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re: Why is tea considered English, Curry is still foreign/imported, but both come from India?
Posted on 7/16/20 at 6:00 pm to cokebottleag
Posted on 7/16/20 at 6:00 pm to cokebottleag
Tea is from China. The British We’re the first to turn it into a plantation crop and started growing it in India to avoid paying the Chinese for it. Though it’s not grown in the British Isles they really created the market.
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Posted on 7/16/20 at 6:11 pm to PatrickChewing
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Tea is from China. The British We’re the first to turn it into a plantation crop and started growing it in India to avoid paying the Chinese for it. Though it’s not grown in the British Isles they really created the market.
You do realize that tea, like anything else, is not based on just where countries exist now.
NE India and SW China both have natural tea crops.
What the British did on a political/economic basis is a different story.
Posted on 7/16/20 at 6:42 pm to PatrickChewing
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British Isles they really created the market.
The other thing is that tea (and coffee and chocolate) exploded in popularity across Europe in the 17th & 18th centuries, when they were combined with plentiful, cheap sugar from British colonies like Barbados and Jamaica.
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