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Date: 2008-02-18 08:07 pm (UTC)
Americans aren't supposed to take tea at all. No taxation without representation, remember? (Actually, there are some fascinating cultural implications for coffee versus tea -- coffee is strong, American, New World, and tea is weak, English, Old World -- it's very much a remnant of the days when Britannia ruled the waves and thought it could suck India dry -- and don't forget that coffeehouses rather than alehouses made possible the Enlightenment -- it's much easier to think up notions like individualism and liberty and whatnot when you're fired up on caffeine rather than vomiting from mushy alcoholic brew.
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