“I don’t want anything caffeinated do you have any Peppermint Wimp Juice? Oh, do you serve Sweet Wimp Juice? I’ll take that then- one Sweet Wimp Juice.”
Of course, it’s a bit hyperbolic to say that loving trucks and misogyny is the only reason Americans love tea. Surely there were those whole tea parties in Boston and Charleston, right? And that’s a good point- tea consumption in America did plummet after the Townshend Act and Tea Act imposed huge taxes on tea in the British colonies. But what’s also true is those acts were designed to tax things that Britain thought the colonies would only get from Britain.
Even then, America was averse to growing their own leaf because it wasn’t popular enough to pay the bills. Sure, we could import it from China, but according to Dr. Frank, Americans at that time were worried about Chinese imports having smallpox. Hard to imagine Americans imposing hardship on themselves because of fear of Chinese imports, I know. So tea was ripe for taxing because Americans were too xenophobic to get it from anywhere but Britain and too greedy to grow any themselves. (I gotta admit- that does sound like us.)
Why Won't Americans Drink Tea?
Source: Pinoy Daily News
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