We are the most tea-drinking country in the world afaik, Turkey. We’re fine, but one particular city (Erzurum) has a weird tradition of putting a sugar under th

We are the most tea-drinking country in the world afaik, Turkey. We’re fine, but one particular city (Erzurum) has a weird tradition of putting a sugar under the tongue and drinking the tea very hot to (probably?) dissolve it easily. They drink it almost out of the teapot, boiling-hot. They have very high rates of esophagous cancer.