MyronTheDormouse
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All I can think about is salted tea
Sorry about the pixels, they got lost in translation
EDIT : it appears the dumping of tea planks is a myth and the event was more complex than what is told above. Bad me for not doing my research. Still a good story. Not sorry
dbxxx
Modern pu-erh is still produced and sold this way, if you want to try some for yourself. Get a lightly fermented black tea to start.
Slingsby
Doesn’t seem a lot after being adjusted for inflation. Especially not for decades worth of stock
TheMetalAndTheFunk
That’s what killed the Fenway flounder
Dredd308
Nope. https://www.bostonteapartyship.com/tea-blog/brick-tea-boston
SnowMeowPlush
Upvote for correcting your history. The tea they dumped was shit tea stale YEARS old with mold and god knows what.
doobiedoobop
All that senseless destruction of property, why couldn't they protest peacefully?
Murdocm
Forbidden chocolate bar
wanderingcoconut
Actually this is called a “Black Brick” the Chinese used this as currency. Google it
AMeaslycommentNotWorthTheDownvote
Bit did the tea stain part of the harbor for a little while?
glockperfection
You can order some here along with other colonial era teas. http://www.oliverpluff.com/tea-bricks/
Subaruislife
I've heard that you can actually use bricks like this to barter in some parts of India. Fact check on it though.
RandalierBear
Tea is still beeing copressed into bricks and nests. But that is a chinese tradition, while the british were importing from India and Ceylon
rendombeastly
I'm sorry but, YEET!
CounselorWaffles
TEA-EET!
Groovechild
It was more about rum than tea. Look it up.
TracynKyrayc
That water must have been damn tasty.
sfrinlan
Probably over steeped quickly. These days, you could bottle it and sell it online easily
Guildstranger464
False
Munchman347
Their attitude must have been pretty salt tea...
pomax
The problem with saying "$1.7 million adjusted for inflation" is that today this is literally a trivial amount of tax dollars lost.
pomax
Sure, the exciseman would still like it, but if no one pays up, no one's going to escalate into a civil war over a sum that small.
jackpkmn
People don't protest like this anymore because the police would bring in their militarized units to quell the violent protesting.
SidneyHarbor
The modern-day NYPD could probably have defeated the British army all on their own in a month. Modern police are highly militarized.
isnoless
They yeeteth the tea.
NotMyDad
Can you imagine how much of the ocean they turned into tea if that brick lasts a YEAR
Genini
1 cup of tea is about 5 ounces of water so if one cup a day that makes about 14.5 gallons per slab.
NotMyDad
One kettle a day, not one cup. Multiple that by 6 then figure out how much those weight, then see how much they dumped. Don’t half ass it.
ParaBellumOutfitters
The only place brick tea was documented in the 1700s was Inner china. It was trash, and not considered desirable for export. This is a myth
Sensino
"Tea-cakes" like that still exists. Called: pu erh tea
whodoesntloveabustyballerina
I didn’t think I’d like it when first introduced and learning the history of it- tried and instantly hooked
Meltemi
Mind, it's not just pu-erh tea, and not all pu-erh is sold as tea bricks. Pu-erh is distinguished as a specific kind of fermented tea.
corleythekid24
Actually the planks were twice that size
Regisque
Myth https://www.bostonteapartyship.com/tea-blog/brick-tea-boston
ghostwriter2030
I’d like to try brick tea as it was traditionally made in it’s native(?) region, at least to really realize the different from today’s tea.
angrybook
You can still buy bricks like that off Amazon. I bought one for a kitchen decoration that looks just like the one in the picture.
JackandRose1912
Care to share a pic? I'm intrigued.
somnif
https://www.amazon.com/Oliver-Pluff-Co-Tea-Brick/dp/B0146NNOT0/ref=sr_1_57?keywords=tea+brick&qid=1565600892&s=gateway&sr=8-57
JackandRose1912
That's pretty cool. I know it's for decoration and all but do you worry about dust and stuff?
somnif
Presumably. I know with pu-erh tea bricks they're meant to be kept wrapped between uses.
somnif
or http://www.oliverpluff.com/black-tea-brick/
rezpawner
No they didn't, this is bullshit. Snopes that shit, and stop reposting fake stories like this.
Dredd308
And stop using snopes. Very biased.
DukeOfChutney608
other sources also say it was not brick tea
gamblingpoet
The truth often does have a liberal bias.
JustTheMostLiberal
Was going to downvote but had to come back to +1. That’s some funny shit.
dalaiyoda
WonderfunkJones
Paid for by a media corporation.
dalaiyoda
If you have a point here, I'm not sure what it is. Everything is paid for by someone at some point. Media companies do industry research.
PostMoThoin
Apparently the tea party protesters were tea smugglers annoyed at the price drop if legal tea. Malcolm gladwell has a podcast episodeaboutit
RickHalcyon
I recommend the podcast, Revisionist History - http://revisionisthistory.com/episodes/33-tempest-in-a-teacup
Averyveryboredhighschoolteacher
Yeah that's what I tell my US history students. The British weren't tyrants. The revolution was the most successful tantrum of all time
aleakyhousesinks
The US revolution was at least partially about how pissed off the most powerful colonists were at being beholden to an English aristocracy.
whyisallthecheesegone
I mean maybe, or that’s the propaganda the rich feed us to gloss over reality.
Lisossoma
I Love Revisionist History. My favorite episode is General Chapman’s last stand
ReginaKasteen
It was mostly the arbitrariness. Parliament made all these decisions without consulting the colonists and they were hacked off about it.
hetriedtokillmewithaforklift
Taxation without representation, right?
illegalacorn
Washington D.C. is on the phone, they want to speak to @reginakasteen
illegalacorn
The entirety of the American Revolution had almost zero to do with British unfairness and everything to do with greedy American businessmen
Mairoa
Also a lot of those taxes were punishments for refusing to keep treaties between England and tribes. Ohio river valley was a big deal
illegalacorn
Everyone loves to call us a democracy but we've been a classist oligarchy since our founding and that hasn't meaningfully changed.
chillerluvcats
Just like now
sfrinlan
I'd have to research more to believe that it was mostly that, but I'm easily sold on it being a notable factor.
kenobijuan
Ulthirm
I'd say the people were upset and the business realized they could play on this age old upset (This is one of the reasons
Ulthirm
the holocaust didnt have a super hard time starting up. There was lots of hatred for the jewish, even if you didnt despise them many people
Ulthirm
just didnt like them.)
topher513
What would this taste like if I bit into it like a chocolate bar?
Bonesee
Freedom
pomax
Your jaw isn't strong enough. You literally need to carve tea off of bricks like these. They still make them today. THEY ARE ROCK HARD.
TheBulletKnight
Once it hits the taste buds, it shouldn't take... Oolong to tell.
darthstormer
Sensino
Dry, HARD, Dusty & a strong tea flavor.
electronicbovine
Like broken teeth and blood
Fadeintodust
You will die a death so devastating your multiverse selves will implode to make up for the suffering your mere mortal body cannot contain
Bdtry
like blood and broken teeth. Those bricks are pretty much rock hard.
ILike2TouchButts
Forbidden candy.
Fictionwelive
Regret, it would taste like regret. Maybe a dash of tyranny.
Rastabaxus
After hurting your teeth I think it would be very bitter.
MeowWoof
I doubt you could bite a chunk off.
Maboroshi1994
probably bitter as fuck
MaceUr0o0
blood... from the broken tooth.
SamuthNBS
Tea.
DwightYouIdiot
Caffeine, caffeine, caffeine, caffeine! (tune of Jolene, Dolly Parton)
Illithidbane
I'm begging of you, please don't take my sleeeeep!
Milesgloriosus
My eye are wide, my teeth are clenched, my bowels refuse to move and yet - I'm begging of you please don't take my sleep.
Milesgloriosus
The jitters come, the shakes they go, my fingers twitch - but please, oh no, don't keep me awake just because you can.
Milesgloriosus
It's packed in tins, boxes and crates, consuming it is fate, I hope I don't die of this - caffeine.
Noodlesocks
tearrible
jrblast
Bad.
KingAardvark1st
Since most tea cakes nowadays are fermented, probably either A) like seaweed and crotch rot or B) like dirt and tree bark.
RisingPhoenix92
You can still buy bars of tea like that
steve77777777
wow, really??? I thought this guy was a time traveler.
ScarecrowSticks
And toss them into the nearest harbour
welcometothedanktrix
BoomGoesTheThermonuclearDevice
"We are not amused!"
AntiProtonBoy
That’ll get poms’ nickers in a twist
MyronTheDormouse
Death, mostly
welcometothedanktrix
I Love two for ones!
TrombeOverride
It won't kill you. But it will make you wish it did.
ASingh12345
It's that concentrated? Jesus christ!
Psychicmitkick
If u wat raw caffeine u die to
Saiphel
Having a stronk?
houtaku
No bondulances, either.
SnackMasterRanger
Too much caffeine
Davies1212
Nice
Techpriest93
Nice
Classyfied
Nice
VitaminJay
Tea pressed like that doesn't taste very good. It'll do if you add cream and sugar, but otherwise...
dilbobaggins
It didn't taste good because the East India Company bought way too much tea and it was getting old, hence UK Government offloading it.
SnarfyMcSnarferson
Well this was the late 1700s, they didnt know the flavors we have access to today
reuseabletoothpaste
They never experienced the nacho cheese flavor of Doritos.
GondwanaCraton
True, gummi bears hadn't been invented yet.
Undrave
That's how the Brits still drink it :p
Cattbutt
No!! .. We use milk..not arseing cream! We are not Heathens !
dilbobaggins
I mean, yes you are?
Cattbutt
Well ok .. But we are nice and polite with it.
ThePsychicZombie
Disgusting. Let's add sugar and milk to our leaf water beverage. It's not even tea. You're just drinking watered down milk with sugar.
Undrave
For some reason I read "milk" instead of "cream", my apologies.
Cattbutt
Forgiven... (Blood pressure drops back to normal level.. Now wanting tea!)