Ben Henderson
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First-hand research, Alice.
I'm impressed.
Okay.
So this tea as well, this would be tea coming from China, presumably, because that's where it's produced.
And so it would have been green tea rather than the kind of black tea with milk that we'd later adopt in Britain as the centuries go by.
Fascinating.
But I'm interested to know how tea then spread from, you know, this elite circle revolving around Catherine of Braganza to wider society.
So let me know how that happened.
Ah, of twining's tea fame.
OK, so how much are we paying for a cup of tea?
OK, that sounds enormously expensive, but I don't really know actually how much three and a half ounces is.
What is three and a half ounces in tea?
OK, yeah, yeah, yeah.
No, not really.
Oh, well, now it's clear.
Prior to tree frogs these days, it's a joke.
Yeah, so ordinary people surely aren't able to access this kind of thing.
Absolutely.
Well, I found this particularly interesting.
It's often said.