Tea, dammit!

I addressed this a few years ago in a previous thread:

--scott

Can the followers of Wu-Wo Cha be that far behind:

Jim

Mel> I've heard people say tea won WW2 for the Brits...here we go again. >

"Melinda" wrote in news:11ej6arnto1j990 @corp.supernews.com:

Somehow it seems that the difference between the Watley's & Reuters' pieces is one of emphasis, not kind, despite the fact that one happened and the other didn't (sllegedly).

BTW, Scott, in your thread of years ago you forgot about the coffee- drinking Arabs and Berbers taking North Africa & Spain away from the watered-down wine drinking East Romans and beer-drinking Visigoths. Or for that matter how, in later centuries, the strong-coffee Turks whittled away at the remnants of the old Roman (Byzantine) Empire (who had switched to perfumed wine as their favorite tiple), finally taking their capitol (Constantinople, now Istambul) in 1453.

Maybe the relationship is between national drinks and military might is slightly more complex:

Tea > Coffee > non-distilled alcohol :-))

Ozzy

I've heard folks say it was the Americans ??

It was the Russians.

Jim

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