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rich wrote:
You`ve set my brain off on a whole stream of culturally relative justifications now. I`ll ponder this some more when I go home for my tea tonight…
That just jogs a thought for me – why are the British so attached to tea? For most of Britain’s history, tea probably wasn’t available. But when we get to the East India Trading Company times in the Elizabethan era, then tea from the East would have been available for common consumption and the national desire for it increased based on exposure to it, but for those of you Britts out there, can you explain to the Yanks what is so incredibly desirable to the national consciousness in having a cup of tea “every” day for most all people? Sorry to go off topic – if this needs a different thread, I’ll be sure to make a new one. I don’t think this conversation will take more than one or two posts, however, if our friends across the pond are able to provide some food (or liquid) for thought on this question. Thanks!
In this context, ‘tea’ is referring to ‘dinner’. I have no answer for your question other than we like biscuits, routine, and edible hospitality, and tea works nicely with all that.
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