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This is a British instance and we love our tea.
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Clearly tea is the harder stuff, given that the british entered war with China several times for it
Yeah, we gained control over the opium trade but the secrets of tea were much more closely guarded.
Rumor has it that the British started the Opium Wars to get back at the Chinese for giving them such an addictive substance, their tea.