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 always take my tea bags in my case. You can't get a decent cup of tea anywhere else IME. I worked in USA for a while and my family sent me tea bags and chocolate. Everything else was fine.

😂Not at all….I do like weak milky tea so probably not like anyone else on this thread

I like weak milky tea as well. But there’s weak Yorkshire tea and insipid dishwater which is Liptons 😂

I always take tea and porridge oats. One underseat holdall is dedicated to these two items. Lipton is not tea.

I used to be cabin crew many moons ago and I used to pack my own tea bags. Liptons English Breakfast tea doesn’t quite cut it 😳

Always take Earl Grey teabags, decent ground coffee, collapsible filter, filter papers and a travel kettle, unless I’m sure there will be a kettle. Can’t start the day without Early Grey and reuse to drink instant coffee.

The supermarket in France where I am on holiday have Yorkshire tea, but it’s €€€, so I can’t imagine many Yorkshire folk buying it! I am a Twining’s EG person and take them everywhere. In desperation once I bought some in France but they aren’t the same!

I’ve also taken Yorkshire Gold all over the world. It’s been fine, I even sought out customs after landing in Australia to tell them I’d got it, I’ve watched too many Nothing To Declare, she just smiled when I said it was tea. They weren’t interested in anyone on our flight from the UK.

Thank you the the reminder, I need to get a small box to take with me in a couple of weeks.

FWIW Twinings catering tea in hotels here and abroad is also crap.

edited to add - I never take them loose, an unopened box of 40 is what I take.

Exactly. Even if you can find your preferred brand of tea abroad, it's likely to be expensive and most committed tea drinkers will probably have a plentiful supply at home at all times so it's just easier to fill a sandwich bag with a week's worth to take with you.

Why wouldn't you? Tea bags weigh nothing, don't go off, and it saves having to search round for them when away.

But no-one's going to mistake them for drugs, or even if they do suspect it at first glance, the sniffer dog or that testing machine at security will confirm otherwise.

Here in the South of France, Yorkshire Tea Bags are a second currency. We brought 960 back with us at the weekend.

I travel with tea but i always make sure i have them in the box. Then if im asked they can see the box and the ingredients

Not only do I take Assam teabags I also take little sachets of milk from Lakeland. They are much nicer than those horrid little pots.

Nope

Never have never will. I drink what is available and if I don't like the tea coffee local I drink something else.

I cant stand the so-called great teas like Yorkshire pg tetly anyway and dont drink them or even have them at home. So why would I bother to take them somewhere else?

Absolutely fine to take. I take a kettle and sometimes a teapot as well!

It really is!
Whenever I'm abroad, the locals always proudly announce they have Liptons, as though I should be whooping for joy and that's what we all drink.
It's insanely expensive in the supermarkets too.

Always take Yorkshire tea, in fact my husband is just making me a cup at the moment ( I'm sitting by our villa pool ). We often travel under bag seat only, never had a problem at security. Also take our own airport sandwiches!

But it's a holiday week, I want to enjoy my morning tea .

I'm all for eating like a local, will have olives for breakfast, but only after my tea!

Do you drink any old supermarket brand of cola that's available though? Or does it have to be diet coke? It's all the same fizzy brown phosphoric acid after all...

I thought I was doing well with a travel kettle, but your teapot wins😂

I’ve always taken tea and coffee, mainly because I’m tight and don’t want to spend my holiday spends on it…And I can’t STAND Nescafé!

I would imagine Spanish customs officers are well-trained enough to distinguish between PG Tips and cannabis.

There’s a very funny episode of the inbetweeners where they try to buy cannabis and are given tea instead - reminds me of this 🤣

Always

A box of Yorkshire Gold is just about the first thing we pack for trips abroad and in the UK. Tetley seems to be the tea of choice in quite a few hotels and B&Bs in the UK, so I suppose many people like it, but it's just not for us - too weak and dull.

@DancingFerret Tetley has a hideous perfume smell/taste. I didn't drink tea growing up as Tetley is horrible and that's all my family bought.

I always do. And a mug. A teeny teacup of wishy-washy tea is never going to cut it. In all other things I embrace the food/culture of wherever we visit, but my two mugs of PG are what gets me going in the morning.