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I wish people wouldn't act like tea is just a British thing. People all over the world drink it, and I'm pretty sure it originated in Asia.

I'm American and I drink more tea than coffee.

^This. I drink more tea and herbal teas than all other beverages combined >>.

I'm British and I never drink tea.

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Also they are markedly shit at drinking it

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Yeah, in China.

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I tend to assume the existence of tea into all the stories that I read even when it's not there.

The show itself kind of makes a big deal about tea, though? I can't think of a single episode that they don't drink/involve tea at some point. There are entire in-show jokes revolving around tea. They're not pulling it out of thin air.

Was coming to say this.

It does. Sherlock even has a nice china set set. But they also drink coffee. Sherlock with sugar. John without.

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I'm friends with a lot of Brits, some of whom can't get through the day without a "cuppa", but the person I know who drinks the most tea and even has a tea blog is American.

While I get what you're saying, it's pretty accurate. Reckon it's the equivalent of American characters having coffee.

Yes, both sides drink the other beverage regularly, but I have trouble seeing why this is "wrong".

It's not wrong. Secret maker just wanted to have a dig at fic writers.

To be fair, it's kind of annoying when fics in American settings talk about coffee like every single character is addicted to it and can't function without it.

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Mind you, there are a number of countries that are just as judgemental about the low quality of coffee in America. I find it believable to see Americans drinking coffee, but there's no amount of suspension of disbelief that could make me believe the coffee in the scene is actually good.

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coffee is an american thing? lol? maybe to americans. Diner free refill drip coffee or paper cup to go coffee, maybe.

"While I get what you're saying, stereotypes come from *somewhere*"
I'm not trying to call you racist, anon, don't worry, but the complaint of OP is precisely that it has become a lazy stereotype, not that it's wrong. Yeah, UK people may drink more coffee than almost any other nation (Turkey drinks more) but black men also commit (or are accused of) more theft and drug related crimes than other races in the US, so is it "pretty accurate" to have every black character be a drug dealer? yeah, the one is just a harmless habit and the other is a major problematic topic but a stereotype is a stereotype.

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When you drink tea, tea, tea you have to pee, pee, pee.

Isn't the US like the only country that drinks more coffee than tea?

no.

http://firstwefeast.com/drink/infographic-coffee-vs-tea-consumption-around-the-world/

What is it with all the americans in this thread insisting that coffee is so very american? Half of europe drinks more coffee than americans. you're uncritically adopting a cliche about your own culture. it's like watching nihonjinron unfold. (Like oooh but we have the worst bullying problems at school and the highest suicides in minors... except you don't)

http://www.worldatlas.com/articles/top-10-coffee-consuming-nations.html
I'm drinking my 3rd coffee within an hour right now in Switzerland.

Because it's ubiquitous. Nearly every American household has some form of coffee maker. Quite a lot of them have heat on the stove tea kettles, as well, which Brits think is quaint and old fashioned, electric kettles only have become available/commonplace in the last ... 15 years or so.

Frankly though, given the predominance of instant coffee in cafs and people's homes until about 15 years ago (funny that time frame) I think Brits ragging Americans about the quality of their coffee precious.

I'm American and I don't even like coffee.

I could take the cheap shot and point out how terribly British writers do American culture, or things like how godawful the three British actors on Walking Dead butchered the Georgia accent, etc, but I won't. Because it's Thursday.

I will suggest, though, that maybe American obsession with tea is less 'durrhurr me no know British culture' barbarism (wow, painting Americans as ignorant, how...imperialist of you), and more of a thing of envy. American culture is very chaotic, at best, and sometimes that's good, but sometimes it's really easy to feel unmoored and uprooted. Tea, as a ritual, as a dead solid ceremony that creates normalcy, etc--that sounds like a fetishization and longing for that kind of ceremonialized normalcy than anything to get butthurt about.