I'm not a fucking limey but check this shit out about tea.

>Fucking up half the world for a drink
Literally the definition of based
>ywn be a proud subject of the queen ;_;

Kinda unrelated but why did brits drinked exclusively black tea when chinese drinked green tea? Was black tea a thing in China?

>>2006747
Not as it was like in the west, no. Chinese black tea was more of a fermented more bitter version.

>>2006717
>tfw sipping tea whilst being in the glorious commonwealth

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>>2006774
But if the brits discovered tea throught China, wouldn't they consume more green tea?

do american drink tea?

>>2006781
When it was first brought to England in the 1650's it was served as green tea. Over time it just evolved into a different way to prepare it.

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>>2006787
That might be a bit different, but tea is fairly popular in Canada but no where near as popular as coffee. In fact, one of the most popular brand of tea in Canada is a British one

>OP trivialises tea

Imagine for 100s of years your drinking options are alcohol or water. Sure you can get different types of alcohol but most of it would be local beer.

Then someone shows you this new thing fresh from the orient. Flavoured water. Water has never been more exciting, by adding different leaves to your water you can create different flavours.

Then imagine someone shows you sweet water.


Even today soft drink, energy drink, coffee and tea are popular.

Turns out water is kinda boring.

>>2006747
>>2006774
I'm pretty sure it existed, but was just called red tea in china. Black tea was its separate thing.

>>2006781
no because green tea isn't transportable for shit especially not for months on end in long voyages

Black tea is tea dried out with either heat or naturally that's why most fags outside China and Japan drink black tea more so than green tea

>>2006787
Yes all the time, however coffee is more popular. But generally speaking most people use these beverages as a way to deliver sugar into their mouth.

Also we love iced tea, which is known in some places is known as sweet tea. If an American asks for iced tea, for the love of freedom, don't serve it unsweetened.

>>2006680
Imagine all the guns and training the Qing could have bought in return for a fucking PLANT.

>>2006781
>>2006927
Green tea is astringent gook shit though

>>2006780

experiencing this feel.

>>2006680
Actually China was already addicted to opium but it was considered a minor issue because the stuff was so expensive that only the very wealthy could afford to indulge and even then only occasionally. What the British did was industrialize production and allow the product to be sold at a cheap price in unprecedented amounts.

Honestly though it serve the Chinks right for exploiting the British addiction to tea the way they did.

>Haha! you rikey tea? you pay top dorrar! We no likey your junk products. We onry accept sirver as payment!
>Oi m8, we 'ear you blokes like opium... Well we just so 'appen to 'ave some lyin' round. Care to buy some? We accept payment in tea. Silver too....
>NOOOO FIRTHY BRIT IMPERIARISTS YOU NO PRAY FAIR WE SUPPOSED TO SCAM YOU NOT YOU SCAM US THIS MEAN WAR

>>2007163
>peddling tea is comparable to peddling opium

am I reading this right?

>>2006814
>someone shows you flavoured water
Man, herbal tea was known and largely used long before tea arrived. Probably since the invention of hot water.

>>2007168
To brits it is.

>there are people on this board RIGHT NOW who don't put milk in their tea

Truly the most abhorrent of creatures.

>>2007180
but one is a addictive destructive opioid

and one is leaves in water (・_・ヾ

>>2007187
>putting milk in tea
>adding anything to tea
>ruining the glorious true tea flavour

Absolutely disgusting, utter blasphemy
don't tell me you add sugar as well

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>>2007187
>putting milk in tea
Is this an amerinigger thing?

>>2007168
Yes.
Exploiting the addictive properties of a product to make a profit is exploiting the addictive properties of a product to make a profit.

The Chinese just got in over their heads and were outplayed.

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>>2007187
Now answer this as if your life depended on it you dog, for it does!

Tea into milk or milk into tea?
Choose wisely friend....

>>2007198
As far as I know Americans are the only ones who don't put milk in tea.

>>2007209
u wot
heaps of brits and ausfags don't corrupt it with milk and sugar

>>2007204
Milk first, anyone who says otherwise is a fool and Irish.

>>2007204
>milk

>>2007201
Caffeine is hardly as addictive as morphine or codeine. Plus a society on uppers is much more productive than one on downers.

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>>2007198
In southeast asia we put milk and spices to tea

>>2007222
Irrelevant.
Chinese were acting like dicks and exploiting the British, therefore they have no grounds to complain when the tables are turned. Besides it's not like the Brits didn't have their own opium woes.

>>2007209
Sorry, what?

Tea + milk isn't common at all in China or Japan or really any of the Asian countries that tea originally came from. Not even with black tea. Sometimes in northern China or Tibet they add milk but it's not a mainstream practice in most of China.

Adding milk is a European practice.

>>2007215
>>2007231
I should probably rephrase that as Americans are the ones that never put milk in their tea.

>>2007231
>>2007224

>>2007235
this has gone some way towards reaffirming my faith in americans

>>2007239
What's your point? Tea didn't originally come from Southeast Asia, it was introduced there later (actually the plant itself does come from SE Asia, but it was first cultivated and made into tea in China, and the practice spread south centuries later). Even after it did it wasn't ever drunk with milk, that's a recent European innovation (and when milk is added to tea it's almost always Indian or Ceylonese tea, which has a bolder flavor than other black teas; milk isn't usually added to indigenously-produced SE Asian teas).

How much milk do you people put in your tea? I always drank tea without milk or sweetener, but milk seems interesting.

>>2007382
Just a splash of milk

>>2007231
Indians like sweet milky tea,My wife - from the USA orginally - thought the idea of milk in tea was (to use her exact expression) "Ewww" (I think I have the right number of 'w's there), until she tried it. Now she won't have it any other way.

>>2007194
Opium is just flower bud juice.

Check mate.

>>2007215
And "heaps" of them do.

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>>2006680

All this being the case how come nobody was killed over soda when it's clearly the superior beverage? I drink around three 20 oz bottles of coke every day.

>>2006933
Dont serve it to me sweetened or ill serve it right back at you buddy

>>2007833
The same for Thailand, Thai people love milky tea.

>>2006680
>Shit tier India
India was always one of the richest places on the planet and that the Brits managed to get it all to themselves is a masterpiece of imperialism.

It's like if I dunno the Dutch managed to conquer the entirety of Africa.

>>2007204
Milk into tea.

If I'm going to die it's better with the truth on my lips.

>>2007215
And we laugh at those people whenever we see them doing it.

>>2007198
Only women don't put milk in tea

>>2011898
>being so pussy he can't withstand astringency of tea

>>2009053
and heaps of americans corrupt it with ice and heaps of sugar (or any sugar)

>>2006680
The economics of war is actually kind of funny, if you try and study historical economics. Actually, that should be a university course.

>>2011930
>Being so much of a queer you have something to prove with your tea
Proper hard lads drink their tea with loads of milk and a shovel full of sugar.

>>2011965
blasphemy

I believe the only ones drinking tea today is Turks. Anyone know why?
They ONLY drink tea...

>>2012000
how do they have it?

>>2012010
Diabetes inducing.

>>2012010
Black tea with sugar or without.

>only civilized countries drink tea
discuss

>>2007187
Fuck you, why would I want my tea to taste less like tea?

>>2009073
Coca Cola has already won. I'm pretty sure it's the most consumed product on Earth.

>>2012221
>Indians
>T*rks
>Americans
Doesn't hold up. Almost got them quads.

>>2006949
for suhguman like you maybe

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>>2006680
>only exported to Japan. It's called Tu.
Nigga what.

Japan and Korea got tea, yes, and grew their own.

You know who else got tea?
>Silk Route. Fucking Turks did tea.
>THE TEA & HORSE ROAD going to Tibet/Nepal.

Brits confirmed for idiots.

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