The Twilight Tea tea-tasting extravaganza

[cleolinda]

So: quietselkie sent over a merchandising sample of the latest Officially Licensed™ Twilight Product: Twilight Tea, as created by Luxe Tea. (Twilight Coffee also available, but not included. Which is good, because I don't drink coffee, and I ain't startin' for "La Tua Cantante." Her blood sings for him, you guys! And now her coffee does too!)

Comments

[plazmah]

… extraordinarily English!

Ingredients: Indian Black Teas.

Am I the only one who LOLed at the irony? ;)

[morganwolf]

Well, it was a colony, and India is the second-largest producer of tea worldwide.

[chulacabra]

No, I think she's commenting on Jacob being Indian with a last name of Black. Right?

[morganwolf]

Ha, fair enough. My brain's definitely not in Twilight-ephemera mode, that totally escaped my notice.

[plazmah]

Hahahaha, I wasn't. But good catch!

[chulacabra]

LOL! I'm seeing Twilight references *everywhere*. It's eaten my brain.

[kuriku24]

Well, English Breakfast tea is supposed to contain a mix of black teas from India... if it's the Jacob reference, it just reinforces that no one in the Twilight business does any kind of research at all.

[plazmah]

LOL I know that, just laughing at it the same way I laugh at Butter Chicken being pub fare. ;)

[morganwolf]

Ah, like the American flags made in China. I gotcha!

[manekikoneko]

There's only tea in India because the English put it there, so it's extraordinarily imperial English.

[elizardbits]

lolwut

Tea was growing in Assam like eleventy billion years before the British Empire even existed. (Yes, eleventy billion. It is a trufax scientific measurement ok.)

[manekikoneko]

Really? My intro Asian Studies class did a whole section on how tea only grew in China and England bankrupted itself buying tea from the Chinese, until they had to plunge the whole country into opium addiction to break even while sending spies into China to find and smuggle out tea plants so they could grow their own. Which they did eventually did, in India. It was the most interesting chapter of the whole damn class. They lied us? (Then again, I hated that class.)

[elizardbits]

tea only grew in China

Huh, that's an interesting way of looking at it. Assam technically was a sovereign kingdom, and not part of the Mughal Empire (comprised of most of modern India) before the British Raj. But although its proximity to Yunnan & Sichuan Provinces lends Assam a very similar topography and climate, it was historically never part of China.

As for the Opium Wars, that's all essentially correct. India never commercially produced vast quantities of tea for export until the mid-1800s. So we can both be right! HOORAY TIME FOR COOKIES.

[trampchic]

No, I love it too, empire or no empire. It just sounds so stupid, so... TWILIGHT.

(Cleo, you sister may have found the perfect phrase.)