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[–] 8 points 2 years ago (2 children)

You kid, but I really do find this stereotype of Americans fascinating in it's persistence. Every supermarket I've been to in America during the last decade has a tea section that is double the size of the coffee section next to it. These stores wouldn't be stocking like that if Americans weren't buying a ton of tea, but yet the idea of America being a tea desert continues.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    it's not that they don't drink tea, it's that they drink it wrong

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    I bet it drives you nuts that we folks in the southern US like to drink our tea sweet as hell and ice cold.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    The difference in coffee varieties is a lot more nuanced than tea flavors so it makes more sense for tea to have more space even if it isn't drunken as much. It depends a lot on what part of the country you're in too.

    People who drink a lot of tea just have kettles though... I don't know where myth that US kettles are slow came from.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    American kettles are slow because you use 120V mains.

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