Now! Then! 2025! - A Yorkshire Almanac

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Terry Robinson (10 January): GOOD TO SEE @YorkshireTea are FELLOW PATRIOTS. YORKSHIRE SOIL MAKES THE BEST TEA [three Union Jack emojis]
Rita (7 February): “Yorkshire soil makes the best tea” Send help I am dying
Terry Robinson: WHATS SO FUNNY ABOUT THAT LOVE?
Rita: Just putting that out there…LOVE [screenshot of blog post by Taylors of Harrogate beginning “Yorkshire Tea is grown in more than 20 different places across Africa and India, then imported to Harrogate and blended”]
Terry Robinson: ABSOLUTE BOLLOCKS. MUST BE SOME OF THAT PHOTOSHOP MALARKEY. IF IT WASNT FROM YORKSHIRE THEY WOULDNT BE ALLOWED TO CALL IT YORKSHIRE TEA AS ITS A FORM OF FRAUD. WHERE IS YOUR TEA GROWN? @YorkshireTea
Yorkshire Tea: AFRICA AND INDIA
Terry Robinson: FUCKING DISGRACEFUL. WHY CALL IT YORKSHIRE TEA IF ITS NOT GROWN IN YORKSHIRE. WONT BE BUYING FROM YOU AGAIN
Yorkshire Tea: SORRY, CAN’T HEAR YOU. CAN YOU SPEAK UP A BIT?

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If Terry was fooled, then so were Fortnum & Mason etc etc:

Fraudster made £550,000 selling fake ‘Scottish-grown tea’

A fraudster who tricked luxury hotels and stores into buying “Scottish-grown tea” that was grown abroad has been found guilty of a £550,000 scam.

Thomas Robinson supplied high-end customers such as Edinburgh’s Balmoral Hotel and the Dorchester in London with varieties with names like Dalreoch White, Highland Green, Silver Needles and Scottish Antlers Tea.

Trading as The Wee Tea Plantation, he claimed they had been grown on farmland in Perthshire.

Instead, the tea had been imported, repackaged and then resold at hugely-inflated prices, Falkirk Sheriff Court was told.

Robinson also defrauded genuine aspiring Scottish tea growers by selling them plants he claimed were grown in Scotland.

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• Terry Robinson (@FleetwoodTerryO, 10 Jan): GOOD TO SEE @YorkshireTea are FELLOW PATRIOTS. YORKSHIRE SOIL MAKES THE BEST TEA [Three Union Jack emojis]
• Rita (@rewindthefilth, 7 Feb): “Yorkshire soil makes the best tea” @Thaa_knows send help I am dying
• Terry Robinson (Feb 7): WHATS SO FUNNY ABOUT THAT LOVE?
• Rita (Feb 7): Just putting that out there … LOVE [Screen shot of blog post from Taylors of Harrogate beginning “Yorkshire Tea is grown in more than 20 different places across Africa and India, then imported to Harrogate and blended – so why is it called ‘Yorkshire Tea’?”]
• Terry Robinson (Feb 7): ABSOLUTE BOLLOCKS. MUST BE SOME OF THAT PHOTOSHOP MALARKEY. IF IT WASNT FROM YORKSHIRE THEY WOULDNT BE ALLOWED TO CALL IT YORKSHIRE TEA AS ITS A FORM OF FRAUD
• Terry Robinson (Feb 7): WHERE IS YOUR TEA GROWN? @YorkshireTea
• Yorkshire Tea (@YorkshireTea, Feb 7): AFRICA AND INDIA. HERE’S A THING YOU CAN READ [same article]
• Terry Robinson (Feb 7): FUCKING DISGRACEFUL. WHY CALL IT YORKSHIRE TEA IF ITS NOT GROWN IN YORKSHIRE. WONT BE BUYING FROM YOU AGAIN
• Yorkshire Tea (Feb 7): SORRY, CAN’T HEAR YOU. CAN YOU SPEAK UP A BIT?

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