Salvage FTTW
At a salvage-grocery store, great tea cheap.
PBS NewsHour , salt, and tea
From the PBS NewsHour: “American chemist causes stir in Britain by suggesting salt can improve cup of tea.”
Tea, saving lives?
Boiling water.
White Rose Tea
Two ads.
Builder’s tea
I learned this term from Michael Mosley’s BBC Radio 4 podcast Just One Thing.
Coffee vs. tea
From The Washington Post. Which beverage will claim the world title for healthiest drink?
Maureen O’Hara for Lipton Tea
A 1946 ad.
Barry’s tea
From 1946: Barry Fitzgerald for Lipton Tea. Too bad he didn’t endorse Barry’s Tea.
How to improve writing (no. 88)
Rewriting the sentences on a box of Tetley tea.
Word of the day: tea-fire
A word I encountered in an L.L. Bean cookbook.
Recently updated
Earl Greyer tea and a good ending.
One tea bag, used
The artist Laure Prouvost is holding on to a fifteen-year-old tea bag.
Tea and truth
The words on my Celestial Seasoning tea-bag tag this afternoon are from Elizabeth Cady Stanton: “Truth is the only safe ground to stand upon.”
Earl Greyer, correcter
The Republic of Tea makes an excellent Earl Grey tea, Earl Greyer. But its container needs some corrections.
Tea “in times like these”
A 1950 advertisement.
Tea Making Tips
From the Empire Tea Bureau, a short film: Tea Making Tips (1941).
Tea mind, empty mind
“I always like a cup of hot tea in the afternoon, drink it slowly. It helps empty the mind.“
Red Rose redesign
The new design looks older, flatter, plainer. The tea tag is dowdier too.
Overheard
“Nothing like a good cup of tea in a crisis.”
“Tea Peps You Up!”
From 1939.
“Tea Answers America’s Call to Pep!”
From 1940.
Rhymes with “Boops”
Tea drives away the droops.
Wa kei sei jaku
What the world needs now: wa kei sei jaku.
Domestic comedy
The Tazo people, they’ll make up anything.
Boops
A 1940 advertisement for tea.
Yet another Big Lots tea find
Yorkshire Gold: une madeleine.
Another Big Lots tea find
“Thompson’s must be the maltiest Irish Breakfast I’ve ever tasted.”
“Turn to Tea Today for Vitality”
“This advertisement will repay careful study. Read it and drink, in big city, dense jungle, or Arctic, as you choose.”
Caffeine and mental disorders
“The latest version of the American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders . . . includes both caffeine intoxication and withdrawal.”
This is your brain on tea
From a 1940 ad.