28/04/08 22:58
Paris: The times are changing in Paris, where a luxury foodstore is offering a "May 68" brand of tea to commemorate riots 40 years ago in which anti-capitalist students hurled cobblestones at police.
"Tea with a flavour of revolution", says the chic Fauchon in a statement announcing the launch of the collector item.
The tea, flavoured with lemon zest and rose petals, is packaged in a metal tin emblazoned with the image of a student with a raised fist and slogans from the riots such as It is forbidden to forbid and Poetry is in the street. The cost is 15 euros ($23.5) for 100 grams of tea.
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I am having some trouble thinking of lemon zest and rose tea as the 'flavour of revolution.' -jake
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