When people from other countries think about Britain, one of the first things they usually think of is „tea”. Tea is very important for the British. They like drinking it. People have made fortunes selling it. It even helped to break up the British Empire.
Every year the British drink over 14 million litres of tea (about four cups a day for every man, woman and child in the country). Today the biggest tea – exporting countries in the world are India and Sri Lanka and more than half the tea they export is drunk in Britain.