In Britain, however, tea is inextricably woven into the fabric of everyday life. The proof is in the numbers: The British drink 100 million cups of tea every day.

The proof is in the numbers: The British drink 100 million cups of tea every day. That’s almost 36 billion cups per year, divided among British men, women and children (they start them young ...

This and other incidents led the British army to outfit, as soon as 1945, new Centurion tanks with "boiling vessels," special water boilers that allowed for shorter and safer tea and food breaks ...

Realizing the incredible opportunity, Wittmann essentially just drove his tank down the row of parked tanks, their crews all outside making tea or taking leaks or whatever, and destroyed tank ...

Tea bags range in weight from around 1.5g to 3g, so this shakes out to somewhere between 33 billion and 66 billion cups of tea. As there's such an enthusiasm for tea in the U.K., their bags tend ...

"We're a graying bunch, we tea drinkers, I'm afraid,'' Derek Cooper, a well-known British food writer in his 60s told the newspaper. Cooper was a tea lover, but his kids preferred coffee.

A Hindu servant serves tea to a European colonial woman in the early 20th century. The British habit of adding tea to sugar wasn't merely a matter of taste: It also helped steer the course of history.

In Britain, however, tea is inextricably woven into the fabric of everyday life. The proof is in the numbers: the British drink 100 million cups of tea every day.

The rise of tea and sugar as a power duo was a boon for British government coffers. By the mid-1700s, tea imports accounted for one-tenth of overall tax income, says Laudan, a visiting professor ...

As Lord Beckett, the villainous, tea-and-sugar-sipping agent of the British East India Company in the Pirates of Caribbean movies might have put it, "it's just good business." (Such good business, of ...