Someone keeps asking us “Would ya like a cuppa tea”, and it would be rude to say no.
Hard to be a dry shite if yer drinkin enough
What about the women?
Competitiveness! We’ve got to keep one-upping them even if it means spending our lives running to the jacks.
Because Barry’s tea isn’t readily available in the UK.
Being a brit who moved here a couple of decades ago this doesn’t surprise me. I am still constantly amazed how many Irish households don’t regularly drink coffee at home. On most visits to a household in Britain you will almost always get offered tea or coffee while here often it’s tea or a glass of mineral especially if the householders are older. Coffee has been interchangeable with tea in the UK for decades, fair enough it was often terrible instant stuff but most people I know would drink 2 or 3 cups at home every day.
Fuck all else to do round here
Britain has a far larger ex pat population, many of whom come from cultures who aren’t as tea obsessed as the native British and Irish
Their general tea is shite, ours is far superior
Do they drink more coffee by any chance
We drink our tea a lot stronger than them so there are more grams of tea per bag. We might drink the same number of cups per capita but consume a greater tonnage
More British than the British themselves.
Hit the kettle there while your up
I don’t ever stop drinking or thinking about tea
Have you tried saying no to tea? I’m always scared I’ll be run out of the country if I turn down tea more than three times in a row.
Because Irish like to drink more in general
Well I need a way to use up the milk and the tea bags.
Because we’re strung out to bits on whatever we can get.
Cause they are fucking lightweights.
Mix of things, maybe stemming from a history of being poor and hungry doing manual labour in a cold, damp climate?
Second half of this review of a book on Irish food history has some interesting bits on the use of tea here compared to Britain in the past. https://reviews.history.ac.uk/review/295a
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Because tea is class!
Someone keeps asking us “Would ya like a cuppa tea”, and it would be rude to say no.
Hard to be a dry shite if yer drinkin enough
What about the women?
Competitiveness! We’ve got to keep one-upping them even if it means spending our lives running to the jacks.
Because Barry’s tea isn’t readily available in the UK.
Being a brit who moved here a couple of decades ago this doesn’t surprise me. I am still constantly amazed how many Irish households don’t regularly drink coffee at home. On most visits to a household in Britain you will almost always get offered tea or coffee while here often it’s tea or a glass of mineral especially if the householders are older. Coffee has been interchangeable with tea in the UK for decades, fair enough it was often terrible instant stuff but most people I know would drink 2 or 3 cups at home every day.
Fuck all else to do round here
Britain has a far larger ex pat population, many of whom come from cultures who aren’t as tea obsessed as the native British and Irish
Their general tea is shite, ours is far superior
Do they drink more coffee by any chance
We drink our tea a lot stronger than them so there are more grams of tea per bag. We might drink the same number of cups per capita but consume a greater tonnage
More British than the British themselves.
Hit the kettle there while your up
I don’t ever stop drinking or thinking about tea
Have you tried saying no to tea? I’m always scared I’ll be run out of the country if I turn down tea more than three times in a row.
Because Irish like to drink more in general
Well I need a way to use up the milk and the tea bags.
Because we’re strung out to bits on whatever we can get.
Cause they are fucking lightweights.
Mix of things, maybe stemming from a history of being poor and hungry doing manual labour in a cold, damp climate?
Second half of this review of a book on Irish food history has some interesting bits on the use of tea here compared to Britain in the past. https://reviews.history.ac.uk/review/295a
And for more modern history, plus a little on the tea we drink today, this casual article gives a few pointers. https://www.irishtimes.com/news/consumer/why-we-get-a-better-cup-in-ireland-than-all-the-tea-in-china-1.1949600
You should compare us to Turkey not Britain – Apparently Turkey drink the most tea ?
awful guiness beer?
Because Irish mammys
Oh, that’s just a statistical outlier created by Aloysius O’Malloy-Joyce who drinks 25 thousand cups a day.
Because Irish tea is Tearrific
Big Tea don’t want you to know the real reason.
I’ve said too much.
Maybe I like the misery.
Probably 200% more alcohol