Alice Loxton

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770 appearances 11 recordings 7 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 3 Sep

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You're Dead to Me · Why do British people love tea? (from Here For The History) · 19 Jun 2026 podcast

Right.

So this is because it had to be transported from China.

That's the only place producing it at the time.

And there were these massive taxes on importing it.

Okay, so by 1707, three and a half ounces of Twining's gunpowder tea, it was called gunpowder tea because they had these tightly rolled leaves that looked like grains of gunpowder.

This was sold at a price which would work out today as £160.

OK, so three and a half ounces is the same as 100 grams.

It's about the same weight as four AA batteries or two medium eggs, if that's helpful.

100 paperclips.

Can you envisage what that looks like?

Is this helpful?

Yeah.

Or a tree frog.

It's the same weight as a tree frog.

I'm always using tree frogs to measure out the flower.

But yeah, so it's 100 paperclips worth of tea.

Three and a half ounces costs £160.

So what does that tell you?

It's just very, very expensive.

No.

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