52teas.com

Posts Tagged ‘Pineapple’

My grandparents were part of that “Greatest Generation” of Americans. My grandfather served in the Navy in the South Pacific during World War II. After the war, he became an auto mechanic and opened his own garage. My grandmother was a registered nurse. In my recollection of her, I always thought she came from something of a well-to-do family, or she had aspirations to be a well-to-do family. (I can’t help but think about Hyacinth Bucket in the BBC comedy Keeping Up Appearances; my grandmother wasn’t that bad, but there was an element of Hyacinth in her).

Anyway, whenever the family got together at grandma’s house, she had these extravagant meals planned that frequently started with fruit cocktail. I can’t say why this fact has stuck in my memory more than others, but I remember the Thanksgiving and Christmas Eve dinners with fruit cocktails all around to start. I remember thinking it was like getting dessert before dinner.

So, in memory of my grandparents, here’s our delicious Chinese sencha blended with real peach, pear, pineapple and natural peach, pear, pineapple and maraschino cherry flavors. It’s so delicious, you could serve it as a first course.

Our Tea of the Week for the week of June 14, 2010

Just $7.99 for 2 ounces (20-25 cups)
with FREE Delivery to the US and Canada!
Get yours while it lasts.

Incidentally, I am going to TRY offering the tea in two- and four- ounce quantities. This is a bit of an experiment for me to see how it goes. You can get one two ounce pouch for $7.99 or two pouches for $12.99. At least until we start running low on pouches, then it might go back to just two ounce pouches.

Hurry! Only 0 left!

(SOLD OUT!)

Check out all of the amazing blends we have in stock HERE

So, we really want you to subscribe to our email newsletter, and we want you to read the posts we send you. I may not be John Grisham, but I think I write some pretty stirring prose about our teas.

So, our free pouch giveaway contest is going to change. From now on, one or more of our posts each month may contain an invitation like the one below. You must actually have the post in your email inbox to reply to in order to win, so if you haven’t already done so, please take a moment to fill in your name and email address under the “Join Our Mailing List” section on our website. You can opt-out any time you like.

Email Contest!

Congratulations to last week’s winner, Janice (AKA teagirl1), who won a free pouch of tea from 52teas!

New Rules: We will collect responses through 11:59:59PM Central Time on Friday. From all of the correct responses we receive, I will select a winner at random using a random number generator and a count of all of the correct replies. The winner will be announced with the posting of next week’s Tea of the Week.

This week’s trivia challenge:
Which actress played the part of Hyacinth Bucket?

I’ve been itching to post this one all week. I can’t wait to hear what you guys think of it. Thanks to my mother for the awesome suggestion. We were talking about what we should do for a Mother’s Day blend this year and this is what she suggested. Honestly, I can’t recall my mom ever actually baking one of these, but my grandmother did, and it seems a mom-ish sort of thing. Either way, it’s DELICIOUS!

Our caffeine-free African Honeybush (I know this is two Honeybush blends in a row, but I couldn’t resist), blended with dried pineapple and just a touch of freeze dried cherries and natural flavors. We’ve included the natural essences of cake, pineapple, brown sugar and even a hint of maraschino cherry to top it all off.

Not only are we offering a great blend this week, but in honor of Mother’s Day, we will send it to your mom FREE with any gift Tea of the Week subscription. Now through Mother’s Day, order any Tea of the Week subscription (starting at just $47 for six weeks of tea delivered anywhere in the US or Canada), and we will send a pouch of our Pineapple Upside-Down Cake Honeybush as an added bonus! Check out our Tea of the Week plans HERE. Your mom will love you for it. (Well, okay, your mom will probably love you anyway, but I bet you would be her favorite for a little while!)

Our Tea of the Week for the week of April 19, 2010

Just $7.99 for 2 ounces (20-25 cups)
with FREE Delivery to the US and Canada!
Get yours while it lasts.

Hurry! Only 0 left!

(SOLD OUT!)

Check out all of the amazing blends we have in stock HERE

So, we really want you to subscribe to our email newsletter, and we want you to read the posts we send you. I may not be John Grisham, but I think I write some pretty stirring prose about our teas.

So, our free pouch giveaway contest is going to change. From now on, one or more of our posts each month may contain an invitation like the one below. You must actually have the post in your email inbox to reply to in order to win, so if you haven’t already done so, please take a moment to fill in your name and email address under the “Join Our Mailing List” section on our website. You can opt-out any time you like.

Email Contest!

The tenth individual (one reply per person, please) to reply to this post via email with the correct answer to the following question will receive a free pouch of tea! Question: According to www.trinigourmet.com the invention and popularity of pineapple upside-down cake had to wait until canned pineapples were available, which did not happen until Jim Dole perfected a method of tinning them in what year?

Well, I accidentally ordered too much white tea, so here is the first of three white tea blends we’ve created for you. This will be our Tea of the Week, the other two just mid-week blends (I don’t want to overwhelm our subscribers with white tea blends).

This blend features our premium Bai Mu Dan white tea blended with real dried pineapple dices, freeze dried mango and papaya dices, freeze dried banana slices, our signature honking big coconut flakes and all natural flavors. As I wrote on the label, it’s like a tropical fruit stand exploded–IN YOUR MOUTH!

Our Tea of the Week for the week of February 22, 2010

Just $7.99 for 1 ounce (20-25 cups)
with FREE Delivery to the US and Canada!
Get yours while it lasts.

Hurry! Only 0 left!

(SOLD OUT!)

Check out all of the amazing blends we have in stock HERE

No contest this week. Sorry. Have to get the other teas posted and I am already behind. Check back with us next week!

HOLY SMOKES! Now THIS is a tea! We pulled out all of the stops on this one folks, and created something really amazing and unique. Good luck finding a tea like this anywhere else.

We blended our premium black teas with dried bananas, dried pineapple, organic cacao nibs, vanilla beans, freeze dried strawberries and freeze dried cherries. The result?

DELICIOUS! With the first sip you get the sweetness of the bananas, strawberries and pineapple, then the chocolate and vanilla and faint hint of cherry follow as a soothing aftertaste. We thought maybe there were too many flavors in it, that everything would become muted and muddied, or, we thought, it might turn out so that one flavor dominated the rest so that it was pointless to have so many flavors, but honestly, this blend could not have turned out more perfect. It is every bit of the banana split experience in a tea.

This limited edition blend is going to go FAST, so get yours today before it sells out. You will not be disappointed.

Our Tea of the week for the week ending 06.28.09

Banana Split Flavored Black Tea

2oz. (20-25 cups!) DELIVERED* for just $7.99

*FREE Delivery to the US and Canada!