I'm just gonna say it: Compared with #Tea cultures in places like China, Japan, India, Morocco and others all around the world, British tea culture is just boring.
Tea is hugely diverse in the different types of tea leaves, how it is grown, how it is prepared, how it is drank and the significance attached to it by different cultures around the world. Britain doesn't have any of that. We took something that is so diverse and interesting and we made it beige (literally and figuratively) and boring. We are known as tea lovers but our tea culture sucks in comparison to others.
Katy T
in reply to Paul the Nerd • • •modulux
in reply to Katy T • • •Me too, I like how varied it is. The slender sniffing cup for Chinese tea tasting. Tea pets. The different tastes and scents, the rustle of the leaves as they get scooped. North African tea, serving after serving. The exception is pu erh which I so far find too earthy to like.
And to be fair to Britain, I did learn to appreciate tea there; though I agree there is so much more to tea than a bag of Twinings or Tetly.