Taking tea bags abroad

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I've been online and it says that its ok to pack them in your case. We are going to Spain on Monday. Do other people do this? My Son has just made me paranoid cause he said Customs might think they are drugs, told him not to be ridiculous.

I take tea everywhere too unless I’m going somewhere like Cyprus or Australia where proper tea is easy to get.

In the US I’ve found the biggest problem is getting hold of boiling water to make tea.

A totally normally thing to do as Lipton tea is horrible 😁

Have done this for years to all sorts of places and no one has ever suspected me of drug trafficking

Always
i also take coffee whitener (don’t like cows milk) in little bags which looks much more suspicious, but I’ve never been stopped.

My son is into all kinds of unusual teas and this year took a block of leaves vacuum packed in foil. I thought it looked pretty suspicious but there was no issue.

I take tea bags and those sachets of ready prepared coffee, cappuccino/ latte that you just add water to so I can have a hot drink when I wake up until I can find a shop to buy milk.
I also have a cuppa tea on the plane and they usually give you a couple of sachets of milk, I keep the spares.
I take sweeteners too.

lol. I take tea bags, a mini travel kettle, we buy two souvenir mugs when we get there, I have a tea spoon, two plastic plates, DH takes his super pen knife, I have half a kitchen sponge, tiny bottle of washing up liquid and half a tea towel.
as soon as I wake I want a decent cuppa.

One of my favourite things on holiday is Lipton tea. I usually end up bringing it home with me.

I travel a lot for business. I take tea bags (Yorkshire of course) everywhere. Only place I had any issues was Australia, which is very strict on food products. Even then they said it would have been fine if they were pre-packed. I had put 30 or so in a freezer bag.

Troll?

I take peppermint tea bags, and also coffee bags, in separate plastic sandwich bags. Never had an issue.

I never travel to the USA with less than 4 teabags per person per day

the liptons shit they sell over there is vile

I usually bring coffee bags and sometimes mint or herbals to U.K. hotels. And this time mugs as well - it's a Novotel we've been to before so knew it has tiny teacups.
I should have brought some teabags, I've already used the paltry pair of EB and forgot to ask for more before I showered.

I've even taken teabags to China.

You'll be fine.

I buy my tea and teabags there to bring back.
Much better than most UK brands.

I have taken all sorts of homemade stuff into Australia. It’s always declared and I’m always a bit apprehensive but they have never shown any interest in it.

Absolutely this!!

Always take tea bags and a good size mug.

We've taken tea bags abroad for years. I hate teabags with string.

Just drink coffee? Wars have been fought over less!

I can’t drink coffee.

I take teabags, it take them to English hotels as there are never enough. I sometimes grab a few extra milks in McD’s to take as well.

I went to a relatives rural part of Spain this year and they had Yorkshire tea and PG tips! Bovril too...

If I was ever challenged about the box of Yorkshire tea bags in my bag, I would inform the official that, as a British person, it is my patriotic duty to take adequate supplies of tea with me wherever so travel abroad do that I may educate the local people about our culture & beverages.

This has cheered me up no end.

I will never understand the obsession with tea. My old boss, in England, used to bring tea bags to work! And she was the office manager. Just buy what you want for the office ffs. But no she had to dig them out of a bag, and sniff, like the rest of us were feral. Of course I pop open my can of Diet Coke in reply.

I don’t think it’ll be a problem!

I don’t go abroad really but if I’m staying I a hotel il quite often take the coffee I like with me and if I was going abroad I might also!