Turning the Boston Harbor into Actual Tea

[@JosephMFaulkner]

This video is just my brain at 2AM

[@gamernick1533]

An American (?) saying 'cuppa' doesn't sound right.

[@anonEDM]

To say it was just tea taxes is a bit of an oversimplification. The Boston Tea Party had a lot more to do with protecting local business from domination by a foreign corporation. If it was simply over taxes it wouldn't be as important to the independence movement.

[@matchesburn]

Fun Fact: The primary reason that America became a coffee drinking culture nation instead of a tea drinking culture nation was because of the taxes on tea. Prior to that, tea was the non-alcoholic beverage of choice in the colonies. After the war, and well, coffee was still cheaper and more available and drinking coffee instead of tea that hand the hands of the British empire possibly involved in it was seen as more patriotic and a snub to the British Empire.

[@DreamingIce]

Not to mention that the tea being tossed into the harbour was bricks of compressed tea leaves. Little ability for even the tide to agitate the leaves nearly enough in that state.

[@alexwang982]

In class we were learning about the Boston Tea Party, and somebody asked if the harbor was taste like tea now, and someone said it would taste rotten.

[@RabdoInternetGuy]

Its cold water filled with fish and probably human feces.

[@BeCurieUs]

I love that you got Woods institute involved lol! A welcome break for them I am sure, constantly getting badgered over Fukushima fallout these days.

[@MrLeafeater]

Do teagbags float? I don't drink the stuff, but if it floats, there would be a surface layer of water that turned to tea in the sun, and that water would be darker in color, and then warm faster...I think there'd be a film of tea, for a while, especially if they'd waited until summer. Now I'm also wondering what that much sugar would do to the ecosystem of the harbour.

[@ACSReactions]

Well in making this video we learned that they float in salt water...

[@gaardsholt]

Why does she keep saying "ml" instead of millilitres?

[@thedoomslayer7512]

Time to turn THE ENTIRE OCEAN INTO TEA!

[@MaraK_dialmformara]

I am a firm believer in the Chinese method of tea-making-don’t boil the water, steep for less than a minute, no milk or sugar, reuse the leaves to get a slightly different flavor profile each time. That said, I’m really glad you’ve accounted for the tides here, since that’s something I was curious about; and after watching this I recommend y’all check out Tom Scott’s video on the ISO standard for a cup of tea, which doesn’t make good tea, but it does make consistently replicable tea.

[@Newstory737]

Wow, I just took out this tube that is supposed to have tea inside with Chinese symbols on it. I was wondering whether I'm doing it right. Took hot water, spoon of the thing that turned out to be water-sucking leaves. Removed the leaves after a while and now I'm drinking it and its kinda meh, no sugar included. I was going to read something about how to make a tea later. Meanwhile, I have put down the book I was reading, went to YT, found this video and then your comment. That's some coincidence right there. Pretty neat. Thank you for the info. Btw, just finished the tea, was getting a bit cold.

[@SciencewithKatie]

This is my kinda science! 😂☕️

[@ACSReactions]

Oh-the complicated math kind? 🤣

[@SciencewithKatie]

Reactions haha of course!

[@lazyperfectionist1]

"...which is probably not _nearly_ enough to even _taste."_ Rather like tea. 🤷

[@cyberdreck]

you omitted if it would look like tea at the docks where i8t may be strong enough to smell

[@RowinMarkov]

Milk and sugar in tea? Proper classic brits will say no, never. But it really comes down to the tea. Earl grey, no, mint tea, yes sugar no milk, orange pekoe get both... and so on, each tea is different and it really depends on the tea blend. My personal favorites for tea are chamomile with lemon and sugar at night or mint with sugar in the morning/noon.

[@ILaunchNukes]

Indians say yes, always!

[@AnotherGradus]

That's some _weak tea_ . I'll show myself out.

[@GrimLocke161]

Hmmm, so Unicron or Galacticus could use the Great Lakes to make a yuge mug of thé, instead. Or, ya know, just crack the planet open and drink its molten core... 😄

[@TheBazardunet]

there is no core in a geometric Manda Blani lanigiro shaped plante on like the one whre the repitilians come from , hence no core, if you dont believe me , id love to hear you talk about your theorie on the rie or rye in its grandma !

[@JonalynThomas]

Milk + tea = MILKTEA

[@MaraK_dialmformara]

I did discover recently that I like cream teas, but those are more like milkshakes (or hot milkshakes, which actually works) than tea-tea.

[@peterattia8135]

Don't think milk & sugar is needed for proper tea. Well, milk might pass, but proper tea is without sugar.

[@ghaztmsm1005]

You lied to us....

[@YukiDemonOfHell]

I see your black ring and I'm wondering, are you ace?

[@diamond_t6657]

Who puts sugar in tea wtf!!

[@garyjohalasmr727]

299,999

[@felpshehe]

Milk absolutely DOES NOT belong in tea. Period. And it's proper name is chá, the Chinese land version, not that sea "tea" version of chá.

[@Vnifit]

Ooookay, but that is chinese tea. We are talking about english black tea. To which you absolutly can add milk too.

[@alveolate]

what nonsense... chinese tea is by default without milk either. in fact, the chinese have never historically drank much milk to begin with.

[@decoyboy483]

too tedious

[@lazyperfectionist1]

Milk and sugar? In _tea?_ 😒 In _coffee,_ sure. It makes sense there, but _tea?_ 🤨

[@dhindaravrel8712]

All tea made and served in America should, by law, contain a pinch of salt.

[@NiteshKumar-tn8xt]

What is this kilogram and millilitres? I dont speak communist. Can you translate this into American?

[@TheBazardunet]

First !

[@shinchanthebest]

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