Shipping issues in the Red Sea have led to delays in tea deliveries, but British retailers assured consumers that any shortages would be a “blip.”
For a country of morning-and-night tea drinkers, even the suggestion of a shortage of the household staple can elicit a nervous gulp.
So there might have been more than a few people spooked when signs in some Sainsbury’s grocery stores this week warned customers that supply issues had affected the “nationwide” availability of black tea, as Houthi attacks on commercial vessels in the Red Sea caused shipping delays.
Yorkshire Tea and Tetley Tea, two of the most popular tea companies in Britain, said in statements that they were monitoring the situation to ensure they could maintain supplies of black tea, but that orders were being fulfilled.
Seriously? I’ve always been afraid of the English. They colonized America before, you know. Luckily we fought them back. Now they are infiltrating our media: Margot Robbie, Liam Hemsworth, that weird donkey that stands on two legs and kicks the snot out of fools.
You… you know Margot Robbie and Liam Hemsworth are both Australian, right? Like, the Hemsworths are famously Australian
…leans over They all sound the same.
Right, you listen here Mr Royal Horticultural Society Jack, I’m going to have to have words with you…
The real reason the fear the English is their tea.
I’m sure I made a mistake while I was making it but the fact that I might have done it right and that’s what they actually drink is … unsettling.