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“Tea looks disgusting – insipid, even – and it smells disgusting.”
Molly Chesney from Newark in Nottinghamshire, has never had a cup of tea in her life. She’s 48 and has dabbled in fruit teas – “blackcurrant, normally, when I’m trying not to have a gin and tonic” – but a classic British cuppa? Never. Not a drop.
She ponders why as we chat over the phone (me, with a cuppa in hand). “We never had tea or coffee as kids – I don’t know the age kids start being given hot drinks, but I never did,” Chesney says.
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Tea is synonymous with British culture – 50 billion cups are drunk a year, on average and Brits are said to consume 1.78 cups a day each – with 35- to 44-year-olds downing the most. It’s surprising, then, to come across anyone who doesn’t drink our national beverage. But they do exist.
“Tea looks disgusting – insipid, even – and it smells disgusting.”
Molly Chesney from Newark in Nottinghamshire, has never had a cup of tea in her life. She’s 48 and has dabbled in fruit teas – “blackcurrant, normally, when I’m trying not to have a gin and tonic” – but a classic British cuppa? Never. Not a drop.
She ponders why as we chat over the phone (me, with a cuppa in hand). “We never had tea or coffee as kids – I don’t know the age kids start being given hot drinks, but I never did,” Chesney says.
Tea is synonymous with British culture – 50 billion cups are drunk a year, on average and Brits are said to consume 1.78 cups a day each – with 35- to 44-year-olds downing the most. It’s surprising, then, to come across anyone who doesn’t drink our national beverage. But they do exist.