Honest Labelling » Drinks http://www.honestlabelling.com Just another WordPress weblog Thu, 08 Jul 2010 07:43:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Costa Coffee http://www.honestlabelling.com/costa-coffee/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=costa-coffee http://www.honestlabelling.com/costa-coffee/#comments Wed, 31 Mar 2010 09:18:52 +0000 tdomf_145ed http://www.honestlabelling.com/?p=501 Sinner

All over there shops there are references to being “Italian” when in fact there coffee beans are roasted in London. They are owned by Whitbread and if you click here you will an example on there website:-
http://www.costa.co.uk/coffee/the_coffee.aspx

]]> http://www.honestlabelling.com/costa-coffee/feed/ 0 “Traditional Irish Breakfast Tea” http://www.honestlabelling.com/traditional-irish-breakfast-tea/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=traditional-irish-breakfast-tea http://www.honestlabelling.com/traditional-irish-breakfast-tea/#comments Wed, 31 Mar 2010 09:18:43 +0000 tdomf_145ed http://www.honestlabelling.com/?p=515 Definitely a Sinner!
On the rear of the box it says “A blend of Indian and African teas”. Its blended and packaged in Massachussets, USA, and distributed in the UK by a firm from Essex. Nothing Irish there, so far as I can see, apart from the Kelly Green box, the picture of the croft and the fact that the US blenders are called “Shamrock Foods”.

Tea never has and never will grow in Ireland. The hypothetical residents of a small croft would have been extremely unlikely to have been able to have afforded tea, and therefore wouldnt have drunk it for breakfast or indeed any othe rmeal, and anyway for much of its European history, tea has been associated with the English and therefore would have been shunned by any self respecting Irishman.

Admittedly this came from the local Pound Shop!

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