A US woman has sparked an international incident over her “British tea” videos on TikTok, with the US and UK ambassadors getting involved, as well as the UK military ...

Coffee and tea both landed in the British isles in the 1600s. In fact, java even got a head start of about a decade. And yet, a century later, tea was well on its way to becoming a daily habit for ...

Afternoon tea is a quintessential British tradition, combining elegance and indulgence with a selection of finger sandwiches, scones, and sweet treats. Served with perfectly brewed tea, it’s the ...

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 ...

Some wore floral dresses and oversized hats, others donned costumed attire, as to better coincide with the theme -- "Downton Abbey" -- at a "British Afternoon Tea" hosted by the ...

But part of black tea's wounded reputation today is also relative. The British, unlike their European counterparts in countries like France and Italy, don't have a history of coffee snobbism.

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 ...