Hi! I bought a box of Lipton Vanilla Caramel Truffle tea today, and when I opened up the box, WOW! They are stored in little triangle bags that look just like N Scale fencing! Cool! One box should do ya for the entire layout!
<shudder> That would probably be the only thing I could enjoy about a box of "Vanilla Caramel Truffle" tea. All right, so I'm just a little slow to embrace change. Seriously, what a great discovery, Tony. I know what's going on my shopping list right now. And if I disagree with you, you'll be receiving a fresh new supply of vanilla caramel truffle tea in the mail soon.
...I'm in California... Hey, It's pretty good! I wonder how well the fabric holds up after it's been used? Hmmm...
I think this qualifies for a Great N-Scale Discovery Award. Right up there with--umm--umm--ahh . . . I'm not sure vanilla caramel truffle tea is going to be available in Albuquerque, but I'm sure going looking tomorrow. Any other flavors come in the same cage?
They have about 3 or 4 tea flavors in those bags . They all were tried by me . I will not buy them again though , not that they were so bad , but not what I liked more that my usual .
A sure sign of my tea drinking: my unopened "Brisk Lipton Tea" box, with 48 bags, was purchased at Stop-n-Shop. In the Boston area, in other words. Prior to our move in late 1991. Does tea age? Or just dry out?
I heard that in Boston they make tea with salt water... :bear-cute: It's amazing, the material is so transparent you can see right through it with very little distortion, just like a real chain link fence. It's WAY thinner and lighter than what we normally use, like wedding veil or stuff made from brass etchings. Strong too!
I happen to like that Celestial Seasonings Tangerine Orange Zinger, but I would buy a box just for the materials inside! At Plainview, there's a MOW tool area fenced-off....
Here is the web page for triangle bags... http://www.liptont.com/our_products/pyramid/index.asp Now, how can we ask Lipton for just a couple of yards of the raw bag material so we don't have to buy the tea? :tb-cool:
For me its Red Zinger. Keeps my auburn coiffure from being white... Not. I recently was given a 100 teabag box of Tetley or Lipton for free at a local supermarket. Maybe better open it to see if there's any fencing materials. If nothing else the bags could be used for straining acrylic paint. Ben
PG Tips in the UK also packages tea in pyramidal tea bags. I know I can get it at the local scottish shop. The advantage I would see is that the tea is of a sort I would actually drink. I can't hardly stand that "polluted" vanilla emerald wonderberry stuff. I like my tea dark and strong. It seems that there are wholesalers selling just the pyramidal tea bags, too. Maybe all interested should band together and form a buying entity, such as Tea Bag Fence Builders, LLC. Adam
TEA AS AN INDUSTRY The Thomas J. Lipton tea blending plant was just out the depot/ waterfront/ downtown area of Galveston I am in the process of modeling. I originally planned to model the Lipton plant. The plant took in tea from the far east, blended it, put in teabags and shipped out. I thought I could use it as a boxcar loads in/ boxcar loads out industry. Simplified prototype map: The facility was built by the Port of Galveston in 1951 to bring in Lipton as a customer, remained in operation in 1976 per a Port of Galveston annual report, and was gone from the 1992 Galveston City Directory, listed as a vacant property. Now the building is gone. I have decided NOT to model Lipton, since I have several other boxcar industries. Instead, I want to model the colorful shrimp fleet, close to its appropriate location, and ship reefers of seafood.
Ok i'm a little dense here, where is the fence material? Not a tea drinker so forgive me for not seeing the obviouse. Dave
It's the bag itself, which holds the tea, we are interested in. They make it in a small pyramid shape, and the plan is to cut the bag apart and use the resulting fabric to string in a frame to look like cyclone fencing.
You could use one of them for the I.M. Pei designed entry to the Louvre... if you are modeling Paris!
