Coffee with my Tea!

Advantages: delicious, quite cheap
Disadvantages: coffee doesn't appeal to as much

...long and reasonably thick and tall too! Okay, it was a rare treat for me to have something like this, so I decided to buy it. I took the cake home and boiled the kettle. With a cup of tea at the ready, I opened the clear plastic wrapper and held the knife in my hand. Carefully I sliced off a little chunk of the cake, the knife passing through all three layers smoothly. It sat on my plate, looking quite attractive indeed! The sponge was a pale golden shade, with a thin layer of pale coffee cream through the middle. On the top there ws a thicker layer of coffee icing, which was a rich brown shade. From it drifted an amazinly strong coffee aroma, filling the air around me. It was definitely a little slice of delight, but would the taste be as satisfing? I took a bite (via fork!) and pondered. Yes, it had an amazing texture combination that...

Amy69 10.09.2009 · Read review
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Tasty Turkish Alternative To Tea And Coffee

Advantages: No caffeine, great flavour
Disadvantages: Not available locally. Contains a lot of sugar.

...Turkish Apple Tea is an excellent alternative to black tea, or coffee, and it contains no caffeine. Although it is called tea, it does not contain any form of tea at all and is really a kind of fruit cordial made from granulated fruit and sugar. Hazer Baba is well known for fruit teas and makes several others including black cherry, pomegranate, orange and lemon. This product comes in an attractive green and red box with apples on the front. It is tall but quite slim and the actual packaging material is strong which means that you can keep the tea in its box and you don't have to put it into a jar. I paid £2.27 for a box containing 250g but I had to order over the internet because I was not able to buy this locally. I bought from worldwideshoppingmall.com which is in Humberside. To make apple tea place two teaspoons of powder in...

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tea-riffic!

Advantages: price, staff, atmosphere, quality.
Disadvantages: none, its too lovely

...impressive collection of fine china and teapots including the largest teapot in the world. The second part of the museum area is of course dedicated to coffee which I didn?t find as interesting since I don?t drink coffee but it was still good to learn a few things such as why a coffee pot is taller than a teapot!. As with the tea area you could learn about the history of coffee and the different types of beans. There section dedicated to the evolution of the coffee and espresso machines from the 1920?s to the modern day ones that are now used in cafes. This part of the museum also has its own area dedicated to china, mugs and coffee pots. **SHOP** There is a small shop situated near the back of the tearoom. Here you can buy teas, coffees, cake, postcards and condiments to name a few things. There are also some speciality books...

darkness_daisy 16.07.2007 (28.06.2007) · Read review
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Review of Bramah Tea and Coffee Museum (London)

Give me Caffine :-) A coffee from the tea makers

Advantages: Good taste. Competative Price
Disadvantages: None

...I've only recently started to enjoy coffee and have now started to sample as many different types of instant and filtered coffees as I can, so I was keen to try the newly release Twinings Coffee as they are a company normally associated with high quality teas. There are 4 different blends / strenghts 1) Intense - A strong full bodied coffee made from a combination of Brazilian, Zambian and Kenyan coffee beans 2) Rich - A medium strength coffee which is made with Sumatran Lintung beans, Kenyan Highlands and Brazilian beans 3) Mellow - A softer cofee made with Colombian, Kenyan and Costa Rican beans 4) Decaf - Another medium strength coffee made with Ethiopian Sidamo, Brazilian and Colombian beans I opted for the 'Rich' blend (number 2 above), which like all of the other can be used in a cafetiere or filter and comes in...

CarlG 17.01.2008 · Read review
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Review of Twinings Coffee Blends

A Tea Lover's Tea

Advantages: A proper cuppa without having to go "the distance" to the UK for a resupply
Disadvantages: A bit expensive

...at the Boston Tea Party. Twinings prides itself on seeking out and using tea varieties from around the world. English Breakfast is one of the company's Classics collection, all of which are traditional black teas, and is created from a blend of Kenyan and Assam varietals. **Tea and Health** Americans are known as coffee drinkers, and that's certainly still true. But in recent years, more and more of my countrymen are re-learning the joys of tea. Tea, even the non-decaffinated types, are significantly lower in caffiene than coffee. Further, the antioxidents in tea are now more appreciated than even by health-conscious Americans. Tea may not cure all of what ails, but it certainly doesn't hurt--and that's the point. Tea is more healthy than coffee, and it is unquestionably more healthy than the sugar and chemical cocktails offered by...

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Review of Twinings English Breakfast Tea Bags

Tea at it's best

Advantages: Lovely cuppa
Disadvantages: A little expensive and very morish

...Yorkshire tea is made by a company called Taylors of Harrogate. Taylors of Harrogate was founded in 1886 by a tea merchant from Yorkshire called Charles Taylor. Taylors of Harrogate is a family business and they also make delicious coffees, cakes and biscuits and they also own the Yorkshire based Betty's Café Tea Rooms, which are well worth a visit if you're in Yorkshire. Yorkshire tea is blended from teas from the 3 world leading tea producing countries; Africa, India and Sri Lanka. There are 3 Yorkshire tea varieties available which are; Yorkshire tea; the original Yorkshire tea for hard water; just like original Yorkshire tea but for hard water areas And Yorkshire tea Gold; the premium version You can save tokens from packs of Yorkshire tea to save up for lovely Yorkshire tea gifts from www.yorkshiretea.co.uk or you can...

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Review of Yorkshire Tea

Conscience Coffee

Advantages: Fairtrade, ethical business, reasonable product
Disadvantages: Bit bland, not full bodied as rivals or real ground coffee

...logo made me feel even more socially and environmentally responsible. Percol and Fairtrade Percol was launched in 1988 with a registered office in London. My guess is that Percol is a combination of Peru and Colombia reflecting the focus of activity in Mexico and Central America. In 2008 there were only 10 UK employees; so this really is a small but ethical business. In fact the business model relies on support for Coffee Kids as a registered charity with elements of profit, staff time and marketing effort going into developing awareness and support for Coffee Kids. Percol is amongst the pioneers of ?Fairtade? for Coffee and Tea Growers, which delivers a guaranteed, fair price to producers, plus a 'premium' that producers can invest back into developing their community.  Such contracts with suppliers also allow for long...

suehome 22.10.2009 · Read review
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Review of Percol Fairtrade Instant Colombian Coffee

Tea Service

Advantages: kids love it
Disadvantages: none

...My daughter just loves Barbie things, so when Christmas time comes people know just what to buy her. This tea set was one of them things. I am not sure how much it cost when purchased as I am not cheeky enough to ask, but I found one the same one in Toys R Us for £4.99p, so would it be worth the money. Read on to find out. What is included in the tea set? -------------------------------------------- 4 Cups 4 Saucers 4 Tea Spoons 1 Large Tea Pot Milk Jug And a Sugar Pot The design of the Tea Set -------------------------------------- The design is really very basic; the set is all made of plastic, although there is one available in porcelain, which I would not recommend anyway for children. The plastic seems pretty strong, and unbreakable, although I am sure that it could be broke but not very easily. I will say...

kineticspade 10.04.2008 · Read review
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Nice cup of Tea

Advantages: Great cup of tea
Disadvantages: None

...Twinings English Breakfast Tea Packaging The Packaging has a distinctive colours in that it has gold and orange. I found this to be quite eye catching and unique compared to other tea branded products. This makes it unique and recognisable in buying a second time. I also found the product packaging to be quite difficult to open up on the first tab correctly. It is nice to see that the box can be closed for storing the tea bags. On the packaging the box does have Twinings tea company claims of flavour, and other useful information. Regarding the box claim to have traditional tasting tea, this is certainly true as they have taken away the bitter taste of drinking tea. The Tea The tea itself is appealing and deep and rich in colour. It has orangey and brown and has very clear colouring. The taste is strong but mellow...

costas1234 21.10.2009 · Read review
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Review of Twinings English Breakfast Tea Bags

Coffee Conundrum

Advantages: Quick and covenient with a reasonably convincing fresh brewed taste
Disadvantages: Brown sludge on the bottom, enormous amoeba like bag

...', or 'just you' or 'in a rush' or, my personal favourite, 'use anywhere.') on the front, and tell my how to use these bad boys on the back. You bung the very large bag (the bags are round, and about double the size of a typical tea bag - the completely cover the bottom of the mug, and then some) in a mug, pour boiling water over it, and wait between 3 - 5 minutes - I split the difference and set my timer (yes, I'm weird that way) for 4 minutes. The instructions tell me that 'the coffee bag releases a rich coffee colour almost immediately' this, I suppose, is true. After four minutes, I took the coffee bag out of the mug. This is a bit more of an effort than you might think, as the bag is so big. It drapes over the spoon like a giant amoeba, desperately attempting to ooze off. I let as much liquid drip out (I was reluctant to squeeze...

mattygroves 09.11.2008 · Read review
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