“I’m so far away...but...if I mailed you a couple of boxes of Lipton, would you throw them into the party for me?”
Be happy too, but Lipton tea started out in Glasgow, Scotland, and sold primarily in Britain. I don’t want to use a tea originally out of a British Isle for a Boston Tea Party, Chicago style. So, we have to think of a purely American tea company to get the tea from. Hmmm, have to work on this. Anyone have ideas as to an American tea company?
You’re getting it too complicated.
The Boston Tea Party was about a Tax that was placed on Tea which was IMPORTED into the USA by Britain.
So using any tea will work being its mostly all imported.
Nearly 150 years ago, The Great American Tea Company opened a store on Vesey Street in New York City and began selling tea, coffee and spices at value prices. Soon stores sprung up all around the metropolitan area and salesmen took their wares to the road in horse-drawn carriages bound for New England, the mid-west and the south.
In 1869 the Company was renamed the Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company, in honor of the first transcontinental railroad and hopes of expanding across the continent. [snip]
Flaglady, we don’t make enough of our own products any more for research.
But, I have an idea. Since this is a protest that I can’t attend...suppose I send a case..well how about a 6-pack..of Shiner-Bock (made in Texas). I’ll replace the labels with “Texas Tea.”
It will hurt, but I’m up to the sacrifice.
Stash and Bigelow.