Non-Alcoholic Drinks
Non-Alcoholic Drinks Pictures
Sometimes you just don’t want booze, so we have tea pictures, coffee pictures and other beverage pictures to quench that thirst for the right image.Remember that our pictures, like drinks, come in all shapes and sizes, so you can have your drink picture at the size you need, and framed in any way you want. Click on the image below to reveal posters, photographs, prints, illustrations, cartoons and much more.
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'There are three intolerable things in life - cold coffee, lukewarm champagne, and overexcited women.' Orson Welles
If you look elsewhere on this site you may get the impression that Lord Price is a hedonist who spends his time boozing and debauching. This is far from the truth, or he wouldn't be the ectomorph that he is. He balances his excesses with sensible consumption and sports. In fact his body is a temple. The drinks we feature here form part of a sensible regime and complement gourmet sessions, but remember, as Oscar Wilde said: 'Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.' Tea is the quintessentially English drink. Tea's popularity in Britain led to a significant trade deficit with China, the original principal source. To balance that trade Britain did the logical thing - produced opium in India and smuggled it into China! The Chinese, not unreasonably, were none too happy with the deleterious effect this had on their people and so sought to outlaw the opium trade. Hence the Opium Wars of 1840 to 1843 and 1856 to 1860. In the spirit of imperial fair play that was so pervasive at the time, France joined the second war on the British side. Over time tea came to be produced elsewhere in the Empire, especially in India, Sri Lanka and East Africa. Its consumption became part of an important social ritual and even got its own name - tiffin, See Carry on up the Khyber for a fuller description. The complexity of tea preparation even merited an essay by George Orwell - 'A nice cup of tea' - in which he described his eleven golden rules, the most important of which is that the water must be boiling and the pot must be taken to the kettle. Coffee by contrast is associated with America and continental Europe (ie those unfortunate enough never to have been in the Empire, or, when they had the opportunity, decided to leave). Its popularity in the United States is supposedly a continuation of the response to the imposition of unfair import taxes that led to the Boston Tea Party. Real coffee is such an institution in Italy that even Starbuck's has yet to make inroads there, and of course what can be better than finishing a fine meal in a Paris restaurant with an Havana cigar and a French coffee? Even the British are not immune to coffee's charms - early London financial institutions such as The Stock Exchange began in the coffee houses of the City in the 17th and 18th centuries. Coffee and tea are fine drinks but they do contain caffeine and are stimulants, so a range of alternatives were developed, particularly by the Victorians, who were such keen marketeers. Lord Price's reach is great so our portfolio contains adverts for other beverages Bovril, Ovaltine, Chocolate and, perhaps most poignantly of all, an Oxo advert which was published some months after Captain Scott's death in the Antarctic but before news had reached home. 'If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.' Abraham Lincoln | ||||