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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Lifestyle
Tim Dowling

Biscuits are great. Tea is great. But do we really need all this biscuit-flavoured tea?

Tim Dowling, wearing a brown shirt, sits in his garden, holding a mug that says 'Granny get a grip' as he tries out the flavoured teas
‘You can always eat a bunch of chocolate digestives later’ … Tim Dowling. Photograph: Graeme Robertson/The Guardian

Who would want to drink tea that tastes like biscuits? It is, of course, a classic pairing: personally, I wouldn’t contemplate one without the other. But what is the point of forging them into a single entity? A box of “biscuit tea” that forms part of Aldi’s new range has only this to say: “Nothing better than a brew and a biscuit, so why not taste them together in one cup?” Except for the “not”, this is exactly my question.

If you are intent on adding one taste to another, this seems to be the wrong way round. On opening a box with the words “biscuit” and “tea” on the front, several members of my household were disappointed to find it contained biscuit-flavoured tea, and not tea-flavoured biscuits.

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