Ha! Noreen, Red Rose Tea and Resdan are among an elite and small list of items that are supposedly "only available in Canada"! Both of them were flogged under that motto for years and years on Canadian TV...the Red Rose Tea ads in particular were quite funny.

Resdan is an anti-dandruff product. I've never used it, nor have I spoken to anyone who admits to having used it, but it got a lot of advertising for a few decades there...

Red Rose Tea was immortalized in the TV ads as supposedly being "better than any British tea"! This is very funny, because it's the absolute bargain basement, cheapest, most mediocre tea you can possibly buy. Every cheap Canadian restaurant and greasy spoon has Red Rose Tea as its standard tea of choice. It's wretched stuff.

Now, I know that Gnu is a red-blooded Canadian lad, so I am quite sure that he has consumed enough Red Rose Tea to float the Titanic (assuming the holes were plugged and the stern reattached), and I'm sure he's at least well aware of the existence of Resdan, even if he hasn't used it.

These 2 things alone are enough to confer full manhood and adult sophistication on any Canadian male, eh?

Knowing your hockey statistics and Canadian beer brands helps too, eh?

Does that clear it up?

- LH