![]() ![]() Her connection to the drink has been written about online, but she has no idea who wrote about it first. "The guy suggested a London Fog - I giggled and said 'I guess I should.'" ![]() "One day we were in there it was kind of later in the day, and I wanted something to drink but not coffee." "There's this super cute cafe here in town, Hide and Seek," she says. She actually works as a sessional instructor at the University of Victoria now in their arts department, and makes mugs herself. Her friends know about her history with London Fogs and joke about it, and it's come up when she orders drinks around Victoria, where she now lives. She makes her own mugs, but rarely drinks London Fogs It's a mystery she'd like to know the answer to if you have any clues about how the drink got its name, let us know. "Someone else fully formed the idea and named it London Fog." "I didn't come up with the name," she says. "It was kinda like 'oh I used to drink this drink.'"Īt first Loria didn't realize her connection to the drink, because the name wasn't something she recognized. "I feel like.I moved on from drinking them, then all of a sudden I saw them around," she says. The trend spread.Īs time went on and Molly was born, Loria's relationship to the drink lessened and before London Fogs were on the menu at every cafe she had returned to her old habits. Pleased with the drink she'd come up with, Loria went on to recommend others get the same drink and ordered it herself at other cafes around town. "I think she was skeptical of it I vaguely remember her being like 'are you sure?'" Loria says. "It worked, cause I continued to order them."Īfter getting her tea and steamed milk combo, she'd go over to the little mix station that had toppings people could add to their drinks and would sprinkle in vanilla sugar to her own taste. She regularly drank tea as well as coffee, so the idea made sense to her, a "natural blending." The barista wasn't convinced. "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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