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[–] [email protected] 22 points 8 months ago (4 children)

No we don’t. We don’t drink tea at all

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

Why of course we do. But we drink Yankee tea, which is a super concentrate of all tea leaves ever created. It's illegal in 36 countries and if you drink it you either meet god or you have a stroke. One of the two.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

I either buy my tea at a convenience store in a can, or i put it in a large jug of water, leave it out in the sun for a few hours and then drink it with ice and a bit of sugar.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago (2 children)

You kid, but I really do find this stereotype of Americans fascinating in it's persistence. Every supermarket I've been to in America during the last decade has a tea section that is double the size of the coffee section next to it. These stores wouldn't be stocking like that if Americans weren't buying a ton of tea, but yet the idea of America being a tea desert continues.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

The difference in coffee varieties is a lot more nuanced than tea flavors so it makes more sense for tea to have more space even if it isn't drunken as much. It depends a lot on what part of the country you're in too.

People who drink a lot of tea just have kettles though... I don't know where myth that US kettles are slow came from.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (2 children)

American kettles are slow because you use 120V mains.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

But coffee makers are nearly instant boil...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

My US kettle can boil water in the time it takes me to grind beans and rinse my v60 filter, so it's fast enough for me

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago (2 children)

it's not that they don't drink tea, it's that they drink it wrong

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

I don’t ever drink tea

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago (2 children)

I bet it drives you nuts that we folks in the southern US like to drink our tea sweet as hell and ice cold.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

I do lie awake most nights thinking about it

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

That's kind of ok actually, at least you're not pretending it's real tea.

(also it's delicious, so you've got that going for you)

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago

"Tea is for the sea not for me"