Good morning, I have just watched a documentary on the my5 thing on my tele about tea and it has left me rather displeased. The programme was Yorkshire Tea vs PG tips and it concluded PG tips was better. As I have a day off, the wife's at work and the dog's not feeling very talkative I need to ask you which you prefer. Also it might actually be quite interesting to see a random sample of people compared to the clearly specifically chosen people put on the tele. If you hadn't guessed I drink Yorkshire tea and I would sooner have Tetley over PG tips. So, TSW community this is your time to answer the most important question in your life: which tea bags do you use?
Yes, they filled the time with comparing the two brands, the adverts they made, history and then coming to a verdict which I think is wrong. Not the worst one I've watched but they are good background noise when cleaning the fishtank!
Much easier to make a builder's tea with Yorkshire tea bags than PG tips I don't drink the stuff (tastes like burnt leaves) but those who I know who do prefer the Yorkshire brand
I don't drink Tea anymore. But when I did I preferred PG Tips, but that's probably because that was what I was brought up drinking and I got used to it. Some of my friends preferred Yorkshire Tea and I'd drink it, but didn't like it so much. Back when I was very young you also used to get cards to collect in PG Tips. I think I still have a complete album of the ones for cars in my parents attic.
I usually have PG tips as that’s what’s the usual in the house, Im not sure if a recall the exact taste of Yorkshire tea, but I’ve never had a bad tea and I have had it. I honestly think they’re both good.
Haha, yes they were mentioned on the docmentary, though I honestly don't remember them and had to do a quick Google search to double check they hadn't got it wrong!
The proper level of geekiness can fill any amount of time on any subject. Question from overseas: What makes each of these brands unique?
The taste mostly I think but also Yorkshire tea have square teabags and PG tips have a pyramid shape that has a posher name. I would highly recommend it as a way to fill an hour as it is quite interesting, though the verdict is completely wrong as Yorkshire Tea is far far superior. Basically what makes Yorkshire Tea unique is that it is better than all the rest!
Similar to coffee and how you blend and roast the beans, with tea it comes down to what leaves you pick, when you pick them, how you process them and then how you get the end user to brew the tea. Also it then comes down to personal taste. I know people who like having the tea back left in for ages before they drink the tea (which by then is really strong)
Aldi Diplomat for me, secondly PG Tips. I may be about to utter an heretical statement, but I don't like Yorkshire tea that much, it is a bit overrated for me. The best tea I ever had but you can only get it in one place is Wells Cathedral Breakfast Tea.
I can actually agree with you that these are actually quite nice tea bags, I mean not as good as Yorkshire Tea but definitely a firm second.
Yorkshire No 1 without a doubt. I'm currently working through a jumbo bag of Typhoo teabags my missus picked up in a bargain store and, pardon mild sweary, they are bloody awful. Even if you stand for a few minutes and stir, even squeeze which you're not really supposed to do, the brew more resembles a slightly off white milky soup. Yorkshire by contrast only need to see the water arriving from the kettle and you have a lovely dark brown aromatic brew.
Oh gawd your not the wife's sister are you!? In all seriousness I can't understand how you can drink tea with the bag in it still: bitter, over brewed tea is just as bad as milky under brewed tea personally. Oh yes, Typhoo tea is shockingly bad (I think your description is better!) and I honestly don't understand how they still have a big enough market not to go bust. I can't think of anyone I know who likes Typhoo tea!
PG Tips went too weak a while ago, and as a Lancastrian I can't bring myself to buy Yorkshire Tea. So it's Thompson's now for me, a proper strong brew from Northern Ireland, I get mine from Morrisons.
I can safely say that it would be impossible for me to ever be anyone's sister. Tastes fine to me, just strong, but in general I like strong flavors. Dark roast coffee; Laphroaig scotch; food that's spicy, rich, or otherwise unsubtle. I'm pretty straightforward.
Tetley is also very weak IMHO, hard to get a decent brown texture without stewing and squeezing the bag.
Phew that's a relief! I have done it by accident a couple of times and I just fine it too strong, though saying that I am not good with black coffee and spicy foods either.
Just saw this thread and I was aghast to read that there's any debate. There isn't any drinkable American tea so I have to buy imported. I've tried them all and nothing comes close to Yorkshire. However, I'm even more disturbed to discover that you Brits are using tea bags. In the country that invented the cuppa, I always believed you were, like me, brewing the real stuff. Shocking!!
As long as the water isn’t being heated up in a microwave we have all been successful!!! It must be difficult for a seemingly sophisticated tea maker like yourself to be from the same nation as idiots on Tik tok or whatever making tea in a microwave!!!!
Whats most disturbing to me, is the vids i see on yt butchering a cup of tea. Microve water, add sugar and ton of milk. All american, may i add. Bloody insult to tea! The bag is for convinience and has just as much flavour as traditional methods, if not stronger. Did i really just write all that over a cuppa? Sweet jesus, you can tell I'm English
As we invented it, we can set the rules for a good cuppa as we see fit. Milk first, then sugar (one for me, i'm sweet enough), then water. If it's just me, i'll do it out of the cup, otherwise it'll steep in the pot for 2-3 mins, then pour.
Must admit you can’t really beat tea brewed from proper leaves in a pot. However as I drink normal tea and the wife decaf then no longer practical, if you’re just having one cup.
My rule for the pot is, two or less cups use bags, any more leaves in a pot, though seeing as it's now just me and the wife at home tea bags are what I use the most these days and using leaves and a teapot feels like a very special occasion but must agree it is worth the extra effort.
I tried the Yorkshire Gold tea that I bought the other day, and it's quite nice. I don't have a taster's palate or vocabulary, so it's still black tea to me, but I can say that it's very clean and smooth. Props to Crosstie for the recommendation. I also picked up something called Lapsang Souchong tea, which is black tea that has the leaves dried by smoking. This is pretty much the opposite of clean and smooth, being a beefy, smoky kick to the head, and I liked it a great deal also.
I can't remember if I've tried PG tips Out of the two though Yorkshire Tea All the Way, Though I often have earl grey.
Yorkshire Tea definitely. PG Tips is a close second though. My Mother gets Tesco Red Label (urghh!) and I always need to wee 10 minutes after drinking it.
Alright so, I’m a die hard extremist coffee drinker, I drink that sweet and delicious beverage so much that it doesn’t have any effect on me anymore, I can drink it at 3 am just before my shift ends, I can sleep like a baby when home. Anyway, after reading that topic, I decided to buy both Yorkshire tea and PG and… I’ll stay with Yorkshire tea, it’s better taste and well balanced in my opinion.
