An unexpected tea mapSourced
One country once drank
more tea than Britain.
New Zealand once consumed more tea per person than Britain. Around the 1980s, coffee began overtaking tea there, changing the country's everyday drink habits.
The tea-drinking crown
didn't always sit in Britain.
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