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Whenever a British character appears in an American series, they will invariably a) drink tea, and b) describe at great length how wonderful it is compared to coffee -- that is, if the character has heard of coffee before coming to the United States. In fact, the mere act of drinking tea [[IAmVeryBritish automatically marks one as British]]. In real life, coffee is quite popular in the U.K., with standard black tea consumption [[https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2016/02/great-britain-tea-decline/463452/ declining in favour of coffee]], although it's being bounced back by the proliferation of bubble tea, green tea, and herbal tea.

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Whenever a British character appears in an American series, they will invariably a) drink tea, and b) describe at great length how wonderful it is compared to coffee -- that is, if the character has even heard of coffee before coming to the United States. In fact, the mere act of drinking tea [[IAmVeryBritish automatically marks one as British]]. In real life, RealLife, coffee is quite popular in the U.K., with standard black tea consumption [[https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2016/02/great-britain-tea-decline/463452/ declining in favour of coffee]], although it's being bounced back by the proliferation of bubble tea, green tea, and herbal tea.

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