Why did tea become so popular

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@Lucas_Jackson

But why? I get that it might taste a bit better than plain water but they already had coffee so it couldn’t have been the comparatively light caffeine buzz. And I thought back in the day water was so bad that most people (even children?) drank beer. It couldn’t have tasted better or been more enjoyable than beer, could it?

I’m going to go with “tea tastes good, it gives you a mild caffeine buzz without making you frazzled, and it’s dead easy to prepare.”

Indeed.

I somewhat the impression the OP doesn’t enjoy tea so wonders if there is another reason for its popularity… when the simplest answer is that it tastes good to a lot of people. I really enjoy beer as well as coffee, but I also enjoy tea quite a bit (and just on a taste level, I prefer tea to coffee).