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I find it interesting that Coffee shops have such a long standing history in London given that tea is basically the national drink.
by groundCode 10y ago
I find it interesting that Coffee shops have such a long standing history in London given that tea is basically the national drink.
- test1235 10y agoLondon is practically a country unto itself as far as customs and behaviours go.
- notahacker 10y agoThe coffee shops also served tea, and both were exotic novelties when the shops first opened. But tea became affordable as an everday drink for the common man much earlier because the British empire had access to so much of it. For all our famed fondness for tea, we make the top 50 for per capita coffee consumption ahead of some of the countries we import it from too.