Two Spoons – Bucks Blend
Two Spoons Bucks Blend is either inspired by or dedicated to the county of Buckinghamshire. Probably both. “Every great county should have its own tea,” the packaging tells me and who am I to disagree with a fancily-designed tea pouch?
Bucks Blend is absolutely delicious. It’s an assemblage of Assam, Kenyan and Darjeeling teas and it might well be the nicest county-inspired tea I’ve ever had. It’s nicer than both Dorset tea and Kent & Sussex tea. I’m not sure how it fares against Portsmouth tea, which is also lovely, but that one’s named after a town, not a county so it belongs on a different list, and I don’t feel I need to compare the two.
Whacking delicate Darjeeling into a hearty Kenyan and Assam breakfast tea is an inspired idea. It gives this hearty wake-me-up cuppa a hint of class. This is obviously appropriate for posho Home County Buckinghamshire. (Speaking of posho counties, there doesn’t seem to be a Surrey tea available. Could someone get on that, please? I would rather like a tea tailor-made for Tea Fancier county.)
Chesham in Buckinghamshire is home to Two Spoons HQ. And that’s not all that the county has to boast about. Quite an impressive number of writers have made Buckinghamshire their home at some point, including Mary Shelley, Enid Blyton, Jerome K Jerome, Roald Dahl and Terry Pratchett.
Other notable Bucks alumni include John Craven (Princes Risborough), Noel Edmonds (Weston Turville), Sir John Gielgud (Wotton Underwood) and Liam from One Direction (Chalfont St Peter). Clearly, the best thing about that list is not the celebs, but the wonderfully named towns of Buckinghamshire. They sound like characters from a PG Wodehouse story.
After working my way through several cups of Bucks Blend, I have concluded that the “Notable People” section of Wikipedia’s Buckinghamshire page needs to be updated to include the two teamongers of Two Spoons.
Do you think the correct etiquette would be to hoof off an existing entrant in order to make room for them? If so, one-time resident of Frieth, King Zog I is off the list. Soz, Zog. I know you were the last king of Albania and everything, but did you ever put together a truly satisfying breakfast tea blend? I think not.
(Today’s featured book is The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents by Bucks boy, Terry Pratchett.)
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