Re: Its all in the temperature
Same in France, you either ask for a “tisane” which is a herb or fruit “tea”, or if you tell them you are English you get a small packet of Lipton Yellow that the manufacturer has gone out of their way to convince the French that Britain’s preferred tea is made my Thomas Lipton, or “Sir Lipton”. Well, a) that should be Sir Thomas and b) it ain’t, and c) it’s frigging expensive.
Finally some supermarkets packaged cheaper “English breakfast Tea” which is far better, but you needed 3 or 4 teabags to make a decent cuppa - and 2 euros for 40 teabags for 12 cups is still not cheap compared to the £3 quid for 240 bags of Tetley or PG Tips, sometimes on a buy one bag get one free, so I now have a sideline as an international teabag trafficker each time I visit my London office... well teabags, crunichie bars and pork pies....
Biting the hand that feeds IT
