So, who needs a record?
I remember, I remember
Yeah. Unfortunately old enuff.
So, ya wanna go chimps or tea...?
We got ya Dave Garroway and ....
We got ya ‘tiny little tea leaves in....
I remember it. Definitely was part of the Burgh thing.
That would now be considered rasist
Priceless. Still my favorite tea. I always buy half a dozen boxes whenever I see it in the store (hard to find.) I’ve never heard the song, however.) I’ll have to show this to my husband when he gets up! I’ve never heard the commercial.
I discovered it when we lived in the Seattle area, and I’ve been hooked ever since. I was disappointed to learn, a few years ago, that they are now owned by Lipton.
Remember when the boxes of tea came with miniature English ceramic animals inside? My kids (and now my grandkids) have collections of those.
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Yep! I remember that! Red Rose is my favorite tea, and the stores around here all sell it. Not hard to find at all. I still collect the little ceramic things inside. I don’t have any complete collections though.
Can you find the following:
“Its the Budweiser beer that’s brewed right here. Dubois Budweiser Beer.”
I’m old enough to remember “old frothingosh” and the Forbes and Shady Grill!
Oh my—does this EVER bring back memories!
Grew up in the Burgh proper (S. Oakland). And i still buy Red Rose Tea (they have a decaf too). It’s at our WalMart and at the Big Bird (Giant Eagle). They don’t always have the little ceramic characters in the boxes anymore (there is a mail in thing—but occasionally I’ll get a box w/one in it—I guess it goes by the “series” they are doing).
Talking about Yinzer commercials tho...the Cochran auto group (they have about a gazillion brands now) is running their anniversary ad. How times have changed. I remember my dad going to the ORIGINAL Cochran in North Braddock when he was buying a car. Now we lived in Oakland and the whole family went to pick up the new car, and my late mother ooohed and ahhhhed over the Braddock homes. We lived in a tiny, shotgun row house, and the homes in N. Braddock had yards, grass, and space in between them. When I think of those neighborhoods today, it’s stunning the difference.
Current packaging
Aging Michiganders remember the Red Rose tea monkey swing band too.
Being a southern boy who got involuntarily transplanted to Pittsburgh Red Rose was at least one semi comfort, it was the only packaged Iced Tea available at the time that didn’t have lemon (or fake lemon flavor) added to it.
So if I was out and wanted a sweet tea I could have one.
I don’t even know if its still around anymore haven’t seen one in ages.
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