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IBM Cuts Tea

admin — Tue, 12 May 2009 11:52:44 +0000

The economic problems have had some seriously dire consequences but possibly one of the worst I’ve seen so far is the cutting of tea at IBM’s many international offices.

It seems IBM are too poor to afford to pay for staff to drink this most essential of refreshments.

More at the Australian Business.

Oh Dear Canada. What Have You Done?

admin — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 22:28:11 +0000

Twinnings of Canada is one of the most active in this international tea merchants branches. I’ve heard mumblings that Canadians like tea almost as much as the English in fact.
Then I read this news story from the Montreal Gazette…

I was at the Georges Vanier station, walking down to the platform to catch the Orange Line to Lionel Groulx. On the second flight of stairs were two items of debris: a potato chip and a used tea bag. ~ Source

What?! WHAT?! A used tea bag discarded in a metro station. Its akin to leaving a baby under a car or a basket of puppies on a cliff edge. What on earth possessed this dysfunctional Canadian to discard their tea bag in the metro?? I say dysfunctional with the utmost certainty that this person wasn’t of sound mind. Either that or they could be…

French Canadian!

I’ve heard stories about the French Canadians. They want independence and have no regard for tea. I can only hope this isn’t the start of a terrible terrible decline in Canada’s love of tea.

Tea Losing Out to Coffee

admin — Sat, 01 Oct 2005 14:36:00 +0000

Unfortunately the UK is turning American in its shift towards instant coffees over teas. Although PG Tips have recently unleashed a product called PG-2-Go which aims to appeal to the speedy generation of coffee drinkers by offering a small cup with a retractable tea bag. Personally I think its a travesty. Tea is tea – not coffee.

Boston Tea Party

admin — Tue, 22 Feb 2005 04:07:00 +0000

I was doing my usual tea based research recently and came across a quite horrifying find!
Now I’m aware a number of ‘partys’ were had in America during the colony era but I never knew that anyone would stoop so low as to have a Tea Party!!

Now for those who don’t know. The Boston Tea Party of 1773 was an event in which a number of American ‘patriots’ boarded a ship of the East Indian company and threw all of the tea onboard into the sea!! When I read this I was literally moved to tears. To think all of that tea mercilessly dropped into the ocean left to rot in COLD dark waters, possibly being nipped at by fish with no respect for teas natural beurty and essence. Clearly something you’d expect from a land of coffee drinkers and rebels.

The Boston Tea Party has quite clearly got to be one of the most tragic events of the 18th Century.

Now although the reason for the Boston tea party’s occurence is quite inconsequential, I suppose an explanation is worth giving, however I am not the best story teller so I shall borrow a quote from a nice site you can find here

“The Boston Tea Party was a reaction to the Tea Act of 1773 that was passed by Parliament to save the British East India Company from bankruptcy. The Tea Act essentially eliminated all taxes on tea except the three pence Townshend tax. More importantly, it offered Americans tea at a lower price than that of the colonial smugglers. Hence, the British East Indian Company would be saved from bankruptcy, the colonial smugglers would be out of business, and the principle of parliamentary taxation would be upheld.”

Now I dont know about you but I don’t feel that is a good enough excuse to vandalise such a wonderful, almost omnipotent plant that provides such joy for millions of people worldwide.

I shall light a candle for the lost tea and I shall begin campaigning here in the UK for sanctions to be placed on the US for such a brutal display towards tea.