We drink both tea and coffee. Probably more tea than coffee but varies with availability and quality. Always surprised to see how much more tea costs in Canada than in the UK, and how the same makers sell tea in Canada that is not nearly as good as the same brand in the UK. Not as if the UK had an advantage down to its huge tea plantations. Anyway, when we’re in London we always pick up some Waitrose store brand Earl Grey, which we really enjoy, to take with us heading east or west.
Surprised to see a very large section devoted to tea in China Bazaar here. Didn’t examine it very closely as we don’t need tea and were there for other goods (China Bazaar a largish discount store selling inexpensive products from kitchenware to shoe laces to bedding to garden furniture). Did, however, note that there was no coffee - just a lot of tea in what is otherwise not a food store.
So slightly less surprised than we might have been to come across an article listing the highest tea drinking countries in order of number of kilos per person. Top of the list is Türkiye , with 3.16 kilos per person annually, very nearly fifty percent more than second place Ireland. Closely followed by the UK as number three. Fourth is Iran, just ahead of Russia. Poland, to J’s surprise, number 10, with less than a third of Türkiye’s annual consumption per person.