[PW] Blue Ribbon Tea company (Canada)

[Marian Drabkin]

Has your patron asked a tea discussion group?  There is an excellent one at
teamail at yahoogroups.com.  (It is a
strictly moderated group and I don't know if the moderator allows 
non-members to post messages, but she is a very helpful person who would 
probably be willing to forward the query to someone who might know the 
answer.)
Some members of that group are professional tea growers or in the tea 
business.

Marian Drabkin

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "James Weaver" <JWeaver at WCLS.org>
To: <list at project-wombat.org>
Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2007 1:46 PM
Subject: [PW] Blue Ribbon Tea company (Canada)


> Good afternoon -
>
> One of our regulars has given us a puzzler - because I think we should
> have found the information but do not know why we haven't.
>
> When his mother was still going back and forth to Canada, every
> Christmas she would return with several one-pound tins of Blue Ribbon
> Tea for the family. He remembers the tea being a very delightful brew.
> Now he would like to know 2 things -
>
> 1. What was the tea itself - what kind was it?
> 2. Whatever became of the company who packaged/marketed it?
>
> Our Kovel's and Warman's guides do not mention the tea tins, but do
> mention the Blue Ribbon sports cards.
>
> My Google and Dogpile searches kept bringing up the Blue Ribbon Tea
> Company Band.
>
> Are there some tea connoisseurs among us who might know of this tea, and
> can fill in our patron's information needs?
>
> Hope this helps! -- James
>
> James E. Weaver, Reference Librarian
> Whatcom County (WA) Library System
> vox: 360-354-4883 -- fax: 360-354-3149
> http://www.wcls.org/
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