Ben Henderson

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215 appearances 4 recordings 4 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 5 Jul

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

I love that, that's so British.

So it's more important than clothes, you know, fairly key things to human existence.

I love that.

But yeah, tea definitely is part of the war effort, isn't it?

And you get those iconic images that come out in old newsreels of, you know, bombed out homes during the Blitz.

But then these women emerge and they're still there handing out the tea and everyone's kind of smiling.

And it becomes that symbol of national resilience, doesn't it?

I know.

Well, it's an interesting story how coffee seems to have, I think, actually risen above tea among many Brits these days.

There was a bit of research that was published a few years ago which said more Brits now regularly drink coffee than tea.

And I think it's a lot to do with, you know, there's been a huge amount of marketing around coffee, isn't there?

Plus, we've got the infiltration of American culture, which really drives that kind of like that sense of the artisan coffee house, all that kind of stuff and all the different rituals around coffee.

I think partly what elevates it, particularly among people, you know, you and my age.

Yeah.

And you get these new brands of tea coming out.

So it's not just, you know, our traditional black teas.

You've got teas from the Far East.

Bubble tea.

Exactly.

And, you know, I actually interviewed one of the, well, there's two tea houses in Taiwan that claim to have invented bubble tea.

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