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P G Tips, drink of the GODS

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ClaudiaSchiffer · 12/02/2009 01:15

Am sitting here in my kitchen, dd is asleep, washing is on the line, housework (mainly) done and I am drinking a cup of PG TIPS, bought from Coles' "funny-foreign-food" section. My God I had forgotten how good it is. I have got used to weedy Australian tea and it is SO good to have a cup of builders tea, strong enough to stand my spoon up in.

Bliss.

Just thought I'd share.

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ClaudiaSchiffer · 12/02/2009 01:29

hahahhaha exactly right Cali, no point drinking tea if you can only have Liptons. Liptons isn't tea, it is dust.

I second you on the Walkers cheese n' onion. Can't get a decent crisp over here. Have virtually given them up.

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daysoftheweek · 12/02/2009 01:35

Ahhh PG tips, walkers cheese and onion might buy some tomorrow (for peanuts!!)

However I'm currently shivering with cold so that will make you smile

savoycabbage · 12/02/2009 02:03

I am drinking Yorkshire Tea (it's like tea used to be) from David Jones. $14 for 80! And I bought weetabix also $14 for 24.....

stuffitllama · 12/02/2009 05:13

shut up about liptons
it's the best I can do so far

so I LOVE IT because I have to

at least you don't have to put in uht

at 14 dollars for eighty teabags, maybe that's where I'm going wrong

ninedragons · 12/02/2009 05:18

I went to a different Coles on the weekend with a funny foreign food section. Bought a packet of Tunnock's wafer biscuits for DH, who is now on his fourth day of servile gratitude.

When we lived in Hong Kong, we were buying a Christmas pudding from the funny foreign food section there (duck's feet, completely normal. Brandy butter, urrrrghh). Our cashier said (in Cantonese) to the one at the next till "Can you believe the shit these foreigners eat?". Poor woman was very red-faced when DH started laughing and answered her in Cantonese.

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ClaudiaSchiffer · 12/02/2009 06:03

stuffitllama where are you that you can only get Liptons and uht? Surely there is some kind of human rights legislation you can invoke???

A decent cuppa, is after all, one of our basic human rights, surely?

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thequietone · 12/02/2009 06:49

Ah, I just started the day with a cup of pg tips too. Have to order on bulk online as they don't sell it here unless you traipse into Munich to an Indian shop. The Germans have no idea what they are missing!

stuffitllama · 12/02/2009 17:29

I'm in Asia so I should be more adventurous with my tea. So many shoulds in life.

BriocheDoree · 12/02/2009 19:08

OOOOOOHH Tunnocks! Can't get them here.
PG Tips or Yorkshire Tea - only British things I go out of my way to buy!

LouIsAHappyLittleVegemite · 13/02/2009 09:57

I can get PG Tips in Coles? I was always a big liptons fan until I moved to the UK and doscovered PG tips. Now I wont have to buy catering size boxes when I move back.
As for crisps (or chips as they are known) you cant go past tomato and bbq falvoured samboys, twisties and burger rings. Ohh how I miss them.

Othersideofthechannel · 13/02/2009 10:09

I'm not a tea drinker but I import PG Tips for my French PILs and extended family and their friends - basically whoever tastes it when visiting PILs.

marcolini · 13/02/2009 10:42

Got some instant tea the other day - builders strength!

sandcastles · 13/02/2009 10:45

My dh loves the stuff. We have found tetley to be OK, but he prefers his PG tips!

Pmsl @ funny-foreign-food section...can you call it a section? Ours is like 3 shelves!

sandcastles · 13/02/2009 10:49

Oh & why oh why can't you get prawn cocktail crisps here? Even in the UK selling stuff shops! No fair!

ninedragons · 13/02/2009 11:36

If your Coles is reasonably big you should be able to.

The foreign food section is bizarre. Marmite is not next to Vegemite and other spreads, oh no, it belongs next to Monster Munch and Tunnock's wafers.

I usually go very early in the morning when there's nobody else about. I think I should print out a sign that says "POMMY SNACKS" and slide it surreptitiously beneath the signs telling you that loo roll is in aisle five.

differentnameforthis · 13/02/2009 12:09

nine, that made me lol!

Our Coles is huge...but alas...no monster munch & no pc crisps! Sob!

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ClaudiaSchiffer · 13/02/2009 22:43

ND they stock the wierdest stuff in the English food section of our Coles. Ambrosia rice pudding (hmmmm ok) but gravy browning? Who misses gravy browning? Surely they should have a huge Walkers/Mars/Thorntons shelf rather than wierd piccalilly stuff which no-one eats anyway.

Never seen Monster Munch at ours.

I wonder who is responsible for choosing which British food to stock? I wonder if they are a Brit with a bizarre eating disorder????

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ninedragons · 14/02/2009 11:37

Is anyone else in Sydney? There is a fairly extensive Pommy Snack shop on Glebe Point Road almost opposite the primary school.

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