A budgetary cut to far!! (Tesco Value Tea Bags)

Member Name: pania22

Product:	Tesco Value Tea Bags
Date:	29/07/09 (77 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: cheap

Disadvantages: disgusting. tastes like floor sweepings.

one day many many years ago an intrepid explorer was walking through a field full of leafy plants. The poor man had been lost in the hills for about 3 weeks and he was hungry and thirsty. All he had left was a tiny cupful of water and the last dribble of campinggaz in his stove (very advanced for their times pre-victorian man). So desperate was he for something to eat that he picked up some leaves from the floor and sat down to eat them while boiling his water for a hot drink. Accidentally dropping a leaf in the water he saw it turn brown! Cursing his luck he thought "oh what the heck it would all mix in my stomach anyway" and discovered the most tasty drink in the whole wide world.. and thus "tea" was born.....

Ok thats all a load of rubbish, and about as useful as, let me think, hmmm Tesco value tea bags actually!!! what an absolute load of toot they are and a real budget cut too far..

Like many reviewers on here i am an absolute teaholic. I have to be, coffee is not my friend due to its unerring ability to kill me. I kid you not. I love hot drinks and the amount that I have I would be the size of a year old heffer if i was to drink hot chocolate. So tea it has to be. When it comes to tea god am i picky!!! has to be no sugar, with about a tea spoon full of milk, not bitter like PG tips or redlabel but nice and smooth like tetley.
Being not of a tetley budget of late I have been drinking tesco own brand tea bags and how lovely are they!! nice and smooth, not bitter even when loosing heat and a truly decent cuppa! Last week I ran out of tea bags, and being of further restricted means I saw the tesco value teabags for sale at the massive rate of 28p for 80! Despite the packaging I had heard tale that tesco value is hardly any different at all to its own name brands so a lovely white red and blue cardboard made its way into my carrier bag and homeward bound.
Desperate for a cuppa after ten minutes without one I put the kettle on to boil and opened the box. I was immediately surprised to see the tea bags lying loose in the cardboard box, with the white colouring of the box the lightness inside would soon leech the flavour from the tea. The bags were also oblong rather than round, so far very different from their 50p dearer counterparts. This wasnt boding well!!!
So, kettles boiled.. here goes. teabag in. Stirry with teaspoon and I soon found I had to squeeeeeze the life out of it to the point of bursting to get the tea to turn anywhere near brown enough!! I added milk and took a sip.
Now, do you remember that comedic moment in films and cartoons where the character finds out that what he is drinking is something extremely unpleasant? and sprays it everywhere? That was me with this cup of tea. The first mouthful that I took tasted exceptionally dusty, asthough it was the dregs of the tea that were contained within the bags. The taste was for some unknown reason exceptionally perfumed and not tea like at all. it tasted almost asthough there were succinct undertones of redbush contained within. I managed two mouthfuls before giving up and throwing the tea down the sink and the bags in the bin.
Yes, they are value for money and they may appeal to some. But for me the overwhelming feeling was that someone had swept the tesco tea making floor one evening and bunged the piles into bags and marketed as "value"
A budgetary cut far to far this one. I'd rather pay the extra 50p for the proper ones!

Summary: Pay the extra 50 p straight off for the real ones. It will save you money in the long run.