America And Its Relationship With Tea

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America And Its Relationship With Tea
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• Tea and its popularity simply never seems to
  wane. The most widely consumed drink in the
  entire world after water, tea can be found in the
  majority of households in the US, in one form or
  another. While we tend to associate the popular
  beverage with the Brits many of whom seem to
  have tea drinking obsessions Americans are
  equally as big fans and will drink it hot or
  iced. Its estimated that around 160 million
  American folks are drinking tea on any given day.

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• A brief history of tea in America
• By the 1700s tea had become increasingly popular
  in the American colonies, and when in 1767 the
  British government placed what the colonists
  believed to be an unfair tax on tea to cover
  the expenses incurred during both the French and
  Indian war, or so they believed they revolted
  by refusing to buy tea and not allowing it to be
  unloaded from the tea ships. The colonists also
  felt that taxation without representation was
  an issue since the American colonies were not
  represented in Parliament, surely Parliament did
  not have the right to tax them?

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• On a wintry night in December, 1773, men
  disguised as Native Americans went aboard some of
  the British ships in Boston Harbor and proceeded
  to toss more than 300 chests of tea over the side
  and into the freezing waters below. Initially
  known rather unimaginatively as the destruction
  of the tea, this event is believed to have been
  not only a protest about tea taxation, but the
  main act that led to the Revolutionary War, and
  it was only much later in the 1820s that it
  became known as The Boston Tea Party.

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• What are the most popular teas in America today?
• Recent research has shown that Black Tea is
  currently the most popular hot beverage among
  Americans, followed by Green Tea, Oolong, White
  and Dark Tea. Tea imports and consumption have
  grown in America, despite other western countries
  falling behind, and after Russia and Pakistan, it
  remains the third largest importer of tea in the
  world.

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• Ready to drink teas (RTDs) represent more than
  half the market sales in the States today, and
  research shows that this trend is continuing to
  grow. Traditional tea bags are waning in
  popularity and are fast being replaced with
  RTDs, and specialty teas the kind of teas that
  are higher in price, unique and of a single
  origin.
• Iced tea has always been a firm favourite of
  Americans, and it doesnt look as if thats going
  to change anytime soon, particularly as companies
  experiment with new flavours and bottle designs.

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• What has made Americans continue to drink tea?
• While traditional tea is reasonably popular among
  American people, its the interesting new tea
  products now available on the market, along with
  increased promotion and awareness of the health
  benefits of drinking tea, that have doubtless
  encouraged them to not only continue to drink tea
  in significant numbers, but to drink more of it,
  too.

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