Just booked a ticket for England to visit my mother. We are certain to have endless cups of tea.
Wikipedia states, “after water, tea is the most widely-consumed beverage in the world”. This can’t be true for England. I suspect that they consume much more tea than water. Apparently the British have been drinking tea since the 1660’s when King Charles ll married a Portuguese princess with a tea habit.
Tea doesn’t have to be a big deal. Almost everyone knows how to put a tea bag in a cup with some hot water. It is nice, however, to have a good looking teapot and go through the ceremony of ‘hotting the pot’ (which means swishing some hot water in it beforehand to rinse it out and heat it up), adding some loose tea and letting it steep (stand for a while). My mother would argue that tea always tastes better this way.
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