Tea
I think the marketing gurus at Twining’s have missed a trick.
They are currently promoting the great New Zealand taste off; you can read all about it here.
What is New Zealand's favourite blend?
Is it Green: 10 % of the population think so but some find it a bit hard to swallow?
Maybe an indigenous blend, a Maori Tea perhaps. Best served Black it can be a little difficult to stomach and is only 5% of the vote.
It appears most of us still prefer our tea reasonably insipid and White. We tend to prefer blends that celebrate our Pakeha heritage.
We reluctantly think it requires some form of sweetener and as we get older this is more likely to be artificial.
Most White tea tastes the same I find sweetened or not.
View more Dispatch posts
Back to DispatchAncestral Patterns
Webb’s has a rare Feltex Rug in their latest auction. In 1972, artist Don Ramage designed a striking wool rug, commissioned by the New Zealand Wool Board and produced by...
No Smoke Without Fire
NZ Herald: Hotel fire smokes out new men’s boutique This week marks twenty-five years since a fire in the basement of Hotel De Brett nearly destroyed Crane Brothers before it...
Joe Caroff
Joe Caroff, the designer behind some of cinema’s most enduring images, has died in New York aged 103. In 1962 he turned the curve of a “7” into the barrel...