Teabags

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APT · 27/01/2025 20:47

WTF has happened with teabags?

Over the years I, like I guess many others, have changed brands, as they got weaker and weaker. For a few years now I have been on Yorkshire tea, as it tasted like tea. Lately it just doesn't cut the mustard. The tea is so weak, sometimes I want two teabags in one cup.

A friend said they had found the same with Tetley, but I found Tetley too weak years ago.

Also, the big box used to hold 240 and it's only 210 now, very deceptive. In some 'bargain' shops I have seen the big box with even less in, 180 possibly, so it's not really a bargain.

I looked at the price per 100g today, the big box (210) is 84p for 100g. Twinings Strong, box of 80 the biggest in store, are £1.92 for 100g. They make a decent cup of tea, but over double the price.

I need my cup of tea tasting like tea. Has anybody found anything which does?

Definitely a First World problem.

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ShodAndShadySenators · 05/09/2025 07:49

PickaStar · 05/02/2025 13:24

@PrincessAnne5Eva ...I used to like Typhoo teabags, so when I saw some large 'catering size' boxes of them at a knock down price in my local discount store I bought a couple, they tasted weak and nasty too, I was telling a guy I worked with who told me that a lot of these companies use poorer quality tea in their catering sized packs, I'm not sure if this is true but it certainly fits in with the comments here.

Catering teabags typically have a third less tea in them than regular teabags, so they're never going to be as good.

I carry emergency teabags in my handbag and add one to the pot if it looks weak - I regularly go to a cafe who uses teabags which underdeliver, I don't know which make they use but no matter how long you leave it to brew, it doesn't get any stronger. Hence whipping out my teabag tin!

I'm still liking Yorkshire Gold but always willing to try additional brands, I've had some good ones from TK Maxx before (the Dorset ones were really good, and the Welsh and Irish)

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