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I had been wanting to buy a china tea pot, cup and some real tea for some time. Last week in Morley I bought the tea pot, cup, tea and strainer. What a difference. Any recommendations welcome, what tea do you like? I also saw a liptons van in the street last week.

Hi book,Ringtons was always a favourite with Leeds people.Ian

Can't drink the stuff and have never liked it. It's strictly copious amounts of Caffeine for me

Taylor's Yorkshire Gold hits the spot for me. Not especially keen on TyPhoo or Brooke Bond PG Tips but then I'll never say no to a brew whatever it is.It's good to see the Rington's van still doing the rounds as well although I'm sure I've seen their tea for sale in Morrison's.

bookWelcome to the Loose Leaf club.Decided some years back that tea bags useful but not quite as good as LOOSE LEAF..So began the quest for the perfect cuppa.After years of testing have settled on Joint 1st = Morrisons Red Label + Sainsburys Red Label (c.£1.35 250g)

We all have our own taste and mine is for very weak tea (watery weak, not milky weak) in a mug with 2 spoonfuls of sugar. It's probably sacrilegious to say on a Yorkshire forum but I use tea granules so I can more readily make weak tea. It really is weak and no doubt would be called some unflattering names by most (if not all) normal strength tea drinkers! I still find though that it has a pleasant taste and is refreshing. Oddly, though I like the smell of coffee I do not like the taste of even weak coffee to drink! The coffee smell when going by the Kardomah on Albion Street was nice.     

It was the morrisons red label loose leaf I tried and it was good. I heard a radio programme with a buyer for supermarket tea saying that there is a very weak loose leaf with very little tannin in it. That might be worth trying for the weak preference. I like mine golden colour. There was also a debate on whether milk should be added before or after pouring? I've always put mine in first, something tells me that I was taught to do this to stop the china cup from cracking? Or was it to stop the tea leaf rising if a strainer wasn't used?It's good to be back to basics.

LeoAgree on coffee, taste seldom matches aroma.You mentioned 'Kardomah' on Albion St.

Hi BookI agree with the others above, I drink leaf tea at work and I prefer Morrison's own brands, my personal favourite is their Assam.I have a special mug at work which you can brew leaf tea or ground coffee in, I bought it at least ten years ago in Lakeland Plastics in York, and it's been in daily use since; Lakeland don't seem to sell them anymore, but a quick search found the same item on on the website below, it looks like they now do a travel version with a lid as well. Fantastic product, you can make one cup of tea or filter coffee anywhere you can get hot water, with the filter built in.http://www.pots-and-pans.co.uk/acatalog ... e.htmlEdit: this picture shows a bit more clearly how it workshttp://www.sebastianconran.com/project-44    

There is nothing more refreshing than a mug of tea. I drink Yorkshire tea as a standard, although I like Redbush tea, a South African tea that has a Red colour when brewed.I was once asked by one of my friends from over the border in Lancashire about ourYorkshire tea and where it came from. I answered him that we grow the tea on bushes on the south facing slopes of the fells in the Yorkshire Dales. John