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Me: in WW2 Britain gave tea higher shipping priority than ammo. In the Blitz, the ENTIRE London tea industry was relocated to secret emergency blending hubs in Cardiff, Bristol, Liverpool, Manchester, Hull, Dundee & Leith
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https://www.irishtimes.com/news/consumer/why-we-get-a-better-cup-in-ireland-than-all-the-tea-in-china-1.1949600
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After all, if you can’t have your favourite tea, it’s obvious the enemy has already won.
The importance of a wet, a bully beef sandwich and a bath, must have presented huge logistical challanges
TL;DR Brits don't know the first thing about serving tea.
People need stuff to cling to.
I’m genuinely thrilled to have this information now, but perhaps that’s why we here are creatures of the Internet.
Soldiers and tea-workers cooperated to move vast stocks of tea, to safer locations before the Luftwaffe could destroy it.
Your average Brit saw availability of tea as a marker of whether Britain was losing the war.
The Ordnungspolizei deploying specially trained tea sniffing dogs to root out the partisans.
The government thus saw the need to create a single 'war blend' - referred to in documents as POOL TEA or X-BLEND as a legit nightmare scenario.
This was after the entry of the Japanese and their occupation of key tea growing territories and assault on India.