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The Parallel Origins of Tea and Coffee

While they seem to be diametrically opposed, coffee and tea in truth have a out of the ordinary amount of similarities. For benchmark: coffee and tea were introduced to England within righteous seven years of each other. Currently in the period, tea is the #1 hot swallow. In the US, it is currently coffee (substitution is coming, though…). Both Tea and Coffee plants are members of the evergreen people. The muster goes on and on, folks.

But perhaps my favorite correlation of these two beverages belongs to their celebrated pasts. Tea, as discussed in a several preceding blogs, was hypothetically discovered by the earlier Chinese ruler Shen Nung, when a portentous leaf kill into his boiling irrigate. The similarly serendipitous legend of coffee dates back to the 1400’s, when a Yemeni escort named Kaldi noticed that his sheep began to act unusually lively after eating berries from a unpractised fix. Interfering, Kaldi picked one and popped it into his door. Within a few minutes, he was as hyperactive as a kid after Halloween (well, Halloween wasn’t practiced in Yemen, but you get the emphasize).  He told of his disclosure of this exciting shrub to a adjacent hamlet (called “Mocha”) and its acclaim post-haste spread. See? Not so numerous!

In upon of these many similarities, I will mute the constrain to end this blog with a “tea is mastery” weight. As huffish as I am about the excellence of tea, there are coffee lovers out there who are equally perfervid. So in lieu of, I’ll end this in the hankering that we, the tea and coffee drinkers of the Terra, can persist in fitness, spreading our steaming-hot placidness to the people around us.

TEA Choice UPDATE:

NYC Breakfast (McCain): 233 votes

Peacefulness (Obama): 218 votes

Source: The Voice of Tea

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