One of the more memorable ads had a 007 soundtrack with a chimp from the "British Secret Tea Service", dressed in a smart white jacket and black bow-tie announcing in a no nonsense fashion, "My name is Bond, Brook Bond." Promoted as "the tea you can really taste," the ads featured the voices of Stanley Baker and Peter Sellers, but the real stars were the chimpanzees.
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This song was much later adapted by Brook Bond to promote their "D" (Dividend) brew of tea with F1 star Jackie Stewart and his wife Helen courageously warbling, "My idea of heaven is a nice cup of D." Monkey businessīrook Bond arguably had the most entertaining TV tea ads. Binnie incidentally is a nickname for Beatrice. It featured creative lyrics from AP Herbert including "the public benefactor of the universe for me/is the genius who thought of pouring water onto tea." You can hear her singing it on YouTube. Then in 1937 Binnie recorded A Nice Cup Of Tea, which became popular during the war. She could perform anything from music hall songs to serious operatic numbers and in the stage version of No, No Nanette she sung the iconic Tea For Two. Binnie's brewĪ lady I should have mentioned last week was the multi-talented Binnie Hale, an English actress singer and dancer who in the 1930s did much to popularise tea drinking in Britain. So now we know where the expression to pay "tea money" comes from. Now that was a far cry from a 2,000 baht fine, so the Aussie nipped into a nearby 7-11 and returned with four bottles of cold green tea which he handed over to the officials. but took an unusual turn when one official suddenly announced "we like green tea". The journalist's explanation that there weren't any litter bins fell on deaf ears and they walked back to a pavement booth where there were several other officials. The Aussie was informed he must pay a 2,000 baht fine for littering forthwith.
After making his transaction he came out of the bank only to be greeted by the diligent official waving the rogue cigarette stub at him. In the absence of bins, when he reached the bank he resorted to stubbing his cigarette into the dirt of a large potted plant before heding inside. He soon became aware that a uniformed gentleman was following him and, suspecting the motives, looked for a litter bin where he could dispose of the cigarette. After getting off a train at Nana BTS station he lit a cigarette and headed towards a bank on Sukhumvit. I was also reprimanded for not mentioning "tea money", something I'll attempt to address immediately.Ībout 10 years ago an Australian newspaper colleague had an interesting encounter with the thesakit, or "cigarette police" as they are not so fondly referred to in Bangkok. There were assorted inspiring tales of eccentric tea ladies, quirky tea-time habits and important song lyrics I had overlooked. Thanks to readers for their entertaining comments and emails on last week's PostScript concerning the delights of drinking tea.
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