"Honestly, you could probably call it a craving it was problem-solving." "I was thinking, if (the milk) was hot enough, it would make the tea," she explains. Loria was just trying to find something she could drink that might help replace coffee for awhile. I asked her to make me an Earl Grey tea, but with skim milk."
"There was this young woman who worked there, she was awesome and we got to know her over time we got there.
A skeptical barista made her tea and milk concoction However, hot drinks and a caffeine fix still appealed to her, so she mused on what could replace her morning coffee. "I had severe morning sickness, so a lot of things didn't taste right," Loria explains. It was the kind of place they'd stop and have a coffee while out walking the dog or on the way to work, and when Loria was pregnant with her first child, Molly, that didn't stop, even though other things changed. Mary Loria came up with the London Fog when she was pregnant in Vancouver. "He started to supply Starbucks with their scones and fudge bars," Loria says. The coffee was good, she adds, but the baking was the reason to go there. "It was cute it was this nice, tiny cafe." "It was owned by a guy named Rene," Loria tells Vancouver Is Awesome. Others were created by experts, sometimes in a lab (hello, New Coke).Īnd one was invented by a pregnant woman at Vancouver's Buckwheat Cafe in 1997: The London Fog.Ī London Fog is a "tea latte," made with Earl Grey tea, steamed milk, and vanilla syrup or flavouring.īack in the mid-90s, Mary Loria was living in Vancouver, working at a paint-your-own-ceramics place and living nearby with her husband. Some famous drinks were invented so long ago and so far away that the identity of who came up with them is lost.
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