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Mrs. Pickles

Starting to Get Obsessed
May 8, 2022
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AZ, USA
Twinnings Lapsang Souchon is no longer Lapsang Souchon.
It is some smokey imposter. Probably cheaper to produce.
Before and after photos below.

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Interesting to see this name change. I suspect its a consequence of EU import restrictions with specific rules relating to products from China which have killed availability of ultra-smoky Lapsang Souchong in most of the western market.

You can still get it the good stuff, but you have to buy from a vendor outside the EU who also does not buy through an EU-based broker. Not too hard to find online, but not as easy as the grocery store isle.
 
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ItsKarl

Starting to Get Obsessed
May 3, 2024
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Norway
Tea? Absolutely! I've been drinking tea since I was 4-5. Never drank coffee.I usually make myself a big mug at a time.
Almost exclusively black tea, and I usually make myself a big mug at a time. I prefer to brew loose leaf, but honestly the perceived difference between tea bags and loose leaf is pure placebo.

Sweeteners? Yes, please. I usually use whole milk or cream, but I almost never use sugar anymore, except occasionally brown. I usually use honey, sometimes syrup - Lyle's Golden gives a nice, dark flavour, almost like brown sugar.
 

mawnansmiff

Lifer
Oct 14, 2015
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Sunny Cornwall, UK.
I've become quite a fan of Twining's Lady Grey tea, similar to Earl Grey but with orange as opposed to bergamot oil. It really is rather refreshing.

My five tea caddies contain Earl Grey, Lady Grey, Assam, Strong Breakfast (all by Twining's) but the fifth caddy (the huge one) contains good old PG Tips which I buy in the 210 size :)

Jay.
 

Pooh-Bah

Can't Leave
Apr 21, 2023
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Central Maryland
I just had a disgusting idea:

Has anyone tried to brew tea on tobacco?
Like, tobacco instead of tea leaves? Probably as like, a medical tincture by a native shaman or a new age hippie or something.
Or, burning tobacco as the heat source to boil water? That sounds like a way to turn your campfire into a fragrant delight that repels insects, and an enormous waste of money.
 

ItsKarl

Starting to Get Obsessed
May 3, 2024
121
196
Norway
Like, tobacco instead of tea leaves? Probably as like, a medical tincture by a native shaman or a new age hippie or something.
Or, burning tobacco as the heat source to boil water? That sounds like a way to turn your campfire into a fragrant delight that repels insects, and an enormous waste of money.
The former. In other words, drinking the tobacco instead of smoking it. Someone must surely have done it, somewhere, at some point in history.