Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

I had my first cup of PG Tips in Wales more than 20 years ago. It was sublime. So great that in the days before internet ordering, I used to carry huge boxes back from Europe every time I went, and rationed it at 2 bags per family member per day to make it last longer. It was my go to breakfast drink, a pot of tea every morning for > 20 years. Brooke Bond was a stand alone company back then, and they created a magnificent blended black tea. Unilever took over and destroyed the US version of "England's Number 1 tea". No one in England would drink the lousy PG Tips version they are trying to sell to Americans!!!! Because they decided to treat American consumers like idiots, I am abandoning PG Tips for life. After 2 bad batches of 240-bags, I finally took a closer look at the box. New Jersey is on the side of the current boxes now found in grocery stores, and the last 2 orders I placed on Amazon. Beware! Lousy tea in the boxes with blue background! Looks like Unilever, PG Tips parent company, is now pulling the same sell-the-lousy-tea-dust-to-the-Americans-that-no-one-in-the-rest-of-the-world-will-touch stunt that they do with Liption and Red Rose (which they also own). Lipton packed in England tastes great, nothing like the stuff they sell here. Obviously, they are now doing the same thing with PG Tips. I, personally, am so disgusted-- actually bordering on angry-- that Unilever thinks US tea drinkers are stupid enough to buy low grade tea fannings (garbage to the whole of Europe and the Near East) just because they put it in a pyramid bag, that I will NEVER buy another box. PG tips now has a few variations: "The Fresh One", "The Strong One", and, effectively, "The Fake One for Americans". Since Unilever is making it tricky to get the good stuff, good riddance to them for that, and for all they do to make it close to impossible to get good black tea in any US grocery store. Possibly, the UK version of PG Tips is still OK (same for UK versions of Lipton and Red Rose, too), but why bother going to extra effort to keep buying products from a company (Unilever) that holds its entire US consumer base in so much contempt that they don't send ANYTHING worth drinking here? Unilever has a habit of coasting on the reputation of formerly excellent brands after they buy them, like PG Tips (or Pears soap, which they have also destroyed with inferior ingredients). I switched to Yorkshire Gold, which is robust and flavorful. I would rather buy my tea from a company (Taylors of Harrogate in this case) that doesn't get so darn cute with their "blends". The cost is a bit higher per bag, but if you drink your tea by the pot, the cost is actually about the same-- Yorkshire Gold is stronger than the original/real PG tips so it takes one less bag per pot. About PG Tips: if the box is blue and "New Jersey" on the side of it, in my experience, the tea bags do little more than color the water. Hot swamp juice. What's it good for? Soaking your feet?