Red Rose Tea

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Red Rose Tea is a beverage company established by Theodore Harding Estabrooks in 1894 in New Brunswick, Canada. Its orange pekoe tea is said to be made from only the top two leaves of each tea plant sprig, thus ensuring the best quality.

Red Rose's old commercials introduced the catchphrase, "Only in Canada, you say? Pity...." However, the tea has been available in the United States since the 1920s. Another slogan was "Red Rose Tea is Good Tea."

The brand is owned by Unilever in Canada, and by Redco in the U.S.

[edit] Red Rose Tea TV commercial

In the 1960's, the Marquis Chimps appeared in three television commercials for Red Rose Tea. The most popular one featured the chimps dressed in plaid suits playing a swinging jazz number in praise of Red Rose Tea. [1]

In 1972, Pittsburgh DJs Zeke Jackson and Frank "Crazy D" DiMino thought that the audio on the Red Rose Tea commercial was worth putting out on record. They obtained the rights to the song from Brooke Bond Foods and put out 1,000 copies of the tune on their own Gink label (Gink #9612). Same tune on both sides of the record.