What's with the tea?

A nice cuppa always cheers me up :D

Count your blessings not your curses - My Grandma

God bless John Paul II

All war represents a failure of diplomacy - Tony Benn

This is entirely accurate. I'm convinced that some of my older relatives run on tea the way cars run on petrol (sorry: gasolene). Tea is drunk throughout the day here: morning, noon and night. Some pople will easily drink seven, eight, ten cups a day. It's quite normal to drink tea with fish and chips, the way others have water or Coke or beer. And then you can have another cuppa at the end - forget coffee. It is well known that a cuppa is the very best drink to offer someone who has suffered shock, trauma or bereavement. Better even than booze, they say, though I've never quite been convinced of that.

I myself hardly ever drink tea, to be honest. But there really are times - when it's cold and raining, and you've been out shopping, and the buses were packed, and your feet are aching - when nothing, but nothing, else will do the trick.

And yes, our bladders are healthily active, thank you very much for asking.

Much of Britain's industrial revolution and empire was, quite literally, built on tea.

When we started packing people together in close areas, like factory towns during the industrial revolution, water borne diseases became a real killer. The trade in tea became a great reason to ply the oceans whichh again helped build the Empire. Quite powerful stuff and it had a big impact on Britain and hence the world. Which is why we are all writing in English (or mispelt English if you are an American, thru and thru).

To kill all germs in water you need to boil it for about 5 minutes, just bringing it to the boil does little but give them a hot bath. Hardy buggers some germs ! However, tea is a natural antisceptic (or should that be disinfectant :) which kills off the little blighters Thankfully, the Martians in War of the Worlds didn't drink tea :)

A cup of tea is the safest thing to drink if you don't trust the local water. Coffee just does not hack it. Tea probably saved millions of lives over the years by making dodgy water safe to drink and it became a part of British culture, at least for the older generation. Sadly many now drink Coca Cola or whatever, hence the problems with obesity and bad teeth.

Tea seems quite addictive but does some good (or prevents harm) to those that drink it. Sweet tea calms people down because of the sugar, I am not quite sure why ? As far as I know Coca Cola does nothing but harm, at least since they stopped putting cocaine in it :-(

Personally, I despise tea but my parents consume it by the gallon. I drink Coffee and Coca Cola and hate myself for my weakness :-(

If you have seen _The Rutles_, you will get the joke even more when you realise how much tea is a part of British life.

It's a working class thing! I had thought it was a Northern thing until i moved to London. Seriously, it did make me think about the way a cup of tea can be symbolic of comfort and it was interesting reading others interpretations here.

The strange thing is that it will be almost 100 degrees out and people are still drinking hot tea! The British and their subjects love their tea!

but don't you know? a cuppa solves (or soothes) EVERYTHING! this was extremely accurate

tea is the most english thing eva,very nice drink and also it does help calm,

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