World War II breaks out, so what does Britain do?
Buys up all the tea.
“In huge amounts. One estimate is that the largest government purchases in 1942 were, in order of weight, bullets, tea, artillery shells, bombs and explosives.”
That said, tea was powerful symbolically and practically. Churchill is reputed to have called tea more important than ammunition. He ordered that all sailors on ships have unlimited tea.
Note. British tanks as standard come with a BV, short for boiling vessel. An onboard kettle so you can make tea after a battle.
Tea and Britain is as close an association as Korea and its love of kimchi.
And how to make it:
That's Britain for you. Tea solves everything. You're a bit cold? Tea. Your boyfriend has just left you? Tea. You've just been told you've got cancer? Tea. Coordinated terrorist attack on the transport network bringing the city to a grinding halt? TEA DAMMIT!
— LiveJournal user jslayeruk
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