...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...

YABU for using teabags. Loose leaf tea made in a warmed china teapot is the only way to make tea.
YABU for using Pg Tips.

I have discovered a shop selling 100s of different loose leaf teas! There are lots of little metal mesh tea holders to pop into your mug. Literally, like, 100s, literally!

Unilever recently sold the tea business including PG Tips. Have they then changed the bag?

Tetley all the way here. They're literally ROUND yanno 😁 Never had one tear yet.

Asda shades for loo roll. Better than Andrex. Literally!

Asda ready dinners peel open literally without effort. (Dont know about their frozen ones to be fair)

Smug face 😂

I literally can’t

I just ca

Ooh l won't feel like a scummer for buying tesco own teabags!

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😂😂😂

Bad show @MistyGreenAndBlue old horse, that is NOT in the spirit.

I voted YABU because you are not already using Yorkshire tea.

I’m always reading that tea bags wont degrade because they have plastic in them. I turned my compost yesterday — and I swear it’s probably 50% tea bags I drink so much —- I could not see one whole tea bag in it, just lots of crumbly compost.

Sorry not sorry, like literally!

I'm a little surprised that the main learning opportunity to be taken from this thread is not that we ought to expect, at the very least, fitness-for-purpose from a teabag, but that Mumsnet is a hotbed - and I use the word advisedly - of enthusiasm for, very specifically, Yorkshire Tea.

I can't imagine why.

The converse problem is paracetemol packing.

It's now nigh impossible to get the wee buggers out of their tenacious plasticky foil without breaking them. Especially difficult when you've woken in pain in the stilly watches of the night.

Combine this with the headaches caused by teabag-failure stress, and clearly society's in freefall.

Loose tea is the only way to make a decent mug/cup of tea and M&S extra strong tea is the way to go for a delicious malty brew. Their breakfast tea is decent too.

However, if you must use teabags M&S do the above in teabags as well as loose tea.

Tea bags are an abomination, and have undermined the great British and Irish Cup of Tea. Literally.
If their bleached by chemicals and plastic imbued fabric is now inferior and not fit for purpose, let us scorn and discard it altogether, and let it herald a new dawn of lovely loose leaf tea across these islands.
Bring back the teapot and its accompanying paraphernalia of milk jug, sugar basin, tea strainer and tea cosy.
Let the nation's compost heaps be enriched by heaps of wet tea leaves.
Bring back afternoon tea on a tray, (with bikkies) followed by mystic readings of the emptied leaf encrusted cups.
And, above all, let no one ever be satisfied with one measly mug of tea, made with unaerated unboiling water, when we could have at least three fragrant cheering mugfuls of the real thing, cascading from the steaming spout.

I literally cannot abide the overuse and misuse of the word literally.
I literally don't like PG Tips tea.

I've literally just opened a pack of Yorkshire tea bags (also a Londoner... like I care) and when separating them they split and I now have tea everywhere. Literally everywhere.

so, don't rely on them for quality of construction.

YABVVU for not having converted to Yorkshire Gold. I have the most comforting cuppa using London water. PG Tips is clearly false economy.

That’s because you aren’t using the Gold variety. I’ve never split a teabag.

I switched from Yorkshire to PG last year because my Yorkshire bags kept splitting all the time. I'm sure it was in the news too, something to do with making the bags compostable. I had tea out the other day and it came in a pot with a strainer, reminded me of my granny and I think I light start drinking tea that way again.

I feel totally discombobulated by the white milk tops still, my milk doesn't taste the same.

I wish they'd stop tinkering with stuff and making it worse.

P G tips tea bags are biodegradable,

Make sure you buy Yorkshire tea bags formulated for hard water if you live in London. Yep, the world's being going down hill ever since the death of Queen Victoria. Too late now!

The fabric of tea bags

On a group that I follow, someone said 'I was literally having kittens' I refrained from commenting, but don't posters realise what they are saying?

YABVU for not drinking Punjana.