Yikes. Tea companies and their branding/advertising back in the day hasn’t aged well. Lyons used to have cartoon minstrels in black face. PG Tips used chimpanzees dressed up as humans having tea parties. Mad stuff.
I would guess that it is some time after 1901
From before the emancipation proclamation, anyhow
Oh my god 😳
As I recall – Ireland had to source tea from Africa during the Second World War (as opposed to India previously). Which is why Irish tea is generally stronger than British tea. Perhaps the fellow here is a reference to the source of the tea?
I think I remember seeing them in the 80’s.
Might not help much but it’s going to be between adoption of decimalisation of the punt 1971 (switching away from pounds, shillings, and pence) and introduction of the euro in 2002.
Now it would seem that it isn’t from the 90s as we were starting to move away from that type of out dated branding I would think.
70s or 80s seems likely but can think of any way to narrow it down unless there is something specific on the packaging and not a lot out there on the old t’internet on Barry packaging. Good find OP
There’s an Instagram page called the Irish picker (iirc) that is interested and knowledgable about 20th century Irish ads and products!
Might be worth shooting them a DM and see if they know
Is that black tea?
Obvious Question but is there any best before date to narrow it down?
Edit ant to any
Mid 80s definitely.
I remember making the tea for my mother during the break in Glenroe with that packet.
Great memory. Thanks!
Tea keeps forever, so no matter when it was made this is fine to use.
My guess on the package’s age, based on the typeface and price, is around 1990
Use good milk. As opposed to use gone off milk 😂
I remember seeing that bag when I was kid in the late 70s, had forgotten about it.
It’s from the 80s
Mid to late 80s
Jesus that’s…. interesting
Ring them and ask them – they’re nice people in there working – 021-491-5000
In the 70s Australia, my family consumed an instant coffee called Pablo, the label had a sleeping, ponchoed, sombreroed man under a palm tree. Racist caricatures abounded in the marketing of beverages grown from colonial plantations.
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What is it with Tea companies?!
I remember that from the early/mid 1980’s.
Yikes. Tea companies and their branding/advertising back in the day hasn’t aged well. Lyons used to have cartoon minstrels in black face. PG Tips used chimpanzees dressed up as humans having tea parties. Mad stuff.
I would guess that it is some time after 1901
From before the emancipation proclamation, anyhow
Oh my god 😳
As I recall – Ireland had to source tea from Africa during the Second World War (as opposed to India previously). Which is why Irish tea is generally stronger than British tea. Perhaps the fellow here is a reference to the source of the tea?
I think I remember seeing them in the 80’s.
Might not help much but it’s going to be between adoption of decimalisation of the punt 1971 (switching away from pounds, shillings, and pence) and introduction of the euro in 2002.
Now it would seem that it isn’t from the 90s as we were starting to move away from that type of out dated branding I would think.
70s or 80s seems likely but can think of any way to narrow it down unless there is something specific on the packaging and not a lot out there on the old t’internet on Barry packaging. Good find OP
There’s an Instagram page called the Irish picker (iirc) that is interested and knowledgable about 20th century Irish ads and products!
Might be worth shooting them a DM and see if they know
Is that black tea?
Obvious Question but is there any best before date to narrow it down?
Edit ant to any
Mid 80s definitely.
I remember making the tea for my mother during the break in Glenroe with that packet.
Great memory. Thanks!
Tea keeps forever, so no matter when it was made this is fine to use.
My guess on the package’s age, based on the typeface and price, is around 1990
Use good milk. As opposed to use gone off milk 😂
I remember seeing that bag when I was kid in the late 70s, had forgotten about it.
It’s from the 80s
Mid to late 80s
Jesus that’s…. interesting
Ring them and ask them – they’re nice people in there working – 021-491-5000
In the 70s Australia, my family consumed an instant coffee called Pablo, the label had a sleeping, ponchoed, sombreroed man under a palm tree. Racist caricatures abounded in the marketing of beverages grown from colonial plantations.
Yikes.
Added some additional photos here.
https://imgur.com/a/I0SXSkS
1980s. Quite a number of tins for sale online.
Before everyone gets too surprised, Lyons were using Black & White Minstrels, and it’s only recently that Uncle Ben’s changed their logo.
Sure t’is himself, the Tea Man, a.k.a. MR.TEA
Oof.
My grandmother sold those packets in her shop. She died in 1995 so it’s definitely no later than that. I think mid to late 80s.
Liking old vintage stuff is cringe now? OK. Tell us what’s cool then