As we all know, British people are addicted to tea, and people from other countries also like to use this meme to tease them:
"Guess who is the British?"
(This picture is taken from Pinterest)
Mr. Sang: Dislikes the face
Li Jihong: Didn't I drink tea? What did I do wrong? ? ?
(This picture comes from Maoyan Entertainment)
(This picture comes from Sina Weibo @月国有有)
(This picture comes from BuzzFeed)
The history of British people drinking tea can be traced back to the early 17th century, when tea was first introduced to the UK by East India Company . Historians have also argued about the reasons and ways of spreading tea in the UK. Quan Ge only chose a relatively high recognition here.
"Why are British people so addicted to drinking tea?" (The picture comes from the laughingsquid website)
Stage 1: Only aristocrats can afford to drink
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Charles II's wife Braganza's Catherine (Catherine of Braganza), it is generally believed that she made the custom of drinking tea popular among aristocratic women (Picture from Wikipedia) Stage 2: The middle class joined the tea drinking ranks
By the 18th century, as the scale of imported tea in Britain increased rapidly, the price of tea became gradually more affordable, and many middle classes also began to have the ability to consume tea. The price of tea dropped sharply between 1720 and 1750, and this stage is considered to be one of the important turning points in the history of tea drinking in the UK.
(Picture source from tea.co.uk)
Stage 3: The working class can afford to drink
By the beginning of the 19th century, the price of tea was already cheaper than beer, so the working class can afford it. After more than two hundred years, tea finally became the "national beverage" of the UK.
(Picture from tea.co.uk)
The custom of drinking tea with sugar probably originated in the late 17th and early 18th centuries to properly balance the bitterness of tea. But soon the aristocratic class felt that adding sugar would affect physical health, so the custom of adding milk was born.
(Image from Lisbeth eats website)
Of course, this is also controversial. Some British people say differently:
"In the early days, many people couldn't afford good tea sets. Adding milk was to prevent excessively high-temperature tea from burning tea sets"
"No reason, tradition is like this"
"God originally thought that tea should be drunk with milk, and he chose to pass this secret to the British"
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Issues related to the origin of history You British are so casual
Of course, there are still many people who drink tea and add sugar. Although there are some sayings that the amount of sugar added is inversely proportional to social class and income, that is, the more sugar you add to tea, the lower the income and the lower the class...
The Daily Mirror reported it, by the business magazine The A survey initiated by Grocer shows that low-income people have two more pieces of sugar to drink tea than high-income income.
The reason is that most low-income people are engaged in physical labor, so they need to supplement sugar and energy...
(Picture from 123rf website)
In addition, just like Chinese foodies argue with each other for many years about issues such as "Is the tofu brain sweet or salty?" and "Is the rice dumplings wrapped in candied dates bean paste or fresh meat ham":
This picture is controversial, for reference only (Picture from Sohu) As a country that can drink 165 million cups of tea every day, the UK has also argued about a problem for decades and has not stopped, and even made posters and wrote articles to "defend" their own views -
When drinking tea, should we add milk first or tea first? ? ?
Tea: Add me first! Milk: Add me first! "Milk Tea": I love both of you (pictures are from the Daily Mirror) "What's the thing? What's there to argue about??" Maybe it's the reaction of some friends now...
Don't misunderstand it, after all, according to statistics from the British Tea and Infusions Association, 98% of British people drink tea and milk!
They began to argue about this issue around the mid-20th century, and of course no one could say anything.
First add Tea Party , representative figure: George Orwell (George Orwell
In 1946, this famous writer wrote an article titled "A Nice Cup of Tea", explaining 11 "golden rules" for drinking tea (Here are my own eleven rules, every one of which I regard as golden.). Among them, the question of adding milk or tea first is mentioned.
(Picture from Flickr)
Although he said in the article, "There is no doubt that every British family may have both the 'tea first party' and 'milk first party' (indeed in every family in Britain there are probably two schools of thought on the subject), but I am a firm "tea first party" - "If you put tea first, you will know very well how much milk you should add; on the contrary, if you add milk first, you will easily add more (one can exactly regulate the amount of milk whereas one is liable to put in too much milk if one does it the other way round).
(Picture from Brain Pickings website)
First milking party, representative organization: Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)
RSC published an article in 2003 called "How to Make a Perfect Cup of Tea", which specifically emphasizes the point of "adding milk first":
"In order to make a cup of tea with rich and attractive color, add milk first, and then add tea"
(Picture is taken from How to Make a Perfect Cup of Tea, Tea)
And some scientific research also supports their view that adding hot tea to the milk will cause protein degeneration in the milk.
promotes "add milk first" poster (the picture comes from the Sao Mai Center website) According to a survey initiated by market research company yougov this year, most British people are more accustomed to adding tea first and then milk:
"Most British people think they should add milk last"
79% of British people agree to add milk last (the picture comes from yougov's official website) The statements of netizens on Twitter seem to further confirm this point. Looking around, they are basically "tea first and milk parties":
@mbplumbers: If it is a tea bag, add milk at the end. (PS: 96% of British people drink tea bags)
@Eddie_Sykes001: If you add milk first when drinking tea or coffee, then we can't be friends.
@SJWhite_: If you add milk first when drinking tea, or add tea bags and milk together, you are absolutely wrong.
@whitebox_uk: Add milk first? ! My mom, how long have you been doing this?
(the above four pictures are screened from Twitter)
and the word "drinking tea" has other meanings in contemporary Chinese media, and there are other metaphors in English...
urban dictionary shows that in some cases the word is synonymous with sex:
(the picture is screened from urban dictionary)
and "sipping The word tea (sip tea) has two meanings: 1. Drink tea while obtaining information, which is often used in the context of listening to celebrity gossip, that is, "watching plays"; 2. Deliberately sip tea loudly to express contempt/insult others:
(the above two pictures are screenshot from urban dictionary)
Well, when you feel you can't continue chatting next time, just throw it to the other party's list of characters:
(the above three animated pictures are from the WeChat public account @全全全全全)
(Original title: The British version of the sweet and salty battle: How to add milk to tea? It turns out that it is still related to class?)
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