This should last me one, perhaps even two weeks
this post was submitted on 14 Feb 2024
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I wonder what headline would the NY Times use if america would have a (Gasp!) Mcdonalds shortage...
Pigeon sweat.
I think there's some in Boston Harbor
Time to party!
I love that the (GASP) is actually in the New York Times headline.
Skydaddy group attacks ships, ships have to avoid area, cargo arrives late. 21st century news.
It's a bit more complicated than that, the skydaddy group is attacking ships because another skydaddy group is massacring people because another skydaddy group killed another bunch of people because another skydaddy group took their land because...
Weren't the skydaddy daddy group attacking ships prior to the other skydaddy groups murdering each other over a hunk of fucking desert?
You will have to be more specific on what year this skydaddy fighting happened but probably, certainly, yes.
Deserts and that one place everyone's skydaddy did something awesome so they all say they should own it and absolutely can not share it, like reasonable adults should be able to, are favorite things to fight over in the name of skydaddy.
A tea shortage in Britain‽
That's not going to go over very well
Using the Royal Navy to protect tea routes? It's like the 18th century again.
Let the hoarding begin!
Tetley isn't much of a loss but Yorkshire? Dark days ahead. Good thing I'm stocked up.
Is it really that good or is it just a meme?
If so is it good compared to other cheap brands or as good as the stuff I can buy in dedicated tea shops?
Is the best of the standard supermarket brands. You could normally get something better at a tea shop, but even in the UK they are not exactly common.
American here. My wife bought a box of Yorkshire Tea Gold. I must have done something wrong because that shit was strong enough to strip paint.
Buy it for the meme. Keep it because when you stir in sugar it spits the spoon back at you and laughs.
Seriously? I've always been afraid of the English. They colonized America before, you know. Luckily we fought them back. Now they are infiltrating our media: Margot Robbie, Liam Hemsworth, that weird donkey that stands on two legs and kicks the snot out of fools.
You… you know Margot Robbie and Liam Hemsworth are both Australian, right? Like, the Hemsworths are famously Australian
...leans over They all sound the same.
Right, you listen here Mr Royal Horticultural Society Jack, I'm going to have to have words with you...
The real reason the fear the English is their tea.
I'm sure I made a mistake while I was making it but the fact that I might have done it right and that's what they actually drink is ... unsettling.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
For a country of morning-and-night tea drinkers, even the suggestion of a shortage of the household staple can elicit a nervous gulp.
So there might have been more than a few people spooked when signs in some Sainsbury’s grocery stores this week warned customers that supply issues had affected the “nationwide” availability of black tea, as Houthi attacks on commercial vessels in the Red Sea caused shipping delays.
The largest share of tea imports to Britain from outside the European Union comes from sub-Saharan Africa, followed by Asia and Oceania, according to Statista, a market research provider.
The attacks have left long-haul shipping companies with a difficult choice: Either reroute around Africa, adding two to three weeks to the journey, or continue through the Suez Canal, which handles about 12 percent of global trade, via the Red Sea and deal with the risk of coming under attack, as well as added insurance premiums.
Expensive to buy at the time, it became a trendy drink among the wealthy in Britain, eventually spreading more widely to coffeehouses in the nation and then to supermarket shelves.
Even how the drink should be prepared caused a trans-Atlantic bristle recently, after an American chemistry professor suggested adding a pinch of salt when brewing a cup.
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