PG Tips, Yorkshire Tea or Twinings? We argue why our favourite tea brand is the best

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Tea is very much one of those products where you stay loyal to a brand until the day you die. As Brits, we drink a lot of the stuff, and so - it has to be a good, strong teabag.

Some people swear by Tetley tea, others opting for Typhoo, some choose theirs based on which advert they like best, and there have been some corkers that stick in our minds from decades of TV.

But there's nothing worse than popping round your mates for a cuppa only to find they don't keep your favourite brand of tea in. One might be tempted to carry an emergency brew kit in their bag for times when your loyal brand simply isn't on the menu. We certainly wouldn't judge.

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Prolific tea drinkers will argue until they're blue in the face that the brand that they drink is the best, and that's exactly what some of our writers have been doing this week. Here are our arguments for which tea brand is the best:

"PG Tips Extra Strong teabags make the perfect cup of tea," says Narin Flanders. "There I said it, and I stand by it."

"Fruit teas are all well and good - and I do drink those too because otherwise I'd go through life looking like an over-caffeinated meerkat - but for a day-to-day cuppa that gives a burst of energy, a bit of warmth and a welcome break from my desk there is nothing better than PG Tips Extra Strong. It's basically the hot beverage equivalent of a bear hug in a mug.

"I'm old enough that I remember when PG Tips released their pyramid bags for the first time, not least because it caused quite a ruction in our house where my mum was a devotee of the Tetley round bags - she even had a china biscuit jar in the shape of the flat-cap wearing Gaffer from the