Rubbish teabags

MashBag · 2025-01-16T07:53:55+0000

I enjoy a nice mug of tea several times a day.
It should be a similar colour to hobnob biscuit not the milk.

Doed this sound familiar to anyone else?

My water has not changed. Was hard, still hard & made a good cuppa.

Are they being made with less tea? Like Mars bars & packs of butter* have shrunk?

I can the right colour with 2 bags? But that somehow feels wrong.

*only discovered the other day that lurpack now comes in a 200g pack not 250g for the same price.

Clint · 2025-01-16T08:40:49+0000

I like dark brown tea. Yes you're getting less for your money. I've gone back to Yorkshire tea as price per 100g was cheaper in the large box which also went less ...200 instead of 240. There does seem to be variance in the box..some bags give a nice dark brew,others a soppy beige colour.

Graz · 2025-01-16T08:49:03+0000

We only seem to get PG Tips now at work, we used to have Yorkshire Tea as well. PG Tips is dreadful, I have to use 2 bags to get a brew that meets my strength criteria. So the penny pinching at work seems to have backfired on them.

At home I have Lidl tea, think it's their Red Label, and that is fine.

Appleton Brews · 2025-01-16T08:50:55+0000

We only buy Yorkshire tea as it’s grown locally on Ilkley Moor.

Rodcx500z · 2025-01-16T09:02:23+0000

It could be the micro plastic particals in the bag https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10389239/

Druss · 2025-01-16T11:35:44+0000

I'm sure I'm being unduly cynical, but I get the feeling that the old cheapo teas that were made using the discarded sweepings from the standard stuff has now in fact become the standard. What was previously standard is likely now being sold as a 'premium' range.

I tend to get all my tea online nowadays and more often than not loose rather than bags.
I do like a nice mug of Earl Grey and occasionally Lapsang Souchong, pretty much all the supermarket varieties and a lot of the branded stuff is insipid nonsense.

Something like Lapsang especially, the last time I tried the Twinings variety it tasted like dishwater with a hint of charcoal, in comparison the one I recently got online tastes like a mug of campfire smoke (in a good way!).