What? What? PG Tips, I have you! At long last!
My husband found it for me at a supermarket an hour away from where we live. The last box on the shelf! Hopefully we will manage to discover it closer by when this 40-count runs out, or convince our little neighborhood grocery to carry it. I really wanted to try this because I’ve been a tiny bit obsessed with the idea of a true, proper British cuppa, just like in the thousands of novels and stories I’ve read over the years. At last I can hang out with Bryant and May pondering the latest puzzling perils and political pitfalls faced by the Peculiar Crimes Unit over a steadying, steaming mug of builders.
“When May did so, he found every cup and saucer, plate, vase, and bowl standing arranged across the floor like pieces in a scaled-up chess game.
“The Whitstable family tree,” Bryant explained, entering and setting down his tea tray. “It’s the only way I could get it sorted out in my head. I had to see them properly laid out, who was descended from whom.” He pointed to a milk jug. “Daisy Whitstable is bottom left-hand corner, by the fireguard. Next to her is the egg cup, brother Tarquin… Now, pass me Marion and Alfred Whitstable over there.”
“What’s their significance?”
“We need them to drink out of.”
When not keeping calm and sleuthing on, I wanted this as a dependable antidote for my regular afternoon crash when I just feel like curling up into a ball and going to sleep, and yes, gloriously strong, with sugar and milk and maybe a chocolate biscuit on the side. Zing! This is the authentic article. I was concerned about the limitations of a tea bag format (even the vaunted PG Tips “pyramid” bag), but no worries there; it definitely delivers a good, dark, brisk, strong but tasty potion.
By the way, if you’ve wondered what the “PG” stands for, Wikipedia tells me that in the 1930s it was sold as “Pre-Gestee” – a variant of the original name ‘Digestive Tea.’ The name implied that it could be drunk prior to eating food, as a digestive aid. Grocers and salesmen abbreviated it to PG." Also, “The tea used in PG Tips is imported in bulk as single estate teas from around the world and blended in precise proportions set by the tea tasters to make blend 777, which can contain between 12 and 35 single estate teas at any one time (depending on season, etc.)” Blend 777! It has a code name! Okay!
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If you want authentic, tea bags are the way to go. Hardly anyone drinks loose leaf over here, sadly.
Oh,and try Yorkshire Tea if you can. That’s the good stuff. PG Tips is okay, but usually tastes super weak to me. Maybe I’m too hardened, haha.
Ha! I was worried about that, because I think I use more loose tea than most people (for black tea, anyway), but the PG Tips bags work great for me. I will try to get Yorkshire Tea, as well!
Glad you liked it! I drink mostly loose leaf too, and get weird looks when I’m making my ‘funny tea’ (what my family calls loose leaf!)
If you want authentic, tea bags are the way to go. Hardly anyone drinks loose leaf over here, sadly.
Oh,and try Yorkshire Tea if you can. That’s the good stuff. PG Tips is okay, but usually tastes super weak to me. Maybe I’m too hardened, haha.
Ha! I was worried about that, because I think I use more loose tea than most people (for black tea, anyway), but the PG Tips bags work great for me. I will try to get Yorkshire Tea, as well!
Glad you liked it! I drink mostly loose leaf too, and get weird looks when I’m making my ‘funny tea’ (what my family calls loose leaf!)