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Generally, I avoid teas in tins -- Downton Abbey English Breakfast, Royal This and That stuff. and all the British sounding blends of assam, ceylon, kenya, etc.
My main problem is that there is so often a conflict between what the label implies and what the ingredients are listed as. You get all the stuff about it being specially selected from some local garden in China but then the ingredients show just :Green tea" or "A blend of black teas."
Any expert out there on what the labels actual mean -- if a "darjeeling" shows the ingredients are just "Black tea" how much Darjeeling does it actually have in it? Harrod's pushes a High Alishan Taiwan Oolong as Oolong Green tea" and the ingredients don;t specify country of origin or type.
Is this a con game?
thanks
M
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On Saturday, April 18, 2015 at 3:44:29 PM UTC-4, mandy george wrote:

Generally, I avoid teas in tins -- Downton Abbey English Breakfast, Royal This and That stuff. and all the British sounding blends of assam, ceylon, kenya, etc.

My main problem is that there is so often a conflict between what the label implies and what the ingredients are listed as. You get all the stuff about it being specially selected from some local garden in China but then the ingredients show just :Green tea" or "A blend of black teas."

Any expert out there on what the labels actual mean -- if a "darjeeling" shows the ingredients are just "Black tea" how much Darjeeling does it actually have in it? Harrod's pushes a High Alishan Taiwan Oolong as Oolong Green tea" and the ingredients don;t specify country of origin or type.

Is this a con game?

thanks
M

Thanks (I think)
I'm lost... I checked a few boxes and there seems a disconnect between the descriptions and ingredient list. Examples
Twinings Pure Oloong tea
Ad: "ancient blend of carefully selected black teas"
Ingredients "oolong tea"
Harney Black Tea Paris
Ad: "Fruity black tea" plus flavorings
Ingredients: "Chinese black tea"
Lively Tea Organic English Breakfast
Ad: Organic EB tea
Ing: "black tea"
Taylor afternoon Darjeeling "highest tea gardens in foothill so of Himalayas" Ingredients "Darjeeling tea.
Wrapper ""Tea produce of more than one country."

What is all this about? It looks to me as if the label tells me nothing about the actual tea. What is Taylor up to? When I see something I may want to buy, how can I tell what I will be getting?
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On 2015-04-18 19:44:28 +0000, mandy george said:

Generally, I avoid teas in tins -- Downton Abbey English Breakfast,
Royal This and That stuff. and all the British sounding blends of
assam, ceylon, kenya, etc.

My main problem is that there is so often a conflict between what the
label implies and what the ingredients are listed as. You get all the
stuff about it being specially selected from some local garden in China
but then the ingredients show just :Green tea" or "A blend of black
teas."
Any expert out there on what the labels actual mean -- if a
"darjeeling" shows the ingredients are just "Black tea" how much
Darjeeling does it actually have in it? Harrod's pushes a High Alishan Taiwan Oolong as Oolong Green tea" and the ingredients don;t specify
country of origin or type.
Is this a con game?

thanks
M

I avoid blended teas specifically for this reason. However, I do enjoy regular old Lipton, as well as PG Tips, both in the loose boxes. Both
are respectable for an inexpensive black tea, with a consistent flavor
box to box. The Lipton is qctually a fine enough tea to stand on its
own even against fancier blacks - it has a very very light smoky touch
and it's just delightful. PG Tips seems to have more of a malty Assam character.

Oddly enough, both kinds of tea are quite insipid when bagged!

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Oregonian Haruspex <bob_davis_retired@yahoo.com> wrote:

I avoid blended teas specifically for this reason. However, I do enjoy >regular old Lipton, as well as PG Tips, both in the loose boxes. Both
are respectable for an inexpensive black tea, with a consistent flavor
box to box. The Lipton is qctually a fine enough tea to stand on its
own even against fancier blacks - it has a very very light smoky touch
and it's just delightful. PG Tips seems to have more of a malty Assam >character.
Oddly enough, both kinds of tea are quite insipid when bagged!

Lipton yellow label and red label are two totally different blends with no
real connection to one another. Very strange.

PG Tips I don't know about, I have only seen the ctc granules...
--scott
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