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quote[0]='Try developing a specialty "Tea of the week." Inside you’ll find a large selection of teas and menus you can use to bolster your tea program.';
quote[1]='Try developing a specialty "Tea of the week." Inside you’ll find a large selection of teas and menus you can use to bolster your tea program.';
quote[2]="The European 'discovery' of the secret of manufacturing china porcelain happened in Meissen Germany in 1709. Interestingly, the first teacups didn't have handles.";
quote[3]="The average UK citizen will drink an estimated 80,000 cups of tea during their lifetime!";
quote[4]="Chesty is not a word you'll hear anymore to describe tea. This taster's term was used to describe teas that had been packed in unseasoned wooden chests. For environmental reasons, these are no longer used.";
quote[5]="The world's top tea consuming countries per capita are Ireland, 2.96 cups per person per day, Libya, 2.92 cups, Qatar, 2.89 cups, Iraq, 2.42 cups, Kuwait, 2.29 cups and Great Britain 2.24 cups.";
quote[5]="You can darken your hair naturally with tea! Keemuns or Assams will impart a shiny dark sheen while Darjeelings may offer a more golden hue. Apply after shampooing. Results may vary.";
quote[6]="FAMOUS TEA QUOTES
“I got nasty habits; I take tea at three.”
Mick Jagger";
quote[7]="FAMOUS TEA QUOTES
All true tea lovers not only like their tea strong, but like it a little stronger with each year that passes.
George Orwell";
quote[8]="FAMOUS TEA QUOTES
There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.
Henry James";
quote[9]="According to Winston Churchill in 1942, tea was more important for his soldiers than ammunition during WWII.";
quote[10]="Quality Darjeelings are highly susceptible to temperature variations. The best are harvested during the first flush from early January to April and the second flush during May and June and autumn, October and November.";
quote[11]="The first teahouses appeared in China during the Tang dynasty (618-907 AD). The concept really took off however during the Song Dynasty (960-1279 AD). Musicians wouldn't start packing coffeehouses till the grunge era.";
quote[12]="FAMOUS TEA QUOTES
“I declare, a man who wishes to make his way in life could do no better than go through the world with a boiling tea kettle in his hand.
Sydney Smith (British writer)";
quote[13]="The first Japanese tea rooms were developed by Tea Master Rikiu in the 16th century. The carpenters who built them were considered to be the highest class of tradesmen in Japan.";
quote[14]="Apple tea is considered the national drink of Turkey. No visit to a carpet shop or stop in a park is complete without a cup!";
quote[15]="Tea is the world's second most popular beverage after water.";
quote[16]="The growing region of Assam receives between 100 - 200 inches of rain per annum. By comparison, London, considered “damp” receives about 25 inches per year.";
quote[17]="The favorite drink of Jean Luc Picard, captain of the USS Enterprise-D is Earl Grey tea - hot!";
quote[18]="Tea was first planted in Africa in Nyasaland, (Malawi), in the late 1800s. In Kenya, now the continent's finest producer, tea was first planted in 1903.";
quote[19]="Good tea has been grown in North America. At the 1904 St. Louis World Fair, an oolong grown and produced in South Carolina won for best in show!";
quote[20]="Don't waste your tea! Use left over tea as a mineral booster for plants by watering with cold tea and mixing the leaves into the soil.";
quote[21]="Charles Darwin drank Yerba Mate during his famous voyage on the Beagle. Even though Mate has caffeinate, he claimed it helped him sleep.";
quote[22]="Some research appears to suggest that 3 cups of tea has the same vitamin C content as an orange. Get drinking!";
quote[23]="Robert Fortune, a British horticulturalist was the first Westerner to discover that green and black teas both came from the same plant.";
quote[24]="To this day in some of central Asia's most remote corners, brick tea or “tea money” is still used as currency.";
quote[25]="WWI saw a great spike in tea production. As Military demand grew the British gov't guaranteed buys from the planters in order to keep the supply coming.";
quote[26]="Tea is the national beverage of Afghanistan. It is traditionally enjoyed in chaikhana, teahouses where people gather to discuss village news - usually boisterously!";
quote[27]="The first mechanized tea roller, invented by British inventor William Jackson was set up on the Heeleakah garden in Assam in 1872.";
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