Vote: Lancashire or Yorkshire tea? 🏵️

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Just for fun, here's the Mumsnet War of the Roses, based on tea. Photo shamelessly stolen from Facebook.

Never heard of Lancashire tea. I like Dorset tea myself.

😂 It's a brand. It isn't grown there!

Yorkshire Gold, that's the only tea that's worth considering.

I think Lancashire wins on the basis that presumably the sole reason for its existence is to troll Yorkshire based on a conflict that happened nearly 600 years ago.

I think you can get Cornish Tea grown at the Lost Gardens of Heligan. But they were growing melons and pineapples in Victorian times.

From Lancashire, prefer rooibos

How the fuck do they make tea taste like biscuits and toast though? Are there crumbs in the teabag??

I feel the same. After being increasingly disappointed by old favourites we switched to Brew Tea Co English Breakfast a couple years ago and I now have to bring it whenever we visit relatives outside the UK

Yorkshire Tea all the way.

Lancashire tea tastes of black pudding and hot pot steeped through a welly boot *

*it doesn't really, I'm just stoking the fires from my side of the Pennines 😉

Cumbria Tea

There you go, Troll Tea. They could cobrand with mumsnet.

If it's not from Yorkshire, it's shite 😁

No way. Tetleys is awful, so weak! Having tried Lancashire and Yorkshire tea I have to say I still prefer PG Tips.

Seconded - I'll give them that.

I live in Lancaster but Yorkshire tea is the one 👌

Lancashire tea is vastly superior. More subtle than Yorkshire tea but perhaps that's an accurate reflection of the difference between the Roses. More niche, less mass market. 😜

JK Rowling is also a fan:
https://www.sthelensstar.co.uk/news/11784274.why-lancashire-tea-makes-the-perfect-brew-for-harry-potter-author-jk-rowling/

I buy mine when I'm in Lancs and bring my stash back to London (where I live now) but you can actually buy it on Amazon.

Ooooh, I’m from Lancashire but now live in Yorkshire. Never heard of lancashire tea though, it sounds shit. Yorkshire tea is the best!! I’ll confess to not having tried it but I really don’t get the weird versions.. biscuit tea???!! Is it just like if you accidentally drop a biscuit in your brew but then keep drinking it anyway, but without the grit? I think they do jam and toast tea too, madness

I’m saying Yorkshire, as I’ve never ever seen the other one 🤷‍♀️

Marks English breakfast or Miles when I can get it.
Yorkshire tea is an abomination and there isn't a Dog and Duck in Starbeck I can tell you.

If you'd put "Yorkshire Gold" I'd have voted for the white rose, but the bog-standard "Yorkshire" is pretty indifferent.

Lifeboat tea rules.

Tetley's Tea... also originally from Yorkshire.

Lancashire Tea can generally be found in the yellow sticker section of any sensible supermarket.

Indeed .. But not ‘Yorkshire Tea’.

😂 I’m from there and I’ve never heard of it

My Lancastrian friends brought me some over the hills and we did a blind taste test. It was not a good brew. They left it here and it ended up in my husbands office, where it remains, barely used. Very sad.

I don’t know if there is truth in the rumour that Yorkshire Tea tastes best with Yorkshire water (which is pretty decent as tap water goes) but nothing beats a good cuppa made at home in your favourite china mug.