Oddest Tea Name I’ve Ever Seen: Evening in Missoula

I just saw a bag of the oddest named tea I’ve ever seen: Evening in Missoula from  Montana Tea & Spice. I’m not a big tea drinker so I don’t know a great deal about tea. However, I’ve never seen tea with a name like this.

I mean, I always tea was named exotic sounding things to suggest the luxurious and dreamy kind of experience that the tea was supposed to provide (outside more mundane descriptive named teas such as ginger peach or chamomile). I thought tea was supposed to be named things like Bengal Spice, or Three Gardens Breakfast. ‘Evening in Missoula’ doesn’t exactly evoke the same kind of imagery for me.

Sure, I’m sure Missoula is a nice place in Montana, trees and mountains or something like that. Still, I don’t exactly call up peaceful and luxurious images when I think of Missoula. Missoula: the city of dreams, said no one ever.

Perhaps I’m wrong. Perhaps Missoula is an extremely idyllic place and that just isn’t as well-known. However, if so, then it still is weird to put in a tea name like that since you need the name to be known in order to evoke the appropriate imagery.

Regardless, Montana Tea & Spice probably picked Missoula because they are a Montana company. Hence, they probably wanted to use Montana locations in their tea names to go with their identity as a Montana tea company. That’s probably the case, but that doesn’t make Evening in Missoula seem any less strange to me. I’ll probably just stick with coffee anyway.