Coco pops vs Waitrose Choco Rice Pops

Can Kellogg's see off Waitrose's challenge for chocolate rice-based cereal domination?

The undoubted king of the children's cereal jungle is Kellogg's Coco Pops - so firmly rooted in the consciousness of the British public that they don't even need to bother with a product description on the bright yellow packet (or not on the front at least). Waitrose, meanwhile, opt for 'milk chocolate coated crisp rice' to describe their Choco Rice Pops, which pretty much covers it for both. They're in direct competition, that much is clear. But which one delivers the greater taste sensation? We put them to the test.

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Try your own Waitrose v Coco Pops Blind Taste Test - email your results and/or YouTube video to blindtastetesters@yahoo.co.uk

Tetley tea bags v loose tea leaves (posh)

It's a question as old as humanity itself: is upmarket tea really nicer, or are the posh-cuppa brigade just a bit up themselves? We'd had a tin of loose (and therefore posh by definition) tea leaves hanging about in the back of the cupboard forever. I actually thought it was coffee, so never tried it (don't drink coffee really). Actually even if I'd know it was tea I wouldn't have used it 'cos there's no difference, the posh-cuppa brigade are just a bit up themselves, right? Well we thought it was about time to put the question to bed once and for all and rest easy in our beds at last. We took a brand-new, first-one-out-the-packet Tetley tea bag, and brewed it up (in the mug). We took a couple of spoonfuls of the undefined posh tea leaves and brewed them in the pot until they and the Tetley looked about the same colour in their respective mugs. In a nod to science we added precisely the same exactly one shot of milk and half a spoon sugar to each. So which tasted better to the 'blind' tester...?

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Send your own Tetley's (or any other normal tea) v. (any) posh tea test results and/or Youtube video to blindtastetesters@yahoo.co.uk