Typhoo is Fatal
Deadly Typhoo
Really – it is capable of killing you. Its easy to miss facts like this when so many articles and magazines are telling you that tea is tantamount to the elixir of life. Unfortunately not so for Typhoo tea.
But first some background…
Typhoo was a brand established and ‘raised’ in the UK form 1903. It was a Birmingham based grocer John Sumner Jr. who decided to introduce a tea made of leaf fannings due to its supposed ‘calming affect’.
Little did John Sumner Jr. realise that 105 years later in a town just south of Birmingham a gentleman tea fanatic would be drinking a cup of his brew – thinking it was the much superior Yorkshire – only to discover it was the inferior Typhoo. At that moment a shocked breath caused a mere drop of Typhoo to enter the lungs of said gent and cause a coughing fit the likes of which no one had ever seen.
Typhoo, my dear readers, is the most fatal of the teas and must be avoided at all costs!
