Tea Shortage

[Georgiesmum]

Listening to Radio 2 News this morning they announced that they are expecting there to be tea shortages and a large price hike due to poor harvests in several of the tea growing areas. Will you be stocking up?

[Mamyalynne]

I won't panic buy, if the price rises I'll either buy it or cut down.

[Baldric]

I have not had a cup of tea for 20+ years or more and my wife rarely drinks it, so no.

[Georgiesmum]

I like my cup of tea but during the day I drink quite a bit of water also

[david small]

Tea not essential, but like it when out and about.

[Jackdaw33]

Brexit will no doubt get the blame for this as well.

[Mamyalynne]

Droughts in Kenya I believe , which is where most of our tea comes from.

[vetuste_ennemi]

Dinosaurs like me would blame the Colonial War.

[vetuste_ennemi]

Revolutionary

[kwillmott]

I don't drink tea or coffee.
I only drink hot drinks occasionally. So no, won't stock up.

[vetuste_ennemi]

[Buenchico]

Hmmm.

A tea bag currently costs about 1p. So a 100% price hike, which is far more than the actual predicted rise, would increase the price of a cuppa (in my own home) by 1p. I might be hard up but I reckon that I can just about cope with that!

However I wouldn't be at all surprised to find many cafe owners adding an exra 10p or 20p to the price of a cup of a tea and blaming the Kenyan drought for it.

[Jackdaw33]

Wouldn't surprise me either. Went into Morrison's café for a cup of tea. The lady threw a teabag in a cup. When I asked for it to be filled with water she told me I had to do it myself from the boiler.

-That'll be £!, please-

-No it effing won't! You can stick your teabag where the sun don't shine!-

[ummmm]

No. I don't even know how much tea costs so I wouldn't notice an increase in price.

[Prudie]

Won't be stocking up, won't notice the price change and I'd probably pay anything anyway, I could never give up tea.

[Calicogirl]

My Grandmother turns into a homicidal maniac without tea Prudie, I just couldn't imagine a deeper horror than her when she's tea deprived.

[1ozzy]

Book her into rehab Cal.

[Calicogirl]

Seriously 1ozzy you've got no idea, just don't approach her before the first tea of the day and preferably not before the third.lol

[puzzled54]

Well I will now after your suggestion!

[Ken4155]

I'd only drink tea if they discovered a new plant - a coffee-flavoured tea plant :-)

[hc4361]

I drink a lot of tea, including mint tea and fruit teas, makes a nice, refreshing cuppa. I won't be stocking up