On the package it says: "Påtår på gotländskt vis. Ett svart te med inslag av fläder och jordgubb. Så gott att du inte kan motså en andra kopp." Google translate says it means, "Second cup on Gotland manner -[hmmm, got no idea what that might mean]. A black tea with hints of elderflower and strawberry. So good that you cannot resist a second cup." This appears to be the company's website, and here's a link for this particular blend. The Daughter bought this tea for us at Skona Gertruds in Sweden on a recent trip to visit an old friend. How thoughtful! I like it and have had several cups, but The Husband doesn't care for it. Fruit flavorings just aren't his cup of tea. ;)
The cup and saucer is the survivor of a pair we bought in the J. Peterman store in Chattanooga many years ago. It's the Chanticleer pattern from Burleigh. That was a fun vacation. We stayed at the Chattanooga Choo Choo Hotel, went to the Tennessee Aquarium and the Tow Truck Museum, saw Rock City and Ruby Falls, toured Civil War sites, and more. There's plenty to do there.
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I'm off to visit the links you left from your Chattanooga trip, but first wanted to comment on your tea. I'm a big fan of fruit tea, but I suspect many are not. I'll do a post on fruit tea one of these days because it will be so funny.
ReplyDeleteNice cup and saucer. And your daughter is so special because she is so thoughtful. Swedish tea. Never thought about tea coming from anywhere except the British Isles or China. See how much I know?
I found Pam's web site because she gave me her e-mail address. It's http://spikastudio.com/
I love her art.
Thanks so much for joining T today. It would never be the same without you, dear friend.
fruit tea does seem to divide the tea drinkers. i like some of them but not others.
Deletethe gallery of that artist's work at that link is beautiful!
i love what you've done with t tuesday. i've found so many interesting people! thx!
Love hearing the story behind your cup and saucer. Always love reading little bits of details. I like fruit teas but just don't tend to drink them very often. Happy Tuesday.
ReplyDeletei am like you in liking some of the fruit teas but not drinking them as often as regular unflavored teas. i think of flavored teas and coffees as an occasional treat. happy tuesday :)
DeleteWell, "påtår på gotländskt vis" means "a second cup, the Gotland way", or "the way the Gotlanders do it". The blend comes from the teashop Kränku in Visby, and I only know this because we visited last summer.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.kraenku.se/te/egnablandningar/
I´m no fan of fruit teas, so I bought an ecological blend of black teas, but I´m afraid it remains undrunken in the cupboard... You just never go wrong with PG Tips!
The cup is gorgeous - you seem to have an extensive collection.
thx for that translation :) so is the tea a gotland tea? or do the gotlanders drink another cup while others don't? i did google gotland but didn't see a tea connection.
Deletei love cups/saucers and mugs. i like to have a variety and so get a single one when something appeals to me. i just recently had a mug break in the dishwasher, so now i have room to buy a new one. ah! that silver lining lol.
Ahum - no, I doubt there is an actual Gotland tea or a particular way the Gotlanders drink tea. It´s a sales pitch, isn´t it? The typical tourist to "quaint" Visby (I refuse to put in a link to my blog, but there are three picture-heavy posts from Visby from last year - you have probably already seen them) is a middle-aged woman, who prefers tea over coffee, at least in the evening (to promote sleep), and she doesn´t actually like tea (Swedes being die-hard coffee drinkers) so the fruit&flowery teas are "saft"-like compromise that she is likely to buy lots of, if she can somehow be made to feel that it´s "genuin" Gotland. But there are certainly no tea plantations on Gotland! LOL The typical Gotland sheep farmer is - for my money - a guy who boils his coffee and drinks it by the litre, the way Swedes did in the old days.
Delete"Saft" = http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squash_%28drink%29
lol i thought it might be a regional thing -maybe a way of blending or drinking the tea, but i figured i'd have to know something about gotland to "get it". then when i read some about gotland, i still didn't get it.
Deletei've seen "squash" mentioned in books, but i've never seen it offered here. the article was interesting. i wonder why it never made the leap here. when i think fruit-flavored drinks, i think of orange crush, which may be as close as i'll ever get to "squash" but which is just a carbonated soft drink.
those gotland sheep farmers sound like my kind of coffee drinkers.
Saft is what Swedish kids grow up on - my mother used to make it all the time from berries and fruit, it would last all winter. Shops are full of it, too. The British squash is most like it, but I haven´t seen it anywhere else, so I suppose it´s a nordic thing.
DeleteKokkaffe is when you grind your coffee beans a bit coarser than what you would normally do, then boil them with water, let the beans naturally sink to the bottom, and then pour. It´s still the prefered way if you´re in the forest - no doubt American hikers do it, too, unless they settle for the evil instant. The whole thing is a bit more tar-like, for sure, particularly if you don´t wait long enough...
it may be like "cowboy coffee" i've heard about made over an open campfire. when we went camping when i was a child we used a percolator made to work on the camp stove, tho i think it would've also worked over an open fire. we never ground the beans ourselves back then, but we do it sometimes now.
Delete"evil instant" lol! exactly!
Hiya - finally sorted out my PC issues - sort of - taking a very long time to post and comment though - I also like fruit teas and don't have them very often - I just cant live without my latte's though... have a great week - Mxx
ReplyDeletepc issues are sooo frustrating! i'm glad you made it here :)
DeleteI haven't tried fruit teas before, might just have too. Beautiful cup and saucer, like the story behind it too. Thanks for sharing, HAPPY TUESDAY!
ReplyDeletei'm glad you like the cup and saucer. it was a sad day when we broke one of that pair. happy t day :)
DeleteA very pretty cup and saucer and it goes with the tea you are using somehow. It was so thoughtful of your daughter to bring you something from her trip. If your husband isn't fond of it I guess that just means more for you. Oh darn! LOL!
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i thought they went together, too :) and yes! more for me! lol
DeleteMy little tea cup had a 'friend' too, but something fell out of the cupboard and hit it so hard it broke into a trillion bits! It's strange how we get favourites. I have a thing for jugs too! Happy T day
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it is a shame when a favorite cup breaks. so often they quit making patterns, and old ones can't be replaced. hope you had a happy t day :)
DeleteI've enjoyed some fruit flavored black teas which I still put milk in, but they are not really my favorites. I enjoyed looking at the Tennessee links--it is one place I have not yet had a chance to visit. I might just have to add it to the list!
ReplyDeletetennessee has something for everybody. do i sound like the tourism department? lol the state has rivers, mountains, waterfalls, caves, trails, music (especially country, bluegrass and blues), historic sites (including civil war battlefields), quirky museums.... chattanooga made for a perfect vacation when we had young kids.
DeleteI like my fruit tea to not contain any tea! So mine are infusions really. Your Swedish tea sound interesting though and the cup and saucer are so pretty. Chatanooga, I didn't realise that was a real place!
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yes, i know what you mean. this was a fruit-flavored tea. i don't guess i've ever had a fruit infusion, but i've had herbal infusions i liked.
Deletethe chattanooga choo-choo is an actual thing! great fun :)
Adorable cup and saucer...there is a Chattanooga Choo Choo hotel!? really? I loved that (rock?) song in the 70's. I know. dating myself...=)
ReplyDeleteyes, and it was so much fun! it was walking distance from some of the major attractions. you can actually stay in a train car, tho we stayed in a standard room.
Deletethere was a disco version in the 70s: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R797VOE6moY , but the song was originally from the 1940s and done by the glenn miller orchestra: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QzHIn5S-RbY