YORKSHIRE TEA UP FOR GRABS ON AUCTION!!

Subject: YORKSHIRE TEA UP FOR GRABS ON AUCTION!!
From: JeZeBeL
Date: 25 Jun 01 - 01:25 PM

Yep that's right folks....

I'm donating 3 boxes of 160 yorkshire tea bags to the auctiona with ALL MONEY GOING TO MUDCAT....so get bidding, we'll help mudcat...and you can all enjoy a proper cup of tea!!

Emma xxx

Subject: RE: YORKSHIRE TEA UP FOR GRABS ON AUCTION!!
From: JeZeBeL
Date: 25 Jun 01 - 02:51 PM

I forgot the 3 highest bids will recieve a box each!!

Subject: RE: YORKSHIRE TEA UP FOR GRABS ON AUCTION!!
From: katlaughing
Date: 25 Jun 01 - 02:54 PM

Great, Jez, that sounds wonderful!! Thanks!

Subject: RE: YORKSHIRE TEA UP FOR GRABS ON AUCTION!!
From: katlaughing
Date: 25 Jun 01 - 02:56 PM

Haha! Didn't see we had to wait 25 years before the auction is over! LOL...if you ask, Max can change that for ya, darlin'. Sorry, I just think it is funny, don't mean to be laughing at you, but with you.

luvyakat

Subject: RE: YORKSHIRE TEA UP FOR GRABS ON AUCTION!!
From: SINSULL
Date: 25 Jun 01 - 02:57 PM

NO NO NO!!!!! I agreed to back off on the tins. This isn't fair. (Life isn't fair, Mary) Oh...

Subject: RE: YORKSHIRE TEA UP FOR GRABS ON AUCTION!!
From: JeZeBeL
Date: 25 Jun 01 - 03:05 PM

So If I just email max he will change it...

I got all confused u c cos over in america u write the date different to us.

We do

25/06/01 25th june 2001

yours is 06/25/01 am i rite?

Emma xx

P.s I'll pm him now.

Subject: RE: YORKSHIRE TEA UP FOR GRABS ON AUCTION!!
From: katlaughing
Date: 25 Jun 01 - 03:50 PM

Yep, a PM will do it, as soon as he has a moment.

Sins, I missed you backing down on the tins, so what? Now you want ALL the tea ta yerself? Humph! You'll probably drink it all up in one night having kittens.:-)

Subject: RE: YORKSHIRE TEA UP FOR GRABS ON AUCTION!!
From: JeZeBeL
Date: 25 Jun 01 - 03:54 PM

well, I'm off now....

Think I'll just go make myself a lovely cuppa yorkshire tea.....mmmmmm, maybe three, or four...it's just so nice......oh, and look....it's only 15 paces away from the computer, nice and fresh in a tin waiting, screaming out to be drunk.............

And on that thought I'll leave you all.

GOod nite

yorkshireteadrinkersannonymousmember

Subject: RE: YORKSHIRE TEA UP FOR GRABS ON AUCTION!!
From: SINSULL
Date: 25 Jun 01 - 04:03 PM

jEzEbEL, i NEVER THOUGHT OF YOU AS EVIL...KAT, i OFFERED TO MAKE MY BID FOR ONE TIN SO THAT THREE WINNERS COULD SHARE. iF NOT i WANT IT ALL! Damn Capslock!
My pregnancy problems doubled by the way. My nephew's girlfriend came back from Romania with her kitty and...GUESS WHAT? he's asking me questions and cringing at the answers. May have to midwife two. And will need all the tea (or bourbon) I can handle.

Subject: RE: YORKSHIRE TEA UP FOR GRABS ON AUCTION!!
From: katlaughing
Date: 25 Jun 01 - 04:45 PM

LOL, well for the price of a plane ticket you can have your choice of me or Jenellen for experienced midwifery on your doostep, or inside, or well, you get the picture.**BG**

Subject: RE: YORKSHIRE TEA UP FOR GRABS ON AUCTION!!
From: JenEllen
Date: 25 Jun 01 - 05:07 PM

Great...come to find out about good tea and find that I've had my kitten-loving soul set up for midwifery? LMAO

I've got my plastic poncho, Sins, so I'm all ready for Ed too!

Bring on the babies!
~J

Subject: RE: YORKSHIRE TEA UP FOR GRABS ON AUCTION!!
From: John J at home
Date: 25 Jun 01 - 05:14 PM

Emma, I heard a rumour recently that Yorkshire Tea blends vary up and down the country to suit individual tastes.

Anyway what are you, as a fully paid up member of yorkshireteadrinkersanonymous doing making the glorious stuff using TEABAGS???? I demand you resign on the grounds of lack of good taste. Your membership is clearly untenable (as those dreary politicians say when they think they've unearthed a juicy bit of gossip on the 'enemy'.

Yorkshire Tea (preferably Yorkshire Gold) should ONLY be brewed using the loose stuff, and in a decent teapot at that.

John (Lancastrian exiled in Cheshire, but having the good grace to admit that the M62 isn't the only good thing to come out of Yorkshire)

;-)

Subject: RE: YORKSHIRE TEA UP FOR GRABS ON AUCTION!!
From: AllisonA(Animaterra)
Date: 25 Jun 01 - 05:48 PM

Yorkshire Tea!!!! In the Auction???? Sinsull, you an addict too? Good idea, Emma- I'm off to the auction!

Subject: RE: YORKSHIRE TEA UP FOR GRABS ON AUCTION!!
From: bill\sables
Date: 25 Jun 01 - 06:02 PM

For all the US bidders I would like to point out that you do need a kettle, not just a pan of boiling water, and a proper tea pot to qualify. And of course Yorkshire water. Speaking as the major mudcat importer of Yorkshire Tea to the USA I actually don't think you deserve it after what you did in Boston. My advice is stick to Liptons and let true British tea drinkers bid for this lot.
Bill

Subject: RE: YORKSHIRE TEA UP FOR GRABS ON AUCTION!!
From: JenEllen
Date: 25 Jun 01 - 06:06 PM

Well, we've everything but the Yorkshire water. Mountain spring will have to do!

~J

Subject: RE: YORKSHIRE TEA UP FOR GRABS ON AUCTION!!
From: Mrs.Duck
Date: 25 Jun 01 - 06:12 PM

I don't like tea or Yorkshire Water!!

Subject: RE: YORKSHIRE TEA UP FOR GRABS ON AUCTION!!
From: bill\sables
Date: 25 Jun 01 - 06:19 PM

Jen Ellen. If you want I will put a bottle of Yorkshire water into the auction. It does seem true though when we were over in the US the tea never tasted quite like it does in Yorkshire. It is probably the sheep shit in the streams over here.
Bill

Subject: RE: YORKSHIRE TEA UP FOR GRABS ON AUCTION!!
From: JenEllen
Date: 25 Jun 01 - 06:37 PM

Thanks, Bill! Out West here, all I could possibly substitute is cowshit, and somehow that just isn't the same...Serious though, when my family comes over, they say the same thing about the waters being different. Just have to do the best we can with what we have, eh?

Subject: RE: YORKSHIRE TEA UP FOR GRABS ON AUCTION!!
From: roopoo
Date: 26 Jun 01 - 02:55 AM

Not wanting to be boringly "technical", but I presumed Yorkshire Tea was blended to get the best possible cup of tea from the hard lime-ridden water we have around here.

Saying that, my daughter still prefers to use it over in Liverpool, where I presume they are on soft surface water like the Manchester area.

Hmmm... must be the sheep shit after all! Let's face it, most areas of the UK have sheep!

Andrea (hardened coffee drinker)

Subject: RE: YORKSHIRE TEA UP FOR GRABS ON AUCTION!!
From: Lyndi-loo
Date: 26 Jun 01 - 05:49 AM

And proper tea should be made in an Earthenware teapot ( a Brown Betty) and only drunk from a bone china cup.

Subject: RE: YORKSHIRE TEA UP FOR GRABS ON AUCTION!!
From: Noreen
Date: 26 Jun 01 - 06:13 AM

...with the milk put in first...

Subject: RE: YORKSHIRE TEA UP FOR GRABS ON AUCTION!!
From: Gervase
Date: 26 Jun 01 - 10:48 AM

I've been over most of Yorkshire, but one thing still puzzles me - where the f*** do they grow the stuff?

Subject: RE: YORKSHIRE TEA UP FOR GRABS ON AUCTION!!
From: SINSULL
Date: 26 Jun 01 - 10:54 AM

Have proper teapot. And Mom's Mom was British so I was taught how to brew a proper pot of tea. "Teapot to the kettle;never kettle to the tea". And never slop a nasty bit of likewarm stuff onto a teabag in a mug. NEVER! No Yorkshire water though. Do i qualify?

Subject: RE: YORKSHIRE TEA UP FOR GRABS ON AUCTION!!
From: Les from Hull
Date: 26 Jun 01 - 10:59 AM

Gervase - Yorkshire Tea is grown far from the eyes of nosey foreigners.

Subject: RE: YORKSHIRE TEA UP FOR GRABS ON AUCTION!!
From: Trevor
Date: 26 Jun 01 - 11:13 AM

I remember arriving in Berlin after a long overland journey (in 1971, so travel wasn't particularly easy)and my host, a lovely lady, saying that she knew I would be ready for a nice cup of tea. I sank into a chair, thanking all the Gods for smiling upon me, while she poured. Horror of horror, it was green, and cold. I'd never heard of mint tea. I nearly cried. I reckon tea should be the colour of a nice Scotch whiskey, although whiskey the colour of tea is even better.

Subject: RE: YORKSHIRE TEA UP FOR GRABS ON AUCTION!!
From: Lyndi-loo
Date: 26 Jun 01 - 11:23 AM

It's just as well she didn't give you a nice cup of raspberry leaf tea or you might have gone into labour early! BTW Scotch is spelt W H I S K Y. Irish whiskey has the E

Subject: RE: YORKSHIRE TEA UP FOR GRABS ON AUCTION!!
From: Sam Pirt
Date: 26 Jun 01 - 11:50 AM

Well JeZaBeL I won't be bidding for the tea as I am that unusual breed of englishman that does not drink tea or coffee!! and I live in Yorkshire I must say though that you americans can make GOOD coffee with all that vanilla stuff and the iced slush puppy vanilla coffe is just FANTASTIC, the cold somewhat goes to your head though, or is that the caffine?

Cheers, Sam

Subject: RE: YORKSHIRE TEA UP FOR GRABS ON AUCTION!!
From: Les from Hull
Date: 26 Jun 01 - 11:55 AM

Maggie and I will probably get our Yorkshire citizenship revoked for this, but we drink our Yorkshire Tea with a couple of thin slices of ginger root added (before the boiling water and the milk). Try it!

Les

Subject: RE: YORKSHIRE TEA UP FOR GRABS ON AUCTION!!
From: AllisonA(Animaterra)
Date: 26 Jun 01 - 12:09 PM

Well, Bill, as you know we've got plenty of sheep shit here at my house! I don't care what you Yorkshire purists say, what matters to me is that your tea is so far superior to any of the dreck that tries to pass as tea over here that the water almost doesn't make a difference, nor how it is served!

The only time I ever saw Bill Sables the least bit crabby is last year at Old Songs on Sunday afternoon when he was hot, tired and sleep-deprived. He tried to buy a cup of tea from a poor innocent vendor who didn't understand why this man was nearly in tears when he dangled the limp tea bag in front of his face.
But when he came to my campsite to lament the situation, I was pleased to reveal my hidden stash of Yorkshire's finest!

I can actually buy a box in Peterborough, a few towns over, but it's never as good as the stuff Bill imports!

Subject: RE: YORKSHIRE TEA UP FOR GRABS ON AUCTION!!
From: bill\sables
Date: 26 Jun 01 - 12:14 PM

The tea is blended in Harrogate Yorkshire. They have a web site and you can order by post here

Subject: RE: YORKSHIRE TEA UP FOR GRABS ON AUCTION!!
From: GUEST,JohnB
Date: 26 Jun 01 - 12:27 PM

On the subject of tea bags, look up the "Tea Shanty" in the DT. JohnB

Subject: RE: YORKSHIRE TEA UP FOR GRABS ON AUCTION!!
From: John J
Date: 26 Jun 01 - 12:34 PM

Les: I also have ginger in tea from time to time. I first experienced it in India a couple of years ago. It really is pleasant.

John

Subject: RE: YORKSHIRE TEA UP FOR GRABS ON AUCTION!!
From: JeZeBeL
Date: 26 Jun 01 - 10:12 PM

well, i haven't looked at the bids yet so that's what i'm off to do now.

glad u all seem to like our tea so much!!

sam, we're going to have to get u liking tea or we'll have to send u to lancashire!! u can't be a yorkshire lad and not drink tea!!

see y'all darlings!!

emma

Subject: RE: YORKSHIRE TEA UP FOR GRABS ON AUCTION!!
From: roopoo
Date: 27 Jun 01 - 02:46 AM

It may be a matter of interest to Trevor that in Morocco, hotbed of mint tea suppage, they refer to it as "Moroccan Whisky", and when they make it, direct from the plant, it does have a slightly amberish tint to it.

This is where I put my hand on my heart and say that I don't always use Yorkshire tea myself: blended teas all taste more or less the same to me. But I have a nice line in green teas, some of which I don't even know what they are, because I can't read Chinese. I even have some Chrysanthemum tea, which is definitely a feast for the eyes (definitely not for the tongue!)

I cannot believe that Sam has been a student for so many years and managed not to develop a caffeine-habit! Mind you, I have seen him drink quite a lot of cola...

Andrea

Subject: RE: YORKSHIRE TEA UP FOR GRABS ON AUCTION!!
From: GUEST,Ickle Dorritt in deepest Warwickshire
Date: 27 Jun 01 - 05:13 AM

I prefer a spot of Earl Grey myself, with or without ginger and a spot of semi skimmed milk but then I am a feeble southerner by birth and I will not be a fully fledged Yorshire woman until I have lived there at least ninety years - only 83 to go .....

Subject: RE: YORKSHIRE TEA UP FOR GRABS ON AUCTION!!
From: JeZeBeL
Date: 29 Jun 01 - 07:59 PM

Bit hard to be from yorshire....even I aint...I'm from YORKSHIRE!!

Sorrreeeee iclke dorritt.

Come on everyone keep bidding on that lovely tea...and I'm going to print off bills instructions and decorate them and laminate them.....

Just cos I love you all so much

Emma xxx

Subject: RE: YORKSHIRE TEA UP FOR GRABS ON AUCTION!!
From: Helen
Date: 29 Jun 01 - 08:38 PM

You want to talk about tea? Well start here at the Lapsang Souchong thread.

http://www.mudcat.org/thread.CFM?threadID=20316

There are tips and tricks for making a lovely cup of tea - in a warmed pot, with leaves of course, never use water from the hot water tap, etc - as well as everyone's favourite teas.

We even planned to put the instructions into the Mudcat recipe book - BTW, did that ever actually pop into existence?

Helen

Subject: RE: YORKSHIRE TEA UP FOR GRABS ON AUCTION!!
From: Sorcha
Date: 29 Jun 01 - 08:42 PM

Jez, if mine actually ends up being high bid I think the other two should have to pay $20.00 also........Wot you think?

Subject: RE: YORKSHIRE TEA UP FOR GRABS ON AUCTION!!
From: Ian Stephenson
Date: 30 Jun 01 - 06:14 AM

Yorkshire Tea rules.

ian s.

Subject: RE: YORKSHIRE TEA UP FOR GRABS ON AUCTION!!
From: JeZeBeL
Date: 30 Jun 01 - 10:33 AM

I think that's a great idea sorcha.

Ian, yes it does. IT ROCKS!!!!

See you later this evening. is ur bruva comin 2?

Subject: RE: YORKSHIRE TEA UP FOR GRABS ON AUCTION!!
From: Mrs.Duck
Date: 30 Jun 01 - 04:25 PM

In Tescos this morning they were selling two sorts of Yorkshire tea bags. Red for ordinary water and green for hard water. Don't know what the difference is. Here in Pontefract (Yorkshire ) our water is hard but in Bradford (also Yorkshire) it is very soft so maybe we'll have to test them out next time we visit the inlaws. All tastes pretty foul to me anyway!!

Subject: RE: YORKSHIRE TEA UP FOR GRABS ON AUCTION!!
From: Les from Hull
Date: 30 Jun 01 - 04:29 PM

There's three sorts - the Gold one as well (for posh people?). We're dead hard in Hull!

Subject: RE: YORKSHIRE TEA UP FOR GRABS ON AUCTION!!
From: Jon Freeman
Date: 30 Jun 01 - 04:39 PM

Assam for me...

Yorkshire Tea have a website here. The link from there to the Tea Council looks interesting.

Jon

Subject: RE: YORKSHIRE TEA UP FOR GRABS ON AUCTION!!
From: Helen
Date: 30 Jun 01 - 09:34 PM

So, according to Ian S and JeZeBeL:

tea Rock 'n' Rules

A musical thread drift in a non-musical thread.

Helen

Subject: RE: YORKSHIRE TEA UP FOR GRABS ON AUCTION!!
From: JeZeBeL
Date: 04 Jul 01 - 02:23 PM

ROCKS!! is a Pack word....but I've been adopted by them so it's ok to say it. I am sister of pack apparently. Ian suggested starting a new religion...of ROCK...with SAM PIRT as GOd....I think people would start migrating to the moon or as far away as possible if sam was god!! Very scary thought!!

Getting Bill to sign the instructions for 3 lucky people tonight....

Subject: RE: YORKSHIRE TEA UP FOR GRABS ON AUCTION!!
From: MMario
Date: 24 Jul 01 - 11:01 AM

ONLY TWELVE HOURS AND 56 MINUTES TO GO!

Subject: RE: YORKSHIRE TEA UP FOR GRABS ON AUCTION!!
From: MMario
Date: 24 Jul 01 - 03:33 PM

With a little over eight hours to go the top three bidders are Hollowfox, bluejay and sorcha.