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Tinned Twinings

Getting a little nostalgic at times I purchased some kg of good ol´ Twinings recently, their Darjeeling [not bad at all to my simple taste], Earl Grey [the older, stronger blend, for me with ~50% highgrown Ceylon mixed in], English Breakfast [...] and a few tins of their POW blend. The only other blends available where Lady Grey and their Ceylon, which I don´t care about that much. All in those beautiful old fashioned tins I like so much. I probably would have gotten the same amount of "better" quality for my money, but I heard that they finally discontinued selling their tea in tins altogether and couldn´t resist. Their teas have been a part of my life for many years and I feel sorry to see those tins go. Do you still get tinned Twinings in the U.S.and elsewhere ? Any other Twinings nostalgics around ?

Karsten

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psyflake
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Karsten,

I haven't bought Twinings in a while (although I always liked their English Breakfast tea), but the last time I checked here in Arizona, they were still selling in tins. I'll check next time I'm in the store. We also have a market

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that sells lots of imports; mostly Asian but some British. They have an entire aisle with nothing but tea! One end is British; I'll check there for Twinings in tins, too.

Alan

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Alan

I got a tin of Darjeeling, in a small neighborhood market, but it was again... too astringent for me to drink plain.

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SN

Down South we only have them in the small boxes. I guess it's our style because most tea drinkers use tea bags for the purpose of making sweet-iced tea. heh

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Mydnight

Alan,

Thanks for the link. I checked their website and funnily enough they only had exactly those same 4 blends I bought over here, even the prices are almost the same. Maybe those are their bestselling blends. I wonder where all those other great blends are gone, like their "Irish breakfast" and those more exotic varieties of yore.

Karsten

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psyflake

. Thought I would put the Twinings website link here for you - they still do some of the blends that you are after at least according to their website - and you can find out who their distributers are in any country in the world from same website.

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regards

Helga

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helga

Twining's darjeeling?

--scott

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Scott Dorsey

What happened is that Twining's closed down their blending plant in North Carolina a couple years back. All of the Twining's tea you see in the US now is blended in England. The English tins are a somewhat different shape and many of the less-popular blends do not seem to be being imported here.

--scott

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Scott Dorsey

(This is my first time posting from a Blackberry, so pls forgive any typos)

they carry in the store I'll check for some of the other Twining's products next time I'm there. I also want to remind you that named brand teas are generally blended so the flavor is consistent from year to year.

Alan

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Alan

Good job so far. Are you posting via google ? I´ll be posting from my old Treo next week, let´s see how that turns out.

Karsten

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psyflake

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