened they tend to taste unpleasant.

I use filtered water and make only one cup at a time with a single cup water heater, however it does have a reservoir which needs to be emptied. I can tell when the water filter needs replacing and the one cup heater needs a clean and I do not clean it with vinegar because I can taste it.

@Anordinarymum

Don't get me started on Yorkshire Tea. In Yorkshire we call it 'having a cup of tea, or' mashing the tea' if it's in a pot. Yorkshire people do not have 'a brew'. I hate those stupid adverts with a passion because they were made by clueless idiots

Yorkshire people definitely do have a brew haha. My dh and his family are Yorkshire and call it a brew. Mashing is Derbyshire!

Dh has been complaining about yorkshire tea tasting funny and having a scum on it for a while. We thought it was cos the water company have been dicking about switching our water from reservoir to borehole.

He's switched to sainsbury's red label which seems ok.

It's a brew in the part of Yorkshire I'm in too! It is a huge are after all.

I'm thinking Covid.

I don't have Yorkshire Tea but the tea I do have, and coffee as well, hasn't tasted so good recently. I put this down to the antibiotics I've been on and have now finished. Altering your sense of taste is a known temporary side-effect.

Another vote for going off tea when pregnant. Hopefully not Covid as per pp!

Are you pregnant?

@1forAll74 have you tried Lady Grey tea?
I've just discovered it and love it!

I’m only pregnant if dp is too 😂

I’m so glad some of you have said about the water because I said I thought it was the water and my suggestion was ridiculed. Now I feel vindicated

I use leaf tea. I've only been able to get PG tips leaf tea for a while.

Since Covid it has noticeably deteriorated. Where two spoonfuls would make a pot strong enough for two decent mugs of tea, I've found that I now need three spoonfuls.

I've had a leaf tea habit for over twenty years and the spoon has stayed the same size. So, I would say that the quality has gone down markedly.

In my part of Yorkshire it's a brew too.

I must admit the last pack of Yorkshire teabags I had were marginally disappointing...

Yorkshire Tea make several kinds, could be the wrong one?

Out of date box?

Milk gone off? Or wrong kind of milk. Or even just changes to its taste, I read milk tastes different with the seasons?

Water changes? If a pipe bursts they sometimes have to route the water from a different source and the taste changes.

Washing up/dishwasher residue?

Or you've got the rona, in which case hope you get well soon.

Weirdly DH did get a lot of the same aversions/taste things as me when pregnant it was totally bizarre.

If you've bought a massive box maybe the tea has gone stale? We find this sometimes when we do that.

One more thing - if you are using mint it will destroy your taste buds, I use the Vit D spray and tea is foul afterwards for quite a while.

Also antacid meds.

I've just had a brew and I'm Yorkshire born and bred