Oirish Breakfast for me.
I live on English breakfast with cream or 1/2n1/2 (mmmm…mik fat…), and my regular coffee house serves mytealeaf’s ‘breakfast americana’ (basically, english breakfast…)
I also like green with jasmine, white (no flavouring, though, because the taste is too subtle), and the occasional rooibos (sp?).
I have mixed feelings about Japanese-does-this-taste-like-bamboo-to-you-too?-style tea, because, though it tastes good, is that BAMBOO :eek: in my tea?
Seriously, though, what is that? I never caught the name.
I definitely don’t like fruit in my tea. So, no earl for me.
[nitpick]For the record, I think lady grey has citrus instead of bergamot.[/nitpick]
[hijack]For a good online supplier of looseleaf, or if you are ever in Cambridge, Mass, try Tealuxe.
If you are in Chicago, the Bourgeois Pig (on Fullerton) has a fine selection[/hijack]
Lately I’ve been enjoying Yorkshire Tea, which I suppose is roughly equivalent to English Breakfast.
I often drink Twinings teas, especially Prince of Wales, China Black, Ceylon Breakfast or English Breakfast.
In these parts, I get round Tetley bags at the grocery store - they’re sold as “British Blend” - very nice for an everyday tea. I like most black teas unless it’s Earl Grey or flavored with passionfruit. But then again, I hate anything flavored with passionfruit. Blech! I like Republic of Tea’s Blackberry Sage - yum!! 
I also love going to tea - I’ve tried to have High Tea or Afternoon Tea in every town I’ve visited, and I’ve tried most places locally. I could eat just tea food everyday!
Yep, that’s the kind. Before I moved to the US, I wrote to the Tetley distributor in Canada to ask where I could buy it in the US, and in 1998 they were just starting to test market the Tetley brand in a few places, none in the south. After I had been here for a few years, Tetley started to appear in grocery stores, but only as humungous round bags for making iced tea. Later, the drawstring bags appeared, but the tea in them didn’t taste the same. It was around that time that I discovered you could buy tea on the web from Tetley USA. British Blend isn’t sold in stores where I live. You can’t buy it in boxes of 216 bags like they sell in Canada, either. Lucky for you that the round tea bags have test-marketed well where you live.
Twinnings Lapsang Souchong - Very earthy taste, very distinctive. My favorite book reading tea. Brewed Lipton over ice with fresh mint and sugar. I plant mint wherever I go from starters originally taken from my Aunt’s garden. Brings me back to my childhood every time.
All Twinings:
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Lapsang Souchon
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Russian Caravan
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China Black
none of which are available in any local stores 
Irish Breakfast tea is really good when you want a tea that’s strong but not bitter.
Earl Grey is also quite good.
Latest favorite: Indian Spice Chai tea. Wonderful stuff…addictive!
–James
Northern Piper, have you tried ordering online from Twinings? I gave up buying it at the supermarket ages ago; online is cheaper and offers more variety.
I just got a gigantic bag of Thai tea (1 Lb for about $2) from my local Asian market, and it’s quite good, but a PITA to prepare. Worth it though, in the end.
My mistake, but the box does say the ingredients are tea, lemon and orange peel, and ‘citrus flavouring,’ which I suppose is bergamot…
But, for the record, I was also wrong about bergamot not being a citrus fruit. 
Yes indeed. I much prefer it to English breakfast, which has too much tannin.
My other faves:
- Lapsang Souchong (yes, it’s love it or hate it, that one. Unashamedly tarry).
- Pu-erh (a delicate, gently perfumed Chinese tea - for when you’re sick of Jasmine)
- Orange Pekoe
- Ceylon breakfast
- Earl Grey (but I’ve gotta be in the mood)
I absolutely despise Earl, Lady, and any other member of the Grey family. Vile crap, to me.
However, I am a pretty big fan of Twinings, especially Irish and English breakfast. Irish is decent, while English is fledescoma. There is also this “Yorkshire” brand my mother picked up randomly, which I am not sure if it is an actual import or something made to look Englishe. It’s pretty good, regardless.
Also, while I drink a cup every morning, I also can’t live without atomically sweet southern tea, as liberal mentioned. I can be as big of a tea snob as the rest of um, but I always will drink té helado.
I like green tea with jasmine.
But it seems to give me nightmares whenever I drink it before giong to bed.
I get it from a mennonite store… think the two are related?
You don’t happen to see a little black monkey with glowing red eyes following you around, do you? (According to J. Sheridan LeFanu, this is what happens when you drink too much green tea: http://www.classicreader.com/read.php/sid.1/bookid.2551/sec.7/ )
I bought the CS **Safari Spice ** and **Madagascar Vanilla Red ** - love them both. Thanks!
I now have so many varieties of red tea that I roll a die to decide which one to drink.
Like many of the posters here, I like Lady Grey and Prince of Wales.
If I want a cup late at night, I often go for a decaf green - lately I’ve found that Celestial Seasonings has some surprisingly good varieties. I’d always avoided them i nthe past because I wasn’t a fan of the “herbal” teas.
For the summer (well, from March through October), I have an ice tea machine that makes a couple quarts quickly. I’ve found that the stronger teas like English Breakfast make a really good iced tea. Using loose tea gives you a strong brew even after you add the ice - much better than the pale diluted stuff that passes for iced tea in most restaurants.