Switzerland - Ice tea

Ice tea has been invented during the world exhibition in St. Louis/Missouri in 1904. The Englishman Richard Blechynden who was responsible for the stall of the tea merchants, was mandated to convince the americans to drink indian black tea. This proved to be a very difficult task, given the high summerly temperatures. He ingeniously decides to pour the hot tea over ice cubes, this ceating the "iced tea", which rapidly becomes a magnet of the exhibition.
In Europe, Ice tea becomes popular in the 90ies and in the following, we describe how the Eistee from Länggass-Tee made it came to Bern.
Länggass-Tee was founded in 1983 in the former workers quarter of town, which, at that ime, was still a quite place of the city of Bern, which sits loosly held in the loop of the river Aare. In the hot summer, only the most arduous tea-drinkers find tehir way to the shop, everyone else is found in the river, where the people dot the water. This, of course, calls for an iced tea. To think that ice tea is simply tea gone cold, is quite mistaken. When the tea is shock-cooled, it keeps its colour, its rich aroma and its various components. The same is true of ice teas that have been cold infused, instead of pouring hot water over them.