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Tea, Mistake or Miricle By: Monika J.
What kind of world would this be without tea? There would be no teapot or teakettle if tea had never been discovered. There would be no teacup, teaspoon, or tea towel, and no teatime. Two of the world’s most famous parties would have been canceled: The colonists could not have held the Boston Tea Party in 1773, throwing 342 chests of tea into the Boston Harbor. And Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland would say nothing of the Mad Hatter’s and March Hare’s tea party. Luckily, tea was discovered in 2737 B.C. By a great Chinese emperor named Shen Nung.
#1 (One day Shen Nung was boiling water outside when leaves from a nearby bush fell into the open kettle. Before Shen Nung could retrieve the leaves, they began to brew. He smelled the sweet aroma of the mixture and once he tasted it, the world was given tea!)
( # 2 One day Shen Nung was boiling water to make soup when tulips fell into the pot. As the water boiled he smelled a sweet aroma which made him want to taste it. To his surprise it was more delicious than anything he had ever tasted. Shen Nung had discovered tea!)
Tea is the most popular beverage in the world today-after plain water. It was introduced in Europe in 1610, and until about two hundred years ago, people in many Asian countries used blocks or bricks of tea as money.
One estimate says 2,020,000 metric tons of tea are consumed worldwide each year. That means the people on this Planet Earth drink about 855 billion cups of tea a year. That’s a lot of tea.
