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Island really wants that leaf juice though (lemmy.world)

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (5 children)

Look, I know it can be hard when the history of your country only goes back 200 years, but we didn’t invade India for the tea. There wasn’t any in India when we got there.

We started growing it there to reduce our dependency on Chinese tea, and in return we gave China a crippling opium addiction. And they gave us Hong Kong until 1999, or something.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (3 children)

The other reason is that the Brits REALLY wanted that newfangled tea - first by routing trade from China through the British East India Company, and then by growing tea directly in India itself in the 19th century.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Are you suggesting I should actually read the comments rather than just looking at the pretty pictures before posting? Crazy talk.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

As a fellow commenter who doesn’t read the other comments before commenting, i salute this comment.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

I know, wild, I'll try to restrain myself in the future

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