Yorkshire Tea?

[ericmark]

I had always considered Yorkshire Tea was a bit tongue in cheek, but maybe that's my next holiday, to visit the Yorkshire Tea plantations. Can anyone give me directions?

 

[motorbiking]

is this the story?

Fraudster made £550,000 selling fake 'Scottish-grown tea'

Thomas Robinson imported leaf tea from abroad, then repackaged it and claimed it was grown in Perthshire.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[Odds]

I've stuck with Yorks tea for years, recently switched to decaff. It's pdg.

 

[MNW67]

It is bizarre how it is now the biggest tea brand. I remember the tagline "Made for Yorkshire people and Yorkshire water". And I always thought that was bonkers because Pennine Yorkshire water is super soft and East Coast Yorkshire water is super hard. Anyway, I've just found this on Wikipedia:

Yorkshire Tea as a brand was launched in 1977, originally conceived as a "Yorkshire blend for Yorkshire people".[10] In the early days different blends were created and sold for different regions of Yorkshire where the hardness / softness of the water varied. Over time, and as the scale of the brand grew to be fully national, the product has evolved to one single blend in the standard orange-coloured pack. However, it retains a hard water variant in green-coloured packs to cater for those who live in hard water areas of the UK.