How Tea Came to India (From China via the British)

[@westcoastseattleboy784]

Fantastic production quality! how does this only have 77 views? This story is such an amazing microcosm of how messed up the British empire was. They got an entire country addicted to opium to solve a balance sheet problem and, as a bonus, found a conviennent place to grow stolen tea plants with near slave labor

[@marcelo8405]

And the very same companies are still selling the offspring of those stolen plants

[@test-201]

'how messed up the british empire was' coming from a people that specifically drove another people across a country and massacred them, thats pretty funny but yeah we were selling heroin to slaves, it is what it is

[@lucasvbx]

Got recommended your video about pilsner 🍻, but I loved this one as well🍵

[@BevGeek]

Glad you liked it!

[@utubemaymunadam]

Me too, detoured through the coffee episode 😊

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[@jamestamu83]

Great history lesson and a wonderfully produced video. Looking forward to the next video!

[@BevGeek]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@mrnortzul]

My god how are you still at 2.2k sub? After I watched i thought you are at 227k :D Keep up the good work your videos are great!

[@BevGeek]

Ha ha...I was below 700 subs a week ago! 😅 Thanks for the support.

[@kyosefgofa]

🤔 Nice video. I absolutely love it.

[@BevGeek]

Thanks! 😄

[@NishithThakkar]

Minor note: it is not Marsala Chai. It's Masala. Meaning Spice/Spice Blend.

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[@BevGeek]

Thanks!

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[@BevGeek]

Thanks! 😊 Next video should be released within the next month. Stayy tuned...

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[@stockicide]

Very interesting!

[@EdeYOlorDSZs]

Impressive research I must say

[@Edward135i]

You should do a video on Coffee drinking countries vs tea drinking countries. My wifes best friend is Indian her husband even runs a coffee farm outside of bangalore and she's always trying to get me to drink tea because I have really bad acid reflux and its good for my digestive system. I tell her "I'm not in the habit of dirking tea because we just don't have a tea drinking culture in American" and she's like " I know and I don't understand it" I told her it was because the King of England tried to charge a 3% tax on tea and it kind of ruined it for us.

[@BevGeek]

This is on my topic list. The Tea Act and the Boston Tea Party played a major role in America's affinity for coffee over tea, but spread of the cultivation of the two was also a factor. Coffee cultivation started in the Americas in the early 18th Century (before the American Revolution), but as you saw in the video, tea cultivation did not spread outside far east Asia until the mid 19th Century, and it's trade was tightly controlled by the British East India Company. If the Boston Tea Party never happened, it's still likely that coffee would eventually be more popular in the US due to the relative ease of access.

[@yoingen]

Does the beginning of the video show Shanghai in the 1990s? Where did you find these videos?

[@BevGeek]

It is indeed Shanghai (Nanjing Road to be precise), but I believe it is more recent than the 90s. This was from Storyblocks, where I get most of my stock footage from.

[@kirbyculp3449]

For black tea I prefer Ceylon. For most green teas I prefer Formosa. From the PRC, Pu Erh, Lapsang Souchang, and Lung Ching. However I am really wary of products from the PRC.

[@Hungaricus]

My friend said I have to subscribe or we wont be friends anymore. So here I am I guess.

[@charlieyang2613]

Sad that you didn't try any Sri Lankan teas.

[@jrs0123]

500k years ago?

[@BigboiiTone]

I know the US has done a LOT of bad things but as someone who has had peoples' drug addictions impact me on a personal level, I've always found the whole opium war thing particularly disgusting

[@test-201]

dont feel that bad where do you think fentanyl comes from? its CHiyna

[@BigboiiTone]

@@test-201 thanks

[@test-201]

@@BigboiiTone yeah while you're crying your eyes out over english men giving chinese slaves opium a few hundred years ago, your country is being absolutely flooded with fentanyl from china

[@theU880]

Phenomenal vid, keep up the good work! I think others might like to see a one on maté too 🤔 🧉