“Traditional Irish Breakfast Tea”
Posted in Bakery, Drinks by tdomf_145edDefinitely 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!
