Tea

(“…the entire British Empire was built on cups of tea.”)
Lock, Stock And 2 Smoking Barrels

Every day we drink 163 millions cups of tea, even more at the weekend. Tea was discovered by Chinese, now it is grown in India and glamorised by British.
It could be black, green and even red (http://www.redbushtea.com). People drink it with lemon, milk and without. Some people in America drink it cold with ice (sic!). I know that the US it is a free country (supposedly, unless you are visiting Cuba on US Air Force Airways wearing a orange boilersuit) and people do pretty much what they pleased but I personally find the idea of having a cup of tea with ice highly disturbing.

And, there is a hell of a question, the dilemma that rocked high society for years, people lost and found friends and relatives over it, the entire British public is divided and there is no middle ground for compromise. And the question is: “Milk first?”

While I was writing this piece I had 3 perfect cups of tea.
No tea cup was damaged or spilled over during the process.