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Old 18-03-2015, 18:08
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Nowadays you can buy all sorts of flavours of tea but when did it become possible to buy these in your run of the mill supermarket as opposed to a specialist tea shop?

Could you get green tea in Tesco in the eighties?
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Old 22-03-2015, 17:27
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I remember buying Twinings fruit tea from Asda in the early nineties. I also remember it smelt lovely but tasted of nothing.
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Old 22-03-2015, 18:31
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Tisanes have been on sale for over 30 years.
Green and white tea are fairly recent.
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Old 23-03-2015, 01:03
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Could you get green tea in Tesco in the eighties?
Yes, but only in the bigger ones. I don't remember seeing white tea as long ago as that though, except in specialist shops.
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Old 23-03-2015, 09:38
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I remember buying Twinings fruit tea from Asda in the early nineties. I also remember it smelt lovely but tasted of nothing.
Ha! Yes. Like swallowing a mouthful of deliciously scented and coloured bath water.
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Old 23-03-2015, 10:45
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We're still using a set of tins that were bought (full) at Tesco in 1974. According to the labels they originally contained jasmine, lapsang-souchong and gunpowder green.
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Old 24-03-2015, 03:46
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My mum always drank various fruit and herbal teas in the 80s/early 90s, don't remember there being much green tea though.

I believe green tea really exploded in popularity for the UK masses in the early 2000s due to it's health benefits being praised by various celebrities, being featured on shows such as You Are What You Eat etc as aiding weight loss.
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Old 26-03-2015, 19:18
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Ha! Yes. Like swallowing a mouthful of deliciously scented and coloured bath water.
Exactly that!

However, it must have improved as I've got some PG 'Juicy Red Berries' and it does actually taste nice (as long as you leave the bag in).
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