The Insatiable British Thirst for Tea Became a Risk During WWII ☕🫖 Inside The Factory | Smithsonian

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  • Опубликовано: 26 фев 2023
  • On June 13, 1944, a British armored squadron stopped for a tea break outside a French town and was promptly attacked and destroyed. The British army immediately began to look at ways to safely brew a ‘cuppa’ inside a tank.
    From: Inside The Factory
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Комментарии • 34

  • @bbbb98765
    @bbbb98765 Год назад +32

    Without tea, there's nothing worth fighting for

  • @deadfr0g
    @deadfr0g Год назад +25

    2:23 The risk was steep.

    • @84paratize
      @84paratize Год назад +6

      They should have known that trouble was brewing

  • @FrigidRain
    @FrigidRain Год назад +16

    They had to defend their teatorry.

    • @JonMI6
      @JonMI6 Год назад +4

      *tearitorry

  • @derf2170
    @derf2170 Год назад +4

    The tea must flow

  • @boathousejoed1126
    @boathousejoed1126 Год назад +1

    Just had a nice flashback to my Grandmother.I can see her tea cups and saucers in my minds eye.

  • @terrylambert8149
    @terrylambert8149 Год назад +4

    Didn't the British government buy the worlds wholeyearly production of tea just before the war?

  • @butterpecanrican_
    @butterpecanrican_ Год назад +5

    I adore Ruth 🥰

    • @thetruth1862
      @thetruth1862 Год назад

      Right have you seen where those British actors go back 48 hrs into the 1700 and have to live and work it's great

  • @thetruth1862
    @thetruth1862 Год назад +7

    You Brit's and your T , kind of like us Yanks and our coffee lol

    • @pamukpicker
      @pamukpicker Год назад +3

      More like Yanks and their guns

    • @thetruth1862
      @thetruth1862 Год назад +1

      Yes we have plenty, we also brought them over and helped whoop up on Germany

  • @kaycey7361
    @kaycey7361 Год назад +5

    The British were so afraid of losing tea from india to japanese forces. They put all they had in asia to defend North East India.
    Yes the tea gardens were only 50 or 60 km behind the lines.
    But the Indo british forces held the line. The tea was saved.

  • @english_badminton_history
    @english_badminton_history 8 месяцев назад +1

    Come to China, we are the Kingdom of Tea!

  • @ultranitro437
    @ultranitro437 Год назад +2

    A bland drink for a bland people. Lol

    • @sundar999
      @sundar999 4 месяца назад

      Talking about coffee of course

  • @kylegoodreau2170
    @kylegoodreau2170 Год назад

    ILL STICK WITH MY PERVITIN THANK YOU VERY MUCH...

  • @kashirnaidoo3909
    @kashirnaidoo3909 Месяц назад

    Tea is so mid

  • @LivinRob
    @LivinRob Год назад +3

    Coffee is so much better.

  • @eminence_
    @eminence_ Год назад +1

    I've never had a good cup of tea, so all this sounds absurd.

    • @younglink6863
      @younglink6863 Год назад +1

      you probably just have havent had any good tea.. so it probably wouldn’t sound as absurd for the other millions of people that enjoy it

    • @JonMI6
      @JonMI6 Год назад

      I’ll agree. Don’t even like tea

    • @willg1944
      @willg1944 Год назад

      i mean change the word tea for coffee, i bet its a good thing to have on a battlefield for morale

    • @willg1944
      @willg1944 Год назад +1

      Also, a hot drink is always good to have when youve been outside for weeks

    • @Bjorn.andres
      @Bjorn.andres 6 месяцев назад

      What a paradox of an opinion. Didn't u see "i"

  • @MrJsv650
    @MrJsv650 Год назад

    They were addicted to caffeine, not 🍵

    • @Bossman21D
      @Bossman21D 4 месяца назад

      But caffeine from tea and not coffee

  • @ftroop2000
    @ftroop2000 Год назад

    It's really not a thing these days

  • @gfgarena4108
    @gfgarena4108 Год назад

    1 st

    • @ftroop2000
      @ftroop2000 Год назад +3

      Your Pulitzer Prize is in the post. What an enviable achievement

    • @Nyx773
      @Nyx773 Год назад +1

      John Oliver wants to know:
      How is this still a thing?