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 ...

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 raw, uncut Britishness I’m talking about is the fact that every British tank made since WWII has on-board equipment specifically designed to make tea. Latest News ...

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 ...

Those tea-and-sugar monies helped supply the British navy with better foodstuffs, Laudan says, including vegetables when available. And that navy was key to spreading British might across the globe.

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 ...

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.