To say it was just tea taxes is a bit of an oversimplification. The Boston Tea Party had a lot more to do with protecting local business from domination by a foreign corporation. If it was simply over taxes it wouldn't be as important to the independence movement.
Do teagbags float? I don't drink the stuff, but if it floats, there would be a surface layer of water that turned to tea in the sun, and that water would be darker in color, and then warm faster...I think there'd be a film of tea, for a while, especially if they'd waited until summer. Now I'm also wondering what that much sugar would do to the ecosystem of the harbour.
Not to mention that the tea being tossed into the harbour was bricks of compressed tea leaves. Little ability for even the tide to agitate the leaves nearly enough in that state.
Fun Fact: The primary reason that America became a coffee drinking culture nation instead of a tea drinking culture nation was because of the taxes on tea. Prior to that, tea was the non-alcoholic beverage of choice in the colonies. After the war, and well, coffee was still cheaper and more available and drinking coffee instead of tea that hand the hands of the British empire possibly involved in it was seen as more patriotic and a snub to the British Empire.
I am a firm believer in the Chinese method of tea-making-don’t boil the water, steep for less than a minute, no milk or sugar, reuse the leaves to get a slightly different flavor profile each time. That said, I’m really glad you’ve accounted for the tides here, since that’s something I was curious about; and after watching this I recommend y’all check out Tom Scott’s video on the ISO standard for a cup of tea, which doesn’t make good tea, but it does make consistently replicable tea.
Wow, I just took out this tube that is supposed to have tea inside with Chinese symbols on it. I was wondering whether I'm doing it right. Took hot water, spoon of the thing that turned out to be water-sucking leaves. Removed the leaves after a while and now I'm drinking it and its kinda meh, no sugar included. I was going to read something about how to make a tea later. Meanwhile, I have put down the book I was reading, went to YT, found this video and then your comment. That's some coincidence right there. Pretty neat. Thank you for the info. Btw, just finished the tea, was getting a bit cold.
Hmmm, so Unicron or Galacticus could use the Great Lakes to make a yuge mug of thé, instead. Or, ya know, just crack the planet open and drink its molten core... 😄
there is no core in a geometric Manda Blani lanigiro shaped plante on like the one whre the repitilians come from , hence no core, if you dont believe me , id love to hear you talk about your theorie on the rie or rye in its grandma !
Milk and sugar in tea? Proper classic brits will say no, never. But it really comes down to the tea. Earl grey, no, mint tea, yes sugar no milk, orange pekoe get both... and so on, each tea is different and it really depends on the tea blend. My personal favorites for tea are chamomile with lemon and sugar at night or mint with sugar in the morning/noon.
