Help me avoid social suicide - which brand of tea should I buy?

[MrsFogi]

I don't drink tea, so can't judge which are decent/not - which brand(s) should I have in the house for when tea-drinkers pop over (I wouldn't want to be the person known for her terrible tea)? + is there anything I need to know about any brands, is there a "News of the World" equivalent of the tea brands I need to avoid?

Another vote for Yorkshire Tea (for hard water) with the milk in last.

With a nice slice of Yorkshire Tea bread.......ah bliss

Bettys you are in Harrogate are you not ??

My favourites are Twinings Lady grey ot Williamson and Magor earl grey

if people insits i drink builders tea tetley is my fav!

You cant beat Yorkshire tea. It's lurverly

Can't believe this thread! Brand of tea? Social suicide? What sort of circles do you lot mix in?!

Do people really judge themselves and others on brands of tea?

Do what I do, decant them into lovely glass jars and put the box in the bin. Apparently Yorkshire tastes best

LadySherlock, sadly it is just my eponymous tearoom that is in Harrogate. Whenever there though I stock up with a vast supply of Fat Rascals and Yorkshire Curd Tart. Luckily Waitrose supplies Yorkshire Tea and Tea Bread

Hd my lovely Fairtrade tea this morning

(sticks little finger out in fairtrade and ladylike manner)

Tesco fairtrade here.

moglwai, read that wrong at first!!

guilt free fairtrade with no slave farmers picking it

The best tea by far in my book is here

My favourite at the moment is Twinings Organic English Breakfast tea, but when I was in Egypt I used to drink Liptons with two teabags and no milk - I liked it really strong for some reason.

oh MrsFoga I bet you're glad you asked...
Yorkshire Gold is the creme de la creme
but anything else will do, frankly, in extremis
EXCEPT earl grey
which is FILTH and UNDRINKABLE
and to be perfectly honest I would rather you let me make it myself if I come round
OK?

Yorkshire tea by Taylors of Harrogate.

Althoough dh told me I made the worst tea he'd ever drunk.
As a non tea drinker, I didn't realise it was almost a religion to some people...

If you really want to impress tea drinkers then teh most important thing is NO TEA BAGS. Use a tea pot, buy loose tea. Warm the pot. preferably use Assem

blimey. just read the rest of the thread. Am I the only one into loose leaf? plebs. sorry had wine tonight

mmm Assam. definteily too mucg wine

Tesco Decaff teabags, of course.

pleb

Isn't there some grim process to decaffeination that you don't want to think about, or is that just coffee? Ferrets weeing on it or something. I might've made that up though.