While I have nothing against Tetley tea per se, I am getting bored of it.
Alas, Tetley is the only real coarse tea brand you can buy in France (the draw-string variety) so I am left with little choice but to go on drinking it. Twinings show up now and again in the supermarkets with the odd bag of Earl Grey mind you – but it’s just not the same as a rough old bag of red label cha!
The French prefer a mild, borderline-transparent, cuppa without milk, so finding anything other than weak draw-string dross on the shelves is quite an event.
You can imagine my excitement then, when a visitor from the UK arrived and declared “I’ve brought you some tea”. 160 bags of … Typhoo? … no … PG Tips? … no … it’s not chuffing Tetley again is it? Yes.
We know the feeling — we’re down to our last 320 bags of (specially imported) PG; but at 10 cups a day that’s just a tad over a month left!
Howard, just send us an SOS when you need a shipment of non-Tetley!! Hxx
Do you know the little tea-shop located 124, Grand-Rue? As far as I know they have some 10 different sorts of Earl Grey. I hope this will be a relief from the Tetley…
PS: Sorry for the mistakes! I am still a student 😉