# Why did tea become so popular **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Tags:** food-cooking\ **Created:** [August 31, 2023, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-did-tea-become-so-popular/989427 "2023-08-31T21:32:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 30
**Author:** ![ISiddiqui](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/97f17d/32.png) [@ISiddiqui](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ISiddiqui)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2023, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-did-tea-become-so-popular/989427/30 "2023-09-01T13:37:00Z")
> [@puzzlegal](#): > > > [@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). --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-did-tea-become-so-popular/989427)._