Emma Shuffleton did some research and found some quotes from famous people relating to tea:
http://www.wiseoldsayings.com/tea-quotes/
Once we had then decided that the first and last two pages would be filled with text I carried on the research and found the content for that.
Tea
When Eastenders comes to an end five times a week, the national grid has to deal with around 1.75 million kettles requiring power at the same time in the UK to make a cup of tea.
Low Tea is “posher” than High Tea. Low tea was served on low lounge chairs and sofas with low tables, and high tea was served on high chairs around a table. In Britain we drink 165 million cups of tea a day. That’s enough to fill about 20 Olympic swimming pools. The uncurling of tea leaves when hot water is poured on them is called “the agony of the leaves”. Official UK figures report that 37 people went to hospital for tea cosy related injuries in 1999. 80% of office workers say they find out more about what's going on at work over a cup of tea than any other way. The number of recommended cups of tea to drink each day is 4, this gives you optimal benefit. Tea is a natural source of fluoride that can help protect against tooth decay. 7% of people are so picky about how they drink their tea they wouldn’t let anyone else make it for them. Adding tea to milk originated because early tea drinkers didn’t want to mess up their porcelain. Milk was put into the cups first to take some of the heat out of the tea, so that cups wouldn’t crack. Now, 93% of tea is taken with milk in the UK. There are more uses for tea than just drinking it. Cold tea is said to be good for taking the sting out of sunburn.
Biscuits
Each British household buys an average of 96 packets of biscuits a year and a whopping 420,000 tonnes of them were eaten in 2016. Manchester is the biscuit capital of Britain with 96% of people having one every single day and sales across the country reached £1.8billion last year. Prince William and Kate’s wedding cake was made by McVitie’s out of 1,700 Rich Tea biscuits and 17kg of chocolate. A study found that nearly half of people had been injured by a biscuit - most from scalding themselves while dunking, with the custard cream the main offender. According to a survey for National Biscuit Day, 83 per cent of people say they would rather eat a biscuit and a cuppa than go out on a date. It was also the first biscuit to be eaten on the moon… by Buzz Aldrin. 71 million packets of Digestives are sold every year in the UK. That’s 52 scoffed every second. Developed in Yorkshire during the 17th century, Rich Tea biscuits were designed as a light snack for the upper classes to enjoy between meals. McVities recently dropped the bombshell that Chocolate Digestives have the chocolate at the bottom of the biscuit, not the top. Biscuits used to be popular with sea explorers as they stayed fresh for so long, forming part of the staple diet for sea voyagers.
This Peter Kay stand up performance confirms that the British humour would appreciate the idea of a tea break - more so than other cultures/countries.
https://www.facebook.com/PeterKayClips/videos/1371032382947524/?v=1371032382947524
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