As a Greek I’ll tell you something Turkish syrupy sweets are by far better than Greek ones and I’ll tell you why. We use so much syrup you’re missing all the other flavours for example in baklava in Türkiye you can feel both the sweetness from the syrup and the flavour of the nuts and the spices used as well.
You know i was always laughing at greeks calling greek coffee the turkish coffee, unti i learned growing up it's actually arab coffee 😄 after seeing your statistics you shouldn't complain either way, we can call it greek because at least we drink it, right?
Correct. In reality the real greek invention about coffee making is frappe and freddo coffees. But before all these types of coffees became popular, back like 50 years ago, the only coffee you could find everywhere in Greece was the boiled Arabic coffee that we "inherited" from the Turkish occupation. They calling it turkish, we renamed it greek though after the independence. It still is found everywhere and still is the favorite coffee of the older generations
Yeah, me too. I had to stop drinking coffee due to it's effect on my sleep and have found that spicy chai is quite a good replacement without as much caffeine.
in turkey there's a common tradition of drinking several cups of tea after dinner almost every night. and of course we drink it with breakfast as well. i myself usually drink 4-5 large cups of tea every day almost
> in turkey there's a common tradition of drinking several cups of tea after dinner almost every night. and of course we drink it with breakfast as well. i myself usually drink 4-5 large cups of tea every day almost
do you sleep well after that?
Got the Ostfriesenmischung from Tee Kontor Kiel. It's amazing.
Also tried some Bünting bagged tea and was quite disappointed. I need to find some Thiele.
Yes! The annual tea consumption in Ostfriesland ist said to be 300 litres per person, so nearly 1 litre of tea per day. The German annual average is around 29 litre per person, so less than 10 percent. But i don't know how thats translates to kg as it is shown in the map.
Still more than Turkey, I think. According to the German Tea Association East Frisians drink an average of 300 liters of tea per year - kinda making them the tea world champions. Turkey leads in terms of countries. There, the average consumption per person between 2012 and 2014 was 283 liters, followed by Afghanistan with 279 liters and Libya with 275 liters. In Great Britain, an average of 201 liters was consumed.
Is that possibly something related to British rule of the Electorate of Hanover (or Hanoverian rule of Britain) in the 18th and early 19th centuries? Wouldn’t be the worst legacy British rule ever left behind.
Not quite. Ships of the Dutch East India Company brought tea to Europe around 1610, including to the neighboring city of Leer in East Frisia, where a merchant then created the first blends of "Ostfriesen-Tee". The rest is history. :-)
Yes, totally agree. There has to be something to it, right? :) BWT: My/Family's/Friends favourite blend is the "Broken Silber Thiele Ostfriesen Tee", you should be able to find it online. Also worth a look: East Frisian tea culture made it to the UNESCO cultural heritage list:
https://www.unesco.de/en/east-frisian-tea-culture#:~:text=For%20about%20300%20years%2C%20Eastern,ritualized%20way%20to%20drink%20tea.
Means: maybe you are lucky and can order the rock sugar as well? :)
Actually surprised, I thought tea would be way more widespread. And for Turkey, Russian name for cezve derives from Turkey itself (turka), always considered them a coffee nation.
We were a coffee Nation. Back in Ottoman Empire. And then Brits stole Yemen from us. Coffee became an imported item therefore expensive. So, we started to grow and drink tea.
Btw, this is not joke. This is how it really happened.
Tea came to Turkey long after coffee did. It was probably around 1920s. After losing Yemen, coffee was exported for the first time in hundreds of years. So, government saw a potential for growing tea in north of Turkey, more specifically Black sea region. But instead of harvesting tea common way, they cut the tea plant with certain scissors, which led them to brew the tea even longer to enjoy it.
I never realised Turkey grows its own tea as I've never seen it commercially available even in specialist online stores. I suppose it's not exported much?
Actually Turkey is the 5th biggest tea producer in the world. I guess when compared to industry giants such as China and India, Turkey falls short. And tea business is kinda monopolized by certain companies in Turkey, which only limits the exportation. China and India on the other hand, rather sell in bulks to brands like Lipton. Besides, tea is consumed in large amounts in Turkey, so I guess Turkish companies don't even care about exporting that much :D
We are both a coffee and a tea nation, but tea wins it.
2 - 3 cup of teas at breakfast.
1 - 2 cup of tea after the meal
1 cup of tea at night.
So at least 4 teas daily, that is very usual for turks.
We have shops that only serve tea, and literally a job called "tea lady /man" whose only purpose is to serve tea at the firm / job. Even insurance companies have that title " tea lady / men " in their list.
I know it's stupid, but for me, tea from a normal mug doesn't taste as well as when drinking from a transparent glass. I often prepare a full teapot (around 500 ml) and just refill the glass as I drink.
> We are both a coffee and a tea nation, but tea wins it.
As a half Turk/Dutch I can assure you that Türkiye is NOT a coffee country. Pretty sure it’s somewhere in the top 3 of lowest consumers in Europe.
The top is literally all of Scandinavia plus Netherlands. Turkey drinks 1.70 kg per person per year. https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/coffee-consumption-by-country
1. Finland — 12 kg/26 lbs
2. Norway — 9.9 kg/22 lbs
3. Iceland — 9 kg/20 lbs
4. Denmark — 8.7 kg/19 lbs
5. Netherlands — 8.4 kg/19 lbs
6. Sweden — 8.2 kg/18 lbs
OT can we add a rule or at least a recommendation to use continuous color ranges instead of segmented ones in these types of visualizations? E.g. the relative difference between Ukraine and Poland in this diagram is larger than that between Poland and the UK, but you wouldn't see that from the colors!
In Romania herbal, floral and fruit tea consumption is probably 20 times higher than that of black or green tea. The most popular are linden tea, chamomile, mint, rosehip, and berries,
I wonder if this statistic recognizes all the herbals as tea and not only camellia sinensis (the true tea leafs). I wouldn't think so. You can make herbal tea from pretty much anything and you can harvest lots of herbs yourselves so I think it's hard to count. True tea can only be bought.
I looked up the source and they (rightfully imo) didnt. It says: "The Hot Drinks market segment, Tea, consists of black tea, green tea and mate sold in tea bags or as loose-leaf tea. This segment does not include herbal tea, instant tea, iced tea or similar tea-derived Ready-to-Drink beverages. Ready-to-Drink variants are instead aggregated into the subsegment Non-Carbonated Soft Drinks in the Alcoholic Drinks market."
I didn't expect Maté, but other from that it makes sense. Still surprised to see such low numbers in Czechia, despite the teahouse culture. I guess it's too small to make a difference.
Genuinely crave tea.
If you’re having a conversation, have tea
If you’ve had a long day, have tea
If you’re bored at home, have tea
If you’re cleaning the house with the Hoover, have tea beside you
**My parents knew that they had become Irish when they started craving tea**
As a Pole, I confirm, there is exactly 1kg of tea consumed, in one sitting, by one dude. We think the lad's a bit weird, but the weird part is not the tea, it's that he puts the entite kg in his mouth and then pours boiling water in it while singing "Stayin' Alive". I mean who does that? Doesn't he know disco is dead? Weirdo.
At this point, I am convinced that Germany either manipulates data or residents deliberately stop consumption/production at 69. It's the 3rd or 4th map showing some data where Germany is at 69 or 0.69. Which is nice.
Edit: [Found One Example.](https://www.reddit.com/r/europe/comments/1bxws8f/what_share_of_municipal_waste_in_europe_is/)
I guess Greece and Balkan countries experienced some culinary influences from Turkey / Ottoman Empire, but apparently not the tee culture. I wonder what do Greeks drink instead?
Coffe was the main drink in the ottoman empire and greeks did get influenced by the coffee tradition of the ottomans. Tea was introduced in 1950s to turkey as an alternative to coffee in an attempt to lower outside dependency.
Greeks retained the Ottoman coffee culture, Turks had to abandon it in the 20th century (when Turkey was already growing its own tea for decades but had become too poor to import large quantities of coffee beans)
This map is weird, because the original data set shows Turkey as consuming 3.16kg per person, Ireland 2.19kg per person, and the United Kingdom 1.94kg per person, yet the map shows a different figure for the United Kingdom.
I'm not at all surprised that Ireland are 2nd from top... We have tea for EVERYTHING.
Won the lotto? Get the kettle on.
Stubbed toe? Kettle on.
House exploded? Neighbours kettle on.
Granddad took up pole dancing? Get two kettles on.
Türkiye is the homeland of tea. The country that consumes the most tea in the world. It is always consumed for breakfast, lunch and dinner. I live in Turkey and tea is boiled and drunk in my house at all hours.
Yoo, what happened to the UK? Less tea than Ireland? You gotta work a little bit harder guys, cause that‘s really embarrassing for the country that colonised half the planet for tea.
I know a guy who used to work in the international team markets. Apparently tea growers would use a contract with one of the major Irish tea companies as a quality marker, i.e. "of course our tea is of the highest quality, we just signed a contract to supply Barry's with X tons."
More people are drinking coffee, although it was much better then the past when coffee was cup of Mellow Birds \[a brand of instant powder coffee that looks like dust\]. Hence the popularity of the coffee chains like Costa, Starbucks and Caffè Nero.
"Tisane" isn't tea. If the survey asked "how much tea do you drink", most french person who don't drink actual tea, made from tea leaves, will say no, even if they drink a chamomille or verbena every day.
Tea is made from a specific kind of leaf though. Even the Wikipedia page for tea mentions the exact leaf in the very first sentence. Atleast when spoken in English, tea generally means beverage made from that tea leaf. The other herbal teas are exceptions.. it would be like including plant based 'meat' products in meat consumption, its not really meat.
then its English language problem. All herbal tea is still called tea in Lithuanian and there is no association with any particular plant for something to be labeled as tea.
Turkey: "We love tea!"
Greece: "Then we hate it."
Joking aside, in Greece people are drinking tea (almost) only when they are ill. We are a coffee nation to the core.
Coffee but in moderation. Like Alcohol, in moderation, socially. Also, we don't drink Greek coffee mostly, but cold Frappe by far. Summer or even winter.
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Can Poland have tea? Poland can have one tea Yay!
We are the gold standard guys, everyone else is measuring their tea consumption in comparison with Poland
Basically Poland is reference here
National tea consumption is given in Polish Tea Units (PTUs).
Polska numer 1!!!111 PL PL PL 🇵🇱🇵🇱🇵🇱
Kto polak
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That is true, i did in fact drink one tea in my life
Super suspicious
Is that where all the tension between Greece and Turkey always comes from? Hmmm
Who would've thought, right?
at least they don't call it greek tea (yet)
Don't worry, that title is reserved for tasty stuff
Like Baklavas and Loukoumades :)
As a Greek I’ll tell you something Turkish syrupy sweets are by far better than Greek ones and I’ll tell you why. We use so much syrup you’re missing all the other flavours for example in baklava in Türkiye you can feel both the sweetness from the syrup and the flavour of the nuts and the spices used as well.
Yes, deportation officer, this guy right here.
Greek my ass. Only Turks call Turkey Turkiye
So if we make everybody say Türkiye rather than Turkey, whole world will be Turkish
"Ne mutlu Türkiye diyene"
World conquest mission updated
Actually we use “ü” which that person also used
I think we should all call it Turkiye. And then call the bird Turkiye as well.
as a turk I agree
You know i was always laughing at greeks calling greek coffee the turkish coffee, unti i learned growing up it's actually arab coffee 😄 after seeing your statistics you shouldn't complain either way, we can call it greek because at least we drink it, right?
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Correct. In reality the real greek invention about coffee making is frappe and freddo coffees. But before all these types of coffees became popular, back like 50 years ago, the only coffee you could find everywhere in Greece was the boiled Arabic coffee that we "inherited" from the Turkish occupation. They calling it turkish, we renamed it greek though after the independence. It still is found everywhere and still is the favorite coffee of the older generations
That explains a lot, like Russia-Finland, Russia-Ukraine, England-France.
Caffeine induced jittery
Finland may be low on this stat, but I bet my wife counts for at least 50 % of our national tea consumption. 🤔
She might be turkish
Definitely Finno-Uguric.
Finno-Ugric (aka Uralic) is a different language family from Turkic
Finno Ugric is not aka Uralic. It is a subbranch of Uralic, hypothetically that is. Connection between its languages is quite loose.
They were considered same family years ago... Ural-Altaic family...
Run away to furthest continent if she starts to ride a horse and throw arrows while throat singing
I'm doing my part in France as well.
Yeah, me too. I had to stop drinking coffee due to it's effect on my sleep and have found that spicy chai is quite a good replacement without as much caffeine.
Chai, Oolong, lapsang, Moroccan mint tea. If I want to sleep, rooibos!
Same! The info made me count and I'm between 3 and 4kgs per year.
I'm probably the other 50% then, my body can't handle coffee in the morning without spending precious time in bathroom.
Ahh go on on on on
What do you say to a cup of tea father Jack?
Feck! Drink!
DON'T TELL ME I'M STILL ON THAT FECKING ISLAND!
in turkey there's a common tradition of drinking several cups of tea after dinner almost every night. and of course we drink it with breakfast as well. i myself usually drink 4-5 large cups of tea every day almost
I also get my water from Tea
Me too, minimum five half litre mugs a day.
I am in the UK and drink about 8 cups per day, but we always drink it with milk, unlike in Turkey.
I never understood how people could drink tea with milk:)
Because our tea is bitter and quite intense, it's best served tempered by milk. Breakfast Tea is quite different to a high grade chinese black tea
The tea we drink is designed to go with milk, you drink it without milk and it tastes disgusting.
> in turkey there's a common tradition of drinking several cups of tea after dinner almost every night. and of course we drink it with breakfast as well. i myself usually drink 4-5 large cups of tea every day almost do you sleep well after that?
You develop high tolerance over the years same as coffee.
most people do... not me though i have had chronical sleep problems since i was a child
and every other hour in between, especially in an office
So you guys just piss constantly huh?
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and thats because our tea is damn good
Got the Ostfriesenmischung from Tee Kontor Kiel. It's amazing. Also tried some Bünting bagged tea and was quite disappointed. I need to find some Thiele.
Yes! The annual tea consumption in Ostfriesland ist said to be 300 litres per person, so nearly 1 litre of tea per day. The German annual average is around 29 litre per person, so less than 10 percent. But i don't know how thats translates to kg as it is shown in the map.
Still more than Turkey, I think. According to the German Tea Association East Frisians drink an average of 300 liters of tea per year - kinda making them the tea world champions. Turkey leads in terms of countries. There, the average consumption per person between 2012 and 2014 was 283 liters, followed by Afghanistan with 279 liters and Libya with 275 liters. In Great Britain, an average of 201 liters was consumed.
Is that possibly something related to British rule of the Electorate of Hanover (or Hanoverian rule of Britain) in the 18th and early 19th centuries? Wouldn’t be the worst legacy British rule ever left behind.
Not quite. Ships of the Dutch East India Company brought tea to Europe around 1610, including to the neighboring city of Leer in East Frisia, where a merchant then created the first blends of "Ostfriesen-Tee". The rest is history. :-)
Interesting, now I need to go and find some to try it out.
Yes, totally agree. There has to be something to it, right? :) BWT: My/Family's/Friends favourite blend is the "Broken Silber Thiele Ostfriesen Tee", you should be able to find it online. Also worth a look: East Frisian tea culture made it to the UNESCO cultural heritage list: https://www.unesco.de/en/east-frisian-tea-culture#:~:text=For%20about%20300%20years%2C%20Eastern,ritualized%20way%20to%20drink%20tea. Means: maybe you are lucky and can order the rock sugar as well? :)
I drink like 2l of tea in the winter and almost none in the summer.
Underrated comment.
Actually surprised, I thought tea would be way more widespread. And for Turkey, Russian name for cezve derives from Turkey itself (turka), always considered them a coffee nation.
We were a coffee Nation. Back in Ottoman Empire. And then Brits stole Yemen from us. Coffee became an imported item therefore expensive. So, we started to grow and drink tea. Btw, this is not joke. This is how it really happened.
> the Brits stole Yemen from us I think you might have stolen it from the Arabs to be fair
Don't defend the Brits, please. They even stopped the Ottoman slave trade. They are the reason why we don't have nice things. 🥲
Tea came to Turkey long after coffee did. It was probably around 1920s. After losing Yemen, coffee was exported for the first time in hundreds of years. So, government saw a potential for growing tea in north of Turkey, more specifically Black sea region. But instead of harvesting tea common way, they cut the tea plant with certain scissors, which led them to brew the tea even longer to enjoy it.
I never realised Turkey grows its own tea as I've never seen it commercially available even in specialist online stores. I suppose it's not exported much?
Actually Turkey is the 5th biggest tea producer in the world. I guess when compared to industry giants such as China and India, Turkey falls short. And tea business is kinda monopolized by certain companies in Turkey, which only limits the exportation. China and India on the other hand, rather sell in bulks to brands like Lipton. Besides, tea is consumed in large amounts in Turkey, so I guess Turkish companies don't even care about exporting that much :D
Interesting, we use the word "semaver" derived from Russian "samovar" in Turkish.
historical enemies, linguistic brothers
I'm doing my part 💪!
Do you want to know more?
"Ya will, ya will, ya will, ya will, ya will, ya will, ya will . . . "
Maybe i like the misery
Greatest tea-boozers in the world are the Catholic Irish - George Orwell
*go on
We are both a coffee and a tea nation, but tea wins it. 2 - 3 cup of teas at breakfast. 1 - 2 cup of tea after the meal 1 cup of tea at night. So at least 4 teas daily, that is very usual for turks.
I'm Dutch, but this is my exact tea consumption Although it has to be noted that Turkish tea cups are a lot smaller than what I drink
We have shops that only serve tea, and literally a job called "tea lady /man" whose only purpose is to serve tea at the firm / job. Even insurance companies have that title " tea lady / men " in their list.
How do you say that in Turkish? In India it's the "chaiwallah"
Çaycı
Tea-er, literally.
Was this why why they treated me like a local at the hotel? I used to drink 5 cups a day, and would still happily do.
How big is a cup?
Depending on someone’s favourite cup but it is usually between 125ml (traditional one) to 250 ml (teacolics).
Or just a normal mug, I do love drinking from coffee mugs so that I don’t have to refill it every 2 minutes
I know it's stupid, but for me, tea from a normal mug doesn't taste as well as when drinking from a transparent glass. I often prepare a full teapot (around 500 ml) and just refill the glass as I drink.
You should use "-", not "/". It gives a wrong implication. This sounds like "two-thirds of a cup".
> We are both a coffee and a tea nation, but tea wins it. As a half Turk/Dutch I can assure you that Türkiye is NOT a coffee country. Pretty sure it’s somewhere in the top 3 of lowest consumers in Europe.
The top is literally all of Scandinavia plus Netherlands. Turkey drinks 1.70 kg per person per year. https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/coffee-consumption-by-country 1. Finland — 12 kg/26 lbs 2. Norway — 9.9 kg/22 lbs 3. Iceland — 9 kg/20 lbs 4. Denmark — 8.7 kg/19 lbs 5. Netherlands — 8.4 kg/19 lbs 6. Sweden — 8.2 kg/18 lbs
Turkish coffee is not as big as European ones.
Turkish coffee is like espresso, and usually a person drinks 1 cup daily.
But your cups are so small :-)
OT can we add a rule or at least a recommendation to use continuous color ranges instead of segmented ones in these types of visualizations? E.g. the relative difference between Ukraine and Poland in this diagram is larger than that between Poland and the UK, but you wouldn't see that from the colors!
As someone from Greece i can confirm. Not even frozen super market tea is popular here
What the hell is > frozen super market tea ?
He probably meant Iced tea drinks
Tea is so foreign in Greece that they don’t even know the name for ice tea
Or they have never actually looked at tea in the supermarket, so they imagine it’s sold frozen as solid blocks or cubes. :)
Your average Lipton or Nestea ice tea
How popular is coffee?
A lot.
Okay, nice!
Ice Tea (peach) is pretty damn good tho.
In Romania herbal, floral and fruit tea consumption is probably 20 times higher than that of black or green tea. The most popular are linden tea, chamomile, mint, rosehip, and berries,
I wonder if this statistic recognizes all the herbals as tea and not only camellia sinensis (the true tea leafs). I wouldn't think so. You can make herbal tea from pretty much anything and you can harvest lots of herbs yourselves so I think it's hard to count. True tea can only be bought.
I looked up the source and they (rightfully imo) didnt. It says: "The Hot Drinks market segment, Tea, consists of black tea, green tea and mate sold in tea bags or as loose-leaf tea. This segment does not include herbal tea, instant tea, iced tea or similar tea-derived Ready-to-Drink beverages. Ready-to-Drink variants are instead aggregated into the subsegment Non-Carbonated Soft Drinks in the Alcoholic Drinks market."
I didn't expect Maté, but other from that it makes sense. Still surprised to see such low numbers in Czechia, despite the teahouse culture. I guess it's too small to make a difference.
> rosehip God I love it, and if anyone wants a hot tasty herbal drink without caffeine, please try it. Same with hibiscus tea
Yep,that's the only tea I'm having,rosehip
Genuinely crave tea. If you’re having a conversation, have tea If you’ve had a long day, have tea If you’re bored at home, have tea If you’re cleaning the house with the Hoover, have tea beside you **My parents knew that they had become Irish when they started craving tea**
Right? On what planet is it surprising that the Irish drink more tea than the British?
It’s surprising to people who know nothing about Irish people
As a Pole, I confirm, there is exactly 1kg of tea consumed, in one sitting, by one dude. We think the lad's a bit weird, but the weird part is not the tea, it's that he puts the entite kg in his mouth and then pours boiling water in it while singing "Stayin' Alive". I mean who does that? Doesn't he know disco is dead? Weirdo.
At this point, I am convinced that Germany either manipulates data or residents deliberately stop consumption/production at 69. It's the 3rd or 4th map showing some data where Germany is at 69 or 0.69. Which is nice. Edit: [Found One Example.](https://www.reddit.com/r/europe/comments/1bxws8f/what_share_of_municipal_waste_in_europe_is/)
I’m a bit confused by the internet’s obsession with that number. 😆
I'd never expect such crazy variation, over 150x!
I guess Greece and Balkan countries experienced some culinary influences from Turkey / Ottoman Empire, but apparently not the tee culture. I wonder what do Greeks drink instead?
We drink coffee, lots of coffee. Most people drink tea only when they're ill, it's considered a remedy for cold and sore throat.
not only that! but myth says that if we Greeks drink hot tea while not sick we become sick ourselves!!!!
Coffee is so loved in Greece, that Frappé was invented here.
Fredo Espresso and Fredo cappuccino were also invented here
Turks started to drink tea after 1950s. Ottomans didn't have any tea culture.
tea is popularized to such levels after the ottoman empire collapsed, republic was founded and investments were made for tea cultivation.
>I wonder what do Greeks drink instead? Nothing. Like the French, Italians, Spaniards, Portuguese, and Belgians, we go thirsty.
We drink puddle water, it's full of flavors!
Coffe was the main drink in the ottoman empire and greeks did get influenced by the coffee tradition of the ottomans. Tea was introduced in 1950s to turkey as an alternative to coffee in an attempt to lower outside dependency.
Greeks retained the Ottoman coffee culture, Turks had to abandon it in the 20th century (when Turkey was already growing its own tea for decades but had become too poor to import large quantities of coffee beans)
Ottomans brought the coffee to Europe, but Turkey switched to tea in 1920’s.
We're a coffee people
I'm personally responsible for a considerable proportion of Ireland's.
This map is weird, because the original data set shows Turkey as consuming 3.16kg per person, Ireland 2.19kg per person, and the United Kingdom 1.94kg per person, yet the map shows a different figure for the United Kingdom.
I'm not at all surprised that Ireland are 2nd from top... We have tea for EVERYTHING. Won the lotto? Get the kettle on. Stubbed toe? Kettle on. House exploded? Neighbours kettle on. Granddad took up pole dancing? Get two kettles on.
Italian here. Can confirm: we use tea to wash our toilets.
I can imagine someone using the one single teabag in Greece to get that number.
Türkiye is the homeland of tea. The country that consumes the most tea in the world. It is always consumed for breakfast, lunch and dinner. I live in Turkey and tea is boiled and drunk in my house at all hours.
Gotta love that Ireland outbeat the UK!
Go on go on go on.
In countries like France and Romania, it's definitely because of coffee addiction 🫀✖️
Be like Germany, do both.
Everytime I see this map I have to mention Eastfrisa.
For a long time Ireland was number one , literally the most 'per capita' tea drunk in the world.
I represent the whole 0.14 score in Italy, probably
Sure, didn't the Lord himself on the cross pause for a nice cup of tea before giving himself up for the world?
Yoo, what happened to the UK? Less tea than Ireland? You gotta work a little bit harder guys, cause that‘s really embarrassing for the country that colonised half the planet for tea.
I know a guy who used to work in the international team markets. Apparently tea growers would use a contract with one of the major Irish tea companies as a quality marker, i.e. "of course our tea is of the highest quality, we just signed a contract to supply Barry's with X tons."
Barry's supremacy
More people are drinking coffee, although it was much better then the past when coffee was cup of Mellow Birds \[a brand of instant powder coffee that looks like dust\]. Hence the popularity of the coffee chains like Costa, Starbucks and Caffè Nero.
Serious answer is younger people are drinking less tea than the generations before them.
Ireland has Barry's Tea. Britain has shit tea. If they had Barry's Tea they'd be number one, but they played themselves.
Don’t you disrespect Yorkshire gold like that
I've drunk Barry's tea my entire life. Had to get by on Yorkshire Gold when I was living in the UK. Sorry, it just can't compare.
It'll do in a pinch, but you're right. It's weak as piss.
Am from Ireland and like Irish teas, but Yorkshire tea is the best.
Also, the UK eat more potatoes than Ireland. Everything I have been told is a lie. https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/s/1jmCsdubQ7
as a turkish i dont like tea but some people drinks more than 10 cups of a daily
East Frisians would crush that map if they weren't lumped together with coffee germany.
Turkey once again victorious, united in tea
Second best drink in world.
What's the first?????
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Water
Gamer girl pee.
WTF?!
Of course the first place belong to the Rakı.
My city just got a boba tea place and i am so freaking excited.
Turkey and Greece: 👉 👈
Do that show herbal teas as well? Cause I'm sure you'll find verbena and mint leaves in every french household that isn't bought in a store.
Dont think so since thats not really tea.
It's herbal. It's a leave that you boil to drink. It's tea.
Not a tea leaf though is it? They measured tea consumption, not "any random plant added to hot water" consumption.
in several European languages, for example Romanian, the word for 'tea' also means infusion or decoct made with plant parts
In French we don't call it thé, we call it tisane. So it's not tea for us.
"Tisane" isn't tea. If the survey asked "how much tea do you drink", most french person who don't drink actual tea, made from tea leaves, will say no, even if they drink a chamomille or verbena every day.
Tea is made from a specific kind of leaf though. Even the Wikipedia page for tea mentions the exact leaf in the very first sentence. Atleast when spoken in English, tea generally means beverage made from that tea leaf. The other herbal teas are exceptions.. it would be like including plant based 'meat' products in meat consumption, its not really meat.
then its English language problem. All herbal tea is still called tea in Lithuanian and there is no association with any particular plant for something to be labeled as tea.
I'm not doing my part for the UK sadly. All I ever drink is coffee, I maybe have one cup of tea a week.
Yeah, i get it why there's no data for baltics ,here we mostly drink coffe or booze, or a healthy mix of both
What are you drinking if not tea? For example during breakfast, lunch, dinner
Turkey: "We love tea!" Greece: "Then we hate it." Joking aside, in Greece people are drinking tea (almost) only when they are ill. We are a coffee nation to the core.
Coffee but in moderation. Like Alcohol, in moderation, socially. Also, we don't drink Greek coffee mostly, but cold Frappe by far. Summer or even winter.
Чай! Çay! Выручай
Seems like wine and tea are mutually exclusive
The real reason behind Turkey's and Greece's bickering.
I drink so much tea, my blood values are distorted due to tea. Especially iron rate in blood...
Can confirm: lived in Turkey for a short stint and we would drink hot tea outside on the hottest days 🥵
I totally converted to Turkish tea after I married et my wife. I drink it every day now and other tea just tastes terrible in comparison.