...to think that the fabric, literally, of society, literally is falling apart, literally?

[WalkingOnTheCracks]

Further to the outrage I noted last year of PG Tips putting less tea in each bag than they used to - and I think this was established as fact, although the rioting in the streets that I predicted never actually came to pass, which I blame on recent legislation against civil protest, it's bloody Priti Patel we have to thank for that...er..where was I? Oh, yeah, teabags. I've noticed that the manufacturing quality of pyramid teabags has plummetted. About one in four of them break in the mug these days, even just given a little gentle swirl. I mean, it appears that they're making the bags out of some kinda stuff that disintegrates in hot water. That can only be a deliberate attempt to break the spirit of the ordinary person.

I may have to switch to Yorkshire Tea. And I'm from London. Yes! I know! The situation is that dire. It's a sign of the End Times, I'm telling you. Dark forces are at work...

Fear not, the fabric of society is, quite literally, being held together with the plastic adhesive now fitted to boxes of tablets.

Definitely a thing and they come in a gold box

@OneTC 👍a box of those will be going in my trolley this week.

London tap water is the Devil’s piss and would destroy any decent hot beverage.

I visited London from Cumbria last year and spat my one and only sip of tap water out. I don’t know how the Suvveners live with it 🤢

YANBU! I bought a box of Teapigs the other day, Teapigs I tell you. Same occurred. I didn't realise until I was spluttering over loose tea leaves. Abominable.

Teapigs I find fine if they're in the pyramid/temple things.

You have to be careful pulling the string off though or it makes a hole in it

I give you Sainsbury’s mince. Now resembles
Dog food.

Your post has done literal violence to me OP.

Given the dearth of common foodstuffs available in m'local overpriced Coop, I was forced to purchase PG Tips, & the fuckers are weak, lily-livered jobs, nowt like the builders brew I was expecting. And several of them came apart unpleasantly, leaving stealth leaves that caught me unawares at the dregs.

This is all Priti Patel's fault, you say? I'm not surprised. Right up her alley to deny me my human right to a decent cup of tea. I'm back on Paned Cymraeg now, highly recommended, & will vote Plaid if it keeps Patel's paws off my tea leaves.

Yes, it's the tissue of lies emanating from Westminster that binds it all together.

You might not like it, but without it there would be food shortages, a cost of living crisis, people being sent willy-nilly to Rawanda, & a crisis brewing (ha! see wot i did there) in N Ireland.

Oh - hold on ...

Your icebergs have tips ! ? mine don't , my little gems and Chinese* *leaf do but my icebergs are round .

I DEMAND TIPS ON MY ICEBERGS TOO

I am pleased to report that both Waitrose Essentials and Sainsbury's Red Label tea bags maintain their integrity in boiling water, even when you give them a fairly vigorous stirring.

They're also plenty strong enough for me, and I like my tea just a few shades lighter than Bournville chocolate. And we have hard water, but it's chalky Sussex water so may be a different sort of hard from London water, which is probably well 'ard.

My gripe is the flimsy nature of bog roll, unless you buy sodding Andrex. I made a grave tactical error in buying Aldi quilted bog roll, which is so thin you can see through it and requires at least 6 sheets per blot even for a wee. A decent dose of the squits would probably require a whole roll for every trip to the lav.

My next purchase of bog roll was equally catastrophic. It's fucking scented! Scented bog roll, I ask you. I haven't started the first roll yet, but I fear for the integrity of my undercarriage when I start using it.

Every time I open the cupboard where the spare bog rolls live, the cheap perfume smell practically makes me gag.

To add fuel to the fire, I would like to share that while you are enjoying a cup of (insert brand here) tea, you can enjoy a Jammie Dodger biscuit. Except they now come in 8 instead of 10, destroying the time honoured tradition of 3 for Mummy, 3 for Daddy, 2 for child 1 and 2 for child 2, while we are on a windy beach in Wales.

I can't even.......

Wash pods that say ''cool clean'' and then leave a snotty mess on your clothes on a cool wash ....

This country's going to the fucking dogs i tell you!

Has anyone mentioned hoovers that couldn't suck their way out of a paper bag yet?

That sounds like a dangerous experiment that risks tearing a hole in the space/time continuum 😵

YABU for not drinking Twinings.

I thought the problem with PG tips tea bags splitting was because they removed plastic from the bag and went paper only.

Indeed @ScottBakula this is just the start .We are doomed I tell ye, dooooooomed

PG has been crap for years, Yorkshire gold is now also crap, not worth the price, i find sainsburys in red box the best now.

Barry’s is the best, though sometimes hard to get my hands on. I second the pp who mentioned biscuit tea, I’m very much enjoying it, especially having given up office biscuits for Lent.

Poor@WalkingOnTheCracks maybe we can start a petition or support group?

But if you don't have at least a few leaves left in the bottom of your cup, how on earth do you tell your fortune?

Yorkshire Teabags split all the time, so I try to read the leaves when I've finished the tea - got to make the best of a bad situation, haven't you?

Don't panic @BollocksToThem don't panic

I read mine, & they told me "don't buy PG Tips again" ...

Also, I have now become all tea-sensitive, almost like some stereotypical old Britisher, & it's ruined m'Twinings Earl Grey experience.

I only bought them because there was no Co-op EG (surprisingly good, robust yet flavoursome) & the emergency-supply PG were no longer drinkable.

Solidarity, OP.
If a middle-aged Brit can't get tea satisfaction, what is the point of anything?

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