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Tea Test Tempest

The Disappearing Spoon: a science history podcast with Sam Kean

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The Milk First, Tea First, Debate

The milk first, tea first debate has been a bone of contention in england ever since tea first arrived there in the mid 16 hundreds. No less than george orwell himself, that paragon of englishness, once weighed in on this matter. He declared that only a fool would pour the milk in first. But millions of people disagree with him. One newspaper recently suggested if anything is going to kick off another civil war in the u k, it is probably going to be this.

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