What made the British give up tea in favour of coffee? In London and the rest of the biggest cities, there are masses of immigrants from countries where the coffee is great. What kind of coffee do most Brits prefer? Finland is the most coffee-drinking country on Earth and what people mostly drink here is light roast. Do British people habitually down large cups of light roast with milk at work to fight off the afternoon slump, too?
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We certainly have not given up on tea, it's really part of our culture in a way that's hard to describe. Tea is comfortable, easy like an old jumper that you wear when it's cold out, it might have a few holes but you love it.
Coffee is all about fashion, it's expensive and is something you want to be seen drinking, like a new pair of shoes. Recently McDonald's ran an advert about what a 'flat white' was because they started selling it, I stopped at a motorway rest stop and in the Starbucks 3 people in front of me ordered a flat white...