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Shipping issues in the Red Sea have led to delays in tea deliveries, but British retailers assured consumers that any shortages would be a “blip.”

For a country of morning-and-night tea drinkers, even the suggestion of a shortage of the household staple can elicit a nervous gulp.

So there might have been more than a few people spooked when signs in some Sainsbury’s grocery stores this week warned customers that supply issues had affected the “nationwide” availability of black tea, as Houthi attacks on commercial vessels in the Red Sea caused shipping delays.

Yorkshire Tea and Tetley Tea, two of the most popular tea companies in Britain, said in statements that they were monitoring the situation to ensure they could maintain supplies of black tea, but that orders were being fulfilled.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago (8 children)

Tetley isn't much of a loss but Yorkshire? Dark days ahead. Good thing I'm stocked up.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Is it really that good or is it just a meme?

If so is it good compared to other cheap brands or as good as the stuff I can buy in dedicated tea shops?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago (1 children)

American here. My wife bought a box of Yorkshire Tea Gold. I must have done something wrong because that shit was strong enough to strip paint.

Buy it for the meme. Keep it because when you stir in sugar it spits the spoon back at you and laughs.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Seriously? I've always been afraid of the English. They colonized America before, you know. Luckily we fought them back. Now they are infiltrating our media: Margot Robbie, Liam Hemsworth, that weird donkey that stands on two legs and kicks the snot out of fools.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago (1 children)

You… you know Margot Robbie and Liam Hemsworth are both Australian, right? Like, the Hemsworths are famously Australian

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

...leans over They all sound the same.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Right, you listen here Mr Royal Horticultural Society Jack, I'm going to have to have words with you...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

The real reason the fear the English is their tea.

I'm sure I made a mistake while I was making it but the fact that I might have done it right and that's what they actually drink is ... unsettling.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Is the best of the standard supermarket brands. You could normally get something better at a tea shop, but even in the UK they are not exactly common.

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