#scottish tea

Atlantic Canada seems to have held onto the tea culture of our British heritage much stronger than many other parts of the country, so as a consequence I have been a tea drinker all my life. Tea has been a staple in my house and the households of my close friends as long as I can remember. We have many brands this side of the pond that are considered standard such as Red Rose and King Cole, but I tend to prefer British tea. In particular, Yorkshire Gold is my personal cup but I've flirted with many brands.

Having said this, I'm curious if my bias to Yorkshire is based in true taste or just because I'm fetishizing a different tea from what I grew up on (which was Red Rose) and so I have gone through the effort of procuring every brand of tea I could get my hands on in Nova Scotia in the interest of performing a blind taste test to find out which tea I truly prefer.

I have found, via British import stores and local grocers:

Red Rose

King Cole

Morse's

Lipton

Tetley

Yorkshire Gold

PG Tips

Twinings

Typhoo

Barry's

Scottish Blend

That is eleven separate teas, surely among this list I am bound to find which is my true preference.