So, I brought 200 teabags with me, and I've almost run out.. I've heard that you can get something like PG Tips, British Blend, but I've neve seen them..

I need tea!

I've seen something called Tetleys British Blend. Well, I've bought it... it wasn't great, but was better than the (alleged) Twinings English Breakfast tea that would have needed about 6 bags to make one cup, it was soooo weak. I got both of those in the supermarket.... but it was Giant Eagle, which I suspect is an Ohio-and-thereabouts-only supermarket! But if they have Tetleys & Twinings tea there... there must surely be some available somewhere near you!

Hope you find some quick... I'd never be able to go without my tea! I think I'll end up bringing a case just filled with teabags & Marmite.

I sympathise! Try www.britishgrocers.com or pay them a visit if you are in Las Vegas. They are pricey, but I guess that depends on how desparate you are for a cuppa. I seem to remember someone mentioning a brit store close to Camarillo also??

Two of my girlfriends were here visiting last week from the uk and brought me a great big box that will last until the next visitors come out.

Good Luck.

daisy

I neeeeeeeeeeeeeed tea, I wouldn't mind paying lots for it. I might give in and go on one of those websites... I've avoided them so far because I'm scared of how much I'll want to buy!

Do they really not have any 'proper'(ish) tea at all in the supermarket anywhere? And I just thought... I remember seeing tea in World Market, too... aren't there branches of that everywhere? (I'm so clueless... )... look! http://www.worldmarket.com/PG-Tips-Tea/lev...Nty/1/index.pro

Do they have a Fred Meyers store near you. Our local one sell English tea bags, Hp sauce, Heinz baked beans and quite a fair bit of other stuff, including curry sauce.

I bought PG Tips in World Market in WA, they tasted the same as the ones from the UK (i.e. awesome.)

You can see if there's one near you here.

Good luck!

All the supermarkets around here have a International section and I can get real tea and beans and gravy and some UK chocolate bars....

Kez

LOL about the Twinings Breakfast Tea, it's so true, although weak in appearance & lacking in that "tea" taste it was only slightly better than the "black tea" they had! I did however discover PG Tips in the CUB Food supermarket when I was visiting MN last year and it tasted exactly like ours

Applogies in advance if I have offended anyone on here about the American Tea! I'm just too fussy when it comes to me Tea

Cub Foods does carry PG Tips. Cub foods is only in the upper Midwest to my knowledge. They even carry Batchelor's Mushy Peas!!!
Otherwise this is the site I use. They sell rashers !!
http://www.ukgoods.com

Nina,

World Market usually has it.

If not, drive to Santa Monica. There is a shoppe and pub


Ye Olde Kings Head

www.yeoldekingshead.com
116 Santa Monica Blvd
Santa Monica, CA 90401
(310) 451-1402


John

I've seen 'em at Biggs, Kroger & Meijer grocery stores.

I'm forced to rely on the internet for our teabags, or the kindness of VJ friends who travel to the UK and then mail us 'care packages'.....

Thanks to SpriteyStace, Tracy TN and WifeOHunkyJohn..........

Well as I am in England at the moment if anyone wishes to email me for something like tea then please do.

I can be nice sometimes

Even Ralphs supermarket sells the "British" Tetley tea bags in a purple-coloured box approx $4.89 for 80 bags. Best tea I have managed to find in any supermarket over here, not as good as home, but passable.

My local Acme supermarket sells PG tips, also Tetley British Blend of teabags which I find are as good as the ones I used to drink back home.

You can buy PG Tips at Wegmans, which is in areas of NY & PA.

I love my tea.....LOVEEEEE ITTTT.....have you tried email PG direct? i suspect they will know who they are shipping to and maybe will even chuck a free sample your way to keep you going??? I hope you find it

www.britishtea.com

A really wide and varied selection.

Sometimes they have shipping deals. Like $5 or less. I get ours by the case when I order.

I love that place I would've gone there ages ago to get supplies but we don't have a car and it takes a while to get there from Long Beach on the bus... We were thinking of moving to Santa Monica just for that pub/shoppe!

it looks like I've just been shopping with my eyes closed, I'll do some looking around this weekend

I think the real tea can just be very hard to spot when hidden amongst about 4,000 different varieties of fruit-flavoured abominations which call themselves 'tea'. And then when you finally do get excited because you think you've found proper tea (y'know, actually made of tea, as opposed to raspberry leaves or stinging nettles or whatever)... you realise it's decaf!!

Good luck on your tea hunt!

You're in Long Beach? I'm originally from across the bridge in Pedro . . . . I haven't had to do too much tea shopping down there as I live in NorCal now - but, check places like Vons - the larger ones can have surprisingly complete international food sections. I found one up here that had malteasers and everything. Overpriced but still there.

Also - any local specialty markets around? There's an Italian supermarket in Sacramento that carries PG Tips. Trader Joe's routinely carries Yorkshire Gold or whatever teas. It may be easier to find than you think - I'm always shocked when I find stuff where I'd never seen it before (mainly because I hadn't ever been looking before).

http://www.thebritishshoppe.com/Merchant2/...egory_Code=1945

I love this place, and this is where we'll have to get Pete's tea,marmite and crunchie bars when he gets here for good

featherB mentioned the Tetley British Blend...Craig drinks tea like it comes out of the tap, and it's only 2.12 for 80 bags at our Walmart here and he really likes it! I was surprised he liked it so much, but he likes it about as well as what he used to drink. (don't rem. what that kind was...) M.

We get our PG Tips from Albertsons

And in the Kroger near us they have an English section, they have Tetley and hobknobs and all sorts of little bits if home