I Like Tea
I loovvee tea. I mostly drink orange pekoe though. I was raised on the stuff. I've been drinking it since I was six years old. It was always a family thing. Perhaps it was a way of bonding with my parents and feeling more like a grown up lol. My whole family are tea drinkers and I think it is mainly because of where we are from.
The particular community that I grew up in is extremely rural, and most of the people who live there are descendants of Irish and Scottish settlers. I suppose the tradition of drinking tea must have mostly been carried over from Scotland in the 1600's. It is actually such a deep rooted tradition, that other communities that surround mine know us as the tea drinkers. They don't actually call us that. They just call us the Northsiders. It's funny because for some reason, that is a point of pride for us. We are known as the tough, hardy people and drinking tea is our trade mark. Most places that you might visit in the community would immediately offer you a cup of tea and a cookie as soon as you sat down. It is used as a social drink and it can be kind of like a peace offering. It is just etiquette that you learn from living around here. If you don't offer tea to a guest, you will probably be seen as being rude or not very generous.
These days, because of the fact that the people are so much less isolated than they used to be and have access to other cultures, the tea phenomenon is waning. People now offer coffee almost as much (or alcohol, but that's a pretty old tradition too). It's not as common for people to like tea these days. Back in the day, hardly anyone would have refused a cup.
Anyway, I like my coffee, but it will never give me the warm fuzzy feeling that tea does. To me, tea reminds me of home and of family. It reminds me where I came from. It tastes pretty damn good too :P
The particular community that I grew up in is extremely rural, and most of the people who live there are descendants of Irish and Scottish settlers. I suppose the tradition of drinking tea must have mostly been carried over from Scotland in the 1600's. It is actually such a deep rooted tradition, that other communities that surround mine know us as the tea drinkers. They don't actually call us that. They just call us the Northsiders. It's funny because for some reason, that is a point of pride for us. We are known as the tough, hardy people and drinking tea is our trade mark. Most places that you might visit in the community would immediately offer you a cup of tea and a cookie as soon as you sat down. It is used as a social drink and it can be kind of like a peace offering. It is just etiquette that you learn from living around here. If you don't offer tea to a guest, you will probably be seen as being rude or not very generous.
These days, because of the fact that the people are so much less isolated than they used to be and have access to other cultures, the tea phenomenon is waning. People now offer coffee almost as much (or alcohol, but that's a pretty old tradition too). It's not as common for people to like tea these days. Back in the day, hardly anyone would have refused a cup.
Anyway, I like my coffee, but it will never give me the warm fuzzy feeling that tea does. To me, tea reminds me of home and of family. It reminds me where I came from. It tastes pretty damn good too :P
By:
Veryrandomgirl8
Age:
18-21
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Female
