# Help me rename my Lady Grey tea blend **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 17, 2012, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-rename-my-lady-grey-tea-blend/619093 "2012-04-17T22:56:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![An\_Gadai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@An\_Gadai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Gadai)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2012, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-rename-my-lady-grey-tea-blend/619093/41 "2012-04-18T23:51:31Z")
Earl Flynn ---
**Author:** ![foolsguinea](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foolsguinea/32/14751_2.png) [@foolsguinea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foolsguinea)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2012, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-rename-my-lady-grey-tea-blend/619093/42 "2012-04-18T23:53:41Z")
Angeline Grey Marchioness of Mist Marquise de Mauve ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2012, 10:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-rename-my-lady-grey-tea-blend/619093/43 "2012-04-19T10:49:42Z")
> [@jsgoddess](#): > > I instantly appended a “dilly, dilly” to that. 😃 > [@Lord\_Mondegreen](#): > > Veuve Gris Amber Gris ---
**Author:** ![Meurglys](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/258eb7/32.png) [@Meurglys](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meurglys)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2012, 12:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-rename-my-lady-grey-tea-blend/619093/44 "2012-04-19T12:21:33Z")
Alien Grey? ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2012, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-rename-my-lady-grey-tea-blend/619093/45 "2012-04-19T16:38:22Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > Okay, a more serious suggestion. Go historical and call it [Jane Grey](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Grey). Aaaw…I was going to suggest this one, too. OK, if not Jane, then [Jean](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Grey)! ---
**Author:** ![hogarth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hogarth/32/1773_2.png) [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2012, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-rename-my-lady-grey-tea-blend/619093/46 "2012-04-19T16:45:03Z")
How about “Erin Gray”? ---
**Author:** ![secretsmile36](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c67d28/32.png) [@secretsmile36](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/secretsmile36)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2012, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-rename-my-lady-grey-tea-blend/619093/47 "2012-04-19T16:54:31Z")
Earl Milli Vanilli tea. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2012, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-rename-my-lady-grey-tea-blend/619093/48 "2012-04-19T17:26:07Z")
> [@Tengu](#): > > Aaaw…I was going to suggest this one, too. > > OK, if not Jane, then [Jean](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Grey)! I don’t know. I’ve had Jean Grey tea and Madelyne Pryor tea and Phoenix Force tea. They tell me they’re all different but they taste identical to me. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2012, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-rename-my-lady-grey-tea-blend/619093/49 "2012-04-19T17:42:32Z")
> [@Lord\_Mondegreen](#): > > Veuve Gris Picking up on this, the Italian translation of Earl Grey has a nice ring to it: Conte Grigio However, there’s no good Italian tie-in, so I don’t know why’d you’d want to name it that. ---
**Author:** ![aruvqan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aruvqan/32/2891_2.png) [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2012, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-rename-my-lady-grey-tea-blend/619093/50 "2012-04-19T17:58:55Z")
> [@pulykamell](#): > > Picking up on this, the Italian translation of Earl Grey has a nice ring to it: > > Conte Grigio > > However, there’s no good Italian tie-in, so I don’t know why’d you’d want to name it that. Hm, though lavender is specific to the south of France, anything provincial you can think of? ---
**Author:** ![Gary\_Robson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gary_robson/32/3448_2.png) [@Gary\_Robson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gary_Robson)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2012, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-rename-my-lady-grey-tea-blend/619093/51 "2012-04-20T02:32:41Z")
> [@aruvqan](#): > > Hm, though lavender is specific to the south of France, anything provincial you can think of? Actually, the lavender I use in this blend is a Tibetan wild lavender. ---
**Author:** ![Gary\_Robson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gary_robson/32/3448_2.png) [@Gary\_Robson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gary_Robson)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2012, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-rename-my-lady-grey-tea-blend/619093/52 "2012-04-20T04:48:27Z")
After extended pondering of the excellent selection of names suggested here and by my friends on Facebook, Twitter, and Wordpress, I am pleased to announce that our Lady Grey tea is now known as “Lady Greystoke,” as suggested by **Czarcasm** in post 29. John Clayton, Earl Greystoke (a.k.a. Tarzan) married Jane Porter in _Return of Tarzan_, by Edgar Rice Burroughs, thus becoming Lady Greystoke. Since the tea bar is part of our bookstore, we appreciated the literary allusions of the name, and the subtle connections back to the “other” lady Grey: Lady Jane Grey, the Nine-Day Queen. Thanks for all of the suggestions! If we end up using any of them for other Earl Grey blends, I will let you all know. **Czarcasm** , if you’d like a sample of the tea you named, shoot me a PM and I’ll mail you some. ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2012, 5:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-rename-my-lady-grey-tea-blend/619093/53 "2012-04-20T05:02:51Z")
Nice choice! Now, what I really want to know is… do you have any coconut chai? 😃 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-rename-my-lady-grey-tea-blend/619093.md?page=2)