Question: Why do the British like their tea so much?

Answer: Because it's made properly!

I love tea, in fact, I claim to not be able to operate (no I am not a surgeon) until I have had at least 2 cups in the morning. 

Tea is comforting, warm, relaxing.  If any of my friends are in need I usually put a cup of tea in front of them. (The exception here is when wine is called for!) 

Tea is an enabler, it encourages us to communicate. 

For me, you don't get that from Coffee, coffee is an on the go kind of a drink, one that creates a buzz so much so that you can't really hear what the other person is saying!

So, if you don't think that you like tea, come on over and like a true Brit, I will make you a brew properly. 

If you're lucky, I might even have one of my cakes on the go too!

A Few Tea Facts:

• Tea breaks are a tradition that have been with us for approximately 200 years.


• 80% of office workers now claim they find out more about what's going on at work over a cup of tea than in any other way.

• By the middle of the 18th Century tea had replaced ale and gin as the drink of the masses and had become Britain's most popular beverage.

• Tea contains half the amount of caffeine found in coffee.

• The number of recommended cups of tea to drink each day is 4, this gives you optimal benefit.

• Tea was created more than 5000 years ago in China.

• Tea is a natural source of fluoride that can help protect against tooth decay and gum disease

• The first book about tea was written by Lu Yu in 800 A.D

• Tea firstly appeared in Europe thanks to Portuguese Jesuit Father Jasper de Cruz in 1560.

• Tea has potential health maintenance benefits in cardiovascular disease and cancer prevention.

• 96% of all cups of tea drunk daily in the UK are brewed from tea bags.

• Apart from tourism, tea is the biggest industrial activity in India.

• 98% of people take their tea with milk, but only 30% take sugar in tea.

Interesting article about tea:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A61345