Monday, February 1, 2016

24 Days of British Culture: Day 9 - Tea

Tea is a very British experience.  You can drink tea with breakfast, middle of the morning, with your lunch, or even for dinner (or all of them)!  Confusingly, tea is also sometimes what you call dinner.  "What are we having for tea?"  Huh?

In the office, the group takes turns making "a cuppa" for the rest of the office.  It's a standard rule that when someone says "tea", then they need to make a cup for whoever called them on it.
This plays out with some interesting pranks at times - including when someone stole the letter "T" from one of the guys' keyboard.
"Hey!  Where's my letter T?"
Gotcha!


Every hotel room and 95% of homes here have one of these fast-boil kettles:


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