Why Do We Drink So Much Tea?

[lyall]

I’ve been trying to find a new tea bag after the one I usually buy has been taken off the market. There is a dazzling array of tea & tea bags out there and it has made wonder why as a nation we drink so much tea?

[cupid04]

I love tea. It's refreshing. Even in the hot weather it quenches your thirst.
Plus I don't like coffee.

[Cloverjo]

I'm not mad about tea. I don't find it refreshing or great in anyway. I drink it at work if someone else is making it, but don't bother making it at home.

[lyall]

Must admit I don’t drink a lot of tea either, a couple of cups a week maybe, but when I do I’m fussy with what sort of tea I use. Cloverjo this was why I asked why as a nation we drink so much, because everyone is supposed to drink on average 3 and a half cups a day!! So who’s drinking mine?

[Connemmara]

tea isn'r what tea is used to be about// A docu recently done - should that tea shouod be "stewed" for 4 mins to get the real flavour

[janbee]

I love tea and drink more than my "3 cups " a day. I especially love the old Earl Grey.

[sandyRoe]

It's tea for me. I drink about 8 cups a day. Skimmed milk and no sugar.

Tea, although an Oriental,
Is a gentleman, at least;
Coffee is a cad and coward
Coffee is a vulgar beast

[TheOtherHalf]

I just love tea. Coffee seems to deaden the tastebuds somehow. We drink Yorkshire tea at work, of course but at home we drink Tick Tock tea. I do like some fruit teas though. A nice refreshing change. Long live TEA !!

[murraymints]

I drink a humongous amount of tea...Scottish blend....

[Brenden]

I love a cup a tea, I suppose it is like our national drink as coffee is to the USA -

[cazzz1975]

I think I am 90% composed of tea

[ummmm]

I only drink tea if I've ran out of coffee.

[EDDIE51]

Never drink it I loath the stuff , coffee for me. But it has to be decent coffee , I would rather just drink water than cheap coffee.

[Khandro]

'The first cup moistens my lips and throat;
The second cup breaks my lonliness;
The third cup searches my barren entrail but to find therin some
five thousand volumes of odd ideographs;
The fourth cup raises a slight perspiration- all the wrongs of life
pass out through my pores;
At the fifth cup I am purified;
The sixth cup calls me to the realms of the immortals;
The seventh cup - ah! but I could take no more! I only feel the
the breath of the cool wind that raises in my sleeves;
Where is Elysium? Let me ride on the sweet breeze and
waft away thither.'


Lu T'ung. T'ang Dynasty (AD 620-907)

[murraymints]

Khandro...lovleeee..

[Old_Geezer]

We tend to drink tea because our parents did so the 'national drink' goes on for another generation (although to be honest I drink much more coffee than tea).

Originally I suspect it was to do with having obtained tea plants from China and starting huge plantations in India. Gives an incentive to push it in the home country, which seems to have gone well for the tea retailers.

Now we have a lot of choice because there is a lot of demand and loads of companies want in on the profits.

[DaisyNonna]

Never, ever drink tea.

[humbersloop]

lyall, //So who’s drinking mine?//

probably me

[gness]

I was looking out the front window when a tremendous storm hit. The rain was pelting down and there was an elderly Indian lady outside getting soaked.
I went to the door and told her to come in til it finished..she refused. I begged her to come in...we were both getting soaked by now.
Eventually she gave in..but waving her arms and screeching..No Tea!!! No Tea!! You English always force tea on people when anything happens...I hate tea! I will come in if you don't make me drink tea!

[Old_Geezer]

I like a nice cup of tea in the morning,
just to start the day you see
and at half past eleven my idea of heaven
is a nice cup of tea.
I like a nice cup of tea with my dinner,
and a nice cup of tea with my tea,
and about this time of night
what goes down a treat, that's right
it's the Swedish au pair.

[i]only joking ;-)[i]

[DaisyNonna]

Whoever it is is more than welcome to my share.