Tea in Politics: Remember, Tea is Important
Put down your tea and listen closely…er, read more carefully.
The Earl of Grey has something to share with you.
It seems everyone is always talking about coffee. In the movies, everyone is carrying a brown paper cup, jokes are made about how they take coffee; on television boys ask girls out for “a drink or a cup of coffee.” It’s as if tea doesn’t even exist! well, I am here to tell you that it does! And here’s proof:
After taking tea in a mountain hut during a day of alpine skiing at the Krasnaya Polyana resort outside the southern city of Sochi — the site of the 2014 Winter Olympics — it was Medvedev who paid the bill.
“The president pays for everything,” Russian news agencies quoted Putin as saying.
“That’s my job,” replied Medvedev.
Now in case you are not up on foreign affairs, that is the President and Prime Minister of Russia taking TEA. That’s right, they had TEA.
It just felt like it was time for a wake up call. I mean, even your new President-to-be drinks tea. So perhaps soon you American will remember just how important tea really is.
When national affairs are being discussed by two powerful politicians; they drink tea. It is the oldest beverage (next to water, I suppose, but that shouldn’t really count, should it?) It’s been here as long as we have, and it will probably outlast us all.
So have a little bit of respect for tea and for those who invented it. And by that, I mean ME. Obviously.
Tags: black tea, earl grey, Medyedev, obama, politics, Putin, Russia, Tea history
