![]() So if someone spends almost an hour in the kitchen making tea and the result is pork chops, it isn't a case of confusion on their part. Incidentally, a telling but confusing detail about the importance of tea in the UK is that the evening meal is called "tea" in some dialects. In fact, there's a dying tradition of keeping a set of "best china" that's never to be used unless the King should suddenly turn up for a visit. Most Brits will typically make their tea using a tea bag in a mug. However, these characters typically drink tea from an ornate china set, whereas in real life, such things are reserved for special occasions. In real life, coffee is quite popular in the U.K., with tea consumption declining in favour of coffee, although it's being bounced back by the proliferation of bubble tea. ![]() In fact, the mere act of drinking tea automatically marks one as British. Whenever a British character appears in an American series, they will invariably a) drink tea, and b) describe at great length how wonderful it is compared to coffee - that is, if the character has heard of coffee before coming to the United States. In fact, the number of cups of tea drunk is often quite normal in Britain, though even the Brits can exaggerate. To an American, it may seem like massive quantities of tea are consumed in the average British Series. Today, it is one of the most, if not the most, popular drinks in the UK, and this has obviously not been lost on TV writers.
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