How Tea Time Came to England
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- There’s nothing quite as quintessentially British as a cuppa tea. But how did the Chinese tradition make its way into the British consciousness? It’s all thanks to Catherine of Braganza, a Portuguese royal who married England’s King Charles II in 1662. When she arrived in England, she brought with her loose leaves and spices in a set of crates labeled “Transporte de Ervas Aromatics,” or T.E.A. Soon, everyone wanted to be just like the Queen and sales of tea began to skyrocket. The rest, as they say, is history.
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*sips tea in British.*
January Ruthie I fucking slurp the shit out of my tea and it annoys the shit out of everyone near me (rightfully so). It just tastes so much better that way!
The irony level is too high.
oh my god your profile picture *and* username. Gakuen Babysitters is so adorable.
MATE WOULD YOU LIKE A CUP OF TEA LAD HMMM?
*sips tea in Portuguese.*
Britain: Hey China, give us more of those delicious tea bro
China: Ok Britain, here you go, now pay up bro
Britain: But we don't have money anymore bro
China: Sorry bro, no money no tea
Britain: Ok bro, how about we give you something we make in return
China: But we don't need anything you make bro
Britain: Ok bro, how about some drugs then
China: Hey that's not cool bro, we don't want drugs
Britain: THIS MEANS WAR!
Britain, approaching China in a large trench coat: Heyyyyyy wanna buy some drugs?
I did a research paper on the Opium War!
To cope with their tea addiction, they turned to drug dealing.
Y'all are forgetting about Hong Kong
Bro hey bro sup bro how you doing bro take a swing bro right here bro
China:*invent tea*
Japan:cool
India:cool
Britain:
GIVE ME THE PLANT
Britain- I’m gonna start two wars with you and steal your property.
Bruhify
@@kit_katmck2995 I follow bruhify community post
@@志瑜杨 British got this bad tendency to do this 🙁
@@志瑜杨 and turn your people into a bunch of crackheads
The story about Catherine popularizing tea in England is true. But the thing about T.E.A. is complete nonsense. The word tea is a corruption of the south chinese name for tea.
Sor Alb yeah. It came from the Hokkien word Teh. And the word is still in use in southern China and the Malay world (Indonesia, Malaysia, and Brunei Darussalam). We still call them Teh, and we love to drink it not from cups, but from large beer glasses.
Thank you! Glad I wasn't the only person perturbed by that.
Yes dats true...in my country we r famous Ceylon tea and in my language tea is called 'teh'
Yeah, it’s completely absurd and disappointingly lazy from GBS. Almost every language from a place that had tea calls it either something like “teh” or something like “chai.” And anyway, almost nothing named before the 19th century gets its name from an acronym-this is the same kind of ludicrous folk etymology that claims “Shit” and “Golf” come from “Ship High in Transit” and “Gentlemen Only Ladies Forbidden,” because people apparently can’t conceive of the idea that almost all English words come from other languages.
Jesus that's why they said it was "theorized" meaning they didn't came up with the theory and meaning it's still just a theory. Why are you people butthurted by it?
Fascinating. When are you going to do the story about the Opium Wars?
Travis Clark there's some really well made videos on it on a channel called Extra Credit
Travis Clark they won't
Travis Clark dr
Opium wars are basically for giving energy. I think it's to make you intelligent
It was also partly due to disease hitting the British coffee plantations. They planted tea in its place
JBWNZ I don't think you can grow coffee in the UK
British grew coffee in colonies?
In Sri Lanka
JBWNZ the brits make shit coffee anyway, water just isn’t good for it
JBWNZ thank fuckin goodness someone knows the history of tea....wait did you go to the club of tea because i was in 1 bethore we tryed blueberry pancake flavor and we learnt the history of tea. I got free tea. Lol
I met a british guy asking a Japanese guy “do you guys have tea in Asia”
And then he instantly noticed and said “ oh buy you guys have green tea”.... No, Edward. Tea, in every color, is from Asia. Red(black in English), Green, Black(pu-er) etc... are categorizations used in Ancient China.
*coloUr *categoriSations .what are you? Why you lying? You never met him!
No way he asked if Asians drink tea when tea is literally from Asia lmao
@@intreoo asians like tea only because western popularise it.
@@notgadotwhat
@@Dol706 Do your research. Europeans are the public figures to follow. 😎💏💷🍨💕
Who puts milk in their tea, I DO who else
✋✋
Nope
gross
I always do!!!
Adeline Carlota it's common in India.
Tea is not an abbreviation. The English started out calling it cha, just like the Portuguese, who heard it in China from those who spoke Mandarin Chinese. The English changed the word later though to the word the Dutch were using; thee. The Dutch adopted their version in Malaysia, where it travelled from Chinese dialects in southeastern China; t’e. Both versions are essentially Chinese in origin.
Indians say tea is theirs
@@notgadot I'm sure they do.
@@notgadot those Indians 😂
@@notgadot I remember now. His name is Gordon
They claim every British thing 😂 india dont even have toiletz
China: yo pay up, u behind on ur pay for tea
Britain: *literally starts a fucking war*
In India Tea (known as Chai) is Love.
Most liked beverage amongst all age groups.
And the portuguese were the people who traded tea with china
@vorpa. mp4 But we also have tea growing naturally in Portugal on the island of Açores
@@livingthedream8539 tea also grows naturally nowdays in England.
@@nacht98 if only england grew their own tea in the past...
@@lyhthegreat if only you stop imagining the past
Coming from a Brit that tea was way too milky
As a brit who doesn't even drink tea I second that
Waaaaaay
Coming from an American I think so too
Thoma Hawk it acc was
Maybe some people LIKE TEA FLAVORED MILK
Fun fact:uk got bombay as a dowry gift from portugese for the marriage of catherine of briganza
Had no idea my home country had such a big influence on britain n its tea! So cool
Britain: China, give us Tea.
China: You have to pay for it.
Britain: Leave it! Our friend India will grow tea for us, and give us for less price (free!).
India: 🤷♀️
This is why Portugal and England will always be allies
About the name : Circa 1650, from Dutch thee, from Min Nan 茶 (tê) (Amoy dialect). Introduced to English and other Western European languages by the Dutch East India Company, who sourced their tea in Amoy. Compare Malay teh along the same trade route.
If you add this to the fact that the Portuguese also taught the British to deep-fry stuff in batter, the Brits have to thank Portugal for.
british water is the best. they have holy water that makes them the leader of this world. Ah ah dont be jealouz portugaloser
@@notgadot 🤣 yeah good on ya, British teeth are proof of that, and I'm not even portuguese, so fuck you!
@@notgadot wtf
You need to admit that asians admire and copy every british traditions. Birthday cakes, wedding gowns, modern dances, etc. Yes Western Are The Greatest Culture Ever! 😎🔝💎
British person: It’s tea time. Me:brings out a huge box of tea packets
Nothing is more satisfying than tapping sounds of tea cupss....
I always assumed it was an even older tradition that gained popularity because boiled water is safe to drink, and tea tastes better than boiled water. Well, now I know.
And knowing is half the battle
Tea is better than coffee
It's the same here in India. At least in West Bengal. I drink tea twice a day and it's my favorite beverage and for sure the brits didn't bring it here. One of the best tea in the world is cultivated here in Darjeeling, West Bengal, India.
*favoUrite .chinese claim every pakistan thing 😂 goncalvez dont even have toiletz.
I wanna know how many people stick their pinky (i couldnt care less if it has another name) finger out while drinkig tea cause i sure as hell dont.
Hell, I still stick my pinkie out even if it's just a regular glass of water! Old habits die hard, I suppose
Nothing says Britain more than..............bad tee.....th
GREAT WHITE PLANT EATER yes hahahahaa true
Oh my fucking days.
Check the infographics show on british stereotypes
GREAT WHITE PLANT EATER you know that's a stereotype right?
Lol
I'm British and I'm drinking tea right now...
The TEA abbreviation thing is total bunk that wasn't even a thing until the 20th century.
Click Bateman, what was not a thing?
Click Bateman you mean the theory? Because you can say landing on the moon wasn’t a thing until the 20th century but that doesn’t mean it never happened.
Just a waw u dont know H.I.S.T.O.R.Y
@@audreywhalen5141 The tea comes from tê the word from ancient Chinese language. Not this bs about abbreviation. No wonder the channel is named Great BS.
In southeastern Fujian Province, the pronunciation of tea is the same as tea in English, and Fukeen is the most important tea producing area in the world before 1840s. Before 1757, East India Company buy tea directly from Fujian, and after that time, they import from Canton(because emperor forbid export in any ports except Canton in that year).
Are you chinese?
Love this story.
Some extra info from a native Chinese born in 1990s: this actually has been integrated into almost every textbook in middle school, talking about how we were forced to get addicted to opium - we paid for opium and British used that to buy tea from us again. A loop that was full of blood. Qing dynasty emperors (especially empress dowager cixi) were so shortsighted, didn’t care about ordinary people and “leased out” Hong Kong for 99 years (1989 - 1997).
The motivation of the stories on our textbook is to teach us that without a strong country, that would happen to us in the future again. Peace is important, tea is great, we love peace, but the history behind is sad in 19th century.
Strong country and Smart leaders. Thats the key
What kind of tea can't you take into space?🪐 Gravi - tea
Who else is drinking tea watching this?
Ice tea
@@Laurensdeleeuw94 yummy
Me
I sure as bloody well am mate
What kind of monster would use a tea bag in a porcelain cup and saucer and then use a teapot to pour warm water on it.... animals! Animals! I expect they didn't even warm the pot and turn it 3 times
To get the best flavor of the tea, you should use hot boiled water and let it sit for a while. But in America, not too many people know this. Some ppl put a tea bag in warm water, and complain their tea tastes like water.
Idk anyone in America that does that. We use a kettle with hot water 🙄
*flavoUr .learn english firzt!
Part of that large dowry - the city of Bombay to the British Empire.....yeah, literally the entire city of Bombay
Americans: I drink beer..COLD
British: wtf is wrong with you?
InfernoLegend980 i think a lot of people drink beer cold
I'm British and warm beer sounds nasty bro
You're confusing beer and lager. Lager is always cold. Beer is cold or warm.
InfernoLegend980 we drink beer cold. Not ice cold. That is scientifically proven to ruin the taste but we have it chilled. Nobody drinks warm beer.
I've heard British people don't drink iced tea either. Or at least not as much as here in the states. Maybe they like warm things because it's always wet and dreary over there.
I read somewhere that tea is high demand in UK and ran out of something to exchange to china, decided exchange drugs that's unfamiliar to the chinese. It did work though, china loved that drug but kinds tuin their lifestyle
What we are told in Portugal is that the world Tea is the way english pronounce the portuguese word Ti (you). They say that when Catarina arrived in england she didn’t know how to speak english so she gave the tea to the king and said, “para ti” (for you). The king thought the name was “ti”, later abreviated to “tea”
Another reason is because it's delicious
HAHA IT WAS THE PORTUGUESE :O
so catherine was the gilty for the opium wars, the fall of china and then for the rise of comunist china. if china was a free country probably they wont cover up the coronavirus... then...
catherine is gilty for the pandemic.
@@Duck-wc9de I would rather say that’s the fault of the first « thing » that ever existed for starting the whole chain of event that is this universe. If nothing would’ve existed, then Catherine wouldn’t have existed.
@@Flow86767 indeed! Ahahahahahah
The zen tradition has it that a monk was meditating and kept falling asleep. So he ripped off his eyelids and threw them on the ground. And where they fell a tea plant grew.
England isn't Britain. Be accurate. Britain includes England, Scotland and Wales. The United Kingdom includes England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. You're welcome.
yawn
She was married to Charles II, who was King of England (of which Wales was annexed into), Scotland and Ireland, since her court was centered around England not really that shocking, which then lended itself to the rest of what later becomes the UK
@Keyrings Locks That's not quite correct. Lesser Britain (or Little Britain) is Brittany in France. Britain and Brittany are both derived from the Latin "Britannia". Some writers would refer to them as "Britannia major" and "Britannia minor".
Watching this whilst drinking my ssccond cup of tea this morning haha
I always wondered how this English Tea thing got started.
The british taught popular things to the world. The global should thanks Britain for that.
Even prince harrys wife couldn't be happy before she marry a british man.
There's already a dislike? Seems like this video wasn't their *cup of tea*
Boston Tea Party
Britain: *Triggered*
I thought milk was always added to the china cup before you poured the tea (to either protect the cup from cracking for the hot tea or to allow the milk to heat up gradually as the tea wa poured), esp at a formal British High Tea?
I heard that the word "tea" came from a problem with language, when Catarina offered a cup of tea she would say "este é para Ti" which means "this one's for you" but the word "ti" (same sound as "Tea") is one of many portuguese forms of saying "you" and because they couldn't understand each other that word stuck around as if it was what the queen was calling it
But no, "tea" is just a corruption of a Chinese dialect word for "chaa", which is the more common way Chinese call tea.
@@hetaeramancer British is the home of great coffee shop.
love william forever.
Me: hey want water?
Britain: no
Me: what if I put some leaves
Britain: ILL TAKE YOUR ENTIRE STOCK
Why does the English language comprise of so many abbreviations that became legitimate words latter? Amazing.
Because it actually not true. The studies about root of word is called etymology. Most of the abbreviations myth is already debunked.
Fighting the unnecessary urge to throw those crates in the river
That brew is weak af.. 🇬🇧
alien on acid ikr it looks like 3/4 🥛
i like my tea to be hot, bitter, and pure😁no artificial sweetener
I love Bubble tea....
Very interesting background to a common beverage... yet, I'm still a coffee connoisseur :)
Tea in Chinese is pronounced 'cha' and tea in Portuguese is pronounced 'chá', meaning that the Portuguese adopted the Chinese pronunciation. However, in other Western languages such as Spanish and French, the pronunciation of the word is a variation of 'tea'. Therefore, the theory that the Western pronunciation must come from "Transporte de Erva Aromatica" (which translates to "Transport of Aromatic Herbs") must be true. That is really amazing.
No, tea abbreviations is real bs. The come from ancient china language for the word tê. Just quick search on google will give you the proof you need.
It is also called ochya in Japanese so Japan *also* have adapted the word
@@satrioekowicaksono7452 ngapain sih ngulang2 komen gak penting. Dasar indon baperan
In India its chai
In Bangladesh it is still "CHA"
0:55 NO. The word tea came from the Hokkien word for tea in Southern China and was then introduced by the Dutch.
Is that Cancade Lowry a former buzzfeed worker? Yes it is😮
Who doesnt loves tea???
Vincent Diep me
Tea for leif
Americans. So that means me.
ibrahim s I don’t, tea is nasty no offense 😁
ibrahim s me
I’m laying in my room wasting time and I remembered I had my school concert today and I have to report at 6:15 and started to panic. I then looked at the time and realized I had three hours lol
God Save The Queen. 💂♂️👍
I seriously don’t think any country on earth drinks tea more than Morocco. It should be on our flag
Colonization is the answer
Took it from India 😏
P. S- Tea was first made by the chinese, but the Brit's got the addiction from India.
Also Indian Tea is so much better 😏
Actually, Brits didn't take tea from India. They imported tea from China. And they introduced tea to India. Look it up
winniehwm he's right you know
মaina woo bin ikr Europeans did was take from the rest of the world culture, land, resources everything.
winniehwm took? More like stole tea from chinese farmers.
The got the tea from China, but their monopoly over all the tea went away after tea was found growing in India.
What would be better than a NOICE Cup of tAe.
This channel has taught me that everything that countries say they made was actually made by a completely different country.
Countries didnt exist back then
People are saying milk ruins tea it really depends on what tea. I put milk in and sugar
Always thought that the introduction of tea had something to do with India being a colony of Britain, nice video!
Surprisingly it was the British who introduced (widespread) tea to India
Im not british but my entire family , especially the elders are kinda obsessed with their tea ritual. They drink hot tea in the sunniest humidest day .
How'd you miss that tea was the cause of the opium wars?!?
Because the video is about "how tea *_came_* to England", not "what happened 150 years later".
And they've got SPICES!
I like green tea.
All of the tea in this video was shoCkingly under brewed.
Força Portugal 🇵🇹
I love TEA!! (I drink to much)
Where are the jellied ellies?
Wandering Oryx Eels
Hopefully, left in the 18th Century where they belong.
David Boucard 😾
Did you know The Last of The Mohicans was about the French and American Indians/Native Americans fighting The British for Possessing American Colonies using Tea?
ENGLAND IS NOT MY CITY
Toucanboi 'that's a neck' is illegal to say nowadays, it's a D E A D M E M E
You're welcome England XD, also in Portuguese the word for tea is "Chá", which is almost identical to the Mandarin word for tea.
The original word ;)
They don't even lol. They aren't even in the top 5 for most tea drank per capita.
Third
Who are the 1st and 2nd?
SiewHei Lou Japan and China I'd assume. No idea who's first though.
Turkish person here ✋
We drink tea in breakfast, after meal, hanging with friends, watching TV or else... Always, actually.
ChocolateCake Stop chatting shit you dumb fuck. Almost everyone I know drinks tea and also *we are* in the top 5.
i used to like trying to imitate brits by saying '' i would like ay cup of teay '' y'know with their accent n shit, had a blast with it, plus the is the 1k comment, leave a like
you know great tea is made by throw them from ship at time of war
Boston Tea Party
Lmao our ultimate stereotype but I have to admit tea is gr8
T.E.A.? A joke right? Not because of "The", or "Tee"?
The origin (etymology) of the word "tea" is that it comes from the Amoy/Xiamen (廈門話) word for tea, "tê", (written as "茶"), which then got borrowed into Malay as teh, then into Dutch as thee. During the early 17th century, tea became popular in Britain and the Dutch brought tea with them to supply the demand. Therefore, through contact, the word was borrowed into English as "tea".
Other English words such as "chai", "cha", and "char" ultimately come from Chinese (compare Mandarin "chá", Cantonese "caa4", written as "茶")
"chai" comes from Hindustani (Hindu-Urdu) "चाय" (cāy) / "چای" (ćāy) which was then borrowed into Farsi as "چای" chay, then turning into English "chai". [note the "ć" in the Urdu example and "c" in the Hindi example is pronounced as the "ch" sound in English]
"cha" and "char" come from Cantonese "caa4", as British merchants mostly worked in that area. [note the "c" in the Cantonese example is roughly pronounced as a "ch" in English as well]
That "T.E.A" theory makes no sense. The word tea/té/chai is found in like almost all indo-european languages.
lies... you didnt see Asterix and Obelix in Britain?
Fayewel Retribution It's CNN. They are fake news.
Green tea 🍵 is my favourite.
Do they really drink tea every day? Like have a special time set just for tea drinking?
Weird
John Marston no we don't have "a special tea time" people just drink it like you would drink a cup of coffee but not everyone here likes tea
ashton vickers ah, got it. I guess it’s a wrong stereotype here in the states then
John Marston yep
John Marston No.
Unless we are having an afternoon tea, where we sit down drinking tea from nice china and eat small sandwiches, scones and little cakes. But that’s something you might only do on a special occasion or a few times a year. I love it though.
Actually the english word 'tea' comes from the dutch word 'thee' which has its origin from the malay word 'teh' (it wouldnt be from portuguese because the portuguese word for tea is 'chá' which comes from the Mandarin word chá)
Oh yeah, and the malay word for tea actually comes from Hokkien Language/dialect 'tê', which has a more ancient origin rather than Mandarin
@@budicaesar1213 yea your correct i speak the chinese dialect and we call it teh, which is same as malay
it was the chinese who introduced them the tea? woah
basically the British became drug dealers just to buy tea from China, that's why there is called Opium Wars
heichiro09 that's more interesting. Imagine how they shipped it before
Portuguese*
at first the British brought tea with tea with silver but thought it was too expensive
so they grew drugs in india sold it in china
1st opium war, Britain won got hong kong islands
2nd opium war, Britain won got a nice new extension called new territories
later tea was smuggled out of china
grew in india
cheap tea anyone!?!
Massive profits for the East india company
queen vics now a rich bi*ch
god save the queen
*wheeze* snorts,*UNCULTURED SWINE*
Last time i saw Turkey had way more tea consumption than British but everybody thinks tea when British mentioned.We like it bitter and red without milk.Stop being mama boy and drink it without milk if you can Britain.
wait china introduced tea to us?
They Brits bought so much tea that there was more money going out than coming in so the Brits introduced the opium to the Chinese. They became so obsesed with it, that they banned the Opium but the Brits continued selling it to the Chinese. A war started and since it was during the industrial revolution, the Brits had better weapons and destroyed the Chinese.
Javier Pelayo Navarro, woah. You are super smart
china sold the tea, then, the brits stole the tea from china like a pirate.
Jacob Lawrence But they showed us Portuguese 🤔
In the nutshell, the British decided to become a drug dealer just to get some tea......
*ADJUSTS MONOCLE*
sidenote the finebone china used in this video is quite beautiful but dually also quite expensive
You like tea because of the sugar and milk mostly. Tea leaves are bitter and aromatic by natural.
by nature* and astringent
Ilsunny Lo But it wouldn't taste the same without the tea. Warm milk and sugar by itself is disgusting
Huzufu my opinion but i like milk and sugar and i brew my tea in milk not water XD or just consume without milk
a kitten That's actually the incorrect way to make it. The fat in the milk emulsifies the tea bag, blocking it and causing little to no brewing to occur :P
a kitten Okay that just sounds wrong.
You know why because England is my city
Wow I love tea!!! My go to drink
Catherine was not a popular queen in England because she was Catholic, which prevented her from being crowned. It was a special object of attack by the inventors of the Papist Plot. Without posterity, he left England the orange jam, the habit of drinking tea, in addition to introducing the use of cutlery and tobacco there
Catherine is English name. Spanish name is Katarina eeww
Thank the Portuguese. And also, the word tea comes from Catherine de Braganza using the Portuguese word “ti” ( Which kind of means “for you”. Example: “Um bolo para ti.” This sentence means “A cake for you.”), because she didn’t speak English very well.
No, it doesn't. It comes from an old Chinese word for tea, 茶 ("tê").
Was drinking tea while watching
why do people put milk in tea? does anyone really do that? why?
I like to put milk in green tea. It is such a good taste!
milk in green tea?! what the actual fuck
Yes its more like. Mmm creamy?
Dude have you every tried Sencha green tea with fresh milk? ITS DELICIOUS
I drink Chai Tea with coconut milk and honey. Delicious
I'm American and still enjoy tea. I enjoy throwing it into Boston Harbor that is.
Great now the Brits can swim in tea
*harboUr .learn english firzt!
China introduced tea but world's best tea supplier is Sri Lanka... People call it CEYLON TEA... ☕☕
the best tea is still in china, but sadly, the best tea mostly won't sell outside china and sometime they won't even be sold outside the place they producted to other part of china. the only way to get them is travel to the special place in china to buy it, but sometime the owner may still avoid to sell it even the price is super high..
doge doge no dear Ceylon tea is the best.. No doubt about that... Some tea varieties of Sri Lanka only milioners can buy...
there are tons of tea in china that even milioner can hardly buy,though. ceylon tea is good, but not really that great.
doge doge its your thoughts bro... No need to argue... CEYLON tea is the best...
Ishan Sha I don’t even have any idea of what a ceylon tea is.