PG Tips
PG Tips is a tea brand in the United Kingdom . According to the manufacturer Unilever , 35 million cups of PG Tips are consumed every day in the UK. The tea is also popular with British people living abroad.
Surname
PG Tips was first introduced to the UK market in 1930 by Brooke Bond under the name Digestive and promoted as digestive . After World War II , companies were banned from calling tea a digestif , so Brooke Bond changed the name to PRE-GEST-TEE (which was an abbreviation of PRE-diGESTive TEA ).
Some dealers used the abbreviation “PG”, which quickly became established and in 1950/51 was determined as the official brand name PG Tips. "Tips" is an indication that only the tips (the two upper leaves and the flower) of the tea plant are used for the mixture.
Products
PG Tips is sold both as loose tea and in tea bags .
The blend of PG Tips called Blend 777 consists of 12–35 types of tea from all over the world, depending on the season, and is produced in the Trafford Park factory in Manchester .
Since 1996 the tea bag version has been sold in pyramid-shaped ( tetrahedral ) tea bags so that the tea aroma can develop better, similar to an infusion with loose tea.