National Iced Tea Day
Checking your calendar will uncover many obscure holidays and National Iced Tea Day, June 10th, is one of the many! There’s no real origin for the day. Iced tea was invented in 1904 when “English tea plantation owner Richard Blechynden set up a booth at St. Louis World fair. Many people used napkins to wipe their wet brows. Personalized Napkins always give you a firmer grip on wet glasses. You can rest glasses on our Monogram Napkins and cookies, bagels, fruit and even raw vegetables. Unfortunately they had nine of their accompaniments that day at the St Louis Fair. It was a hot day, too hot for regular tea but fair goers needed something to quench their thirst. Blenched dumped some of his tea in ice and served it cold. “It was an immediate hit.” Something like our Color Mist Personalized Napkins and Guest Towels, have you tried them yet?
Advertisers can take a lot of the responsibility for what is now National Iced Tea Day. It’s not associated with a brand like Lipton or Tetley but it was clearly invented to get people thinking and drinking iced tea before the official start of summer. The perfect way to celebrate it would be to take your glass of iced tea out with you to your favorite lawn chair or underneath a tree and enjoy the experience, holding your glass wrapped with your custom napkin or guest towels. Enjoying it with friends of course means you’ll lounge around and enjoy the moment, wherever it’s most convenient: buffet, set of tumblers in cans? Iced tea is great served with just about everything. Serve it with lemon, apple, raspberry, cherry, or blueberry flavoring. Fruit juices like pineapple, mango, kiwi juices or ginger make truly unique accompaniments. Try it with your favorite Giftsin24 Napkins, in your hotel, restaurant, or lounge. Have plenty of Embossed Napkins, Foil Striped, Forever Foil Stamped or Paris Foil Stamped Napkins to accent your accompaniments, even fruit. Tea is believed to have a wide range of medicinal purposes too. Write them down on your Personalized Notepads: helping to avoid heart disease, cancer tumors, stomach ailments and sore throats.
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Henry B Springs
“AAAaaahhh it’s not very hot outside but it is the perfect day for something cool and refreshing. Have you made lemonade or iced tea lately and sat out in the shade or lounged around in some of the more softer, familiar places in your den, lounge or game room to enjoy a moment to yourself while sipping a cool, refreshing glass of iced tea? You might decide on carrying popcorn, carrot sticks, pretzels, twinkies or oreos on your favorite Personalized Foil Stamped Napkin: Forever Foil Stamped, Classic Monogram, Metro, Elsie or Paris Foil Stamped Napkin or Guest Towel. They provide easy ways to carry a few nibbles around without extra plates while providing a way to keep your hands clean. Our Personalized Napkins are still evolving, still providing you with style options you can’t get any where else. We offer 123 Personalized Napkins. You’ll have to think of as many options for serving iced tea. We can only do so much.
Making iced tea just takes a little initiative. It may also require a few friends, family members and a few more glasses to share in summer’s bounty. Well you’ll need hot water and your favorite tea, Tetley or Lipton? You’ll also need a lot of ice, a little bit of equal, sugar, lemon, your favorite juice or favorite juice combo: apple, orange, cranberry, pineapple, strawberry, kiwi or mango just to name a few. Whether you’re lounging on lawn chairs or rolling over on the sofa with a tall glass of iced tea on the rocks with a Personalized Napkin wrapped around it or not there’s always the option of an original blend on the rocks. Whatever you like. The sky is the limit in terms of accompaniments that you can place on your Personalized Napkins. Easy snacks like fruit and cheese, celery stalks, plums, grapes, your favorite Nabisco or Pepperidge Farm classics. You know whatever makes the most of your completely personally satisfying glass of iced tea. One sip at a time.
” Tea began as a medicine and grew into a beverage. ”
Writer: KAKUZO OKAKURA
7 June 2012, 6:24 pmMaxine
I celebrated National Iced Tea Day unknowingly today, apparently, as I had some iced tea at lunch with my friends. That seems like an odd choice for a “holiday,” but after International Talk Like a Pirate Day (September 19th for those who might be interested), I suppose nothing surprises me anymore when it comes to these kinds of things.
I wouldn’t use my personalized napkins to grip a glass, but I do use them to wipe off the glass so the condensation doesn’t drip everywhere, or to dry my hands off after handling a damp glass. It’s definitely handy to have those napkins around if you’re going to be drinking iced tea (or anything else) outside on a hot day.
7 June 2012, 8:07 pmHenry B Springs
National Iced Tea Day? Yeah, I know that’s the same thing I said. Who came up with an excuse like like that, which tea company? Well to tell the truth I’m not sure what company sponsored it, not sure what advertising professional decided to make it a reality. Most people are aware that when the temperature goes up nothing quenches your thirst faster than something ice cold that both revives your senses and relaxes you, something like a passion fruit, white or green tea but there are as many flavors of teas as there are summer dates to enjoy them iced on the rocks. Earl Grey, Black Current, Seattle Spice, Orange Pekoe, Black and gourmet teas like Wild Orange Blossom and Strawberry Bliss could be a few you might try. Just like Iced coffee iced tea can become a taste experience, a thirst quenching solution and a health benefit all in one. It probably does not come as a big surprise to see Peppridge Farm Milano and Verona laying on your Personalized Napkins. Maybe not too much of a surprise.
In the summer a tall glass of iced tea and Personalized Napkins helps keep your hands clean while you enjoy what summer fruits are there to offer: watermelon, honey dew, cantaloupe, strawberries, grapes or variety of biscuits and tarts is the perfect way to beat the heat and create a cozy atmosphere for you and a few or a lot of your friends Your favorite personalized napkins will come in handy for small or large get togethers. Your Classic Monograms, Color Mist Napkins and Guest Towels, Elsie, Paris, State or Seville Monogrammed Foil Stamp can create the perfect scene for a private get together or the every day routine at your inn, hotel or resort. Tea always has been praised as a natural concoction brought forth by ” a master hand” to ushers in “its noblest” natural qualities for cleansing the body and nourishing the soul. What other way to enjoy it in 90* weather than on the rocks?
” Iced tea may not have as much wisdom as hot tea, but in the summer better a cool and refreshed dullard than a steamy sweat-drenched sage – leave sagacity to the autumn! ”
Writer: Linda Solegato
7 June 2012, 10:07 pmAshleigh316
First World Environment Day, now National Iced Tea Day? Who makes these up? I mean, I like iced tea and all, but I’m not sure it needs its own day.
There really are a whole bunch of different kinds of tea, and I know some are better for you than others. I tried to cultivate a taste for green tea since I know it’s good for you, but I just can’t stand the stuff. I even tried some that had honey in it, and somehow that tasted even worse!
But yeah, if you’re sitting outside drinking your iced tea or whatever, then having some personalized napkins on hand is a great idea. I almost dropped my glass today because it was so slick from all the condensation on the outside. I ended up having to wipe the glass off with my shirt, which wasn’t exactly classy, you know? I’d much rather have had a nice guest towel napkin or something to do it with.
7 June 2012, 10:43 pm