What's your default drink?

[Zanza]

Coffee with milk

[HVC]

I love is the only one upside-down

[Valmy]

Coffee black. As Hod intended.

[Josquius]

So we get a million iterations of tea but no water/beer/wine options?

That said, black coffee for me. Beer when I'm at a friend's.

Alcoholic much? :p

[Duque de Bragança]

Just because they invented it doesn't mean they're good at it. Look at England and all the sports they suck at

Chai is delicious too!

*edit you sure about the name thing? Chá (corrected) in Portugal but I'm pretty sure it came by sea.

I think I was a bit simplistic

This is the map I meant and I think it's basically "cha" = probably overland and from the Mandarin; "te" = probably by sea and from the Fujianese dialect.

The Portuguese get it first from India (spread by land) and the Dutch get it first from Sri Lanka, South-East Asia and Fujian where it's a variation on te. The Dutch then spread it to the rest of Europe:

Disagree with this part. The Portuguese got it through Cantonese in Southern China cf. chá vs tea.
Wiki also disagrees, for what it's worth

Tea was first introduced to Western priests and merchants in China during the 16th century, at which time it was termed chá.[13]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tea#Worldwide_spread


As for the Dutch spreading it to Europe, D. Catarina of Bragança had her part in Great Britain:

INFLUENCE OF A PORTUGUESE PRINCESS
In the contemporary era tea is so much associated with the British way of life that it can come as a surprise to learn that it owes much of its popularity here to a foreign princess. While it is not true to say that Catherine of Braganza, the queen-consort of Charles II of England, actually introduced tea to Britain, she certainly had much to do with it becoming a fashionable and widely drunk beverage.

https://www.tea.co.uk/catherine-of-braganza[/quote]

[jimmy olsen]

Tea. But with something odd.

[Sophie Scholl]

A glass of water? I don't drink coffee or tea.

[Rex Francorum]

Cola. I don't drink coffee and tea.

[Syt]

Coffee, black, for breakfast and after lunch.

Otherwise water.

[The Larch]

Just because they invented it doesn't mean they're good at it. Look at England and all the sports they suck at

Chai is delicious too!

*edit you sure about the name thing? Chai in portugal but I'm pretty sure it came by sea.

I think I was a bit simplistic

This is the map I meant and I think it's basically "cha" = probably overland and from the Mandarin; "te" = probably by sea and from the Fujianese dialect.

The Portuguese get it first from India (spread by land) and the Dutch get it first from Sri Lanka, South-East Asia and Fujian where it's a variation on te. The Dutch then spread it to the rest of Europe:

My understanding of the tea/Chai difference is that it depended from which part of China the traders sourced it.

[Richard Hakluyt]

It is archaic but "char" was certainly used by British people as an alternative to "tea"; I still use it on occasion though I'm not sure people under 40yo would know what I was talking about.

My main drink is black tea.

[Sheilbh]

It is archaic but "char" was certainly used by British people as an alternative to "tea"; I still use it on occasion though I'm not sure people under 40yo would know what I was talking about.

Yeah although I think that's an imperial hangover from India

[Josquius]

It is archaic but "char" was certainly used by British people as an alternative to "tea"; I still use it on occasion though I'm not sure people under 40yo would know what I was talking about.

Yeah although I think that's an imperial hangover from India

Isnt it a Cockney thing to call tea chai?

[Gups]

It is archaic but "char" was certainly used by British people as an alternative to "tea"; I still use it on occasion though I'm not sure people under 40yo would know what I was talking about.

Yeah although I think that's an imperial hangover from India

Isnt it a Cockney thing to call tea chai?

Not that I know of. Rhyming slang is Rosie Lee but nobody says that either.

[mongers]

Not that I know of. Rhyming slang is Rosie Lee but nobody says that either.

Yes, I don't ever remember hearing anyone use either, maybe in film/tv for an authentic flavour of the time it's set in.