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[–] thorbot@lemmy.world 22 points 2 years ago (13 children)

No we don’t. We don’t drink tea at all

[–] lukecooperatus@lemmy.ml 8 points 2 years ago (9 children)

You kid, but I really do find this stereotype of Americans fascinating in it's persistence. Every supermarket I've been to in America during the last decade has a tea section that is double the size of the coffee section next to it. These stores wouldn't be stocking like that if Americans weren't buying a ton of tea, but yet the idea of America being a tea desert continues.

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[–] PrettyFlyForAFatGuy@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 years ago (4 children)

it's not that they don't drink tea, it's that they drink it wrong

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[–] DragonAce@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I bet it drives you nuts that we folks in the southern US like to drink our tea sweet as hell and ice cold.

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[–] PrettyFlyForAFatGuy@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 years ago

I do lie awake most nights thinking about it

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[–] thegiddystitcher@lemm.ee 3 points 2 years ago

That's kind of ok actually, at least you're not pretending it's real tea.

(also it's delicious, so you've got that going for you)

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[–] thorbot@lemmy.world 1 point 2 years ago

I don’t ever drink tea

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[–] fidodo@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago (3 children)

The difference in coffee varieties is a lot more nuanced than tea flavors so it makes more sense for tea to have more space even if it isn't drunken as much. It depends a lot on what part of the country you're in too.

People who drink a lot of tea just have kettles though... I don't know where myth that US kettles are slow came from.

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