Is drinking tea bourgeois?

This.

Just drink your tea.

Tea was historically a working class drink. Sugar was added during the industrial revolution, because it was the perfect work drink. The caffine provided energy, the sugar added valuable calories, and the sugar also allowed it to be swallowed faster so it could be quickly consumed during a short work break. Probably also why they add milk to tea in Britain

but history doesn't mean anything, the fact loose mid-grade(although with how shitty the market is, "mid grade tea" is better than 95% of stuff on supermarket shelves) can be acquired for 10 cents a cup in the first world, which is affordable for everyone. lower quality tea has always been consumed by the poor, first in tea blocks, now in tea bags, which are almost all made from low quality tea sweepings and the tips of leaves.

Tea is good for anyone to drink. Caffeine in low doses is good for you, and so are the antioxidants in tea. I like both tea and coffee and drink one or both depending on how much energy I will need that day. Coffee is excellent too, by the way.

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Consuming anything is bourgeois, user

well…i was taught in school that it was a portuguese chick which married the english king to be as part of treaty which later introduced the 5 pm tea time in England.

So yeah, i guess one could say drinking tea is bourgeois.
But i like it. I do not drink teat everyday, but i sometimes enjoy it. Much better than drinking juices filled with sugar that porky makes and sells.

Nothing wrong with tea.

I'm not a bong, what do Scots drink?

Where should I start?

coffee is disgusting, no idea how yanks and hipsters chug it down

scotch

You are now aware that drinking black coffee is one of the most normie things anyone can do in southern european countries.

By having a ratio of 5:1 to 1:1 ratio of coffee to cream.

Disgusting

Bourgeois decadence of the worst kind. Enjoy the blood and tears of Indian, Kenyan, and Chinese victims of colonialism in every sip you caffeine dependent imperialists.

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No. But it's retarded. Watered down leaf flavour, how on earth did this shit become popular?

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ayy lmao

Not even close.

Ironically, it was the scots who built the imperial tea trade. It was a scot who went undercover to steal cultivation methods from China and smuggle tea cuttings. It was the scots who introduced and built the widespread plantations of the Assam cultivar in British India and cut out the Chinese. It was the scots who invented iconic tea blends such as English Breakfast, and built brands like Lipton.

BEADY

Coffee is fucking bliss tbh, I don't even drink it for the caffeine.

the eternal bagpipe?

eternal Irn Bru

don't see how you people drink it

it's weak, only coffee gives me the caffeine buzz i need to be the productive person i i know i can be

I pity you pleb.

Kek

Only if they drink it from a golden teacup.

Amerifat here. Tea is the master beverage race.

But is it bourg?

Only when compared to drinking Tijuana tap water

Scottish Breakfast Tea (Lots of caffeine)

Also,

Scotch

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Is shitposting bourgeois?

Are anime waifus bourgeois?

who cares?

Its better than coffee. That shit is a real poison.

There is a bourgeois tea culture (just like there's a bourgeois coffee culture, a bourgeois liquor culture, a bourgeois car culture…) but nothing says you can't just ignore that and enjoy tea.

Tea is cheap and can be grown almost anywhere. Nothing's saying that tea can't exist in a stateless classless society.

Scot here, we drink shitloads of tea wtf

I wouldn't drink any big brand tea where the foreign workers get unfair wage and your money goes to some zionist who supports blowing up brown kids in middle east. If the tea is grown in your own country and the workers get fair wage then I can't see any problem with it.

Here is George Orwell's description of a perfect cup of tea. He used to fuel himself with tea when he was fighting the nazis to defend the anarchist catalonia. booksatoz.com/witsend/tea/orwell.htm

Sound like you need a sit down a cuppa son

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peak lifestylism

time to tell all the working class in britain they are disgusting scum for drinking foreign tea that will surely help our cause

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Capitalism with human face :^)

Yes, I try to consume ethically. Why don't you?

it's pure ideology.
it's getting porky's balls dusty (while also sucking the dick of the "fair trade" porkies) when you should be cutting them off.

Buying the cheap shit can be equally argued as ethical because it leaves you with more money/capital to go towards mutual aid, and not the kind of "mutual aid" that lines "fair trade" "organic" "local" porky's pockets.

nothing wrong with thinking with your heart comrade, but think with your head.

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I'm not saying you can overthrow capitalism with ethical consumption, but you can subvert it in the smallest way possible, its a little victory. Also usually healthier, as in, you will physically feel better eating better food. Its in your own interest.

also are you saying there is no difference between a company who pays subsistence wages and a company that pays a little more than this? I understand this is still a bare minimum but its still a difference.

Tea,coffee and tobacco are bourgeois and therefor no leftist should consume these things.

I'm saying it's like the difference between a shit sandwich and a shit sandwich with a cherry on top.
The amount of time spent finding the "perfect commodity" (fair trade, organic, eco friendly) is enough to subvert true praxis, and that's exactly what the 21st century porky wants. It's reification at its purest. Welcome to information/control society, comrade.

fuck
off

jstor.org/stable/24042229?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Podstakannik

Faggots.

tobacco and alcohol are both awful

What you say about time is true. Fair.

Though I'm doing it extremely gradually, like cutting out things I become aware are particularly bad. If anything, the research I do always ends up just being further research into capitalism and its intricacies, so I guess it counts as homework.

These are meaningless labels. Buy tea directly from the farm or as close to it as possible.

Have you ever had tea from actual tea leaves instead of the parched dust that comes in bags?

Tea is the best plant to be grown on this planet of ours.

smh