Argyle13 
Buy EuropeanThese tea and coffee brands are now american
Brisca Cafitesse Carte Noire Douwe Egberts Gevalia Grand’Mère Jacobs Kaffee Hag Kenco L’Or Marcilla Moccona Peet’s Piazza d’Oro Pickwick Senseo Splendid Tassimo
In this list you have some European alternatives to them. Do you know some more?
🇪🇸 Ariete 🇪🇸 Baque 🇬🇧 Betty’s & Taylors 🇪🇸 Candelas 🇳🇱 Capriole 🇬🇧 Clipper 🇩🇪 Dallmayr 🇫🇷 Dammann Frères 🇵🇹 Delta cafés 🇮🇹 Illycaffè 🇩🇪 J.J. Darboven 🇦🇹 Julius Meinl 🇳🇱 Koffiejongens 🇪🇸 La Fortaleza 🇮🇹 Lavazza 🇸🇪 Löfbergs 🇩🇪 Melitta 🇪🇸 Montecelio (Tea) 🇵🇱 Mokate 🇳🇱 Moyee 🇬🇧 Origin 🇫🇮 Paulig 🇮🇹 Segafredo Zanetti 🇩🇪 Tschibo 🇩🇪 Teekanne 🇮🇹 Vergnano
I encourage people to try getting locally roasted beans. The quality of the brew is far above what you can get at any supermarket brand.
It does generally cost a bit more, but I don't think it's unmanageable. If optimizing caffeine intake for cost, the economical choice is probably to ditch coffee for caffeine pills.
Use this as a catalyst to buy local beans. You will not regret the change.
- Tea
- 🇳🇱 PG Tips is popular here in the UK.
- 🏴 Ringtons (a personal favourite) is popular in and around Newcastle, where the company is based.
- 🏴 Yorkshire Tea (also exceedingly popular in the north as well as the midlands) is owned by Betty's & Taylors.
- 🇬🇧 Tetley is a popular brand owned by 🇮🇳 Tata, though personally I can't drink the stuff.
- Coffee
- 🏴 Black Sheep Coffee is a chain of coffee shops in the UK, but they also sell beans and grounds.
- 🏴 Pilgrims Coffee is a small roastery on Holy Island.
- While their instant coffee is never great, supermarket own-brand beans and grounds are better than you would expect. 🇬🇧 Tesco and 🇬🇧 Waitrose both sell fairly nice coffee.
- 🏴 Pumphrey's is another small coffee roaster, from Newcastle-Upon-Tyne. Many independent cafés and shops in the north-east sell their coffee, but I believe you have to buy beans and grounds directly.
- 🏴 Red Box Coffee is based in Edinburgh and they sell tea and coffee, both of which are quite nice.
Why use the Polish flag for Tesco?
Mandela effect. I could have sworn it was a Polish company. Corrected now!
Side note: “Keurig Dr Pepper” sounds disgusting. Who greenlit that name and why are they still employed there?
Lol 😂😂
🇸🇪 Arvid Nordquist is my favorite.
There goes the brand I use. I don't really care the brand, all instant coffee is similarly bad, the deciding factor was the jar and what it worries me is that they could go for a cheaper jar that I can't use afterwards.
Sweden: Arvid Nordquist
I was wrong about the following:
~~Also: Löfbergs is owned by Nestlé or a subsidiary since ten years back or so.~~
As a värmlänning. I did not know of the Löfbergs nestle connections. I am also unable to find it in any Swedish sources. Spare to share your Intel? :)
I have to do what’s called a ”pudel” (a poodle) in Swedish. Löfbergs launched several coffee varieties (like Karisma) around 10 years ago and they ended up on a blacklisting due to Nestlé connections. So I haven’t bought any coffee from them for many years. But as it seems now, I was either misinformed or just naively against anything related to Nestlé. Sorry, fuck Nestlé, but I might just start enjoying Löfbergs again. Thank you for the comments.
I can't find anything about Löfbergs being owned by Nestlé online, do you have a source?
I have to do what’s called a ”pudel” (a poodle) in Swedish. Löfbergs launched several coffee varieties around 10 years ago and they ended up on a blacklisting due to Nestlé connections. So I haven’t bought any coffee from them for many years. But as it seems now, I was either misinformed or just naively against anything related to Nestlé. Sorry, fuck Nestlé, but I might just start enjoying Löfbergs again. Thank you for the comments.
To "pudla" is too often seen as a bad thing, it's good to admit when one is wrong, thanks for the info/retraction
Zoegas is also owned by Nestlé. Arvid Nordqvist only coffee option in Sweden.
Also tastes better in my opinion.
As I stated in the other comments, I have to retract my statement about Löfbergs. Sorry.
Arvid Nordqvist only coffee option in Sweden.
As Finn, I may have said that I prefer Nordqvist to Paulig stuff. I'm not admitting anything though. I'm just saying there is a possibility that I may have perhaps let words to that effect come out of my Nordqvist filled mouth.
Stop it you two. Things are bad enough. We don't need the Swedes and the Finns agreeing. Nothing good can come of it.
Hakkapeliitta intensifies
Well there's a fun Wikipedia hole for me to fall into. Thanks!
You are most welcome!
I didn't know this. Thanks.
I have to retract my statement about Nestlé owning Löfbergs. Sorry. I was wrong.
American here.
I understand the impulse, and I hate Trump as much as anybody.
I just want to point out that BMW's biggest plant is in the USA and America's top beer is owned by a Belgian company.
When it comes to the 0.01% oligarchy, there's no 'Europe' or 'America' it's all about the money.
Yeah. Buying European is a cool concept, but when you're improving "the economy", that doesn't actually mean you're improving the lives of your neighbors. The way we measure "the economy" has been corrupted throughout modern history to really only look at how the ultra wealthy are doing and not the regular people. This helps prevent governments from doing anything that hurts corporations in any meaningful way.
GDP is a great example of that kind of skewed metric.
Don't get me started on 'skewed metrics.'
According to the official inflation counter, $1,500.00 in 1960 is about $15,000.00 in 2026.
You could buy a good, brand new car in 1960 for $1,500.00.
A cheap new car in 2026 is $20,000.00
All below numbers are for the USA.
In 1960, an average house cost $11,900 ($132,721 adjusted for inflation).
In 2026, an average house costs $429k.
In 1960, the federal minimum wage was $1/hr ($11.15 adjusted for inflation).
In 2026, the federal minimum wage is $7.25/hr
We could go on for hours...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEmGFNKWLlw
It's 2026 and I'm still trying to figure out what happened...
Barry's and Lyons are Irish and delicious. Lyons is blended in te UK but Barrys is all Irish.
No Bustelo or Bones? Word, I'm good.
~~> Teekanne~~
~~Goddammit.~~
I'm stupid.
The list is of european alternatives btw
Omg im fucking stupid lol
Thank you for telling me.
I used to work at a museum in Cornwall and the café stocked Cornish Tea
https://www.cornish-tea.co.uk/
Their coffee is pretty good as well.
Evergood and Ali coffee are still norwegian brands, I think, and hope.
I look forward to prosecuting all of these sales as treason in a near future and convicting all who intermediated the sales to exile with passport removal and sanctions.
Grind coffee is also British and an independent company
Esssecaffé, it's the company the Segafredo family started after selling the original company. I've never bought their coffee for home use, but whenever I have one in a bar (café), it's great.
I mostly drink decaf and the only that tastes good is Lucaffe. I heavily recommend their products:
https://lucaffe.com/
