The consumption is the point. They just want candy not a meal. They want fucking marvelslop not Cinema.
Inb4 let people enjoy things, the mindset on display is a perfect member of capitalist society. A mindless consumption machine.
The consumption is the point. They just want candy not a meal. They want fucking marvelslop not Cinema.
Inb4 let people enjoy things, the mindset on display is a perfect member of capitalist society. A mindless consumption machine.
you’re supposed to have sugar in tea proportional to the extent your job involves manual labour. It’s a weird custom that dates back to when tea replaced alcohol as the drink of choice and then loads of people suddenly were missing the caloric content of alcohol
you mean to say the british drinking level presently is substantially lower than it used to be?
small beers weren’t very alcoholic
That… sounds wrong but I don’t know enough about tea or history to dispute it. Just trying to imagine pre industrial manual laborers dripping with sweat, chugging hot tea out of fine China while complaining it’s not sweet enough.
Brits drinking the tea equivalent of mids while China and India had dank chronic literally led to wars.
well they wouldn’t have had fine china. Tea in the UK is not a very fancy drink unless you’re posh.
one of the big reasons tea was adopted is boiling water makes it safe to drink and it replaced using weak alcohol for that purpose
That sounds off as a Chinese person since we A: did not add calories to tea via milk, B: did not add calories to tea via sugar and C: had just various famines from antiquity till the 20th century, and didn’t adopt sweetening tea for caloric intake
yeah but the UK has a different culture around tea, alcohol and food in general to China
I still feel like we probably would have adopted adding sugar to tea to fight caloric deficiency somewhere in the last few thousand years if that made a measurable difference. Especially considering sugar cane is native to India and south east Asia, it was more abundant and accessible in Asia than western Europe.
I’m not saying sugar doesn’t add calories, I just don’t think it would be that big of an improvement.
A parallel I can think of is how Turkish cevze coffee is traditionally most often unsweetened, much like Italians drink espressos after breakfast, but the UK/US will have sweetened coffee as the norm. The beverage which serves a social and almost ritualistic function has been adapted and turned into another marketable treat in the Anglosphere.
Edit: either that or the working class in western Europe and UK/CAN/AUS had access to such shitty quality coffee and tea grit that they have to make it palatable with sugar, and then the claws of capitalism came along and turned it into a marketable treat
well sugar does have a lot of calories. And China never had the specific situation of switching from a high calorie drink to a low calorie one suddenly
also British tea drinking definitely has a ritual social function