Angela Glansbury 🚽because it tastes like shit
that's right folks, it's #HotTakeFriday every day on this account
there's probably a legitimate real reason other than the taste. they've used sean bean for ads since his UK army recruitment advert maybe?
oh, the uk army ads were after yorkshire tea
the thing i love about yorkshire tea is you can put a yorkshire tea box in the office, put your good tea inside, and no one will drink your good tea
yorkshire tea fans in the notifications right now 
I haven't read bernard cornwell's sharpe series so i don't know good they are, but given how horrible the adaptions make napoleonic conflict look i assume they're pretty good.
1) the napoleonic wars were horrible, heavy losses to disease, malnutrition, and exposure. armies were mostly pressganged rolling mauls unable to live off the land due to the need to prevent their unwilling captives escaping. these armies are then thrown into very stupid battles, again the tactics limited to what the captive armies can do without using their initiative to escape
2) cornwell writes a very faithful series of historical novels
3) ITV make a faithful set of adaptions. literally no one with a brain can come away from this without thinking war and the uk class system are horrible corrupt rackets
4) however the soundtrack goes extremely fucking hard
5) sean bean is making adverts for uk army recruitment. even though in many ways nothing has improved since wellington
6) sean bean has also advertised yorkshire tea
7) i start tooting about how much i hate yorkshire tea, much to everyone's horror
anyway, go listen to the soundtrack for the ITV's adaptions of the Sharpe novels.
if this thread gets people reading about the amount of microplastic in tea made with bags I've very happy I did it. honestly, get yourself some loose leaf tea and stick the bags in the bin
i have been informed not everyone has the spoons for loose leaf.
my recommended bagged tea brands are Clipper and M&S own label in that order.
the real trick of course is drink coffee. best coffee grounds on the uk market are Tchibo Family. You save huge amounts of money drinking this stuff simply because it's too strong so you take the same time getting through a 500g bag that you would 1kg of regular coffee. has the downside of making literally every other coffee taste like weak piss by comparison.
as you can tell i have a pressing deadline today
Just in case you don't know how hard the soundtrack to Sharpe goes
wow, they only made this in 1993, i thought it was older 😸
31 years ago 🙀
Sharpe: Sharpe's Rifles
https://youtu.be/zZegw3Otpkc
Sharpe - 01 - Sharpe's Rifles [1993 - TV Serie]
I understand Helen Mirren must be terribly distressed Kurt Cobain only had the chance to see the first three episodes of this series.
drink it if the only alternative is twinings
yorkshire pee
alex 
@floppyplopper i'll fucking kill you! bastard!
@alex
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romi ⚔⚢@floppyplopper my favourite shit tea noooooo
Dan Cassidy 🦌@floppyplopper While it's not my favourite, it tastes fine to me, but what I *really* hate about Yorkshire Tea is the way the teabags are attached to each other in pairs. Every time I separate a pair there is a 10% chance I will tear one of the bags and spill tea everywhere and it infuriates me. Why do they do this. Tea bags are meant to be convenient.
@whimsy
do you want to know how much microplastic you are taking into your body by having tea bags rather than loose leaf? i'm happy to shut up right now
do you want to know how much microplastic you are taking into your body by having tea bags rather than loose leaf? i'm happy to shut up right now
@floppyplopper honestly even if I did know I don't have sufficient wherewithal to do anything about it. Between ADHD and autism and ARFID and lack of energy due to general ill health if I was worried about microplastics in food I would simply not eat.
@whimsy
ok. first i'm extremely sorry if my toot read with a scolding tone. very sorry i appear to be on one this evening.
the answer about the teabag shape is I don't know. if circular or pyramid teabags had been protected as a trade mark, no one else would be able to use them but it doesn't seem PG Tips or Tetley went for those protections for their relevant bags. both would remove the need to tear open 10% of your bags when making tea.
I assume yorkshire tea would read your email if you asked them about their design decisions.
@floppyplopper nope didn't read as scolding at all don't worry 🙂. It wasn't me who mentioned pyramid teabags though!
@whimsy pyramid and circular tea bags would definitely have fewer perforations to tear through and cause less tea bag loss. i automatically anticipated that as a potential solution, it's what i do
@floppyplopper amusingly PG Tips recently reverted to rectangular tea bags attached to each other in pairs. They even had the nerve to put "new improved shape!" on the box after years of insisting that pyramid bags magically make tea taste nicer (the real advantage, as you noted, is that they aren't attached to each other).
@whimsy
the really laughable bit, for a student of IP rights. if they had made no claims for the functionality of pyramid bags they could have protected them as a trade mark, which is indefinite protection on paying a small renewal every 10 years. once you claim your tea bag is a functional innovation you can only protect it as a patent which has a 20 year limit and is very expensive.
Ritter Sport have a trade mark on square bars of chocolate, everyone else has to make oblongs or other shapes for their chocolate.
@floppyplopper I have to believe that they came to the conclusion that nobody would go to the trouble of retooling their manufacturing for the sake of copying pyramid bags that obviously don't have any real advantage except as a sort of trade dress and it would appear that they were correct in this assessment.
@whimsy
seems to me a few brands do pyramid tea bags. this is only a quick search but Twinings advertise they do them.
seems to me a few brands do pyramid tea bags. this is only a quick search but Twinings advertise they do them.
@floppyplopper huh, I stand corrected.
@whimsy
not an endorement of Twinings or course. i haven't bought them since tasting their very very poor Earl Grey.
not an endorement of Twinings or course. i haven't bought them since tasting their very very poor Earl Grey.