What did English people drink before discovering tea plantations?!


Question:

What did English people drink before discovering tea plantations?


Answers:
They drank milk, buttermilk, beer, mead, water, wine of sorts, tea and coffee only arrived 200 yrs ago to the UK .

thats a stereotype. You should close your mouth

Beer

Mead

water, milk, the basics

water

beer

They didn't drink anything... Many Englishmen died before the discovery of the tea plant. They nearly went extinct.

Beer, mead, wine - things like that.

water!?!

Water?

thats racist.. really.. i used to live there..

Lots of dirty water, Milk, and Ale - particularly Mead.

we drank beer. We are proper drinkers!

the British actually had coffeehouse long before they discovered tea...they also drank mead (fermented honey drink) and ale.

water..

mead

juiced fish guts
cuz i said so

water and milk

Beer the water was not fit to drink in those days.

rat infested sewerage water

Beer I believe because the water was too polluted. Nothing changed then?

gin

Water, milk, beer, coffee, gin. basically the same as the everybody else.

The English primarily drank beer.

Water

Mainly beer as the water was normally foul.

We never actually drank tea plantations, only the tea that was harvested from them. Imagine the size of the pot though!




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